Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-08-12
A STRING OF ITEMS.

A 10, in Chicago, for which the owner
paid s72, in 1894 was sold on the ist, for
s5l, 900
An lrishman's description OF making a can
non-"Take long hole and pour brass
around il.
widow lady named Thompson, died
near TIenton, on Thursday, a, the advanced
age of 1oi years.
Wild Maggie, "Hot Corn' memory, is
now pnpl in Miss Leaviu's Seminary
Yves, Siockbridge, Mass.
wag drove up Washington street, Bos-
ton, on Friday, in a sleigh, with bells a
jinglng and all that 1t made people stare
The entire assets OF a recent bankrup,
were nine smsll children! The creditors
acted magnanimously, and let him keep
them.
Schuyler, the great "Confdence man" and
Wall street Financier, of New York, was
seer in Baltimore, on Saturday evening last
im5ibng brandy smash
MIR. A. Swarzer, of Vienna, has under,a-
ken the importation into this country of
Hungarian wiues, in their pure state, and
without any ad.nixture of alcohol
ATTEMPT AT MoNopoLY.- Fanny Fern
objects 10 men shedding tears. She says II
is an Infringement on one Of women's most
valuable "water privileges"
SwoRDFIsH FIsHERY-This lucrative bus-
ness, saws the New Bedford Mercury, has
already commenced with great activity.
About forty Of these monsters were bTough,
into our market few days since.
LIKELY TO HAppEN.-John Randolph once
said he "expecied to live 10 see the time
when slaves in Virginia would advertise for
runaway masters-and it took all the corn
TO feed The negroes, and there was nothing
left for the planter !"
ACCOMMODATING The Alta California says
the propre,ors of San Francisco steamboat
line, advertise to send ont two boats on
Sunday, TO certain place not far distant,
one to carry passengers TO camp meeting,
the other 10 bull fight.
A LION Gagged "A large California lion
was caught recently in a wooded trap, near
the head OF Dry Creek, Georgetown. He
went into the trap for some bait that had
been put tor him, and liked his accommoda.
tions so we'll that he s,ad there. He ha
been sold for 5000.
CHARNEL HoUsE.-The Boston Traveller
told by his landlord to clear out flock Of
hens that he kept, and 10 clean up his cellar.
The man refused, and since his refusal his
wife and two children are dead, and he is
sick in The cholera hospital.
EMIGRANTs FOR KANSAS 1T is said that
fifty or sixty families from Vernon, are ma
king preparations TO start for Kansas. They
sill probably 90 out in August, under The
auspices of the emgraut Aid Society. The
Secretary of this Society is overwhelmed
with applications for information.
A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER. The Dahlia is
native Of the marshes OF Peru, and was
named after Dahl, the famous Swedish
botanist Ii is more than thirty years since
its introduction into Europe, and it it now
the universal favorite OF florists. The num-
bur OF known varieties is about FIVE hundred.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT On Tuesday, as five
rnen were being drawn up from the tunnel
on the Portage (Pa.) Railroad, $50 feet Deep
two Of them, p, Strain and John Shields
We're precipirated 10 the bottom, and Instant
ly killed. Two others, John Magellan and
H. Sweeny, had their arms and legs broken.
IiE OUGuT TO KNow.-John Wentworth,
member of Congress from Illinois, SAYS:
"Washiuglon, with all its beauty, is heart.
less, wicked place. Ii is one great gambling
den, where the stakes are offices, and the
players Legislators; everybody are rascas
and knaves, and what everybody says was
true"
misunderstanding TO Becquerel, well
cleansed vessels of iron and copper may be
tinned hy dipping hem into solution Of the
double salt OF chloride OF tin and sodium, at
the heat Of 100 degrees assisted by moist.
t,ning them first with dilute solution Of the
chloride Of zinc applied with brush, or by
dipping them into it.
NJ. d These letters occasionally stand for
Mad Dog, as well as Medical Doeior,-at
least the following paragraph wonld seem to
indicate ii "A New Orleans editor, recor
ding the career Of mad dog, says; 1--WE
are grieved to say lhA, tho Tabid animal be-
fore he conld be killed, severely bin d. Ilar',
NJ u, and several other dogs"
A THREsHIsG MAcHISe.-An Exchange
paper says ;--"Thsre's a man still IN Livines,
tun New York, by The name OF Arlhenon,
who, IN Que week in January last threshed
four hugd cd bushels Of wheat, three eousia,
biss, aud seven drpuly sheriff." We csuuol
palieye he was veIy HH while he was
performing The above weeks work,
A CooL PLAcE "A correspondent Of The
Boston Tnnieupi, whiting from Tuekefma" .
nsius White Mountains, says, he is stand
irs uf,,n ths ian of A snoW aauk f0Tfu ffff