Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-05-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Pithole is exultant over the repeal of the |
excise duty on crude petroleum A new
face has come upon the oil interest there.
Strawberries are cheap and plenty in the |
st. Louis market.
1t lis rumored that Austria will propose an
European Congress. .- ...-...- .,n |
The latest advices from Germany and
Italy arc of decidedly warlike character
A grand jury in California has decided
that pistols are not necessarily deadly wea-
pons. r vr lp s.rt. 0a.. .l. H"
All the Government property at Cairo has
been sold. This sale, to q great extent, dis
poses of Cairo as military point
If our internal revenue taxation was as
heavy per capita rs it is in Victoria, it
would realize S900,000,000 per aunum.
A pure Arabian war horse has just arrived
in Washington as a gift from the Mexican
General Carvajal, to General Grant.
A halter of San Francisco paid $500 in
gold for the first choice o. seats on the oc-
casion of the first appearance OF Edwin For
rest in that city. a-.H .s. .-..
, A musical mouse has been captured at
MeaGville.
The crops of Michigan will prove lighter
! ehan usual.
A colony of German Jews is about to set.
tie near JaiIa, in Palestine.
! Count De Lasteyrie, lineal descendant
Of Lafayette, is in Washington. .H
The New York Tribune ioots up the bank
sginGhngs and acknowledgements for the last
twelve months at about $s,l64 900.
In the spring elections in Michigan, in
twcnty-six counties, the Republicans have
made Il net gain of seventeen SUPERVISORS
| EXPresident. Pierce was recently confirm
ed II member OF 81. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Concord N. H., by Bishop Chase.
The widow of Joe Smith, the Mormon,
still lives at Nauvoo, H., where she is keep
ing Il hotel. She is no believer in Mormon
ism. ....... ..... .......
1t is proposed to send Santa Anna the
cork leg captured from him during the
Mexican war, and held as q relic by Pitts,
burgher.
1t is proposed in Charleston, S. c.. to CON
vert the square of the burnt district into Il
public garden, on the same plan as the
Palais Royal, in Paris. .... ......
Five or six cargoes of Trench -four are
now on the way to this country sent out,
not as it is particularly needed here, but as
a speculative adventure. .....tt ...
Many prominent physicians in New York
express the opinion that there has not been
a single case of genuine cholera in the city
or on shlp1oard.
A statistcan says that he has already per-
sued fourteen hundred and thirty-three
articles upon the cholera, in all of which
the authors advise different preyentives.
Prentice in wicked unge at the very
underpinning of society, says "'tilting hoops
enable the common people to see great deal
more of good society than they ever saw be-
fore
The Rev. Samuel Dunn, an English Meth
odist, is exhibiting to admiring congrega-
tions Of his persuasion various denomina
tional relics, among Others piece of John
Wesleys preaching gown, two neckties oi
the Rev. Charles Wesley, and the spectaclcs,
comb and pocket book of DR.. Adam Clark
Sterling King, who accused himself oi
having assassinated President Lincoln, has
committed suicide by starvation. He ac-
knowledged previous to his death that his
story was false. ,.r....
The little tax of one cent upon each box
|. of matches produced last year throughout
/, the United States was about $l,500,000 oil
enough to arm, transport and keep in The
field 500 men.
IL is edlu tDat hamSCudtka mas Deen pur
, chased by Americans, with the intention o
converting it into the seat of powerful
commercial association, after the fashion o
the Hudson Bay Company.
Mr.. Hiram Mcintyre was visiting brothe
I in Duchess county, N. Y, and while practic
. ing with revolver, fired at a dog hous,
e where two little daughters of his brother
S were playing. One of them was instantl!
( killed.
In Birmingham, England. the other day
: a woman accidentally killed her infant by
pressing its head against the front of hel
; dress in which a needle was sticking. TIL,
D needle entered the childs head, and causeo
r, fatal injuries. .7- ..... v,s
: DR.. Andrews flying ship will soon b,
a ready for trial trip. The ship is mad,
from two balloons. which are so arranged
. as to be guided and controlled in the air
n Ii II success. who will be booked for u tril
r to Europe in the air line tai- .l.-
3 A man has been sentenced in Scotland Il
g ten days imprisonment for trying to gaiI
admission to a Masonic Lodge, not being
d a member of the order. -'
It A colored woman, called old Aunt Bidd,
e Lundy, died near Macon, Georgia, lately
= li2 years old. She has been in the sam,
family for three generations. She was borr
d in Virginia. and used to describe the marcl
z Of Cornwallis through that State Sh,
never took dose OF medicine in her life
j. but drank coffee regularly twice day wheI
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