Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-09-01
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Over eighty wooden and calico mills are at
present being built in Georgia.
From all accounts the crops are likely to
be abundant in Canada this season.
A letter from Cadiz, KY, says tobacco and
corn never looked better.
a carrier dove recently flew from Lewis.
town to Sabattus, Me-, a distance ofsix miles,
in six minutes.
A hotel for the special accommodation of
freedmen, has been opened at Nashville,
Tennessee.
There was frost on the night Of the 10th
instant, on the low grounds in Eastern Mus
sachusetts.
One of the largest bells in the United
States has been cast for the city of Pittsburg,
Ps. The amount of metal contained in the
rough casting is seventy-two hundred
pounds. 1t measures sixty six inches across
the mouth and sixty-two in height to the
top of the crown.
A gift concert" arrangement, at Milwau-
kce, succeeded in gathering some $4,000
from the greenhorns of the Northwest, and
thereupon the proprietor" of the concern
disappeared. The police are after HIM.
The existence of powerful Union orga-
nization in the western counties of North
Carolina, has become known to the authori-
ties.
Three hundred and sixty-two thousand
sacks of new wheat and 1877 900 quarter sacks
Of flour have beer exported from San Fran
cisco since June 0, .la
A landlady, who had very weak chicken
broth for dinner the other day, was asked
by one of her boarders if she couldn't coax
that chicken to wade through the soup once
more!
A monkey exhibited in New York plays
the fiddle and hurdy gurdy, sews with a
needle, sweeps with broom, goes through
the manual with gun and explodes cap
on it, and cuts up various other "monkey
Shines"
The widow of the late Stephen A. Doug,
las, formerly o Miss Cuts, and now remar-
ried to Major Williams, an officer of the
Federal army, will be present at the dedica-
tion of the monument to be erected in
Chicago to the memory of her first consort
1t is stated that Secretary McCulloch will
avail himself of the balances in the hands
of the National Banks to pay off the tempo
rsry Indebtedness of this department., 80
as not to disturb the money market by
calling in loans on the part of the banks.
There is now in Paris Signor Muritor:,
who Processes to be able to make any de-
serip:ion of clothing shot proof. The results
of this invention are said to be almost mi
raculous. A thin jacket, weighing only
two pounds, which had been previously pre-.
pared by him, Is reported to have success
fully resisted Minnie ball fred from rife
Two guerrillas were arrested in Southern
Kentucky few days ago while plying their
vocation BY robbing house where an old
and infirm couple resided. A party oi
young men who were out hunting, heard q
scream issuing from the house, aud enter.
ing, secured the rufiians after a desperate
fight, during which one guerrilla was shot
four times and seriously wounded.
The intelligence fiom Japan is to the 10th
Of July. A commissioner from Victor EN-
manuel had arrived at Yokohoma to con-
summate treaty between Italy and Japan
A lodge of Masons had been established
The new crop of tea was good and coming
in freely. 10 ~s.rg
There is now q prospect that Gen. Eyre
and his co-workers will be brought 70 pun
ishment for the Jamaica butchefy. A court
martial Is to be convened to try those im
plicated in the report of the Commission. II
is 10 be composed ''of officers urconnected
with Jamaica" A.. sap.fI ...-'-