Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-02-04
A STRING OF ITEMS.

The city debt Of Wheeling, Virginia, is
$1,000
Tire bank note circulation of Great Biiiian
amounts 10 Sl9s, s,45o, 600
Lowell contains sixty four schools for
population of abou, 0,ooo.
DR.. Harriet Hunt of Boston, is in Washing.
ton city, guest Of Hon. Gerrit Smith.
Thirteen 10 fifteen thousand hogs have
seen slaughtered this season at Shelbysvile
Tenn.
There are now six thousand men at work
on the Lake E'ie, Wabash and 81. Louis
Railroad.
There is a colored man in Wilmington,
Del, who is the father of fifty one children,
thirty of them living. Whew!
A family in Baltimore has been poisoned
by using water flowing through the leaden
pipe of a pump. One death ensued
II has been decided that one half Of the
Jennings estatae will fall to the heirs Of Lord
Townley; about $50, 100000.
Rev Anloineic Brown has accepted an
Invitation 10 lecture before The Mercantile Ii
brary Association al Pilsburgh.
The persons who brought suit at Pitts.
bursh, for violations Of the small note law,
nave been indicted for conspiracy.
The people Of Maysvile, Ky, b. major
:ty of II, have declared agains, the issuing
of licenses FOR the sale of liquors.
467,52l hides were imported into Salem,
Mass, in 1853, or 100000 mole than into
Boston.
Lest. J. A. Davis. of the U. S. navy who
was thrown from buggy in Washington on
the 10Th inst, died on Saturday evening.
At recent fair in Albany for the benefit
of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, the
profits on the articles sold amounted TO S4 300
Fifty thousand cords of wood have been
used by the Reading Railroad Co within
the last two years, purchased at an average
cost Of $50 per ton.
Have you any limb-horn bonnets !" nqui-
red very modest miss of shop keeper.
"Any wht?"
"Any limb horn bonnets %
"Any-yoo don't mean leg-horn ~
The young lady was brought TO by the
proper resloratives.
WRITING PAPER MADE FROM STRAW - Thi;
paper is advertised in London, and is said tc
possess SMOOTH firm surface, and is wei
adapted for either quilts or steel pens. The
proprie!ors undertake TO supply it at abon
half the price usually charged for the ordina
~ kinds of paper.
A wag was Jogging home rather late and
little happy, when he was accosted by larg,
two fisted fellow, who demanded his money
money!! said the wag, money have none
but if you'll wait minute | will give yo
my note al thirty days,
ADVANCE IN THE Prices OF PRlNrING -
The book and job printers Of Boston hav
unanimously agreed to raise the prices @
printing, commencing the lSt inst, The boo
printers adopting the New York prices 70
oSmposiion, and The same prices for press
work The slatoners also have advance,
their prices for printing
A Curious PLAcARD.-The following pla
card was at one time during the recent lrou
bles in Rome, actually posted about tn
streets Of the Eternal City. Several day
elapsed ere its hidden meaning Was penetra
ted by our whiome acquaintance, Gnisepp
Navone, chief detective Of :he Roman police
The reader who is mol quick al guessing rid
dies, will find the solution of the folowin
by reading across from one inscription to III
other:
Death to Plus Ninth
Muzzim for ever
This republic is the besl government
the vilest government is ,ha, Of the Pope
Down with the Presily power
Sovereignty of the people for ever
A lady was told The othsr day by a ira
yelling gentleman that in certain codnlf
every lady who had a small mouth was pre-
yided with husband by the government.
9Th it pothible," said the lady, maxim
Ier mouth as small as she could.
The gentleman added, that "if lady ha
large mouth she was provided with iv
husbands"
any gracious" exclaimed the lady, at tn
same time throwing open her mouth TO i
foil extent,
The gentleman became alarmed, mad
Sis escape almost immediately, and has NJ
been heard OF since