Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-11-17
RREYITIE Q.

The Alabama rivers are too low for navi-
cation.
A St. Louis John Smith has been fined
$500 for profane swearing. 80,
A San Francisco policeman is paid $i25
(gold) per week.
The Indians on the Plains have taken
5000 white scalps this season.
A lad of Ia died in Taunton, last week,
from strong drink.
Five American Episcopal Bishops are now
in Europe seeking health. .I III
A peat. bed has been discovered under the |
main business street Ia Rochester.
A girl fourteen years old was married in |
Greenville, CT, recebtly. 4fIN |
A Troy men recently hstched brood of
seventy eight chickens.
The rate of interest at the Bank Of Eng
land, has fallen to four per cent.
Extensive iron works are in process of
erection at Trenton, Dade county, Ga.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
describes Philadelphia as intensely patriotic.
Mechanics have worked six hundred
years on the spire of the Cathedral at Stras'
burg
A robbcr in St. Louis, closely pursued by
| N
drowned.
The Hudson Bay Company have sent to
Montreal this season l8,400 bales Of buffalo
robes.
A Scotchman has discovered the art of
knitting two stockings at ono time on the
I same needles.
On Sunday last, the old John Street ". L.
Church, New York, celebrated its hunoredth
anniversary.
Kossuth is now at Turin, where, it is
said, he intends to fix his permanent resi-
dcnce.
The Chicago Fcnians have ono thousand
men armed and ready to march at mo-
ment's notice.
The Natchez Courier says ten thousand
negroes have been buried near that city
since 1861.
A Yankee has arrived in Paris, who has
made half million dollars in the manufac-
ture of paper collars.
Somebody alluding to Santa Anna at the
Fenian picnic, says there is nothing Irish
about him except his cork leg.
A generation has not passed away since
the first bale of cotton was sen: from Ameri-
Gu to England.
The Masons of Memphis, Tenn, are pre-
pairing to build grand Masonic Temple
there.
The Oregonian estimates to yield of sal
mon fishery on the Pacific coast, during the
last season, at thirty thousand barrels.
One of the passes by which the Pacific
Railroad is to cross the Rocky Mountains is
about eleven thousand feet above the sea
level.
Three prisopers who were chained to.
gether on Mississippi steamboat, by COM
} mon consent jumped overheard and were
drowned
There is great revival In Heborn, Conn
A wealthy manufacturer stopped his mill
and used all his teams to carry his help
three times day to meeting.
Horace Greely is spoken of for United
States Senator for New York, in the place
of Ira Harris, whose term expires this win.
ter.
A lady en- route from Galveston to New
: York passed through Lynchburg on Tues.
day morning in the care of Adams Express
: Company.
Two hundred and fifty emigrauts for
Libera left Macon, Ga, recently. who pro.
pose settling in the town of Grccnviie, in
the Colored Republic.
France supports, by voluntary contribu,
tions. $4,000 evening schools, employing
10000 teachers, and attended by G00,00t
: pupils, mostly adults.
An enterprising freedman, of Clcroket
county, Ala, has this year made two bales
y of cotton, ono of which, weighing 5Ss
2 pounds, he sold at "a cents per pound.
The Madison (Nis.) Union tells of mar
who purchased can of oysters in that city
I; few days ago, in which he found a genuin,
;. pearl valued at from S25 to $50.
At Richmond, KY, the other day, NOR
than twenty men and boys engaged in
street fight, and were all blazing away will
n pistols at once. A lively town!
J. A 1evout member of the Methods
,, Church at Waterville lately dug potatoes il
S his field all day Sunday, without even ono
8 thinking that it was not Saturday.
q -Four thousand six hundred and forty
!. three cars laden with live stock passed owe
% the Cleveland and Erie Railroad during tn
month of October, 1866.
The National Lincoln Monument Asso
. citation has decided to place marble statu
J of Lincoln in front of the City Hall at Wash
c ington. They have now on hand abou
n $1,000.
!. monument to perpetuate the memor
: of Rev. Robert Strawbridge, the founder O
4 Methodism in Maryland, has just been com
:. pleted in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Balti
:, more.
Il Judge Strong, in the Supreme Court @
v Pennsylvania, has just decided that dye
It and scourer is not responsible for goods lei
with him, after the expiration of such .im
as may lie specified upon the ticket.
G The Montreal Witness publishes a mai
1t of the burned district of Quebec, whic
IS shows that space equal to twenty acres il
I length and nine in width was desolated.-
Is Fifty-fve streets were burned over.
D. A mechanical horse has been invented il
d Paris, which is said to be equal in all rs
t. spects to the live animal. The only obstacl
). to its immediate introduction into geners
use is the cost-ten thousand collars.
Three men have been arrested in Idah
.r for robbing Chinaman, and under the civ
is rights bill the testimony of Cinnamon agains
i white man will be for the first time sui
s. mitted to court in Idaho Territory.
~ ~ Salt Lake City offered reward of $a,O0
~ ~ for the apprehension of the assassin of Dl
10 Robinson, who was recently murdered there