Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-10-15
OLD SERIES, VOL. ii, NO. 4
A STRING OF ITEMS.

thursday.
There leaves Boston daily, i42 trains of
cars for different parsl the same number re-
urns daily likewise.
UP 10 Thursday evening the receipts of
the Agricultural Fair of Pennsylvania, at
Pittsburgh, were $4,000.
THE New York State Fair, held at Saratov
"a on Thursday, is pronounced a dead fail
ure the receipts not paying expenses
FLORIDA is said 10 possess the soil and
climate to make II great Wine producing
country. Wheat is better prodac.
Six young ladies of Cincinnati having de-
iermned to become M. DIS, are studying in
the Eclectic Medical College of that city.
IN Madison, la, on Tuesday, fellow ma
med Rayburn was fined FIVE dollars and costs,
for cowhiding his daughter, gill fourteen
years of age.
CHANGE OF NAME.-"The Philadelphia,
Easton and Water Gap Railroad Company"
has been changed TO the name of "The North
IeUUS1 lVanla ltdllTuau Company
A VIRGINIA farmer has introduced sue
cessfuIy, beautiful variety Of wheat, called
the White Mediterranean, from which he
has obtained the extraordinary yield ofrory-
two bushels 10 the acre.
PLANT tree-train yine-foster a shrub
deposit a flower seed and nurture its
blossom--pant the fence--"sick TO the
yard'-fx the sidewalk-in short, give heed
TO the little things that constitute the grand
aggregate Of public beauty.
A large number of new buildings are erect
ing in New Orleans, and the desola,ed city
is now beginning TO recover from the effects
of the yellow fever. Business of all kinds,
according 10 the newspapers of the 9th ulty
was Iesuming lis wonied activity.
TUE water from the Congress Springs at
Saratoga, has been imported into France
The question was there, why it was called
Congress water! The obvious answer, of
course, did not escape the wits 'because it
contained so much gas.
MR. EyERETT's recent letter TO Lord John
Russell, respecting The Tri-Par;ne Treaty,
was submitted, il is said by The New York
! Express, 10 Mr.. Marcy by the writer before
lis publication, and that the Secretary Of,
Stale recommended its public appearance.
IT is related of the late "Harry Hil," Of
New Orleans, that "whenever his servants
became manageable or disobedient, and
showed re6elliuus disposition he immedi-
ately threatened 10 Sc, them free and that
sllenced all murmurings, and was sufficient
correction.
! RECEIPTS OF ATELEGRAPH CoMPANY.-The
receipts OF the Washington and New Orleans
Telegraph Company, for the month OF An.
gust, 1853, amounted TO Sli,s72 06, against
S9,239 81 for the corresponding month The
previous year, showing an increase of So
G32 10.
Col. J. c. FREMoST.-The Washington
Star states that information has reached that
city by Telegraph from St. Louis, stating thai,
colonel FERMoNT has been compelled to
abandon his journey OF exploration 10 Califor~
nia--ove:land--and to return 10 ST. Louis,
on account of The condition of his health.
PEARs.-Why don't all the farmers raise
pairs Good pears bring higher price in
this market: than any other fruit. Choice
Barllelts have been sold here at I2t cents
each and few of another kind at lss cents
each. At such prices whoever could raise
crop of them, would make his fortune speed
iy.-N, Y. Jtur. Com
EDWARD A. HANwAGAS is determined TO
recover his pas! misioriunes, BY becomGu an
earnest Temperance ReloTmer. AT recent
camp meeting, he declared himself ready to
vote for The Maine law in he abseRce Of any
thin. better, bnt expressed his belief thar
no'hmg short OF a total eNlirpaIion of the ar
licle from the face of the earth would effect
the desired object
Tnr Norfolk Argus says hat flihless
wife yonng, beautiful and accomplished, who
lately eluped from that city with her para
mour, Tor California, via New York, took pas
says in The Georgia, which was driven into
lhs port %! NOilolL, and mus the suiHS par
were brouahl back in few weeks, to con-
lIoul those whom they had injured, IN ihe
very place from which they had fed
JEu d pE.PRIr-Thc editor of the Cinein-
/ nar Columbian, du'ins visit through 'he
b. Horticultural Exhibition, last week, Pickea
, up the following lines, which he iennd care
. luly resting upon mammoth beet
Here turuips, beets and carrots grow
Uu,il they reach the shades below
And pars,ips stretch their rnois with ease
Clean through aHtipodes
The Chinese rogues, II tame speaks true
y To rob our farmers, pull them through"
sr,rE lIousE BELL.-A correspondent asks
!. wbe,bet rhe old State House bell, with The
e iuscriotion, "Proclaim liberty throughout Tho
+ land aud 10 all the people thereof" contain
.i ed that inscription when ii was first cast IN
|. England. II dii not. The bell, which Or
h pinaly came from England, was broken in
!. 1852, aud was rseasi, at which time those
. words we're placed upon it, This was twen-