Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-02-15
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wings. Mr.. Starick, We learn, has hAye'
it, and intends to stuff the skin.
George Merrick, E-q., bad "Bache
!or's Party" in Northumberland last week
which was a pretty good make believe
considering as how twas q Bachelors af
fair after all.
Hon. James Il. Campbell, member o
the House Union, saving Committee from
PeEnsylvaDis, writes home to the Miners
Journal that be thinks the time for COM
promise has passed. "Concession to trai'
tors, with arms in their hand, can not be
made" To make them, is to permit the
Government to be "coerced."
Jacob Cooper, a soldier in the Mexican
war from Luzerne county, died last week
of diseases contracted in that campaign.
To the victors even, what a cslamitI was
tha. war! The few that returned keep
dropping away.
Mr.. d. Meuigee (some time in the Uni
versity at Lewisburg, from Philad.,) was
last week ordained to the Gospel ministry,
as pastor Of the Baptis, church in Milton.
About six weeks sgo, James Welshans
lost a heifer, and after the most careful
search no trace of her could be found. On
Monday as another heifer was passing
over heap Of straw she fell in and dissp'
peared. Upon getting her out the missing
heifer was discovered, alive and we'll, hav-
ing eaten large hole in the straw sur
rounding her. 1t seems that the he'fer
became buried in the straw while Mr.. w.
was threshing, and had DO other resort
than to eat her way out.-Jersey Shore
Tedtne.
ExAMpLEs.-It was the unpleasant du-
ty of Judge Taylor to pass upon the con-
duct of some boys, brought before him a,
the late term of our court, charged aud
convicted of stealing chickens-a mean
business at best, and which required his
Honor to send a part of them to the
House of Refuge. What a humiliating
thing for parents to have their children
taken from them for their bad acts What
a caution to parents that their children be
trained in the right way !-HoAtdaysdury
bhg,
I'VE are sorry to kno,o that chickens
are stolen in Lewisburg also, and several
boys are watched and suspected as the
thieves
An aged citizen of Philadelphia, named
Vim. Shaffer, who was a witness in case
before the Court at Easton, dropped dead
whilst delivering his testimony, on We'd !
,esday Of last week. He was 70 years of
'ge.
James S. Diekerson, publisher Of the
ohiad. Christian Chronicle, has been or.
!aincd to the ministry, aud as pastor of
he Second Baptis, church in Wilmington.
One of the Eiitors of the Lewis:own
rue Democrat has been obliged to leave
he establishment, as it would not support
wo. Of 500 subscribers, only SO had
aid up to the time be left, and only 10
ad paid a dollar in advance. What q
hame thus to wrong men out Of their dai.
y wages. and what folly to print for men
rho wont pay.
A Wiiliamsport pa editor not long
ince boasted that that" "Everlasting State"
ad increased in population faster than
be State of Maine, which is pouring Its
nergetic population into all the States
rest of the Hudson. Bu. that was
mistake in the printer" of about 80, 900
gainst the wooden State down east.
A wild cat was killed by Daniel Ball
nd Peter Townsend, on the I'd inst,
bout three miles from TuDkhannock. 1t
leasured three feet six inches.
SHORT LIVED HONEYMOON. Miss
Y hite, of NJ kean, who was married to
entleman from Mississippi a few weeks
90, aud accompanied her husband to that
tate, which she intended making her fu-
ure residence, returned to this city on
tuesday, afternoon, having been ordered
0 leave the Southern domain at certain
ate, before the expiration of ten hours.
t seems that she made too free use OF
er Northern sentiments to suit the South
rD chivalry, and hence was ordered out
t the country. If this is moi anarchy
nd oppression We would like to know IN
hat country it can be found. What was
one with the husband we do not learn.-
Harrisburg Telegraph.
A curious case of spontaneous combus-
ion was discovered a week or so ago in
be barn on the premises of Daniel Alt
rouse, deceased, in Exeter township,
5erks county, near the SchwsrtzwAld
Ihurch. The hay in the centre of the
now was found to be in charred state,
rom which it was evident that it bad ta-
zen fire by spontaneous combustion, but
or want of air had afterwards been extiu-
,uished, without any damage. We under
tand that similar cases Of spontaneous
where bay is put away not
properly cured, are not unirequent.
A "Democratic Reading Room" is pro-
osed in bloomsbury. Ii they can agree
that democracy" is, there, still they
gill fnd it will require all parties aud
ccts to we'll sustain respectable reading
oom. A library or live news-room with
ut any "tain," of Republicauism, would
e curiosity only equaIled BY careful
y-ezpurgated monks cell in the dark ages
BIG TREE.-The Tunkhannock papers
office Pine tree cut last month on the
ands of Goodale and Harding, near that
Borough, which yielded Is saw logs l6
eet long, 5 logs IL feet long, and 2 Of 20
ee,-34O feet in all not intending feet |