Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1859-06-18
Glraninos ann Grlsrte0

CuEAr BrrrER This morning grass butter
of the very finest quslty,'sold for shilling
| pound. These figures were too low to suit
our rural friends, and they grumbled consider.
ably. 1t is not often that butter comes down
to q shilling 10 this Narket.-HdrribvS Tel.
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! MrDlTRRRAYEAS VERSUS WRIrE WHEAT
From what we can learn, the Mediterranean
wheat looks twenty per cent better than the
white, end the experience of the farmers will
prove that this is the safest and most profita-
BILE.
MEssRs REYNOLDS AND Clay, we'll known
Engineers on the Western division of the
Sudbury and Erie Railroad, have been trans
ferred to the Middle Division.
A HUMBUG.-Some envous, soursaced old
bachelor, says there is great deal of humbug
in this world-more in fact than it is credited
with-and the most outrageous humbug is 20
see two pretty women kissing on the door.
step. W. do not see why they could not as well
cali up fellow to do the job for them. For
our part we like to see ladies kiss. 1t keeps
them in practice, and not unfrequently puts
them in the notion Of trying it on with mas
culiue friend.
j. EDGAR THOMPSON, Esq, President Of the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad, has recently
been elected one Of the Directors of the Du-
buque and Pacific Railroad, running west
| from Dubuque. This railroad has one Of the
richest land grants in the Union, and will run
| through one Of the finest portions of Iowa, TO
Sioux city on the Missouri.
gG- President Buchanan, in his recent tour,
thus speaks of intemperance.
The great curse of our country, which has
! involved so many in crime, is drunkenness.
| 1t is more dreadful than tbepestilence, than
the yellow fever, than the plague, than all the
caamities that visit man. In il We bring on
ourselves greater calamity than Heaven has
brought upon us in any form or shape of mis-.
cry.
A Steam Canal Boat is now in course ol
building by Messrs Richards & Dingee, Of
Port Providence, near PhGnixylle, for the
Schuylkill Canal Company. Should the ex.
pertinent succeed, steam canal boats will soon
be quite common on the Schuylkill nariga.
ton.
Ey UNdRATEFUI--Mr. Buchanan, lately
appointed John Z. Barnes, OF Alabama, one
of the visitors to the West Point Academy
who writes letter declining the honor. He
says
Il am well aware that there ia disc.epan.
cy of opinion as to the existence Of any real
danger to the Institutions and interests of the
South at present, but l am also well aware
that the President has been guilty of q fatal
error TO the interests and welfare Of the whole
country-that of maintaining his own peculiar
notions of The policy, without improving the
condition OF the Democratic party and wheth
or the South is to suffer from the imbecility
of superannuated President. or the contu.
Tnacious Imprudsnce of the Noihern Abol
itionists, time will only show"
A son of Mr.. Jacoby Hartman, living
about mile east Of this borough, while re-
turning borrowed corn shelter in the nsigh
borhood of MeEwensville, was thrown out ol
the wagon by some mishap, the wheels going
over his head and chest, injuring him SO seri
ously that he cannot recover, and perhaps
lies a corpse wkile We are penning this arti'
Gle.
p. s. Since penning the above. We are iu
formed that he died last evening" Miitoniar
June l0M.
DR.. WINsHIP, who was so overpowered By
bis attempt to address public assemblage il
Boston, that he had to be carried out of the
room, has since delivered his lecture, ant
exhibited feats Of berculean strength. One
of his feats was to raise 926 pounds aud anoth
er was to raise barrel OF flour to his shoul
der and hold it there. He is five feet sever
inches high, and weighs one hundred apC
forty -one pounds. The object of these exper
imsts was to show what physical education
could do to strengthen the body. DR.. W. il
said to be the strongest man ip the world
He never practices over half AZ hour day.
Goal exists iu eighty one Of the counties o
Illinois, and ever q hundred mines are noN
worked In thirty eight different counties.