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

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
In Boone county, KY, returned rebel sol
tliers are numbering negroes and have order
ed the departure of the Government officials.
A military force has been sent to quell the
disturbance.
A number of cx.rebcl officers have been
engaged for the Chilian navy. Ten left Pa
mama, for Chill, recently, in Chilian var
steamer.
In San Francisco the thermometer has |
ranged 20 degrees above zero all winter.
A vast quarry of gypsum hns been dis
covered in Nevada. 1t is rs clear as icc and |
can be used for building purposes.
A bill, making eight hours legal days
work, has passed the lower branch of tic
Ohia Legislature by vote of 70 to ID.
An answer to dispatch sent from Con
ncut, Ohio, on the 30th st., to Pctaluma,
Sonoma county, California, was promptly
received the same day.
A new census of Illinois has Just been
completed, which shows the total population
of flat State to be 2,l0G, 600; an increase of
4l4,e0o in five years.
The Ladoga Qnh) HerdM tells of the fol-
loving sign, as q sample of the intelligence
of its sister city of Lafayettc:-"LawGre
8ere saloon and Bortlin."
The Sandusky CO., Register declares that
the thieves of that locality walk four miles
on the ice to steal the cannon balls ON John
sons Island to sell for old iron.
A Cashmere Goat Company has been or
gani1ed In Guernsey county, Ohio. Ten
thousand dollars has been subscribed, and
in a short time stock will be brought from
Gallatia, Tennessee.
Ghosts are retiring. The Eric papers have
caught the one which was playing mad
pranks in that city, in a half pint cup,
whence it had arisen from lot of dried
berries, and the Philadelphia affair has gone
! of with servant. girl to The House of Re
fugc. The former was all invention of the
editor; the latter of sharp daughter ofevil.
Sharp boys down in Susquchana county.
One of the farmers of that region recently
had q suit brought against him for eight
days service in the hay field, by young
man who voluntarily assisted the old gentle.
mans daughter in raking hay as a convcn-
lent chance for sparkling. The lass having
discarded him ano married another, the
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Not having been able to make hay himself,
he sware he wouldn't make the farmers.
The Union Paper Collar Company has
been organized in New York with $4,000
600 capital.
One hundred dollars per square inch was
lately pal in New York for a rare little
eight by ten painting, n -Nessonier.
T., -, l.
man named George N. Wilson, after being
and was sentenced to imprisonment for tw,
years and six months. The trial being con
cluded the jury rose and walked out of til,
room, the condemned man quietly accompa
nying them, unobserved by any one in tht
room. Once outside he made good time
and has not yet informed the officers of hi:
post Office address.
The Department of SSatcs has received ,
flag bpm :he people of Lyons, FIsnce, dcdi
Gated to the people of the United States il
memory of Abraham Lincoln.
} We find the following in an exchange
, "What Stone shoaid have been placed at tn
r gate of Eden after the expulsion. .Adaman
tine. (Adam aint in)
A lady In the market, laying her han'
upon joint Of veal, said, II think this vcd
, is not quite SO white rs usualp Put o
your glove, madam" was the reply, "an,
, von will thlpk differently Not bad for
!, butcher. 1t is needless to say that the yea
was ordered home Immediately.
There are five public libraries and fifty.on
churclRs in Washington, the Presbyterian
, and Mcthodists taking the lead; with scvc
, bumks, ten leading hotels, and twelve new.
J. papers. Forty-nine newspapers located i
I that city and in the different States of tn
r Union ore represented in the reporting ga
c leries of Congress.
Il Washington society was never more ga
), than just before Lent this year. On III
u evening preceding Ash Wednesday thcr
| was. besides a large number Of receptions,
} grand dress ball at the National Hotel whel
u those who would appear ct the churches Il
c fur worshippcrs the next day, madly dance
8 and flirted until the midnight clock-p
c rang the dirge of gaiety for 1866.
4 Allentown and Altoona are cndeavorin
y to procure City Charters. Il the former su
= ceeds, the name is to be Attention.
!, The Newvilc Star reports the vomiting
&c by young man of Shippensburg, of n li'
&c snake, about eighteen inches long. Prob
e bly, he had cnten one of "Pharoah's eggs
J. and then touched it off with fire water.
:, There is ~ artist in Antwcrp-Mynhe
- Won Biffin-who has attained some celcbri
- ~ Dy painting with his toes. The poor felo
y was born without arms. and is accountt
:, one Of the rapidest and finest copyists in Il
y Antwerp Museum, and earns an income
4, - about three thousand dollars n year by IL
a skillful use of his toes.
il. At a late meeting at Paris, in honor
the Free Masons who died in the course
y the last year, 800 members were preser
&c Among other Free Masons mentioned in Il
speeches were President Lincoln, King lie
4. pold and Marshal Magnan. One of Il
IN most impressive incidents of the cercmor
v, was that of the 800 memJers all kncelir
St down at a given signal, and exclaimp
N "GemisSonS gemissons!' at the same tin
no ! strikiup their left arms with their RIG