Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-02-11
A STRING OF ITEMS.
CoUNTING HOUSE ALTMAN

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To do good, is the night way 10 find COOL
yenison is selling al five cents per pound
in Cincinnati
Delaware has $50 common schools, and ex-
nends $40, 460 year in their support.
A profe.sorship of Chinese is 10 be added
10 the Oxford University, Eeglaud.
The deb, of Berks county is SOS, ,242. 90
1863 less than it was a year ago.
TENNESSEE has a public school urd OF
nearly million and half of dollars.
Mississippi has 10 uniform public school
system.
Archbishop Hughes, is fast recovering from
bronchitis in Cuba.
Gland speculation says Horace Greeley
is the scourge Of the West"
Scion Robinson, of "Ilot Corn'' nooTieiy,
is in the list year of his age.
Madame Sontag is so successful in Cincin-
natl, that she adveriscs two concerts day. !
THE Dublin Exhibition building is now &C.
cupied as a winter garden.
Rhode Island boasts of 1896 public schools,
which are maintained al an annual cost ot
s215, 100.
Ohio spends somewhat more than $780,
900 year in maintaining her 99l6 pnblic
schools.
PENNSYLVANIA maintains 9699 public schools
at a cost of a little more than a million dollars
year.
Maine taxes her Banks 10 the amount OF
twenty thousand dollars year, Tor the sup
port of common schools.
Massachusetts expends very nearly the ex-
ac, sum of million dollars year in the
support of her 4o56 public schools.
Rev. John w. Richards, D. D, died sud-
denly, in Reading, on Tuesday, aged 81
years.
AT Ciucinra,i on Friday, the 2oih ult.,
they had rain, hail, and thunder end light
ming. ... .
The Philadelphia printers are Of opinion
that ''ihe craft ought to erect an imposing
stone 10 he memory of Benjamin Franklin
Mr., Harrison Cray Oils, it is said, is the
Boston badly who will shortly appear as a nov
eIis in Barclays of Boston,"
MAN who went up in balloon from Ma
drd, short time since. came down two
hours after, frozen TO death.
THE Prussian Prayer Book enioins that the
whole of the divine service, including The
sermon shall not exceed an hour in duration
The missionaries say that the Chinese boy
take TO the English language with the ut
most facility, prefening i, to the study 0
their own.
Connecticut has 1912 public schools,
Norman school, Reform school, and 40
private Schools. The school-fund alon
yields revenue OF 1869.
A late visitor 10 Cuba divided the inhabi
tants into two classes-one OF which make
living by manufacturing cigars, and tn
other by smoking them
AN eminent physician has recently di:
covered that the nightmare, in nine cases OF
OF ten, is produced "from owing the news
paper man" How simple the cure.
A "NATIoNALn PoULTRY SHOW is to b
held al Barnum's Museum, in New York
proper place 10 exhibit the great curiosity G
anything truly national originating in lha
city.
AN English paper mentions conscier
tious clergyman who preached sermo
against The use of American threshing ma
chimes, on the ground lha, it was an inver
lion of the devil, used by slave owners
punish their negroes!
BEQUEsTs TO PHILADELPHIA SOCIETIES.
Judah Touro, the wealthy Hebrew of Ne,
Orleans, among his other bequcsts TO cie
made the following 10 the Female Hebre
Benevolent Society of Philadelphia, 81, ,OoC
10 The Hebrew Educational Society Of Phil
delphia, 1000 to the United Hebrew B
nevolent Society of Philadelpha $4,000.
LICENSING TAvERNs.-Judge Porter, in h
charge TO the Grand Jury ofCarbon count
last week, declared as follows:
"We win not'renew The iicence Of a sing
tavern keeper who, we have reason 10 b
lieve, permits gambling or habilual inter
perance about his house. These evils a
sappiug the morals Of The community, al
they must be exlricaled."
TIE GREAT ExHIBITIoS OF fS55.-TI
most extensive Preparations are making (
the great exhibition in Paris to take pa'
next year, The Prince Napoleon, by the il
pera decree insiiIulng tho exhibition, is II
President of The Commission, under The d
reclion of which The exhibition will be hel
BY The terms Of he decree, the Commission
composed Of two sections The fine arts, al
agricuIlare a2d manufactures,