Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-05-19

The Sandusky Register reports the catch
ing of the largest white fish ever caught in
Lake Erie, weighing fifteen pounds.
The Carron (Nevadal Appeal reports that |
q ChiEaman OF tba. section recently caught |
trout weighing thirty.eight pounds.
One OF the improvements of the day in
railway travel Is the opening of soda foun.
tains on the trains. These are in operation
upon several of the roads leading from
Ccv Gland. - 'tf,II III
Louisville is suffering from visitation of
rats, and city ordinance is proposed Civ
ing premium of cent head for every
Norway rodent that shall he duly produced
before the city treasurer.
The numoer of people engaged in manu-
| featuring employments in Ohio is estimated
at 300, 900 aud the manufactured products
for 1865 were valued at $67 100000.
An exchange makes the startling asser-
tion that within month after the opening
of the New York Inebriate Asylum, over
fifteen hundred applications were made by
wealthy parents for the admission of their
daughters, who had contracted habits of in
temperance from the use of wines and Ii
quors at fashionable parties.
Two barrels of water were taken from the
body of a person who died of dropsy last
week, in the town Of Webster. Mass.
Sixteen murdcrers Of them under
the sentence of death--arc at present con
fined in the Tombs prison, New York city.
Lucy Rushion's Theatre in New York
was sold at auction last week. She is said
to have lost $4,000 by it in the last six
months.
An explosion took place Monday in the
Hazard powder mill, at Enfield, Conn, by
which four workmen were torn to pieces
The largest organ ever built in America
has just been completed in Boston, for
Henry Ward Beecbers church in BROOKLYN.
1t has 3,ol3 pipes and 65 stops Its com
pass Is two octaros greater than that of a
full scale grand piano.
A company has been organized in the
city of New York, with capital of 50 2,500,-
OOO in shares of S25 each, with view to
lending money for the working of cotton
plantations, secured by mortgages, and by
pledges of one half the crop in addition.
Joseph Easterbrook, Jr., of Camden, Me,
got his life insured for $4,000, some time
ago, and afterward, becoming dcranged,
committed suicide by shooting Tic in.
surance company refused to pay the policy
but the Maine Supreme Court decides that
they must pay the $4,000 and the cost be-
side.
A substance is now manufacturing from
faXsced called linoeum. 1t is said that it
. will supercede dia-rubber-which it very
much resembles and of which it possesses
most of the propeFties-in the various
manufactures in which it is used. Like
India rubber, it can he dissolved into a ce.
mcnt and used in the manufacture of water
proof clothing.
General Averill, the cavalry leader, has
brought suit in New York courts against
Jerome Riggs & Co., and others. Henry
Raymond being one Of the defendants, the
difficulties arising from the management Of
oil and coal land IN West Virginia.
The Washington RepuIlican says Secretary
Harlan Is preparing to retire from the Cabi.
net.
Thomas Carly &c has brother and sister
in Canada, and two brothers and one sister
III Scotland
Mr.. Benjamin Wood and John Morrissey
have been arrested in New York upon the
charge of swindiing, the charge being
founded upon their lottery schemes.
A company has betn organized in Louis.
vile, Kentucky, for the manufacture fhnen
by new improvements in machinery, etc, by
which it is claimed that linen can be made
far cheaper than in Ireland. Some of the
most respectable and prominent citizens are
connected with the movement.
a hippopotamus attached to a circus
which was exhibited at Bridgeport last
week, took a fancy to one of the visitors
named Rockwell, and opened his jaws to
take him in" Rockwell didn't return the
affection, and left only portion Of his pan
taioos in the creature smouth.
Contracts have been made f. translating
Victor HugOs new novel into ten languages
A concert was recently given in Chicago
by five hundred children, accompanied, by
nine cabinet organs and piano forte.
Springfield manufactures has obtained
a patent reCcntly for Il paper shirt, which
can be got up for 26 cents, and he made
sweat-proof
One of the mile stones erected by Benia-
min Franklin when he was Postmaster Gen.
oral, and WAS measuring the stage road be
tween Philadelphia ard Boston, is still stand.
ing in Stratlord, Conn.
There are seventeen manufactures of
paper collars IN New England, and each
giri employed makes about one thousand of
them daily.
The British Museum is costly establish.
ment, as it takes nearly S5l5, 900 per annum
to carry it on; of which sum $4,000 goes
tor the purchase, ard $50, 600 for the bind
ing OF books.
AT recent sale in Washington county.
Tennessee, corn sold at five dollars per bush
el, and bacon at eighty cents per pound, on
a credit OF l2 months.
The New Orleans Pieuyun6 saws that
petroleum Of great purity and in large quau-
titles.
There were only six persons in Memphis,
IN 1861, that voted against secession. Now
there are not less than six hudrned persons
claiming to be one of the six
The coming session of the Old School
Presbyterian Church at ST. Louis, is regard.
Ell with much interest, and it is probable
that the question of reunion of the Old and
New school branches will be under discus
sion. ..
A young Prussian officer lately died whose
heart was on the right side, with the liver
on the lett and other inter organs cores
pondingy reversed. He had always en-
joyed good health, and died of typLus &C.
! YER ..