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in the Presbyterian church, and, by an exemplary life, gave evidence that his profession of religion was sincere. He departed, after a long and distressing illness, in full possession of his mental faculties, and relying on the mercy of God, through the merits of our Redeemer, for salvation. His children were: Alexander, David, Reverend James, Ann, and Nancy, married to Doctor Charlton.
On Monday morning, February 20, after a lingering illness of several months, John Mumma, Esquire, aged twenty-eight. His remains were interred with masonic honors on Tuesday last.
At her residence, in Centre township, February 20, Mrs. Mary Wales, consort of James Wales .-- Times, February 25.
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CANAL MEETING-DEBATING SOCIETIES-MIFFLINBURG ACADEMY ESTAB- LISHIED-BOROUGH OF MIFFLINBURG INCORPORATED.
LOUR in Philadelphia, in January, $6 per barrel. The newspapers note the winter of 1826-27 as the coldest since 1782. February 16, a public debate between the Lewisburg Debating Society and the Mifflinburg Debat- ing Society took place at William Taggert's tavern, at the Cross- Roads. George A. Snyder, the president, awarded the victory to the Mifflinburg society. A little newspaper war between the societies resulted. William Cameron, Esquire, president of the Lewisburg society, and Doctor William Joyce, secretary, cudgel the Mifflinburg society in a pretty lively way, in the Times.
February 20, a meeting in favor of canals was held at Lewisburg, president, Andrew McClenachan ; secretary, James Dale; committee on resolutions, Dan Caldwell, Doctor Thomas Vanvalzah, and Wil- liam Hayes.
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April 2, Honorable George Kremer moved from Lewisburg to the Stees place, adjoining Middleburg, and Joseph Hutchinson opened store in the Kremer building. Under the act erecting cir- cuit courts, Judge Molton C. Rogers held the first circuit court in New Berlin, on the 9th of April. On the 10th, Peter Gearhart was put on trial for murder ; Bellas and Bradford for the Common- wealth, Lashells and Maus for the defendant. (May 16, George A. Snyder remarks : "Took Judge Chapman two and one half days to try Henry Frock for stealing walnuts, while Judge Rogers, in April, tried a murder case, two fornication and adultery cases, in three days.")
14th April, act establishing the Mifflinburg academy .- Pamphlet Laws, 322. Henry Yearick, James Appleton, Jacob Maize, James Merrill, John Forster, Joseph Musser, Michael Roush, Thomas Van- valzah, and John F. Wilson, trustees. Three trustees to be elected annually by the people of the county.
April 13, the borough of Selinsgrove incorporated .- Pamphlet Laws, 278. 14th April, the borough of Mifflinburg incorporated, by the following boundaries : Beginning at a post on line of the heirs of Jacob Brobst, N. 2º W. 362 ; thence along line of the heirs of George Rote, deceased, N. 76° E. 118; by the same, S. 2º E. 145 ; thence, N. 88º E. 120, to a post in the center of the road leading from George Rockey's to Mifflinburg ; thence along the center thereof, S. 2º E., in a line between Michael Bartges, John Charles, Conrad Mull, et al., 210 ; thence along the north side of Limestone hill, S. 88° W. 240, to beginning .- Pamphlet Laws, 305. These boundaries embrace the whole of Ensign Meen's, the south half of Ensign Forster's, and part of the Elias Younkman warrantees.
July 30, John Musser's (Kelly township) still bursted, and scalded himself, James Wilson, and the stiller. They applied to Jonathan Spyker to " hex" the fire out of them.
August 2, William Hayes' store robbed of $100. The taker con- fessed, and Mr. Hayes let him off. Some few years since a person from Lewisburg stopped over night at a farm-house in Ohio, and recognized in the owner of the fine farm the penitent subject of Mr. Hayes' clemency.
August 25, Lafayette Lodge, New Berlin, appropriated $40 to the Greek fund, " to be applied in accelerating the cause of liberty in
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Greece," and James Aiken returned to Lewisburg, after an absence of two years. Doctor E. Appleton, of New Berlin, made a great sensation about a recipe he had made for curing drunkenness. It had a great run for awhile, but proved of no account.
roth September, Peter Nevius, constable, took charge of a party of town boys convicted of an affray at Poak's, to convey them to jail at New Berlin. On the Shamokin hill he pretended something was wrong with the harness, and got out to fix it. The boys saw their opportunity, and ran off. As some of them became prominent citizens, remarkable for good works, it is not worth while to say who they were.
