Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-03-10

In Italy, the newspaper editors hire peo-
Pile to go to Jail for them when their journals
are suppressed. The editors continue writ
ing, while their substitutes receive the pun.
ishment.
A flock of Wild geese kept pace with n
train of cars on the Hudson River Railroad,
going about thirty miles an hour, the other
day, when they changed their course.
The new railroad bridge across the Iud-
son river, at Albany, is 1890 feet long, and |
cost 81 100000 1t was one year and eight |
months building. The first train of cars
passed over it on Thursday last 1t is
great Improvement and worthy of the age.
A cotton company, with a capital Of ST.
100000, has been formed in Galveston,
Texas. A large cotton factory has been
established near San Francisco. The Cali
fornia Legislature has offered premiums for
the encouragement of cotton manufactures.
The safe of the treasury of Bcrks county,
Pa, was blown open with powder by burg
lars, on Thursday night of last week. 1t
contained $4,000, which they did not get,
as they were detected and fed in great haste.
John Cross, an English lakorcr, who is
the father of nineteen children, and the step
father Of avc more, recently rcceicvcd
purse of $1,000, besides prize, from an
agricultural society, "for having raised so
many children without parochial relief"
which feat he performed on eight shllings
q week.
Nearly three hundred daily and weekly
! journals have been started in various parts
of the country since the close of the war.
A portion of these have already abandoned
the field, some are living n very frail life,
and there are some which give evidence ofa
very prosperous career. The most noticea
bic feature of this new era in journalism is
the large proportion of werklics.
A couple who were engaged fifty five years
ago had falling out, and the young man
subsequently married and lost three wives,
while the lady married and lived with her
husband filty-thrcc years, raising q large
family. The original couple revived their
first love, were lately married. and are now
living happily at Lynn, Susquchanna county,
in this State.
According to every Indication the cm-
grafton to the United States this wear will
be very large. The troubles in Ireland will
drive thousands to our shores, unless the
Irish Republic should be established, an
event which, Notwithstanding Fcnian as
surances to the contrary. is not likely to
happen. Germany, according to recent die
patches transmitted to the State Department,
is about to send a larger emigration than
has reached this country for many years.
SLEEPING WITH THE HEAD TO THE NORTH.
Herr DIR. Julius Won Fischwcicr, an &C.
centric German physician, recently died,
leaving in his will what he considered Il
secret for increasing the yeals Of our life
His own ago was 100. and he attributed it
to the fact that he always slept with his
head 10 the north, and the rest of his body
as nearly us possible in Il mcridianal posi-
tion. BY this means, he thought, the iron
: in his body became magncti3cd, and thu:
increased the energy of the vital principal
, a reporter Of the Chicago TribUAe, dis
guiscd as II female, learned from u pr0lcs
: sional astrologist of that city. that he wa:
a widow, shortly Ia bc married to Il middle
aged gentleman, and TO take Il bridal trip t
\ Europe.
i, THE LAST MAN.-Thc Prtagc Etyi:
ter CWiscensin) chronicles the death Il
Caledonia, Wis, on the 27th ult., of Josepl
: Crelc, born near Detroit, Mich, in l725
c and who had attained, therefore, tn
: amazing age of one hundred and forty years
He was born seven years before Gcorg
4 Washington, and WAS fifty Years old at tn
Il outbreak of the American Revolution. -
n Crcle's baptisia is said to be on record i
4 the French Catholic Church in Detroit 5
:, that his age would seem to be duly aulhen
i ticatcd.-N y. Tri6uHe
Jefferson Davis is now afflicted with sor
q throat.-1iJany .iIyWs
"A lie ought to have it tied up.-Nctr Wnce
n IRllddium.
$ A LITTLE Boy LOCKED IN ! TRUSK.-A
n accident of Il novel character happened
&c few days since to little boy four years OLE
l. son o: one of our citizens, which should l.
a warning to children who play hide an
y seek. Three or four children, white an
q black, were playing "hidc" in u room whel
q there was large empty trunk. The to
y fell down, and having spring lock, caugl
re the little fellow fast and tight. The chill,
- rcn got frightened and gave the alarm. Bot
Il mother aad father were absent. A ncgl
Al woman who displayed great presence
mind, on hearing the facts, got an axe an
burst the trunk open. The little boy W,
= rescued in suifucatcd state. \ minute
C. more confncmnt would have caused Ii
dcath.-.MHleiyci2e (Ga) Uniyn.
:, There are eighty thousand people in Tcl
~ ncsscc who can neither read or write. Ii
=, Memphis Bulletin thinks it would be We
to initiate New England and teach thcr
rather than to abuse the Yankees and ST
er leave these unfortunates in ignorance.
" ~ young lady in Florida, who had bee
ID gradually becoming insane, lately destroy'
ne her ambrotypes and letters set fire to Ii
of clothing in wardrobe, and dressing herst
lc in heavy wooden fabrics and a broadclo
cloak, set fire to herself and sprang into be
where she was found enveloped in flame
Of with clasping hands exclaiming, "Oh ain
OF this glorious? Amt martyr" Thou:
IT, her limbs and the lower part of her boo
he were baked brown, she did not appear
o.