Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-08-05
A STRING OF ITEMS.

ELEvATING THE MAssEs.--Ths is what
takes place on the Mississippi every time
high pressure steamer buslsup
They are fotifyiug San Francisco hatbor
at cost of two millions The Notifications
are 10 consist Of two lines of batteries.
Seventy eight sacks OF new crop wheat
sold in St. Louis, on the 10th inst, at 81,
per bushel Several other sales quoted at
s per bushel.
Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, is ffiy-nine
years old, six feet one inch high, erect and
sOldierlike in form, and, when young, was
decidedly handsome.
The Charleston Is. c y News says in a
late number--"We saw, this morning, a
small snap.bean, the produce of seed from
the inside of an Egyptian mummy"
The steamship franklin is.reported 10 have
perhaps the mos, valuable cargo (Which is
safe) ever brought from France to this coun.
try, being estimated al over two millions of
dollars.
- SHhhh w CIOley lNdHIu COuuNO
Va, recently, man is said TO have killed
sixty snakes which had made their nest
under his own house How he managed to
do this without being bitten to death himself
IN the encounter, it is not mentioned.
ONE PHASE OF BRrTIsH PnILANTnRoHY.-
female, aged seventy seven years, was
recently sent TO prison in Great Britain for
four months, for having contracted debt 10
procure the actual necessaries Of life, without
having any reasonable expectation 10 pay it.
INDIAN MEAL IN lRELAND.-The Belfast
(lreland) Mercury says, the extent TO which
the sale Of Indian Meal is carried on through
the rural districts, seems really wonderful.
AT one steam-mill the average quantity turn
ed out, for the last couple of months, exceed.
ed fifty tons per week.
MAINE LAW FEELING IN ALABAMA.-The
town council of Marion, Ala, fixed the H.
cense for retailing liquor at $500 per annum,
thinking that this would prevent all applica-
tions. An enterprsing individual was, how
ever, about 10 open shop. even al this high
figure, when the council met again and
raised the license 10 $4,000.
A NOVEL SpECuLATIoN.-A Coiie Palace"
has been opened at Paisley, England. The
palace was recently whskey shop, but it is
fitted up in the highest style of elegance and
comfort, a sum of E25o having been snb-
scribed TO start and sustain it, The principal
room is 70 feet long, and is capable of ac-
commolating l2o persons al once.
The BEAUTY OF DEATH.-Some,imes sci.
hshness is merged in that "perfect love
which casteh out fear.n An English East
lndiaman on the coast of Cornwall was
recently wrecked. The captain, finding iha,
there was no hope of saving his daughters
who were on board tho ship, took them on
his knees, and said "My th,idren, are w'H
de together"
A NICE PUBLIC INSTITUTION. The cholera
has been very fatal in the Buffalo poor house,
and the fact induced the physicians TO 90
ard inspect the state Of affairs. Within
twen'y-iour hours fifteen insane persons
and seven others hal died of cholera, aud
tour others were then in collapsed state.
ihe house was found to be so foul that il
was almost impossible for persons to enter il
lis Inmates are in the most awful condition
imaginable On inquiry, il was found they
"ad been kept on insufficient food, aud that
OF the worst quality. Several deaths from
starvation, II is said, had occurred among the
children, aud the scuryy was as bad nearly
as The cholera.
SUCH AS TUE CHOLERA CALLS roR-A
family OF Germans, Who resided on the Chi.
cago road, within fifteen minutes walk Of tho
City Hall, and had been supported a, public
expense Tor the last eight weeks, has been
swept away by the cholera Fist, The
ialher was taken, then the two children and
lastly, the molheG in whose underskirl was
found two thousand five hundred dollars in
gold. They have lived amid reekiug filth,
foul 'icnehes, and heallh.dcslroymg yapors,
Tor weeks, and had imposed upon The public
eharIyi but their ayariee has ayailed them
no'h'ugi they are rolIing IN ualimcly graves
Of 'helf owa seeking, aud The country Is sole
he'' 10 lhsil concealed wealth. Deiroa F,ss
Press.
h'11An tes BAblrs - The slaik county
,oh'9l Agricultural Society afs Offering prs,
miHm' lo' The Gaes specimen Of Noung
Amriieans- here u lhs lsl,
700 P'e1llesl baby IS 90 anI d.plom. 10
mpiheG Fgf "a Pelllssl baby. % 90 .nt A
r.'ma 10 me'hsf' fsf "a p,suies, baby.
~ 90 anI diploma 10 molhsl. Fof hiss,,
aHl heaviest ehili uaivf : 2 moulhs sll -sgs
90 b. esa,iisisd. .oo anI Dip 10 mslhs,
tol "a Aissa ani heaTissl sh,li unds, 4
mgaihs eli sge 10 be eousldsisj, "a 90 ani
i.peAs 10 melhef W. "a aigea saI hsa
sigsl ehai uniel "a aealhs eii sgs 10 b.,
ssas,lsiei. ~ 90 aHi iiPisma ~ msihsf
4a ah4sr suie A aai az NH anA sII