Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-04-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Indiana has purchased, for $500, the
beautiful establishment known as knights
town Springs, and will locate there the Sol
diers Home.
The Bank Of California is about to in
crease its capital five millions of dollars. It's
present capital is two millions.
The six English iron clads which are not
success, cost John Bull more than eight
and a half millions OF dollars.
General Grierson, the great cavalry raider,
has been nominated 10y the Secretary of War
for colonel of cavalry in the regular army.
Tins was done or recommendation of Gen.
Grant.
Last year the people of Kanknkee, Ill.,.
put up flax mill, which has proved sue
cess, and the flax company are now about to
erect two more this season.
The Brimsley brothers, who have been
astonishing San Francisco people by per.
forming all the usual acrobatic feats on a
horizontal bar attached to balloon 1000
feet in mid air, are coming east.
The Georgia Legislature has passed law
to punish horse stealing and burglary by
night with death.
Dr. Winship, of Boston, now weighs one
hundred and sixty pounds, IS thirty-.wo
years of age, and can lift ton and u quar-
ter.
Mr.. Perrin. of Woodstock, CT, with q
nice eye for the fitness of things, hung him
self in his slaughter house.
The criminal records of England show
that only one actor was ever hanged there.
This was in the seventeenth century, for
highway robbery.
en1a has go tn1 -, al, F.
paying the national debt of that country by
a popular subscription.
! Horse and mule stealing is carried on to a
large extent in Mississippi by negroes and
white outlaws.
/ In New Orleans, recently, two men en-
gagged in carrying down corpse, had each
leg broken by the stairs giving way.
! A negro is said to have been killed at
| Spotsylvania Court House, by the explosion
OF an old shell.
! Thirty-one fishing vessels arrived al Glou-
cester Mass, from the Georges last week.
! They brought over 100000 pounds of fish.
The Sandusky Register says twenty acres
of vineyard was sold or Friday, withia one
mile of Sandusky, for $4,000.
There were in China in 1865, 1877 mis-.
sionaries, including ladies'. OF these 92 are
Americans, n English and IS are Ger
man.
A bill before Congress proposes the coin
age of FIVE cent pieces, composed of copper
and nickel, to take the place of the five cent
currency.
A party of eighteen lum5erers, in Mich,
igan, were lately poisoned and all died from
eating batch of biscuit in preparing which
strychnine had been accidentally used in
stead OF saleratus.
The Wisconsin Senate has adopted a re-
solution striking out the word white" from
the section in regard to qualifications OF
electors by vote of II to II.
Sixty hogs died from suffocation in a cal
os an eastern bound freight train, at Fair
port, New York, last Wednesday. There
were over 200 hogs in the car.
A "boiler insurance company" has been
formed in New York, the object of which i:
to ensure against all losses from the explo
sion of boilers under the inspection of the
company.
The Government is about to commence
the rebuilding of Fort Sumptcr.
Thirteen Massachusetts sportsmen recent
ly caught 3O,692' pounds of fish in eigh1
hours.
A single transportation company in St
Louis has made engagements for 3,OO0,0 ,00(
pounds of freight to Montana Territory.