Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1858-04-17

4 CocD SCHOOL WANTEp.-Complain be-
mig made to the acting Board of Directors
in Lancaster township, Butler county, Pa,
against the teacher Of School No. !, q com
mittee was appointed to investigate, who fin
| ding the complaint "true BILL" agreed with
the teacher that he should leave the school.
aud they engage another teacher to complete
the term A few of the dissatisfied called a
meeting and adopted the following unamiable
thing.
March the day 1858 their vase a NEE
ting calf and we aint agreed to have the school
teacher pait out of the publy money because
! hewosant emplout in the way accorting to
Law schohl teacharcho sturt District numper
| l." The President then declared that he
wished that the school system was blowed
to the ID" and was applauded by several Of
the good photographers. A good school is
| evidently needed in that quarter.
THE HAREy UyrEfLED.--A Moldavian
Countess frequent visitor in the harems of
the late Redschid Pasha and other -dignita-
ries of Constantinople, thus takes the ro-
nance out Of the popular idea OF those Mo-
hammedan paradises
Women, fat, ill.made, dirty and stupid
such is the personnel Of all harems. Add TO
this that the women pass their days IN jeal-
ousy Of each other, disputing, abusing, and
even fsticufing, and you will understand that
the happiness Of Messieurs the Turks, which
has for centuries nhamed the imaginations
of romancers and poets, leaves much to be
desired to make it perfect.
The harem is hell where four or FIVE fu-
ries busy themselves in torturng poor devil
whom they call master and lord"
"a we'll kept harem, Of four women only
costs twenty. five thousand dollars year. and
that Of the Sultan, for 1856, costs hundred
million Of francs, or twenty millions of dollars
The young Turks, who have adopted Euro
pean ideas, regard the harem as an institu-
tion that has had its day.
A BRACE OF Boys CoMposIrIoss-A dis
tinguished Georgian lawyer says that in his
younger days he taught boys school and
requiring the pupils to write compositions,
he sometimes received some Of q peculiar
sort, Of which the following is specimen.
Ok INDUSTRY 1t is bad for a man to
be idol Industry is the best thing man can
have, and q wife is the next. Prophets and
kings desired it long, aud died without the
Siie. The End"
Here is another.
"OY THE SEAsoNs.-There are four sesons,
spring, summer, autumn and winter. They
are all pleasant Some people like spring
best, but as for me give me liberty or give
me death. The Eud.
In PLANTING TREES, dig large holes-twice
the circumference required by the extended
roots, and twice the depth necessary Fill
up with rich earth, and short, well rotted
manure press down carefully with the foot,
and stake firmly, aud to prevent it from rub
bing the tree, wrap some cloth around the
stake, and tie closely Mulch with grass,
hay, shaviugs, sawdust, old tan, or loose
stones. Water once week in the hot sea.
moisture. Most evergreens thrive best on
clayey subsoils. Telegraph.
The following marriage notice appears in
the Virginia papers "On the nth inst, iu
the county of Dinwiddie, by the Rev. John
Wiroy Mallory Kirby, Mr.. John w. Sturd-
want, in the 22d year of his age, to the amia-
bic and well,to.do Miss Martha Oliver, aged
SO years"
Among the disafected Democrats iu Kan.
sas, is Gen. Whitfield, of border-ruflian mem
ory, who could not swallow the Lecompton
swinde and, as consequence has been re.
moved from the land Office at kickapoo.
An old Revolutoner says, that at all the
solemn ho1rs he ever saw, that occupied in
going home one night from the Widow Bem's
after being told by her daughter Sally that
he needn't come again was the most solemn.
Mrs. Turner, wife Of Rev. Mr.. Turner,
while riding in buggy with her husband re.
Gently, near Palmetto, Ga, was instantly Kill
led by kick from the horse.
The tongue, like race horse, generally
runs faster the less weight it carries.
Perhaps a majority Of persons ara Tar less
ashamed Of having done wrong than oi oeihg
found out
Seeding says a good-for, nothing old bach
elor, is the pepper of matrimony. and Inc Ia
dies the pepper b9sss