Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-12-08
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There are $40 persons at present confined
in the Ohio Penitentiarv
Mr. Fillmore, it is said, will spend the win
ter in Italy.
Snow fell in York CO., on Wednesday. but
was succeeded by rain.
Carmel coal has been discovered in La Sale
county Illinois.
A quantity Of green rens from Savannah
were received at New York, last week
The New York State Canals will he closed
on the 18th Of December, unless closed sooner
ny ice.
The patriarch Of the Chipnewa indians
was lately baptized, with his wife and three
children. .
Miss Cniharine Hayes it is said has reali-
zcd fortune by Singing. Of S20O.GNO. Shc
has visited California, Australia, China and
I!indostan. .-,.....
Sixteen Thousand acres Of land have beer
located for the University at St. Anthony,
Min, under government gran. ..
Border RnfTian iSthe name cf paper about
to he published in the town Of Richfeld, Clay
county, No. %
tribe of Indians. has been chosen delegate
to the next Legislature of Maine.
Two large crops of tobacco in Christian
county, KY were sold last week at 81 cents
round, to be delivered priced.
About $4,000 have been subscribed to es-
tnbish Female College at Thomusville,
Georgia. c'-'.
Mrs. Sweetman, of Medina. \. Y, has
been killed by an apothccary, who put up
strychnne for her instead Of morphine.
a number of men from Kanawha county,
Virginia, with their slaves, bound to Kansas,
passed through Cincinnati last week.
The Lehigh Valley Times proposes A. E.
Brown as the Know Nothing candidate for
President
There is q printing Office in Paris capable
o! printing the Lords prayer in three hun
drod different languages.
The Port Gibson (Miss.) Herald of the
10Th nit, says that the yellow fever continues
to prevail there to considerable extent
Ore thousand tons of Pennsylvania iron,
for the ST. Louis and Iron Mountain railroad,
were shipped from Pittsburg last week.
Mr. Wm. Wyman, machinist, of Charles.
town, Mass. has been sent to the ad-house
at Cambridge, victim Of the spiritual rap
pings
Cream upon milk is about the only article
| which has not risen of late. Nothing has
, gone down but the mercury in the thermom-
eter.
y report was recently published that the
King of Prussia had had another attack of
I npniNlngy. hut IL ia ppnfro.lh.IoI
| health is said to be better than it has been for
many years. ..,
Col. Collier of Steubenvc, Ohio, has re-.
ceived from San Francisco, a vest made from
the first piece Of Japanese silk imported into
this country direct from the hermetic EN-
pire.
| a matrimonial alliance of an uncommon
! character has lately been effected in tiuvana
county Virginia. Mr.. Robert Grey, the gall
| liant groom. is 95 years Of age, and the late
| Mr.. Catharine Riley, (now Mrs. Grey,) 92
years Of age
The towers of the new Suspension Bridge,
now in process of construction about two
miles below Rochester, over the Genesec
river, fell Tuesday with tremendous crash
| The towers lie on the bank total wreck
No persons were injured,
REGIMENTAL DEroT TRANsrERREp.--Thc
/ depot OF the Second Regiment Of Dragons,
L. ). a., now located at Jefferson Barracks,
Mo-, is removed. by orders from the Wan
Department. to Carlisle Barracks. Pa. whiih.
er Brevet Col. May and his command will
forthwith proceed
INLAND Navy YARDs.-During the brief
existence of the Navy Yard at Memphis,
| Tenn. from 1874 to 1876. it cost the gov
rrnment 1902 GIG. aud at IFS sale brought
only 45.055, lraving IA dead loss of 81 .04s SEQ.
BESIDES this, s27,200 was paid in salaries TO
| officers there.
ANOTHER RIcH LEGAC1.-The Syracuse
papers state that MessrS. Morris & Gardner.
Two merchants of that city, have received in.
teigence that they are heirs 10 e50,OOe,e00
in money aud property in England. Lord
Gardner. m English nobleman. is said to
have been the original owner OF this property,
aud one Of his descendants was, according to
the story, MIR. Gardner. of New York. who
was killed by the explosion on board the
Princeton, on the Potomac. The present
wife Of ex- President Tyler was the daughter
of Mr.. Gsrdher, and OF course is one Of the
heirs if there DO sny such legacy.