9th October, John Dreisbach, Ner Middleswarth, Jackson men, elected to the Assembly, over James Madden and R. P. Maclay. 14th, masonic procession at New Berlin. Sixty-seven appeared in regalia. Reverend Fries and James Merrill, Esquire, addressed them. 11th November, John Sheckler's barn burned ; fired by his aunt, who is deranged. 21st November, snow storm, ground cov- ered. December 4, Ner Middleswarth chosen Speaker of the House.
Marriages.
February 13, John Yarger to Miss Margaret Kelly, of Hartley, by Samuel Haupt, Esquire. April 19, Thomas Wilson, of Kelly, to Mrs. Drake. May 10, John Housel to Margaret Musser, daugh- ter of Jacob, Esquire. June 5, Saul McCormick to Catherine, daughter of Reverend Thomas Hood. August 30, John Magee to Susan Struble.
Deaths.
Thomas Shipton, Esquire, died in Middleburg, February 4, aged seventy-four years. He officiated as justice of the peace for upwards of thirty years, and was very highly esteenied.
Honorable John Macpherson died on the 2d of August, at his residence, near Winfield. He served in the navy of the Revolution, was badly wounded, and, on that account, received a pension from the State. He was associate judge of Northumberland county for twenty-three years.
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September 26, Mrs. Conrad Foutz, aged eighty-eight, mother of Mrs. Charles Cameron, was buried at Lewisburg. Her husband was one of the rangers who, with the Groves and Samuel Brady, were a great terror to the Indians. Conrad Foutz's grandson, General Simon Cameron, was Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln, and his great-grandson, J. D. Cameron, Secretary of War under General Grant.
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LIST OF ATTORNEYS -- CANAL LOCATED -- LEWISBURG AND MIFFLINBURG TURNPIKE LOCATED.
ANUARY 5, Frederick Evans and Robert P. Maclay, delegates to the State convention which nominated An- drew Jackson for President.
List of attorneys attending February court, Union county : James Merrill, John Lashells, John A. Sterrett, John Wyeth, Charles Maus, Jacob H. Horning, and James F. Linn ; from Northum- berland county, Hugh Bellas, Ebenezer Greenough, Alexander Jor- dan, Charles G. Donnel, Samuel J. Packer, and Samuel Hepburn ; Lycoming, William Cox Ellis, James Armstrong, and Robert Flem- ing ; Schuylkill, Charles A. Bradford, Esquire.
There was not snow sufficient for sleighing during the entire win- ter. and arks passed down the river as early as the roth of February.
22d March, public debate at Lewisburg on the question : " Will the present Government of the United States decline and fall?" Affirmative, Isaac Slenker, J. F. Linn, and Jackson McFadden ; negative, James Aiken, Doctor William Joyce, and William Nesbit, Esquire ; presiding judge, Reverend George Richmond ; associates, Doctor Thomas Vanvalzah, John Vandyke, Frederick Pontius, T. R. Lewis, John Machemer, and John H. Hickok. People from
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New Berlin, Milton, and all the Valley attended. A majority of the judges decided for the negative, Vanvalzah and Lewis dissenting. The debate was continued all the afternoon and evening. 26th, news arrived that grain had fallen rapidly at Baltimore. All the merchants lost heavily. Worth only sixty-five cents. Hayes settled with his customers at seventy-two cents per bushel.
Sunday, 13th April, north-east snow storm prevailed. Laird Howard, Francis Wilson, and James F. Linn, only, put in appear- ance at Buffalo church. Mr. Hood thought it not worth while to preach to three men. This snow storm did a great deal of damage to fruit. 30th, Judge Rawle, Robert Faries, and William Wilson, engineers to locate the canal, arrived at Lewisburg ; Rothrock, draftsman ; Paul Geddes and Joseph Green, chain-carriers.
1 May 13, Isaac Slenker admitted to the bar. Judge Chapman remarked that he passed the best examination had before him in five years.
July 13, Elijah Bacon made his appearance, and preached in the Union church.
