Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-05-05
OLD SERIES, VOL. Is. NO. 80.

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PAINFUL AND Romantic AFrAlR.-Some
three years ago, German left his wife aud
child in South Natick, Mass, and went TO
the West to seek employment. Not hearing
anything Of or from him, the wife concluded
he was dead, and about two months since
married another German, with whom she
lived happily until last week, when the first
husband came on from st. Louis, Mo-, where
he had lived in the interim, to take her and,
his child to his new home. After much grief
and perplexity, she concluded to go to st.
Louis with the first husband leaving the
second one nearly distracted with grief
A fair correspondent asks Diogenes, wheth..
er hesthinks an action for breach of promise
OF marriage would lie against the writer Of
the following verse
"Angcl! beneath whose folded wing
My soul would rest,
Be mine for 10 Pve bought the ring,
And oil the rest
or those house treasures and etcetefss,
Which every who tiles his state 70 better has,
Diognes doubts the success of an action for
breach OF promise of marriage but a more
glaring case of breach of promise Of poetry"
he declares never came under his observa-
tion.
MONEY STOLEN ny RATs.--Col. Amory, who
keeps an eating-house opposite our Office. in
Congress street, having recently missed sums
of money from his till, was surprised yester-.
day in discovering that some rats had been
using bank bills as the lining Of their nests
under the counter. Fragments of bills, suf-
ficent to ascertain that at least Sl5 had been
distracted and converted by the rats to their
own use, were found.- Boston Transcript.
CAFE MAY, April TO-
A party of twelve gentlemen engaged in
fishing up the bay, reported having seen the
Sea Serpent yesterday. They describe it as
being from so to 100 feet long, with u head
of large dimensions, similar in shape to that
Of q snake with two large tusks protruding
from the upper part of the snout. A reward
of $1,000 is offered for his capture, and a
party is going in pursuit of his snakeship.
NOVEL BUT Coon REASON FOR DECLINING =
CHAILEYGE.-The New York Times states
that on Tuesday q flare up occurred in Brook
lyn, which resulted in Col, Jack, lawyer
challenging a professional brother, named
Schooumaker. and that the latter declined
accepting the invitation, sunless the Colonel
,couid fatten himself sufficiently to be mark
to shoot H." Col. J. has not yet indicated,
his intention to accede to the request
Il come for the saw, sir
What sauccr| -.s.
why the saw, sir, that ye borrowed
Il borrowed no saucer
Sure you did, sir you borrowed saw,
sir .v-
Get out you rascal, never saw your sau-
cer.' .
BE dad but you did, sir, there's the saw,
sir, now, SIR "..
oh! you want the saw Why didn't you
say SO
New ENGLAND Rum AT THE CRTaEA.-
New England Rum is selling AT CONSTANT
nople at 80 cents gallon. The demand IS
for the French army. Quite an impetus mas
been given to the distillers by the general
failure of the grape and by the war. The
omaIitv ia doubtless somewhat improved by
thc VOYAGE but we should think it was u
pretty hard liquor to fight on,-Proridence
Journal.
NOTES the falling dew Of eve
Are pleasant sounds IN poets songs
But notes on OF FAILING DUR,
To those to whom tho cash belongs,
(And who not getting it, will sus) 60.
Are ike the noise of harshest gongs''
APPEARANCES OFTEN DECEITFUL.-An Old
man entered the Office of the Erie Railroad,
in New York city, looking so poor that the
clerks took him for beggar, and ordered
him ont. But he finally found his way TO
thc cashier. and received ten thousand dol
lars on income bonds which the clerks had
supposed to be begging certificates
A PERTINENT QuERY.--The Ogdensburg
I(N. W Republican says: An inqulsltHe
friend at our elbow, on reading the Iery incia
INTERPRETATION of the Reciprocity Treaty Dy
4 e tba wants tn know
if brandy would pass under the heodcf h0T"s'
and thereby escape dutyT r
INprFArIcAB MINIsTER.-When the
J Rev Rowland Hill had reached his eighty
! third wear. and had been in the ministry SIXTY,
four wears, as n general thing he preached
seven times week, besides having much OF
his time occupied with public engagements
RoaAy C ArHoIIc MIssIoNARIEs.--The Bni-
hlo N. W Commercial states llsl tnre'
Franciscan Friars are about locatlhg thein-
selves in Buffalo as missionaries ior lie
southern part of Bishop Timons diocese
Ws,Iruy FruALrs.-!There are 22I fe-
moIeS who nav a tax on $4,000 and upwards
in Boston, Mass, Mrs. ii. X. Hunt VINO
protested on the ground that it was taxation
without representation, pays S3Oe lO'
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY II ne 'o'ei Hui'
her of votes caStin about half the towns OF
Kansas, was about 1000. The total number
OF voters in the hole territory, according 10
the last census, Wa only about 5000.
They have fancy names for newspapers ont
in Keokuk. The three papers published
there are called espectively-"fhe Gate u
ty," The Morning Glory" and The REQ
kak Nip-and-Tuce." lmaginate people
TnE WATER CuRR,-ChristoPher Murphy
went 10 Galena, Qli.l the other day 20,
drunk, aud fell into a well. lie rema'nel 4,y
there tweuty-four hours before he was us
covered and taken out.
hRBnFyIATIoS.-Dr Charles W AsoH -
; written a volume Of some hundreds % pvs,
10 expl.in the pathology oi 1ranAen",:1 a, "a.
} We could define il in two syiia0iss'--''S
s7g.
Itisa law which God himself mas ',.,ss' n,aSe'
that the arrow, which is shot from llie p'Usr
Gators bow. shall rebound and pierce tut Pc
seeutor's heart. ...|
The yilet grows low, and covers ltSeii s.i
with its own tears and Of all flowers yieirs
the most delicious aud fragrant smell sus4