Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-11-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

has Oeen purchased 1or S20,uOV.
Five thousand men were recruited for the
regular army last month.
1t is reported that Lord Lyons is to be
the British Minister in Paris.
Most o! the Paris journals give up the
cause of Maximillian in Mexico.
A boy in New Orleans shot his mother
dead, with a toy cannon, a few days since.
John Bright advocates an ultimate union
Of the people of England and America.
Fourteen inches of snow fell in the Lake
Superior mining regions on Friday night
last.
A girl thirteen yesrs of age is on trial at
Adrian, Ohio, for attempting to poison her
father.
a wealthy planter of Mississippi is at
New York urging emigrants to SO South
instead of West.
"The Confederate Spelling Book" is ad-
vertised by Richmond publisher as lust
ready"
The first New Jersey cavalry regiment
claims to have participated in ninety.seven
engagements
A new feature of racedom is purse for
the best walking horse.
Nine hundred dead bodies were picked up
in the streets of Balame, India. in one morn
ing. Famine.
The value of Government property stored
at Jeifersonyile, Indiana, is estimated at
| $50, 10000
Four thousand happy children bands of
hope-met in one hall in Manchester, Eng
land, on the 22d ult.
A cheap and poor coffin, that was easily
| n ~ lie frpp
| being buried alive.
Mar,.n l.eau, OF Paris, i.urderol his lro-
ther, two wives and his daughter with poison
before he was detected and hung
| 1t is estimated that the corn crop of Penn
sylvania for the present year will amount to
/ 30,000,000 bushels,
Bishop Colerso is about to publish a vol
ume OF sermons which is likely to make a
sensation in Evangelical circles.
A 600 pound bear was killed at Stoneham,
Mass, on Monday. The spoils and State
bounty netted his captors 500.
! 1t is stated that there are upwards of one
million children in Great Britain unproyided
with schools.
Eighty-fve prisoners in Libby Prison,
Richmond, Va.
George d. Prentiss, of the Louisville Jour
nat, is seriously i'll with bronchitis.
The people of Emporium. Cameron county,
are exulting over the fact that at the last
election they polled 1OS votes, while Smith
port, the county seat, polled only 81.
| There have been two millions of dollars,
worth Of property, in the oil region, destroy
ed by fire within year.
| Last week, 10y order of Liet. Thompson.
at Fort Smith, Arkansas, cannon were fired
through the streets to drive away the chole-
| ra.
The London Times thinks the Rebels of
J the South ought to vote, but that the work.
ing men Of England should not have that
privilege.
A company is forming in New York to
supply that city with cabs, such as they
have IN London, and which are great con .
veniencc
NJ. Garnier Pages has addressed to the Pre-.
sident of the United States a letter in favor
of the abolition of capital punishment in the
American republic.
| A plllbox factory in Bristol. Vermont uses
up three hundred cords of birch wood per
annum, and the pills create demand for as
many more cords for cnfiins.
Mrs. Gladstone, with her own hands has
rescued hundreds of children from the pes.
tilenlial alleys of London, whom the cholera
has deprived of parents and home.
The Fenans are again astir. Mcetinos
were held in a number of cities ON the a5ih
ult, to take action in regard to the recent
sentence TO death IN Canada of two of their
| number
| II is rumored in Louisville that the Court
OF Appeals has decided that Gen Palmer
was guilty of felony for assisting in the
escape of slaves whilst he was in Command
OF that military district.
A section of redwood tree from California
mas been received at the Department of the
Interior at Washington, intended for the
raris Exposition. The piece is about eight
ieet IN diameter and about two and a half
feet in thickness, and is finished off with a
| smooth surface.
Lieut.. S. p. Stephens of Norris.own. and
ah h'lache oi the Auditor Generals office,
mas been indicted by tho Democracy of
montgomery county for refusing to receive
the votes of deserters
General Woodward, of Mississippi. nd
dressed the colored citizens of Harrisburg
on Friday evening, 26ta ult.
The citizens of Harrisburg intend shortly
to commence the construction of a new
bridge over the Susquehanna.
The property exempt from taxation in
fhiladelphia Mt the assessors valuation.
which is about one-ffth its real value. a,
mounts to over twelve millions of dollars.
During recent food in China two thou.
sanu persons and an immense herd of cattle
were drowned. Forty men were killed by
the falling of wall. y
z,a AN Englishmar in Albany. recently. ate
oysters measuring more than six Quarts
n /, ~ sa'iu meats at one sitting. They cost
sou Ho,u weather Prevails in the Western
Sssu pn Monday 22d ult., there was a
ern Illinois, ~" f''i'n'