August 28, Messrs. Hayes, Caldwell, Cameron, Joyce, and Van- valzah, who were representing the interests of the west side, returned from Harrisburg, and reported that the canal would be located on the east side ; Rawle estimating that the west side would cost $340,000 more. Our people, however, believed it the result of intrigue and good management.
September 11, James F. Linn surveyed a route for the turnpike be- tween Lewisburg and Mifflinburg. Alexander Graham, James Ged- des, William Wilson, William and Daniel Cameron, Jackson McFad- din, Robert Hayes, John Reber and, Thomas McGuire, went along all the way. Started at eight, and reached Mifflinburg half-past four, where Joseph Musser and John Machemer met the party with wagons, and took them back. Straight course between the two places, S. 71º 39' W., distance, eight miles thirty-four perches. 12th, the mill, house, and barn, late Adam Wagoner's, on Rapid run, (now Cowan,) belonging to Jacob Baker's heirs, burned at one o'clock last night. Family escaped with difficulty. This was the
" Honorable Isaae Slenker studied law with the late James F. Linn, Esquire. In 1862 he was elected Auditor General, and served from May 4, 1863, to May 1, 1866. He died at New Berlin, April 17, 1873, aged seventy-three years.
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second time the mill was burned in Wagoner's time, having been burned once fourteen or fifteen years ago. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
October 1, West Branch division of the canal let at Milton; and a horse-race between Petriken's gray and Doctor Getz's mare. The gray led three or four lengths ; stakes, $400.
September 28, Isaac Bockener, who lived on Colonel Ruhl's place, died from the effects of an injury received at David Linn's clover- mill. The water-wheel caught his leg, stripped the flesh off, and gangrene set in. This mill was erected during this summer.
October 31, presidential election. Jackson electors had eighty- seven, Adams six votes, in Lewisburg.
November 4, Subscription to the turnpike completed. Wheat rose to $1 25. 29th, the committee met to draft a petition for a cross-cut canal to Lewisburg : William Hayes, James Geddes, Wil- liam Wilson, Doctor Joyce, and James F. Linn.
December 22, James F. Linn commenced surveying the turnpike. 29th, he commenced locating, and got as far as James Harris'. Fin- ished on the 30th.
Marriages.
3d January, William Miller, of New Berlin, to Miss Elizabeth Myers. January 16, by Mr. Hood, Jacob Derr to Isabella Hunter. 13th March, John Haus, late deputy sheriff, to Margaret Roush, of Mifflinburg. April 8, Mrs. Abigail Iddings, widow of Isaac, married to old Mr. Mackey, by James McClellan, Esquire. 28th May, by Reverend Richmond, Abner Metzgar to Eleanor Lawshe. Novem- ber 6, by Reverend 'T. Hood, Hugh Mclaughlin to Frances, daugh- ter of George Derr. 11th, by same, John Forster, to Margaret, youngest daughter of Doctor Robert Vanvalzah. 20th, Joseph Cham- berlin to Nancy Deal. December 9, by Mr. Hood, David Duncan, of Centre county, to Miss Susan Hayes, of New Berlin.
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UNION HICKORY NEWSPAPER-SUPREME COURT PERSONNEL-AN Ux- PUBLISHED OPINION.
HE winter of 1828-29 particularly unpleasant ; rain fell daily for seventy days, and spring was fifteen days later than usual, when the weather became suddenly warm.
June 17, most of the farmers commenced mowing. Market price of wheat in May, SI 40.
January 27, the turnpike let to John Maclay for $3 90 per perch, the whole distance from Lewisburg to Mifflinburg.
February 17, a large meeting held at New Berlin to appoint dele- gates to 4th of March convention. George Weirick and William Kessler, Esquire, appointed delegates, with instructions to support, first, for Governor, George Kremer; second, Ner Middleswarth ; third, Samuel D. Ingham ; and, if neither succeeded, to unite in nom- inating a Jackson man, no way connected with the present Adminis- tration, by blood or otherwise.
3d March, an appropriation made by the Legislature for the im- provement of Penn's creek.
