Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-09-19

RUINED YouNG MEN.-[ From a Paris Let
ter. Call the roll of the "young men OF
$780," and ask where they are De Bazac is
dead--cotfee killed him. Frederick Soulie is
dead, the victim of coffee and RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Eugene Brilliant died madman iG the Char
enton Lunatic Asylum. Grsndvle went
mad, aud breathed his last in private insane
house. Lasally died at the Charenton mad
house, o raving lunstic. Lowe Weimars died
from opium eating and licentiousness. Rabbe,
after suffering agony from loathsome dis.
ease, took poison to end his prolonged torture.
Alfred de Musset died victim to the bottle
and the cigar. Count Alfred dOrsay was
killed by the cigar and licentiousn, IS. Charles
de Bernard died from coffee and licentious
ness. Henri Boyle died from coffee and
women. Hippalite Roger Collard died from
tobacco and coffee. Gerard de Nerval, after
oscillation between plenty and want, abste.
mousness and RIGHTEOUSNESS, went mad and
hung himself. All died of soitening Of the
braiu or spinal marrow, or swelling OF the
heart All moved down in the prime of life,
in the meridian of their intellect and fnInei
Eugene Sues name is added to the fatal
list. Coffee and women were his ruin. lie
died away from his friends, away from his
family, away from the home he had adorned
with elaborate cure, an exile in foreign land.
Who would have predicted such an end to
Eugene Sue in lS4l, when he was the fuvorite
of Paris rolling in wealth, courted by every
one. dandy Of most arstocratic pretensions
All ! who can resd the future?
ATRocIous.-A few days since an Irish
laborer, who had been employed on the Pan
Handle Railroad called at the house Of Mr..
David Finley, near Paris, Pa, and requested
10 be allowed TO stay all night. The next
morning, after breakfast, Mr.. Finley and his
wife, two old people who resided alone, were
both taken very sick with vomiting. They
requested their guest TO 60 for a physician,
which he refused to do, but soon after took
French leave carrying with him, as was af-
terwards ascertained, some $500. which he
had managed to steal while in the house
On examining the coffee pot, arsenic enough
was found in it to have killed twenty persons
The overdose had operated as an eme,c, and
thus saved the lives of the old people.
STEAM UroN THE FARN.-We learn from
the Reading Gasene, that Major II. $. kUrr
one of the most intelligent and enterprising
turner's Of Berks county, drives his threshing
machine by little portable engine, with an
ease and celebrity rs to surprise and crafty
all who have witnessed its operations. The
farmers in the neighborhood ore delighted
with it. BY it all hands admit horsepower
is entirely thrown into the shade Major
knpp will confer lasting benefit upon the
farming community in which he lives, by his
liberality and foresight--A hulf dozen farmers
might unite in purchasing a steam-power Ike
this-ts cost probably not being over Si00.
With care il would last FOR twenty years with
out much repairing.
Bishop Otey, Of Tennessee, is not opposed
10 the cultivation Of innocent amusement
His pleasant disposition is Illustrated by the
following remark of his Thirty years ago
came TO Tennesse with my wife, my fiddle
and a horse and sulky. My horse and sulky
are long since gone, but my wife aud fiddle
remain as good as new
The edition of the london Times each NOR
ming makes pile fifty feet high. Every four
days it would make column as high us the
London Monument. The entire force employ
ed in the printing department is three hun
dred including reporters aud proof readers.
Welearn says the New. York Mirror, that
the hai dsome daughter of a late respected
Prelate in the Episcopal Church, has elOped
with an actor recently connected with Laura
Keen's Theatre-a very fne.looking but, we
fear, an unprncipled man. The parties are
now in Boston.
FREE y NEGROES PURCHASED BY SLAvE.-A
few days ago several free negroes were put
MP at auction 10 Norfolk county and sold IL
labor for a term sufficient to liquidate their
taxes. Singular to relate four OF them were
purchased by slave in Portsmouth, who felt
quite proud of the distinction and made
known his determination to get the full value
of his money out of them, or know the reason
why.-NmJoik Herald Aug. 2s.
LARGE YIELD.-Our townsman, Mr.. Henry
MILLER, has raised lG2 fall grown potatoes
weighing 22t pounds and measuring oue-hal
bushei, from single pinkeye potato, on a lo'
OF GEO. A. FRIcK, Esq, just below Dauville
on the Northumberland road. The seed po
tato was cut into sixteen pieces, each o
which had an eye, and was planted in hill
by itself.
A character, like a kettle, once mended
: always wants mendiug.