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


A check for 81. 900 was recently present
ed and paid at the National Bank of tn,
Metropolis, at Washington, by man named
McCloskey, which was discovered to have
been forgery.
The Yarmouth (Mass) Register says
The heavy frost on some parts of the Cane
recently, has occasioned severe loss t, the
cranberry crop, some estimating it as high
as 100000.
The N. Y. Post says: Forged checks 10
the amount OF about $4,000 have been put
out during the last few days by very ex
pert gang of counterfeiters. Business men
should be on their guard. These checks
are said to be very well executed.
The Cincinnati Enquirer saws. "Some
considerate friend sent us last night, neatly
boxed up, a very large beet. Under ord
nary circumstances we would have con.
sidered 1t a mammoth affair, but as we had
a much bigger 6eat the day before, it failed
to astonish us. 'r.f ..
The hog cholera is prevailing to an alarm.
ing extent in the vicinity of Rockford. III.
The lungs of the hogs that die are found
gorged with blood, and dark colored.-
Charcoal and sulphur have been found etfica-
cions as preven;atives and bleeding the af.
fectcd ones has given relief in many nstan-
ces. ... ...u
! According to report lust issued by
select committee of the Canadian House of
Assembly, the copper bearing series on the
north shore of Lake Huron extends over
surface of 1000 square miles, and nearly the
same extent OF country on Lake Superior
IS endowed in the same manner Iron ia
also found in considerable qualities.
! An elephant tusk for the Waterbury but
ton makers, says the Hartford Times. weigh.
| ing over 100 pounds, and measuring between
eight and ten feet in length. attracted con
| siderable attention at the Bridgeport depot.
~ gentleman of some natural discern
ment, while taking squint ct it, remarked
truly: 1T took a sthrong dintist to pull
that TOOTH"
The Government Is taking measures to
prevent a repetition of the tilibustering
operations on the Rio Grande.
1t is claimed that the salt mines of Nevada
are the best in the country. One bed is re-
ported to cover tiity-two thousand acres,
yielding two million bushels annually of salt,
ninety. five per cent fine.
During the last five years the population
of Minnesota has increased 40 per cent, lii
nois 2G per cent, Wisconsin 12 per cent,
New York 6 per cent, Rhode Island per
cent. and Massachusetts 3 per cent.
On Friday morning last, Mrs. Geo. Baker,
OF Beaver county, Pennsylvania, while ON her
way to take the cars at Brooklyn, Ind, for
home, was accidentally shot by Il revolver
Which was in the pocket of the driver, and
which was discharged while he was sjumping
from the wagon to fix the harness.
;ar of ,ho
at Hearts Content denies the stories of
Maximilian sending $4,000 messages every
day or two to Carlotta, 10y the Atlantic ca
bile. He says that Maximlian has never,
himself or by proxy, sent message over
the cable.
The largest single plank ever cut is now
on exhibition in New York city. Its di.
mensions are as follows, viz: Length, 10
feet; breadth, feet inches; thickness, 8
inches; without split, knot or imperfection
of any kind.
A vein of fine marble, thirty feet thick,
and in quality said to be as fine as Italian
marble, has been struck at depth of four
hundred and forty feet, at the Dover oil
WELL on FiEney run, Blue Rock Township,
near GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
! The colts firearms company. of Hartford,
have no contract to manufacture the Prus.
| sian needlegun, rs has been reported, but
| have received an order from the Russian
Government for 100000 of the Laidley
reech'loaders, which are far more efficient
and destructive than the Prussian arms.
Underground travelling in London in.
creases at a surprising rate. In the first six
months of 1863 the number OF passengers
conveyed OF the metropolitan line was 4 =
S23,437; in 1864, for the same period, it
was 5,206, ,335; in 1865 it was 7,462. 1928 4;
| but in the first half of the present year it
rose to l0,203,295. The revenue has cor
| respondingly iucrt ased In the first of the
| four periods it was e5S, ,05S; in the last the
sum amounted TO e202,9 prodigious
sum to make up Of sixpences, three pennies
and pence.
! Fourteen dead bodies have been recovered
| from the ruins Of the buildings destroyed by
| the explosion in ST. Louis on Wednesday,
| the 18th ult. Among the number was a
! farmer named Cole, who was in the city on
4 wedding tour, and while taking walk,
had stopped in front Of the factory to look
at the machinery
A singular case of thrift and industry is
exhibited in the case of negro in Mobile,
Ala, who last week deposited in the Freed
hcu Dahh pofo III Soi''s "nlCH hc uhl
been accumulnIing for fifteen years, and
| which had been buried the past two years /;
as, also, in the instance of another. ono hun
dred years of age, who deposited 800 OF 3
summers earnings. a-..
Hon. c. V. Culver, now confined in Jail
at Franklin, Pa, declines to avail himself OF
his Congressional privilege, and will meet
his trial in November. Besides civil pro-
cesses innumerable several indictments
charging him with false pretences and EN-
bazzlement are pending and TO be called up
next month at Harrisburg. Last week the
hnuse and furniture of the gentleman were
sold at tue instance of his creditors.
j young German of St. Louis recently
blew his brains out to get rid of a headache
A sovereign remedy that.
Bishop Colenso writes 20 the Londor
Times defending his hymn book for moi
containing the name of Christ.
Santa Anna is a confirmed ard reckless
gambler. He will stake thousands upor
the fighting qualities of an unknown roos
ter. aal.t -I s- sfa
The last phase of "My policy" is the re