May 5, William Carothers moved the Union Hickory newspaper press from New Berlin to Lewisburg, and continued its publication till April 13, 1830. In May, James F. Linn surveyed and laid out the river road from Lewisburg to Selinsgrove. Jacob K. Boyer, of Reading, who had done a large mercantile business, and bought a great deal of wheat through Buffalo Valley, was convicted of passing counterfeit money. He was said, by the district attorney, to be
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guilty of the most expert, extensive, and wholesale counterfeiting ever known within the United States.
June 26, Supreme Court personnel : Gibson is a large, portly man; somewhat corpulent, small eyes, black hair, clean shaven, noble countenance. Rogers, small, thin-faced man, dark hair, no whisk- ers, very intelligent countenance. Huston, tall, awkward, promi- nent eyebrows, eyes deep set, large nose, iron gray hair, and short whiskers. Tod, short, corpulent, red complexion, light hair, very little of it, and that frizzled. Smith, short, fat, white headed, large nose, large rolling eyes, stooping a little as he walks.
An Unpublished Opinion.
Sunbury, June 27, the news arrived of the nomination of Joseph Ritner for Governor, by the Anti-Masonic convention, at Harrisburg, yesterday. Justice Frederick Smith took his seat in the court-house some time before the meeting of the court. Justice Rogers next ap- peared, to whom Smith said : " Well, Mr. Rogers, whom think you the Anti-Masons have nominated ?" Rogers: " I have not heard ; have you?" Smith: "Yes, they have fixed on Joseph Ritner." "Why, the damned fools, what do they think they can do with him. He wont get ten thousand votes. Oh, the damned fools, ha ! ha ! ha!" Justice Tod came in next, when Smith went on : " Well, Mr. Tod, have you heard whom the Anti-Masons have nominated for Gover- nor?" Tod: "No; have you?" Smith : "Joseph Ritner." Tod : " Joseph Ritner ! Joseph Ritner ! Joseph Ritner ! Well, I'll vote for any Anti-Mason, any Anti-Jackson, Anti-canal candidate ; but Joseph Ritner, I won't vote for him, by God !" Then in sauntered Chief Justice Gibson, and Smith began again : " Mr. Chief Justice, have you heard whom the Anti-Masons have nominated for Gover- nor?" Gibson: "No; who is it?" Smith : " Joseph Ritner." Gibson : " Oh, hell !" The chief justice whistled a slow march, and took his seat without further remark. Justice Huston did not enter until the court had proceeded to business, so that he delivered no opinion on this momentous subject .- G. A. S.
This year is noted for its tremendous Anti-Masonic excitement. September 15, Reverend J. H. Fries delivered an address before the Masonic Wolf meeting, in New Berlin, when George Kremer and
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John Dreisbach were nominated for Assembly. August 29, the Anti-Masonic convention nominated Ner Middleswarth and Philip Ruhl. George Bogar, president. Delegates were, Union, Charles Maus and George Bogar ; East Buffalo, William L. Harris and Peter Voneida; Hartley, Michael Peters and Daniel Speigelmyer ; White Deer, Jacob Sypher and Christian Reichly ; Kelly, Joseph Spotts and George Moyer ; Mifflinburg, John Montelius and John Van Buskirk ; West Buffalo, Henry and David Jordan. Joseph Ritner recommended for Governor ; county commissioner, William Betz. In October, the Ritner vote in Union county was 2,068 ; Wolf, for Governor, had 764; Middleswarth and Ruhl had each 1,914; Kremer, 810 ; Driesbach, 971. For Governor, Ritner had 61 votes in Lewisburg, Wolf had 58 votes.
Horse races very common this year in and about Lewisburg. August 20, occurred the one between Sargent's sorrel and " Tam- any," of Milton. The Milton people came down and bet all the money they had on their favorite; watches, knives, and, in fact, everything they had about them. Sargent's horse won by five to six lengths. J. P. Ross used to relate the scenes of this day, and laugh until the tears ran down his cheeks. He said the Lewisburg fellows had to lend the Milton men money to pay their toll going home. October 3, race between John Forster's horse and Silverwood's.
Thomas Sawyer and family left the Valley for Ohio. Road from Chamberlin's mill to Kelly's saw-mill laid out. Farm of Ben- jamin Schrack, deceased, appraised at $15 per acre. General Green bought the Stedman farm, opposite Lewisburg, one hundred and forty-seven acres, at $36 per acre, cash. December 4, the first snow fell. December 28, turnpike managers met, and the commis- sioners appointed by the Governor reported it completed.
