Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-11-03

coughed up n needle, and Is recovering.
Princess Murat has arrived In Boston from
Europe, on her way home to Florida,ir COM
pany with :be late Commodore Dallns She
is the descendant of Joachim Murat, King
of Naples, and belongs In Florida, where
she has long resided.
|. noted horse thief has Just been senten
ced to five years in the penitentiary of Wis
consin, whose criminal career is remarkable. |
Though only 81 years old, he has had passed !
upon him sentences for crimes committed |
in France, England, Canala and A,nerca,
amounting in the aggregate to Sc years Of
confinement.
A young man in Newouryport. q me.
chanic, received the intelligence the other
tluy that he was the heir ~ half million by
the death of his aurt. The pleasant news
did not prevent him from finishing his days
work and after making visit to New York
to confirm the facts of the case, he returned
to his daily labors to await the adlninistra-
tion of the estate. -l..I. ...- l.
The Paris Museum of Artillery has just
been enriched 10y n historical cannon; it is
an imme Use culverin, twelve feet long, and
weighing twenty.six thousand pounds, and
bearing an inscription in German. declaring
My name is Griffin; l pierce walls. Sir
Won Gatz cast me in 1890"
A HUNDRED BABIES IN STABLE.--An
English paper says AN old stable with
one hundred little babes nesting in the
horse troughs is something of a novelty,
but the spectacle is daily to be seen in the
locality of Union street, Borough road,
London. The work has been somewhat re.
Gently undertaken by the Rev. George Al.
dington, who at his own expense secured
an old stable to form n nursery, and fitted
it up for taking care of the babes of women
, obliged to go to char or work away from
home. The hay cribs remain and serve as
cradles"
A thunderbolt from perfectly cloudess
e sky struck church and three dwelling
houses at Rising Sun. Indiana, few days
p ago. 1t killed girl outright and stripped
al! the clothing from boy, whom, strange
: to say, it only stunned A more remarkable
electrical phenomenon has rarely occurred
Nearly 1000 Germans leave Europe every
g week for the United Stutes, in the Bremen
u and Hamburg mail steamers. A company
is established at Copenhagen to encourage
It the emigration of Danes, Norwegions and
r Swedes to the United States. ...
An express train carried the twenty mil.
It lions of thalers which !orm the war in,lem-
Ii nifty Austria must pay Prussia. The whole
amount was paid in silver. 1t was loaded
l. ~ Wv ''h "hNA eooh i"SuNs LSu oiA "
It count it.
In pumping out ar old marble quarry il
It Rutland, VT, recently, which had neither
n outlet or inlet several large sreckled trou,
were taken out, one of which Weighed tw,
,r pounds and half. How the trout got il
there must ever remain mystery.
=, A convention of ministers of various de
n nominations, was held in Brooklyn, n. Y.
or Thursday evening. The object of tn,
convention was to take steps for the NOR,
~ efleciual preaching of the Gospel to til,
"' masses of the people.
. The match for $500 between Mr. T. G
oi Brooks, formerly "a United States telegraph
g. operator, and p. Ii. Burns, of Worcester, th
champion telegraph operator of New Eng
ly land and New York, is arranged to tax,
N place in November, between Boston ane
Washington.
O. L letter igon Asa.H00,lsays the miiitar
IN rather make me smile, after having seen
sailor with his fists whip five fully arme,
n soldiers who attempted to arrest him."
to 1t is said that young and pretty woma,
fell in love with Pellicier the murderer
H. while he was in Jail, wrote him notes, nm,
a wished to marry him, but was prevented.
The Board of Health of New York say il
u, their report, that as the cholera continued s.
te late in The season it will return again wit
the appearance of warm weather.
ne a distinguished West African traveller Iva
I'd met savages who were perfect "Chest,rii I'D
IL manner and speech, which however, di
n, not prevent them from being liars an
- thieves"
. 1t has been decided by school commi,
tee in the interior that the personal pronou
~ is not Government. ..
y, | al.
= Democratic press at the "Rump Congress,
u it is surprising how many Democrats ar
anxious to secure seats therein.
rs' There is II mystery connected with til
y ways or habits of the grasshoppers tia,
sworn on our western prairies. A Culurad
n, paper says: When the wind blows From
I'd the southwest thew fly with it, When frou
&C. any other direction they alight and cove
the ground in places to the depth of al
of inch.
k. Since the fire ut Portland, on July All
at there have been between six and seven hun
ared buildings erected, including liltce
70 three story brick and granite blucks, con
w. tanning in all twenty four stories. The tutu
~ contributions received toy Mayor Stevens. q
Portland, for the relief of the sufferers b
-. hire lack but $4,000 of half million.
cr Larry Coffin, a Eot0rions desperate ant
he murderer, who had served two terms in Au
burn Prison for mansaughter and assuu.
q. WIN deadly weapon, was shot dead b.
IS james Hamilton, at the residence of the lat
- ~ ter, IN Auburn, on Tuesday morning, 23,
40 uit. Coffin was trying to break into th
mouse or Hamilton, and the latter shot hin
as in self defense
IS The cost of living in New York at tn
IA present time is almost incredible and il i
astonishing where all the money comes iron
rs tc support such extravaganza. Furnished
II houses in fashionable avenues rent for 81 90,
Mt per month. A family living at one of th
ir large hotels pays 500 per week for room
and board. The average price for larp,
rt rooms and board in the principal hotels can
er not he less than $3.50 per week for man anc
~ Wife
ID Boston paper describes Anna Dickinson
as hrautiiu! and welldressed lady. ant
:. says the heart OF many bachelor in her an
" - dience was caused to beat violently at ,
- 20 recent lecture as she gracefully paced III
70 y. and down the stage. A correspondent o.
~ ~ the Louisville (Ky) Journal heard ba,