Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-05-12

A band of 100 gipsies, with regularly
appointed queen, who was appointed two
| years ago to serve seven years, are located
on the dividing line between East Cambridge
and Someryille, Mass. They get their living
| by horse trading and fortune telling. They
came from Canada six months ago. The
queen has beautiful chariot for travelling,
with apartments for her husband and child
as well as for herself.
The Lincoln monument fund amounts to
$64 ,626 So.
LARGE HAUL OF RoCKFIsH.-O last Sun
day afternoon, the fishermen in Salem cove
New Jersey, made haul of rockfish that
netted three thousand dollars. So great was
the number of fish that it was impossible to
haul the seine in. The men were-busy all
Sunday night and part of Monday securing
the fish. The rock varied IN size from two
or three pounds up to sixty pounds The
majority of this party of fishermen reside in
the eighteenth ward of Philadelphia a.-Phila.
Press.
A large audience assembled in Boston one
evening last week, to hear Henry Ward
Beecher deliver his lecture on THE Ministry
of the Beautiful" But Mr.. b.. on being in
troduced, was compelled to confess that the
expected lecture had been lost or stolen-he
could not tell which If it had been stolen,
he would be sorry for the thief If he we're
compelled to read it
The London Athen9um announces that
Sir John Lawrence has sent three native
agents, disguised as merchants, 20 explore
Central Asia by different routes. Each is III
dependent of the others, and all are kept in
ignorance of their appointment, so that on
their return three independent narratives
may be looked for. They are instructed to
take note of all they see, to observe tac tenn
per of the difiernt people among whom they
travel, whether movements are taking place
in favor of Russia, and to visit Bohkara,
Khokland and Samareand before they return.
1t is reported that large quantities of pc
| troleum have been discovered in Nevada.
Twelve thousand dollars worth of wild
! pigeons have been shipped from Cartershurg
! Ind, on the Terre Haute road, to New York,
within the past five weeks; 1900 worth
were forwarded on Saturday.
The originator of the next explosive com
pound "Nitro-G ycerine, comes out in a card
| in the n. Y. Tribune, in which he claims
that substance is less dangerous to handle
and store than gunpowder; and asks sus-
pension of public opinion, until some ex-
periments he proposes to make, shall prove
the truth or falsity of what he asserts. .
Three hundred dollars in counterfeit cur
| rency was detected mt the Redemption Bu-
reau last week-three fifty dollar compound
interest notes. The Government has infor-
nation that several prominent counterfeiters
of its securities have gone to England with
plates to carry on their nefarious business
there.
Op n ~; I,
Westyille, Connecticut, the elephants fright
ened to death horse belonging to a Mr..
Baldwin, Of Woodbridge, which was hitched
by the side of the road. The horse on seeing
the elephants. stared at them wildly for an
instant, and then gave leap into the air
and fell dead. II s.I
Ishmael Day, an old resident of Maryland,
has been very properly granted pension of
$400 per year, for shooting ON the spot, a
rebel marauder who hauled down the Ameri-
can flag from his domicile. His property
to the amount of nearly $4,000, was de-
stroyed by the rebels in consequence of this
heroic act and us he is old and destitute, il
was deemed but the simplest justice to make
the award. 81 11ul'la -T
The tobacco crop in Missouri this year i,
| expected 10 bo an immense one, probabl,
larger than it ever has been.
" is suggested that al aiianthus tree
should be pruncd this spring close to tn,
roots, before the towering season commences
Their oder ipparts no health to the atmOs
lphere. -' asl a. /. 19i.nt saI
The prospect fora large crop Of fruit il
the Southern States is very good better thai
for years past, the peaches only being hur
'by frost, but no, materially Injured.