Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-30
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One million dollars is the annual value of
sheep killed by dogs in the several States,
says the head of the Agricultural Bureau
Oil is being struck almost everywhere
now. In North Alabama the ex- Confederate
officers and soldiers are exploring with great
success.
II is proposed in Norfolk to send to the
Paris exhibition a model of the Merrlmac as
q specimen of the work of Southern genius.
A man in California has made prepara-
tions to hatch sixteen thousand chickens by
steam during the coming season.
Silver has been discovered on farm,
near Greenville, Augusta county, Va, and
old miners pronounced the Developments
very rich.
The richest church in Boston is the Old
South, which is taxed this year for s435, 900
worth of real estate.
A foreign letter writer speaks of Tenny-
son as "holding English Tyre" He must
have seen the poet reading the London
Times
The comb business in Leominster, Mass,
is at stand still, because the ladies, with
their changing fashions, have not yet ar
rived at the comb period again.
A family named Kumler had q meeting
on the fair grounds in Hamilton, O., on the
3lst ult. no less than two hundred and four
persons, descendants from the family, being
present.
A lump of gold. taken from the North
Carolina gold mines, weighing five pounds,
is on exhibition a. Statesville, n. c. 1t is
the largest lump found in the State since
1928.
The New York Society for the prevention
of cruelty to animals, having disposed of
the cruel treatment of turtles, are turning
their attention to "devilled' crabs.
The Chicago Times says it is not impro-
liable that President Johnson will deliver the
oration at the laying of the cornerstone of
the Douglas monument in that city, on the
4th of July ensuing.
St. Petersburg journals say that the in
vestigation into the attempt on the Cars
life has shown that it was not the act of q
wild and single enthusiast, but the result of
conspiracy, which includes numerous ac-
| completes.
The Secretary of the Treasury is sending
notices to the officers in the South who have
been unable or unwilling to take the test
oath, that they will be required Immediately
| to vacate their several Offices. Mr.. McCnl-
loch has determined TO enforce the law to
the letter.
The New Bedford Mercury says that some
of tue old whaling captains in that city are
very much downcast at the prospects of a
Fenian defeat in Canada, their desire being
that John Bull should have such punish
ment as a set off of the late piracies.
Gerritt Smith has published long letter
to Chief Justice Chase, denying the right OF
the civil courts to proceed to the trial OF
Jefferson DAVIS, and affirming that while our
troops still occupy the Southern territory
and the Southern people remain unrepre,
sented in Congress, the war was not ended
and the trial of the prisoner should be lett
to a military court.
Speaking of his mother, General Scott
SAYS in his autobiography published N 1864;
IF, in my protracted career, have achiesea
ANYTHING worthy to be written, anything
that nv countrymen are likely to honor IN
the next century, it is from the Lessons oil
that admirable parent that eerived the In
spiration."
! A new enterprise in insurance has been
started iI the East by which the very un-
nlessant matter Of asking or being asked TO
4 90 personal bond or security for persons
NAV be- obviated. A company has been
organized, 10 be called the Fidelity Insu-
france Company. that will take in charge
this kind Of business. This Is, OF ought to
be, q frst-rate hit.