Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-10-06
All Sorts of lten,s.

vi STis'oi iSidiuy Ut NudZduan, ON Inc 26th |
Of August. She had on board large number
of passengers, principally Americans, bound
for California, number of whom were down.
ed, and those who survived were left entire.
ly destitute, having lost everything.
WHAT ENTERPRISE WILL Do.--It is with.
in the reccollection Of many persons living,
in England, that the father Of the late Mr..
Denison, of one of the London banking
firms, who recently died worth more than
twelve millions of dollars, used 10 carry
home his rumpsteak in cabbage leaf for
his dinner. Ifa.IItt
FIRE AND BRps.-During the fire at |
Williamsburg, N. Y, on Friday night, about
500 canary birds were let loose from an
aviary that was burned. They seemed fas-
cinated by the flames and hovered above
them, many falling in at last and perish.
ing.
Mr.. CALHOUN, it is rumored, on the
statements in private letter received in
this city, is about to resign at an early day
his seat in the U. S. Senate. The cause of
lnis step Is not stated.
A BREMEN JOURNAL contains the follow
ing advertisement: ga young gentleman
upon the point of getting married, is desi-
rous of meeting man of experience who
will dissuade him from such step. Ad-
Dress" &c.
A LETTER timely written is rivct TO the
chain OF affection; and letter untimely
delayed, is rust to the solder.
WHAT does your husband deal in, Ma
dam?" "He deals cards, chiefly, SIR"
GREAT MEN lose somewhat of their great.
ness by being near us ordinary men gain
much.
HENRY O'RElLLY, the indefatigable tele.
graph man. has put up within three years
five thousand miles OF telegraph wires.-
He'll "put girdle round about the earth"
in short time.
Costly HoRsE.-We learn from the AL
bany Atlas that M. McArdel, of that place,
has sold his famous trottiug horse Mac, to a
gentleman in Philadelphia, for $4,000.
The last wire cable of the bridge at
Wheeling, Va, was stretched across the
Ohio River, on Saturday last. The bridge
will be ready for the regular uninterrupted
passage of wagons in about six weeks.
Never make friend Of a coward; his
heart is dung-hill, while suspicion is the
only cock that ever crows on it. Where
you to save him from drowning, he would
swear it was only out of kindness to the
sheriff.
Some of the catfish which are caught at
the mouth of the Kentucky River, weigh
$50 pounds.
Small pox has commenced its work OF
; death IN Cincinnati.
AT NORTH SHIELDS there has been re.
Gently extracted from woman's shoulder
a needle, which fifteen years ago entered
; one of her fingers.
GoNE A "DrcklNG"-That is what the,
say of fellow in Arkansas who goes to ''s
up" with young woman.
A man insulted woman in Cincinnati
| market lately, whereupon she lammed hin
, with leg OF mutton, and made him run fol
1 his life. He must have felt rather sheepist
throughout the occurrence.
r ) NpwLASD MArrIrr is about to becom.
: pastor of church in New Orleans.
WHEN are the boots like blossoms, Whel
-, they are on the tree.
= 1T is reported that small mosque is 10 b.
!, built in Paris, for the use Of such residents a
Y profess the Mohammedan faith.
A MILLERIrE has been trying to prove t.
= the Albany people that the end o. all thing
= will take place in 1850.
II DURING the three days of the State Fair a
i Syracuse, N. Y, it is said that twenty thou
sand dollars were taken at Rust's Hotel
;, THERE were 3l9 deaths in the city O
= New Pork during the past week. From
-, cholera, II; consumption, 27 diarrhua, is
anu uy cSh'ci.j ao'
|. AT the present rate Of increase, the popr
2; lation Of the United States, in the year 1906
:. will be lOi, ,4si,755 persons.
MEssRs. ALEXANDER GREER AND Co.,
y Coving'on, Ky, are building upwards of fiv
a hundred houses 10 ship to California. Tn
houses are TO be constructed on a larg
scale.
!. POLITICAL EDITOR talks about the cam
fires Of his party burning brightly Where
d upon another editor reports that eampf,
s. won't save them, and recommends chlorid
e Of lime.
p" A MILL having been carried by foo
" some miles from its original position, som
millopathie poet wrote on it, in large letter
!" of chalks--
"This mill went by water,
= A good deal farther than it ough,'r! !"
e BIG "TATER.n-Dr. G. c. Beeks shove
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