Marriages.
17th January, William Wilson (son of Judge Hugh) to Ruth Wad- dell, of Centre county, by Reverend Mr. Todd, at Mifflinburg. 20th, Walter Devling to Eliza, daughter of Judge Hugh Wilson, by Mr. Hood. February 17, Doctor Joseph F. Grier to Margaret, daughter of A. Graham. February -, Peter Strayhorn to a daughter of James Cornelius. Robert Forster to Miss Jane Rutherford, of
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Harrisburg. February 27, Abraham Amberg to Charlotte Brookes, of Chillicothe, Ohio, formerly of New Berlin. 28th April, Simon Grove to Miss Mary Miller, of Reading. 20th May, C. H. Charles, of Hartley, to Juliette Mann, of Tioga. 28th May, by Reverend T. Hood, Robert Hayes to Emily Fields, (daughter of the bridge- builder.) 31st, by Samuel Wilson, Esquire, Henry Benner to Miss Moyer, of Union. 11th June, George Aurand, Esquire, to Mrs. Mary Royer. 23d, by J. F. Linn, Esquire, John Shaw to Margaret Baker, at Jacob Musser's hotel. July 2, Daniel K. Hill to Barbara A. Musser, Lewisburg. By Reverend James Kay, Christopher Woods, junior, to Miss Maria Little, of Lewisburg. July 14, Israel Zent- myer to Eve Snook, daughter of John, of West Buffalo. 4th Au- gust, by James F. Linn, Esquire, Henry Myers to Hannah Walter. IIth August, L. B. Christ, Esquire, to Esther Bogar. September 22, by Reverend Nathaniel Todd, John A. Vanvalzah to Miss Re- becca Chambers.
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WEATHER RECORD-JOHNNY MORTON-CENSUS OF 1830.
IN the 16th of May, oak leaves made their appearance- a very early spring-blossoms all off the trees by the 30th of April, except apple, which were in bloom two or three weeks since. The month of July was excess- ively hot. The 18th, 20th, and 22d, were the warmest days. Sat- urday morning, in shade, ninety-three degrees; Monday, ninety-five degrees ; Wednesday, ninety-five degrees.
Officers of Lafayette Lodge : H. W. Snyder, W. M .; George A. Snyder, S. W .: John Seebold, J. W .; Doctor John Baskins, secre- tary ; Henry C. Eyer, treasurer.
January II, the New Berlin Anti-Horse-Race Association formed.
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Peter Beaver, president, John Mauck, secretary. February 22, James Sargent fell off Kremer's boat, at the mouth of Brown's run, and was drowned. March 2, a union agricultural association formed at R. H. Hammond's, in Milton, embracing Columbia, Lycoming, and Union counties. Dan Caldwell chosen president. March 12, Samuel Reber opened hotel at Lochiel now. May 1, Daniel Gott- shall issued the first number of the Lewisburg Journal. May 28, the Mifflinburg Anti-Horse-Racing Association formed ; Henry Yearick, president, Frederick Gutelius, secretary. The road between Lewis- burg and Mortonsville vacated, and the Turtle Creek road, at the latter place, extended to the turnpike. June 12, William Linn sold his farm in Kelly to Adam Stahl, for $34 per acre. October 15, farm of C. Nevius, deceased, sold to his son-in-law, Samuel Wilson, at $40 per acre. October 21, George Ritter's farm, in Buffalo, sold to Roan McClure for $36 25 per acre. August 10, Anti-Masonic ticket formed at New Berlin : E. Greenough for Congress, S. J. Packer for Senator, Ner Middleswarth and Philip Ruhl for Assembly, Peter Hackenburg for commissioner. Democratic ticket : Lewis Dewart for Congress, Samuel Bloom for Senator, John Dreisbach and Jacob Wittenmeyer for Assembly. October 26, the first agri- cultural fair was held at Milton. December 16, Abner C. Harding, a student at law with James F. Linn, Esquire, was admitted to the bar.1
Johnny Morton.
Johnny is now dead. I wonder that he lasted so long. Although everybody called him " Johnny," he never suffered himself to be so called, without displaying a sense of offended dignity. " My name is John," he used to say ; " Johnny is a boy's name." He disliked also the name of beer ; beer was trash, only fit for hogs ; "a bier was a thing for the dead."
