Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-30
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


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There is no doubt but that the admission
of Tennessee will be fact accomplished per
haps by the Fourth CT July. The feeling in
favor OF 1T on the Republican side of the |
House is almost Unanimous. JNLlL u i
In Sicily it is the custom to crush straw
berries with white powdered sugar, and |
squeeze the juice of an orange or two over
them. This makes compound which is very
much nicer than ambrosial nectar.
Mr.. William Page has finished his bistori
cal painting, of which the subject Is Admiral
Farragut lasbed to the shrouds of the Hart
ford, while she was entering Mobile Bay,
August 5, 1864. 1t is to be exhibited for a
time for the benefit of the New York Mer-
camille Library Association.
There has been two cases of cholera at
indianapolis, Indiana, both Fenians from
Buffalo.
| Twenty-Five thousand rations have been
sent to people flooded on Red River.
The city of Memphis refuses to pay the
damages of the late riots.
Forty thousand dollars have been raised
for q home for soldiers orphans in Illinois
1t is said that the recent severe storm in
the West destroyed from 10000 to $4,000
sheep.
The grain dealers of New York took ad-
vantage of the closing of the Erie canal
by charging extra prices for corn and other
provisions.
| A duel with knives took place in India
napolis between two eight-year- old youths,
one of whom was thought to be mortaly
wounded.
Jennie Burns-said to be relative of the
poet Burns-the young girl who is lecturing
on the subject of Temperance" has given
five hundred dollars to the Patriot Orphan
Asylum at Dixon, ILL.,
"A person who has recently visited the
Shenandoah Valley says it is wonderful to
sec the profusion of cattle and poultry in
this "denuded" valley, after the devastation
it is said to have suffered. Except the
absence of fences in some places, now and
then fortifcation or a burnt barn, no one
would suppose an army had been in the
valley. One or two years crops will re-
place all the destruction that has been
made, except loss of life.
Carriers, with diamond buckles, are worn
with the new hoops of Paris.
The Union Pacific Railroad will be com
pleted from Omaha to Fort Kearny before
October.
Cyrus w. Field has made thirty-three
voyages across the ocean on the Atlantic
telegraph business.
c. i. Phelps, Esq, of the Girard Spectator,
has beer sued by Senator Lowry for libel.
The suit is baseG on an extract copied into
the Spectator from the Harrisburg Patriot,
containing report of Dan Rice's speech at
the state capital, in which Mr.. Lowery is
handled rather roughly.
Nothing new has been developed in the
York county murder case within the last
two or three days. The person arrested at
Mannheim on the charge of having commit
ted the deed is still in prison. awaiting a
requisition from the proper authorities.
Workmen are employed in making the
necessary preparations for the construction
of rope ferry near the site of the old bridge
at Harrisburg. The derricks have been
erected and the rope stretched across the
river.
The school for the education of soldiers
orphans, in Mount JOY numbers about one
hundred and eighteen scholars.
General Meade is in Washington preparing
his report on the Fenian invasion.
Peaches are selling in Columbus, Ga, at
25 cents per dozen.
A Maryland paper records the birth of
two children-twIns-eac having two
heads, four eyes and three legs.
A new mineral has been discovered in
Chill, containing ten per cent of iodine. A
cargo of it will represent a fortune.
DR.. Whewell, Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge, left to the college ego, 900 or
$4,000 to endow Professorship and
Scholarship in International Law.
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way car proved to be little particles of iron
that had evidently come from the wheels
and rails.
The House Committee on Pensions are
preparing bill which will give to the wild
ows of soldiers and sailors So month extra
for each of their children.
The Michigan farmers sold ST 900, 900
worth of potatoes from the crop of 1865.
Queen Victoria has 15O,OOO,0OO Heather
and about 40,000,000 Mahomedan subjects.
Gen. Neal Dow, OF Maine, is delivering
Temperance lectures in Liverpool, England.
Cholera bullets, in the way of small green
apples, have made their appearance in the
market. ..
A roof is in process of construction in
Detroit, over the Michigan Central depot,
which will cover three hundred thousand
square feet, or over seven acres.
Five years ago, q man in the Ohio State
prison succeeded in making his escape. A
few days ago he returned and expressed a
desire to serve out his term.
1t is believed that by the 10th of next
month the Great Eastern will BE in readi-
ness to sail from Valentia, and once more
attempt the laying of the Atlantic cable.
The Post Office Department have issued
orders that when the present Quarter" has
closed, all policy dealers, bogus lottery
ticket swinders, gift jewelry houses, obscene
picture dealers, fancy book sellers, and all
known public swindling operators, will no
longer be permitted to have boxes at the
New York post office. ...a :.
1t has been officially ascertained that four
OF the Fenian prisoners under examination
in Canada were taken in the act of firing on
British soldiers, and they will doubtless suf-
Ter death. @ .
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