Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-04-28


was burned up In his dwelling, on Dennis
Run, Pas being unable 70 escape from the
house. His wife was absent, and his little
daughter undertook to kipdle the Gre. she
threw about quart of crude oil in The stove,
ard in moment the place was III Aames.-
The children IN the house madetilsir escspe,
but the father was burned 10 cindsf
widow lady of Dansiils, Ky, fosk an
orphan boy to raise, quite small, and when
he arrived at the age of eighteen. she mar
| ried him, she then being in her fiftieth year.
| They lived many years together, happy as
any couple. Tan yearsago they took an or.
plan gitl tdSraise. Tbs fill theso.d lady
| died, being ninety six years of age, and 10
seven weeks after the old man married the
girl they had raised, he being sixty.five
years old. and she eighteen. Y Yk{IqT
Cairo has got a pump to throw the river
out of the town when the floods oyerrun it.
1t throws 10000 gallons Of water per min
ute. i T. y / | Il " J
The navigation of the Western rivers is
in 6anger of being impedcd-Iby sunken
steamers. Forty-four have gone down in
| Red river alone since last June. -,
The Mexican Times says that the preduc7
| tioE of cotton in that empire is steadily in
creasing Immense wagon loads of it are
constantly passing through the streets, of
the City of Mexico, --'1
-Four hundred plantations in the Natchi
! toches, La, parish, are worked on the con
tract system, averaging 20 hands. 1t is
estimated that the parish cotton crop will
be 10000 bales Ia. ~ ~ i7S
| The Hamaiia, q Hebrew paper published
at Lyck, in the province of Eastern Prussia,
says that sixty Jewish families have deter.
mined to form colony near Jaffa, in
! Palestine. -.rl. .s.. - eraU O.
| Ole Bull, the celebrated yioinist, died at
Quebec on the 10 inst. He was born in 1910.
Gen. Grant had two of his favorite horses
stolen from him lately. Both have been re-
covered. .7 -ssr,f seai .l. ga,sL I.
| 1t is reported by Canadian detective that
the Fenians have fifteen vessels ready for ar.
mament on the Lake, besides schooners and
transports. Doubtful. .- tssjs, 4
God-bearing quartz has been discovered
on the Pot )mac above Washington. A stock
company has been organized to work it, with
u capital of $375, 900. ..s,.- 5.a.s s.lI
! Secretary Seward is informed by the L. S.
| Consul at Bermuda that two cargoes ofrags
supposed to be infected had put into the
Bermuda Islands on their way to New York
! The first Union flag raised by the citizens
Of Louisiana, after the arrival Of the United
States fleet at New Orleans, under the gallant
Commodore Farragut. has been presented to
the Secretary of the Treasury.
Senator Wilson las introduced hill into
the Senate prohibiting the sale of spirituous
liquors in the capitol building The bill
should pass, but the capitol would have less
attractions for some of its members if the
/ pttscl n ri plyi
A bin has passed the U. S. House Of Rep
resentatlves to allow all soldiers memorials,
or certificates of military records, whether
printed or. written, or both, to go through
the mails at the same rate as printed matter
1t was asked for 10y General Grant and others
The President has issued an important cir
cular to the Heads of Department with ref
erence to appointments to Office. He directs
that preference shall be given to honorably
discharged soldiers and sailors in such ap-
poiniments, and that they shall also have the
preference IN all promotions in :he several
branches of the public service. ,.,n -r
A Washington dispatch states that the ev,
dence in possession of the Bureau of Public
Justice, on which Congress has called for
Information, is an autograph letter of Davis
| tapming the ASSASSINATION of the President,
Fnnd written by him after Booth had informed
him tina: the plan to kidnap the President
had to be abandoned as impracticabte.
Applications have been made and are now
pending for pardon by ei9hty-six ex mem
bers of the rebe, Congress, one hundred and
lthirty-two ex-graduates of West Point, but
who served in the rebel army, one hundred
aud twenty. seven rebel Generals, including
Bragg, Longstreet Beauregard, and several
of the Ices; ant, also thirty-two prominent
ex-rebel officials, and one hundred and SIX
teen ex. United States officers who held posi-
tions in the rebel service ih3 ..
A pair of horses died few days ago, in
Greenvile from eating the bark OF locust
tree to which they were tied.
A boy was scalded to death by steam
near Pittsburgh, on. Saturday last, while in
side o. boiler for the purpose of cleaning
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A Mrs. Lyster died from taking chloro.
form, at her own request, at a dentists cffice
in Philadelphia. NJ blame was attached to
the dentist ....., .'......r
The proceeds Of two days sale of works
of art at auction, in Philadelphia, last week,
were upwards of $4,000. 4 dry goods
sale in that city, of over 500, 900 is also re-
ported, being the largest single sale ever
held in the United States. rl.'llu.5t XII
CHIvALRY.-The court of Nansemond
county, Va, has refused to sir, on account
of the presence of one of the agents OF the
4 freedmen's bureau, who oiare sent to all courts
South, 40 see that justice is accorded to the
| blacks. 20 IaA 'f' ,iah 13a .1iGls0 q
Col. b. II. jerks, of Philadelphia, has ex-
bibited to the examining board on breach
loading rifles, one which loads and fires
thirty.two rounds per minute, or one humid
\ red rounds in three minutes and twenty
seconds, and which is pronounced by the
board to be. the most rapid firing ever
achieved 400 g1- AaL la9J.sE ss Cd. .. ]
Two men had dispute in Albany on po.
ltical matters, and finally one OF them killed
the other. '' '.'s iaa'
The Bangor Wing says that the Eastern
part OF Maine has been visited by treshet
greater than has been known for years.
The Boston city government has appro-
priated $4,000 for the estab!ishment OF tree
saltwater bathing places for use this sum-
ner. IiA u' ..r cI uag Yyau JHe W.
An evidence of the cholera panic Is found
iI the fact that tha Health (lnnmissifn nf