Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-05-29
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Wages-The sweet oil with which tho ma
chinery is creased.
"a cof6n," says an Irishman, "is the house
man lives in when he is dead"
The famous Elder Knapp has just settled
over congregation at st. Louis.
Gen. Comonfort, the exiled President Of
Mexico, has arrived in New York.
A Regular Diet up TO the point Of temper.
nnce, cures more people than pbysic.
Punch says it requires an early stnrt, now
q days, for man to get around bis wife.
The girls use powder on their faces as men
do in the musket pan-to make them 60 of.
It is estimated that the fishermen on our
lakes receive SG40,000 per annum for their
fish.
There are twenty-seven theatres in Paris,
twentythree in London, and ten iE New
! York.
Henry Ward Beecher intends spending q
few weeks in Kansas during the coming
summer.
| 81 am going to draw this beau into knot
said mischievous lady while standing at
the hymenial altar.
Bishop II. Z. Onderdonk has preached
one hundred and ten sermons since his resto-
ration. His mind is as vigorous as of yore.
! CRAWFORD COUNTY BANs.-The Meadville
democrat, ndmonishes the public to be on
their guard against the notes Of the Crawford
County Bank.
The Mechanical Bakery in Philadelphia
bakes / 900 loaves of bread per day and is
now considered one of the permanent i'm.
proyements Of that city.
Among the latest counterfsits are los on
the Union Bank, Dover, Del, altered from
Is. The vignette is an eagle, with banners,
&c.
There is a monster grape vine at Monte
ato California, that yielded, last summer,
700 bushels Of grapes, weighing $4,000
pounds.
Henry Ward Beecber said in one of his
lectures that, FLOWERS are the sweetest
things that God ever made and forgot to put
a soul into'
The Free Mnsons Of South Carolina are
taking hold OF the Mount Vernon fund in
earnest. Several lodges hate subscribed 81
} for each member.
Prentice says, "Childfen should not GO
near the woods at present. as tho trees are
shooting. In few days they will pack their
trunks and leave"
WORK TO BE REsUNED.-We understand
the Sail Factory, opposite Harrisburg be-
+ longing to MFR. Pratt, will shortly resume
operations
The editor Of an exchange says he heyer
saw bnt one ghost, and that was the ghost of
! sinner who died without paying for his
paper. Twas horrible to look upon.
A wag observing on the door of house
the name Of two physicians, said that it put
= him in mind of a double.bnrreled gun, for if
ono oil them missed the other was sure to kill
, as your master at home?' mo Sir, he's
out" as your mistress Mt home ?" "No
, Sir, she's ont" "Then III step IN and sit
y. down by the fire." That's out too, Sir"
The Sunday atlas, in a fit Of revolutionary
enthusiasm, saTs-"ilurrah for the girls Of
rs" "Pshaw," cries Jersey paper, that.
too darhea old. No, hurrah for the girls o.
= L."
< attempt is to be made to recover tho
l million and half Of dollars that went dowr
: in the Central America, although she is sunh
Z IN water over Is Of a mile deep, and in spo
i that is hinety miles distant from the neares
g land
:, The bid OF the Memphis Packet Compan,
y to carry the mails from New Orleans I,
i Memphis for one hundred and eighty thou
a sand dellars per annum, has been accepted
. and the mail from Memphis TO Cairo ha
u been awarded to other parties.
c Miss Mccain, residing rear Gun Lcl
Springs, Ky, was attracted by the tlockin,
q OF buzzards to spot some distance from III
d house, where she discovered the body Of he
W father suspended to tree by rope abou
r, his neck
TAXING ARSENIC TO BEAuTIFY THE Gov
E. rlEcTIoS.-Catharine Bronx, young lady &
y Albany, aged fourteen years, took smal
J. dose of arsenic, recently, fo- the purpose G
beautifying the complexion, and on Sunda
e morning MAS urrayed in shroud for th
le grave.
.. CHEAP Foop.-The selling price CT eggs
now about ten cents per Dozen less than on
~ cent apiece. At that agure there is no chear
ol er article of food in the market Eggs ar
al more nourishing and more streng thenng thn
rs meat. pound Of them will cost less tha
,s eight cents, with no waste for bone.
I'd ATTACKED BY CHIcKES.-The r'EId3
t. Record states that a little daughter of NJ
ty Patrick Mccoy Of West Chester was severe
y injured on Saturday last by game cocl
The chicken came out Of yard and attacke
oy her, driving his spur into the neck OF I'll
al child just below the ear about half IN inc
- deep, and inhicting wound on the foreheu
ns which was cut to the skull and several 9th
Is. wounds about the face.