Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-10-06
gtems Of Welus.

To leave your son a fortunc-givc him cd,
ucation.
A ray of light to the understanding is bet
ter than volume committed to memory.
There is beauty enough on earth to mako
a home for angels.
The total cotton crop this year is estimated
at 2.S47,33O bales, or S2,6S7 less than last
year.
Virtue makes man on earth famous, in
his grave illustrious, and in Heaven immor-
tai.
WORTH KSowING.-A Goldfish breakfas.
and an India rubber coat will keep man dry
all day.
STOPPED OPERATIoYs.-About one-half OF
all the manufacturing machinery i'll Rhodo
Island has been stopped on account OF tho
drought.
A GLuTroN.-A Goldfish was recently
brought ashore ut Buckle, in England which
had In its stomach no fcwer than twenty-five
full grown hcrrings.
DR.. Gait, late Postmaster at Forfolk on
his dying bed requested the appointment OF
his assistant, Augustus NJ. Vaughn, and tho
Postmaster General complied with the re-
quest.
The New Haven Journal and Courier says
"Dr S. j. Townsend, the Sarsaparilla man,
has paid $4,000 for O house and farm II
Stamford, and intends to live there
4 DEAD Loss.-The DGrTGrd (Mass.)
Branch Railroad which cost 900, and
was lately sold for $1,000, has been broken
up, and its rails sold for old iron.
GOVERNOR SLADE, of Vermont, was in But,
falo on Wednesday, accompanied by between
30 and 10 ladies, all of whom are bound tc
the western country as teachers.
UYExPEcrED Coon FoRTUNE.-An admira-
bic young lady, teacher in the Cambridge
| (Mass.) Grammar School, has just received
information OF bequest Of $4,000, from
rejected suitor of hers, recently deceased, in
Para, Brazil.
The education of q youth Of the "uppeE
crust" begins with Havana cigar, embraces
q tour to Europe-from which he returns
greater iackanapes than ever-and ends with
marriage of hands, not hearts.
| MECHANICS FOR KANsAs.-A party Of fifty
frst-class mechanics have left the city OF
Syracuse, n ", for Kansas. They are en-
gagged to work on the government buildings
at Fort Leavenworth.
A Paris paper estimates the increase oil
the population of that city, for one week, to
be 100000. That was the week OF the Queen
of England's visit.
PoTAToEs.-A merchant in Albany, n Y,
has made contract for 500 bushels OF Mer-
Ger potatoes, raised in Rensselaer, county, IN
that State, to be delivered before the lst OF
January, at 81 per barrel. Last winter they
brought 81.
Last Sunday, clergyman near Dayton,
Ohio, elucidated his TEXTILE that Is With
out sin among you," etc, by this consummate-
ly recondite parnphrase at is the preroga-
tive of innocence to project the initiatory
boulder II
4 Lowell editor says, that one reason why
he supports the ten hour law for the factor
les is, that then the factory girls will have
time to garter their stockings in the morning
instead Of having so frequently to draw them
up in the streets.
I OuIcx on TIE TRIGGFR."-The wife OF
man named Shirts, residing IN Dryden, n.
Y, died recently on Friday. On Saturday
| lNe DcFpaNeu nusDluu llldIilSu oSNSHs
and attended with her the funeral OF his ior"
mer one. on the succeeding Sunday lhls
was sharp work.
LIBERAL DIVORCE LAws.-The OHIO laws
allow divorce for "gross neglect OF uuty'
which, being literally construed, alio"S rn, rho
parties TO separate almost at pleasure no
laws are nearly the same, We UNDERSTAND III
Illinois and Wisconsin.
A LUCKY SoIpIER-It is said that Ger.
Ostensaken, whose military career eAtehus
over forty-eight years, who has asSlsteu az
more than one hundred battles ana eompa,s,
in which he has usually been found iu ~ tnt
first ranks, has never received the si'su'e''
wound.
ADVANCED IN VALUE-Montpelier, tn'
home of the late President Madison III
: ginia, which twice since his death mas en b,
ged hands at $l6 per acre, reeen'iy oroaSn' ssS,o
S35 per acre. Montpelier is large es'1'''
containing eleven hundred acres
+ LOVE ME-. LOVE- MY Doo.-Nothing couia
! exceed the attention of Louis Napoleon ~ ~
his royal guest. On leaving llouloshe,, IaT, lI1
Queen suddenly perceived that she nau ,.ai
} behind favorite little lapdog and eNpressoa
{ her very great regret thereat. NO hollso In Ias
J taken apparently beyond sympathy, pu' 'ho;r 1'
tricity and steam were made 10 perform 49,, IN
most impossible acts aud when the Suee Ss''a
entered her boudoir at st. Clond, 'no niss
thing she saw was her lapdog, that JunpeN
forward to meet her