Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-05-05
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

General Thomas and family are rusticating
at Lookout Mountain. .#
A son of Patrick Henry died in destitu.
tion in Floyd county, Virginia.
Ex-Gov. Johnson, it is said, has been APP
pointed Collector Of Internal Revenue at
Pittsburgh. n ...... .............. .l
A correspondent of the London Times had
an interview with President johnson ON the
18th. ..... .......
Captain Winder keeper of the Richmond
PRISON, has been Internationally released by
the President.
Elezer Carver, the widely known i'm
proven of cotton ginning machinery, died
at Brdgcwater, Mass, on the 9th inst, at
an aye Of 81 years.
Mrs. Ellen Judd, residing near Indian
apnlis, Ind, walks two miles and cuts
cord of wood every day, by which means
she supports a large family of children.
A one. armed soldier in Iowa cuts and
cords two and half cords of wood per day
He offers wager of fifty dollars that he can
split one hundred and fifty rails "A day
A negro named White, who was for mary
years the body servant of Robert Toombs. is
delivering a lecture in Ohio on "The Com
potency of the Colored Man for Equality
Before the Law" .. .... H..
The Provost Marshal General reports that
$50, 730 officers and men had lost their lives
in the service during the war.
Letters rot properly stamped are trans
mittstl to the Dead Letter Office, from which
they are returned-not to the person ad-
dressed but to the writer.
Alta late auction sale of Government hos
pital stores, sherry wine sold at 80 to 4Oc.
per quart, and whisky soc. to roc. per quart
bottled, and warranted pure.
In the United States Senate, Mr.. Sprague
has introduced resolution directing the
Secretary of War to change the name of the
forts called after prominent rebels.
Some experiments made at the Expert
mental Grounds at Washington, seem to
show that slight covering, mere board,
over grape vines, prevents mildew.
II is reported that the President will soon
issue proclamation setting apart the 18th
proximo as day of fasting and prayer, in
view OF the anticipated visit to this country
Of the cholera.
An agricultural writer says Of the child
ren's hvorite popcorn, that it abounds in
phosphate of lime, just the thing to furnish
material for their growing bones and brains
1t Is very easily dlBested.
There are on the file at the War Depart
ment between seven and eight thousand ap-
pllcations from officers OF the volunteer SER
vice for positions in the new regiments, to
be raised under the Amy bill row pending
in Congress. ....f .....0
Among the reports from the capital is one
that Congress will not adjourn, but hold in
| session until the new session commences on
the first Monday of December, to prevent
any covert act" by the President in the va
cation.
The report of Detective Baker in reference
to bounty jumping frauds, shows that of the
five hundred thousand men called out and
sworn in by the Government, only one hun.
dred and sixty-eight thousand reached the
field as soldiers, although thousands of
| others received their bounties.
Bouser and Houser, the muiderers of Mrs
Paul and Miss Munday in Cambria county
were hung upon the Goth ult.
servant girl at Halifax, N. s., has re.
Gently fallen heir to a fortune of thirty
thousand pounds sterling.
G. w. Hardcnbrook, of Independence.
Iowa, will soon become heir to 81 900, 900,
being small proportion of an old farm of
one hundred acres, right in the heart of New
York City, just below Central Park.
The Petersburg (Va) Erpress has informa-
tion direct frnm Toronto, Canada, that John
e. Breckiuridge is r,siding there. Care is
making its mark ON his face. His hair,
which tour years ago was as black as Jet, j.
now hoary. He is very weary of exile, and
Is anxious to return to home and friends
The lower branch of the Massachusetts
Legislature has rejected the eight hour labor
bill by vote of l0y to 52.
1t Is stated that the Morgan horses of
Vermont stood the campaigning of the late
war better than any other.
BY the tum5ling down of the walls of an
old building in Boston on tue 22d ut., three
children were killed and one young woman
badly hurt -f
The Massachusetts, State constables, IN
executing the temperance laws have pro-
hihiied the eating-house keepers .iom sell
ing ale, cider or WINE with their dinners
David Pellet, farmer of Chenango
county, New York, was recently robbed of
81 900 in money and Government notes.
The robbers severely assaulted son of Mr..
Pellet.
A fire in Genesec, N. Y, ON Thursday of
last week destroyed five new blocks, OF the
value of $4,000. Cause-holding lamp
close to the faucet of kerosence barrel,
while drawing oil.
IN New York City cholera hospitals are
~ oe established Immediately at the Bat
.cry, the FIVE Points, and ut building in
iuirty'ninth street. The Board OF Health
mas been requested to establish puLlic
baths. 'A Puo'e
Inc rapacious New York landlords Lav.
oversnot their mark. Since the moving
time April ], there are many houses for repi
and no takers. -Four hundred houses are
noted by one newspaper as labeled "For
Rent" ~o'
The Boston Journal remarks that few per.
sons except the victims know to what ex.
tent pocket picking is carried on in that
city. IL has become regular breach of
business and many persons depend upon it