Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-10-20

An old ladye' homo 10 about to be etsab- |
lshed in Newark, n. j.
A svidge % miles long and 214 feet wide,
to cost sSS5,00o,0 900, is talked Of at Dover,
England.
Both branches Of the Oregon Legislature
have ratified the pending Constitutional
Amendment.
A Mormon Bishop recently deceased
leaves eleven wives and forty-seven children
to mourn his loss.
Upon the beautiful Island of Barbados
there is not vacant space enough for pic
mic. 1t is all cultivated.
Goldschmidt, the astronomer, just de-
ceased, discovered fourteen telescope
planets with On opera glass. i.HI
1t is proposed in England to establish an
asylum for disabled horses, where they may
be judiciously coddled.
Lead pencils were first introduced in
Italy three centuries ago. Now 500 000, 900
are consumed annually.
A Galveston (Texas) merchant the other
day, on bet, consumed eighty dozen raw
oysters, and he survived.
The game in Connecticut and in the New
England States is unusually plentiful this
season.
Certain arms seized from the Fenians by
the United States Government have been
returned.
Rumor has it that Mrs. Hooper sacrifices
the income on 100000, in order to become
Mrs. Charles Sumner.
The number of deaths in New York last
week was four hundred and twenty nine,
decrease of twenty from the preceding
week.
During the forty.eight hours ending 2
o'clock, en- Monday afternoon there were
eighty.seven cases and twenty deaths from
cholera in St. Louis,
About FIVE thousand coolies were sent to
the West Indies last year. Ten per cent. of
the whole number died on the voyage.
Accounts have been received in Paris, of
the murder of nine French Roman Catholic
missionaries, in the Corea IN Asia.
Mrs. Harlow's hoop skirt caugh. in the
machinery of -four mill in Richmond, Va,
on Wednesday last, and she was mangled to
shapeless mass.
At the great Paris Exhibition there will
be cashmere shawl worked in Arabesque
of unheard of fineness. 1t was ten years in
the workman's frame.
| A young German in Boston became jea-
! lous of his sweetheart, and attempted to
murder her. Fortunately, however, ne was
not successful.
| The base ball match at Capitoline Hills,
| New York, Monday, between the Atlantics
of New York, and the Athletics of Phladel.
phia, resulted in the success of the former
by score of 81 to II.
President johnson has written letter to
G. w. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger
of that city, in which he states that he is
satisfied that no blame whatever can be at.
tached to that gentleman in regard to the
publication Of the celebrated despatch.
Vallandigham is disposed to be little
sulky about his experience at Philadelphia
On his way home he said that he, represent
ing fourteen thousand Democrats" wal
twisted out of the Philadelphia Wigwam
while Lew Campbell, representing thirty
scabby Republicans" was one of the un
questionable delegates. And, added he, 81
want to know il that's what you call Con
vention ~
In Detroit, on Saturday, a man 3S years o
age applied to a justice, in company with
girl of eighteen, to be married, and on in
quiry stated that he already had wife, bu
that she had gone oil with younger man
Being informed that he could not be agaii
married before obtaining divorce, he quick
ly said that there would be no trouble ol
that score, as he had sold his wife to he
paramour. The magistrate endeavored u
find out the price paid, but could only clici
the fact that he 'didn't get much for her a
she wasn't worth great deal, but was
poor sort of wife,
THE LEATHER TRADE.-More leather
manufactured in the Eleventh Collectio
District of Pennsylvania, than il any othe
district in the United States. The anpus
value approaches three millions of dollar
Of this whole amount more than two third
are produced in Wayne county alone.
this county there are nineteen tannerics, an
the assessed value of the product for tn
past twelve months reaches the sum of So
031 ,l70. These nineteen tannerics use hen
lock bark, while those of Monroe county Us
| oak principally, if not exclusively,