Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1853-12-03
A STRING OF ITEMS.

money Is easlet'
Congress meets on the 9Th Of December.
There are 27s3 children in Sandusky, Ohio,
between the ages Of and 2l.
Deer are abundant, this season throughou,
Pennsylvania.
Marriage is feast where the grace is
sometimes better than the dinner.-Colton.
TWELVE thousand men are now al work
upon the Illinois Central Railroad
Gov. Ramsey, late Of Minnesota, has arri
we'd at Harrisburg, Pa.
The sum expended in search of Sir John
franklin, amounts to over five millions Of
dollars.
Eggs are selling In the West Chester mar
kets for 20 cts. per dozen butter brings 2s
and II cts. per pound.
1t is calculated the use and manufacture Of
every thousand tons of white lead, causes, on
an average, 1875 patients and FIVE deaths.
THE Odd Fellows and Masons Of New Al
bany, Ind, are about 10 erect grand union
hall, to cost $40, 900.
The game of Fox and Geese has been
played by the Fox girls, who have raped a
fortune out Of their geese believers.
SOME wives would make excellent COM
posi,ors on the morning newspapers, as they
are in the habit of sitting up late for steamers.
The last OF the mackerel fishermen arrived
al Gloucester, Mass, on the 2lst. The sea-
son has been the most Improbable for many
years
The Rev. Darius Stokes, colored, formerly
Of Baltimore, but now of San Francisco, has
accumulated over one hundred crates OF rags,
for shipment 10 the Atlantic States.
A German Bible, printed in 1880, and con-
sequenlly 27s years old, was sold last week
at the sale of Henry Shenk's property, in Ma
nor township, Lancaster county.
In a livery stable at Sacramento there are
five hos,lsrs, three OF whom were formerly
Broadway dry goods clerks, and the other
two Baptist preachers.
THE Schuylkill Canal is 10 be kept open
till fire, Of january if possible Their ton.
mage thus far has been good-,hs demand
for beats exceeding the supply.
SALE OF NEGRoEs.--At Capers; and Hey.
wards sale on Thursday mourning we're sold
four mechanics (bricklayefs). The first sold
for si,9O5, and each of the res, averaging
over $1,000. .-Charleston Mer.
THE New Bedford Mercury states that al
the recent term of the Supreme Judicial
Court in that county, there were no less than
t,oenty sir applications for divorce, of which
nine were granted, three dismissed, several
partially granted, and the rest continued.
GOVERNOR OF CHINauI AN AMERICAN
Senior Santiago Agnew, formerly of Phladel-
pha, has been elected Governor Of Chnqui,
a Province of Columbia, South America =
The Americans are spreading not only over
the Isthmus, but into the regions of South
America.
THE Iowa Reporter says the immigration
into that State this year is immence, The
Prairies of Illinois are lined with cattle and
wagons, pushing on for that prosperous State
The addition 10 The to the population from
Sept. lst 10 Dec. lst, from immigration alone
is computed al $4,000.
A PRINTER's GARDEN IN CALIFORNIA. Mr.
Eugene A, Upton, Printer, late of Boston
near the Mission Dolores, has very ex,en.
sive garden, in which are 5000 heads of cab.
bage, 1900 plants OF asparagus, $4,000 cauli.
flowers, 10000 strawberry plants, and a large
quantity OF pear, marrow fat squashes, cele-
ry radishes, ruabaga turnips and rhubaIb
ARREST OF CoUNTERFEIrER.- The Potts
vile Emporium states that DR.. Spare, of that
place, convicted some five years ago for pas
sing counterfeit money, and sentenced 10
eighteen months in the Eastern Penilenliary
which lime he served out, has been again
arrested under a similar charge, and commit
ed for trial.
The PREss IN DANGER.--Garrison, The
Aboliiionisi, has Just returned from visit I,
The West, and appears 10 be particularly in
censed against the newspaper press. III
says:
We have been in the editorial harness 70
more than quarter Of century, and durini
that period have had every facility 10 ascer
tain the character OF the American press, il
regard TO every reform that has strugge
for the ascendency during that period; an
we soherly aver as our conviction, that
majority OF the proprietors and editors o
public Journals more justly deserve plac
in the peni,eniiares OF The land, than III
inmates of those places generally. No felon
are more Lost to shame; no liars are s
unssrupalous; no calumnialOrs are so malig