American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-08-09
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A SMALL HIT AT JOHN BULL.-The
King of Greece has ordered monument
to be erected to Byron, at Missolonghi.
The formation of a new county out
of portions of Venango, Crawford and
Warren counties is still being agitated,
and it will probably be accomplished.
The Iron-olad Dictator, from New
mort Rhode Island, has arrived at Boston.
She gave general satisfaction to those
sailing her. She will probably next pro-
seed to Halifax.
Fears are entertained in England
that their coalfelds may give out some
day or other. Ninety millions tons of
coal are annually brought to the surface
in the colleries of England.
There are 6599 boats belonging to
the Erie canal, of which number l449
are of greater tonnage than the vessel in
which Columbus discovered America.
The Late Tunnel at Chicago has now
reached a length of two thousand nine
hundred feet, and is progressing at the
rate of twelve feet per twenty-four hours.
-Itis curious fact that President
johnson was married at Greenville, Ten
nessee, by Mordecai Lincoln Esq, dis
tant relation of the late President.
Says the N Y. Sunday Times: More
than sixteen thousand prisoners have been
incarcerated in the "Tombs" within six
months That is, we have in part Of
New York more than $4,000 law-breakers
year?
Benjamin Brown of Waterford, N.
T., in his 9sth year, is said to be the
only man living who actually bore arms
during the Revolutionary War, He
fought in the defence of the New Lon
don, in September, 1871.
"A Miss Neely, of Mockville, N. c.,
shot negro wowan through the heart on
the I'd inst, while the latter was arguing
with her master. Slavery is truly hu-
manitarian institution
Col. Mcclure, in his paper, the Frank
I'm Repository, says: "lf there is one
man in the State who more than another
don't mean to run for Governor, it IS A.
K. Mcclure" He ought to know.
Gen. Rumfcrt, the Mayor of Harris
burg, has issued proclamation prohlbi-
ting the sale of liquors at the bars Of ho-
tells, taverns and restaurants, in that city
after ii o'clock p. m, For violation of
this order one of the large hotels has been
fined $50.
1t is stated that a'"respectable young
lady" in Pittsburgh eloped the other night
with youth, whose addresses her "cruel
parient" had forbidden. She took along
the old gentleman's money box, contain
ing $400.
---On the Sth inst, San Francisco
rowdy, named Billy Mulligan, shot and
killed two men while laboring under an
attack of delirium tremens, and was him.
self shot dead by policeman.
Tho piers of. the suspension bridge,
across the Ohio at Cincinnati, are nearly
completed, and the wires will be suspen-
,ded in a short time The bridge will
have a span of 1867 feet being the lon
gest in America.
The Fourth of July was celebrated
in California, Nevada and Oregon with
unparalleled enthusiasm. Speaker Col
fax delivered an address in San Francis
90, having safely arrived overland from
Indiana.
Major General Logan addressed a
large and enthusiastic audience last FIJI
day night at the Court House, Louisville,
in favor of the constitutional amendment
prohibiting slavery in the United States,
"A gentleman in New York has offer
ed to give $500, in prizes of 5000, $3.50
500 and $50, to those soldiers who have
either lost their right arm, or have had it
disabled, who will show the best specimen
of left,bend penmanship-the design BE-
ing to induce the men to become skillful
penmen, in order to fit themselves for lu-
cratiye and honorable positions,
A citizen of Quebec recently locked
up his daughter because she wanted to
marry young lawyer. the young man,
however, though poor in purse, was fertile
in resource, and sued out writ of habeas
corpus for his beloved. AS she was of
age to decide for herself, she was produ-
ced, and the couple were married and
went on their way rejoicing.
The stcry of the murder Of woman
and three children, by three men, near
London, Ohio, and the subsequent killing
of the men by the husband and father,
printed in the last Telegraph, is pronoun-
, ced hoax by the Madison County Un-
ion, published within four miles of the al
legged scene of the tragedy.
The Union State Central Committee
held session at Harrisburg, on the 10Th,
and passed a resolution converting the
Union State Convention at Harrisburg,
on the 18th of August. The members
called upon General Cameron and pre-
sented to him, from the Union men of
Philadelphia, a life-siaed portrait of him
self
The number of letters now received
at the Dead Letter Office in Washington
averages fourteen thousand day. Let
ter-writers should remember that prepay
ment is imperative under the amended
postal law passed by the last Congress.
1T is known that the twelfth diamond
for magnitude yet discovered in the world
was found by an Irishman digging in
Manchester, opposite Richmond, on the
James river. The macmillan aDnearanee