Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-07-21
Atems Of Ne(us.

WooL.-A fleece weighing %! pounds, was
recently sheared from merno sheep, at New
bury, Ohio. Another of the same flock, yiel-
ded a fleece weighing Is pounds.
ILIusTRIoUs TYPos.-Lord stanhope was
printer. Franklin was printer. The great
French poet Beranger, was q printer
Theirs, the great French historian, was
printer.
CoMIYG DowS.--The Lebanon (Tenn.)
Herald, of Thursday last, says :-"Flour has
fallen from Sc to SO per hundred. Any
quantity can be bought at the latter figure
We have no doubt but that it can be bought
for 50 in few weeks"
HEAVY FINE FOR UsURY.-One of the hea-
West known verdicts against usury has been
pronounced in Dion, France, condemning a
ticular sum was named, as it was calculated
to represent, nearly, his lLgotten profits for
five years.
CHoIERA.--The Pittsburgh papers an
nounce the existence Of cholera in CHARTERS
township, near that city. 1t broke out in a
building containing 70 occupants, mostly
railroad laborers, and several deaths have oc-
Cured.
RAILROAD SUDscRlprIoN-The City Coun-
ellis of Erie, Pa have passed resolutions Of
fering to subscribe S20O,000 to the stock of
the Pittsburgh and Erie Railroad, on condi-
tion that it be really built from Pittsburgh
to Erie.
| REJoIcING.-There is great rejoicing at
| st. Louis on the occasion of the opening OF
the Ohio and Mississippi railway, by which
means st Louis is connected with the cities
of the East by direct line Of railway. The
st. Louis Intelligencer, of the 9th, contains
nearly page in relation to the opening GER
emonies Of the road
A Paper Maker of the South of France
would seem to have discovered a means OF
dispensing with rags. With FIVE common
plants he produces pulp, it is asserted
which forms so per cent. of the pulp furnish
ing the paper, of superior quality and Of
cheap price 1t is said that large banking
house Of Paris is on the point Of forming q
joint stock company for the development oI
this discovery.
A DIABoucAL OuTRAGE-The dwelling
house of Mr.. John Tucker, on the edge O.
Providence, r. J., was blown up and almost
entirely destroyed on Thursday night. Some
person placed a small keg of gunpowder un
der his bed, and from barn outside it wa:
fired, causing a terrific explosion. No ont
was seriously injured, though the escape from
death of Mr. Tucker and two young ladies
seems little less than miraculous.
WASHINGTON, July l4.-The Star of thi
evening, asserts that the Government has in
formation of the kind reception Of Major Nor
deca and Captain McClelland by the Rus
sian Government and that they have no
been refused Liberty to visit Sebastopol an
examine the Russian delences.
DR.. Waldo has decided to acceptthe Judge
ship Of the Supreme Court of Connecticut
and will retire from the Office Of Commission
or of Pensions, about the first Of next month
CIScINSArI, July l4.-In the matter OF el
listing men for the foreign service, the U.
Commissioner to-day held the British Consu
Mr.. Rowecraft, to bail in $1,000; Turnbu
and Hamilton in $1,000 each, and Capt
, Hoshner in his own recognizance, to appea
before the u. District Court to answer tn
| charge. Capt. Mckay, the agent Of the Br
tish Government. was too i'll TO appear befor
; the Commissioner, The parties gave the re
qnred security.