1 General Abner C. Harding was born in East Hampton, Connecticut, educated at Hamilton, New York, studied law at Lewisburg, and settled finally in the State of Illinois. He was a member of the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1848, and served in the State Legislature in 1848-9-50 ; and was for ten years engaged in man- aging railroads. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the eighty-third Illinois, and having been appointed colonel, served at Fort Donelson ; was made a brigadier gen- eral, and had command at Murfreesboro' in 1863. In 1864 he was elected to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, serving with Honorable George F. Miller, another student of Mr. Linn, in that Congress. He died at Monmouth, Warren county, Illinois July 19, 1874, worth, it is said, over $1,000,000.
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Johnny's love of whisky and his hatred of beer afforded abundance of amusement to the idle boys of New Berlin and Mifflinburg, who flocked around him as soon as he made his appearance in the streets, as did the small birds around the owl, who happens to be overtaken in the daylight. "Johnny ! Johnny ! do you want any beer ?" was shouted by the blackguards ; to which Johnny replied with curses, and sometimes with stones. Johnny came to New Berlin one day, and having drank, and run the gauntlet of the boys, laid himself down upon the door-steps of the jail. The sheriff found him here, and, with the assistance of two or three others, carried him into the dungeon,1 and made all fast. A few hours afterward one of the sheriff's family went to the door to make observations, and heard Johnny beginning to stir, probably just waking. After muttering something to himself, he was heard to say, " I wonder where I am ?" and after a brief pause, " Well, I guess I am in hell," and, seemingly satisfied with this conjecture, quietly laid himself to rest until the sheriff came to release him .- G. A. S.
Census, 1830.
White Deer,
1,295
Lewisburg,
924
Kelly, .
739
Buffalo,
2,130
Mifflinburg,
663
Centre,
1,952
West Buffalo, .
1,404
Beaver, .
2,280
Hartley township,
1,730
Union, .
2,085
Washington,
1,097
Penn's, .
2,304
Perry,
1,050
Chapman, .
1,094
Total,
20,747
One male and two female slaves.
1 In all old jails was a room from which the light was altogether excluded, called the dungeon, a relic of barbarism or popery now, happily abolished.
1831.
CROSS-CUT CANAL-FIRST TEMPERANCE SOCIETY FORMED IN THE VALLEY- BETHEL CHURCH ORGANIZED.
ARCH 22, news of the passage of the improvement act, and its signature by the Governor, which includes the Lewisburg cross-cut, reached Lewisburg. The town was illuminated, cannon fired, and toasts drank. North- umberland Bank incorporated .- Pamphlet Laws, 298.
April 12, A. Reedy's, deceased, stone house at Buffalo Cross- Roads sold by his administrators to John A. Vanvalzah, for $586.
May 10, price of grain in Philadelphia, $1 25. May 12, Messrs. Cameron, Vanvalzah, and Joyce returned from Harrisburg, having succeeded in getting the cross-cut canal under contract.
"A Penny saved is a Penny made-Old Adage .- Canal boat 'Mer- chant's Choice,' Captain Blair, arrived here on Monday last, in nine days from Philadelphia, with merchandize for Messrs. Comly and Cadwallader. Her cargo was twenty tons.
12 for C. Comly, at $10, 8 do. S. Cadwallader, 80
$120
$200
" These twenty tons by wagons would come to 600 dollars, at 30 dollars per ton, or $1 50 per cwt., the usual price. Now, what is saved to us, the consumers, in this single trip? Why, only $400. Sugars we used to pay 1212 cts. per lb. is now sold for 10 cents. This is what we call canal politics."-Frick's Miltonian, May 14, 1831.
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Mowing commenced in the Valley as early as the 8th of June.
4th July celebrated by the Lewisburg Guards and citizens, at Brown's spring, below Lewisburg. James Aiken made an address.
28th September, the first temperance society formed at Lewis- burg. Reverend Seiwers delivered an address. Only seven persons, John Nesbit, Esquire, James Aiken, James F. Linn, Caroline Gra- ham, Mary Irwin, Elizabeth Irwin, and Abner C. Harding joined.
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