Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-07-29
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Oh' Ouoicih last NcSh P'"S fN'J
reigners and strangers.
Flank Smith was hung al New Orleans on
le 7th, for the murder of his wife, whom he
rutally beat 10 death with an axe.
A Buffalo editor acknowledges his obliga-
ons for Cincinnati papers delivered TO him
3 O'Clock OF the day of their publication.
A country girl writing TO her friends, says
: the polka, that the dancing does not
mount 10 much, but the hugging is heavenly |
The Louisiana rope factory at New Or.
,ans, destroyed by fire on the sth inst, oc-
npied on entire square, and was valued al
100000.
THIS GREATEST GENERAL OF THE WAR
according to a statement wLch appers in |
Austrian paper, the Russans lost in the
,obrudscha no less than eighteen thousand
len from typhoid fever.
PRoDUcTIvE FARMING. Col. Herbert, in
he vicinity of Forfolk, Va, has cleared this
eason S1gs2 on potatoes raised on only l6
cres Of land ; and his nett proceeds from a
atch Of 2s acres will be S3,6Oo
A PIscAToRIAL SIMILE.-A German alma
&C remark sthat young girl is a fishing
cd the eyes are the hook, the sweet smiles
5 the bait, the lover is the gudgeon, and
marriage is the butter in which he is fried.
Pickles says, the reason why the ladies'
wear such small bonnets is jus, idea they
nave OF making nature and art correspond
having nothing inside their heads, they put
Is near TO nothing as possible on the outside.
rhe brute
MANY PORTS BUT FEW Custom HoUsEs.--
At the presen. time we have in The United
states one hundred and twenty-nine ports Of
,ntry and delivery, and only twenty-five fin
shed custom houses, with eleven more un.
Ter construction.
The Papal Government has been sorely
afflicted by the deseItion en- massc of forty
Swiss soldiers from the garrison at Macerata.
This spirit Of disadec,on in the balialions
The aforesaid af1liction.
CALIFORNIA LyRIcs.-We clip the follow
ing s,anza from patriotic contribution 10 the
Nevada Democrat:
Keep your eye ever fixed on the American Eagle,
Whom we as the proud bird of our destiny hail
For that wise fowl you invegle
BY depositing salt on his venerable tall
A "GREENE" PUN.--The Boston Post is
guilty of the following atrocity Some ne
groes escaped from Jail at Mariposa by boring
holes with an auger. Other prisoners were
placed in the same room before it was prop
erly repaired, and likewise escaped by the
nigger auger route.
VALUE OF PENsY.-An English paper
says the interest Of one penny for 1850
years, at the rate of five per cent. per annum,
compound interest, would amount 10 6,6O6,-
siS,355, with the addition Of twenty-sevcn
cphers, or upwards Of six million, million,
million, million, million, million, of sover.
lsns, or pounds sterling. We shall invest
one Immediately for our posterity.
EMBARGO ON BIBLEs-TRoubLE FOR NAUGHT
Recently the British Foreign Bible Society
went 10 considerable trouble and expense 10
have the Bible translated and printed in the
language of the Mongol Tartars, but the Gar
of Russia, who is the master of The Mongols
having, in advance, forbidden its circulation,
the whole addition remains useless on the So
ciety's shelves in London. The Gar evi.
IDENTITY does not want Christian civilization
among his Tartar subjects. Religious light
is no par, of his system.
MARROW EscArE.-Old Mr.. Puddle fel
down in puddle, just as rrr.away horse
and shay came dashing and splashing, anc
tearing the way; in helpless plight he roarec
with fright the horse came quick, all gallon
and kick, when the old man raised his grea
oak stick the horse then SHE'D little aside
for sticks were no friends 10 his well fec
hide. Within foot of Fuddle's toes, within
All inch Of his ruby nose, the wheel come
whizzing, and on it goes. Up rises Puddle
from out Of the puddle, and stands on In
road with staggering stride, then wheeling
away from the scene of the fray, he -four
ished his stick with hero's pride.
MODEST AssURASoE.--"A good Hooking
young fellow stopped all last week at Majo
Bells Hotel, eahawba, (Ala,) and oGdere,
his baggage down to the boat and went dow
himself, without paying his bll.n said tn
Maior,
"Sir you must not leave without payini
your bill. can't aHord to hire servants, an,
pay for provisions, aud board people 10
nothing %
"You can't %
"No!n
"Well, why in thunder, then, don't you sal
out 10 somebody that edn in
Our informant is anxious to chalk iha
mans hat both ways, as a Sigh, lnbule o
respect for his magnificent lmpudeneo.
a PooR faosPgcT.--An ilinelanl preacher
recently Travelled among tho norhw, slerr
counties in this Slate. lle was mounted ol
an animal whose appearance belokcned yeD
bad keeping, the mere iIams-wolk Of whn
had once been horse. Riding an ia IA,