Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-10-13

a negro woman passing tDe STACY house, |
It Nash vile, with rough coffin on her head,
vas asked who 1t was for, replied, "for my
,lc man." "Why don't you get some man
o carry 1t for you :" said bystander. "Pore
'olks has to tote dere own collins desc days." |
said the woman, and hurried on.
Mr.. Q. w. Ricketson, who died suddenly
in Pittsburg the other day, had his life in
sured for $4,000.
juvenile African elephant, only thirty.
eight inches high, arrived at New York last
week, consigned to circus manager.
The recent Church Convention in New
York resolved to raise Bishop Potter's salary
to $4,000.
A guillotino, to be worked by steam and
capable OF cutting off six heads per minute,
is one of the contributions to the Paris Ex-
position.
An apple weighing two pounds and meas
uring fifteen inches in circumference, has
been raised by Mr. Mccoy, of McCoy's sta
ton, on the Cleveland and Pittsburg rail-
road.
A hcartless villain attempted to fire a
tenement house, filed with poor families, in
New York, on Thursday morning. No pun
ishment would be too severe for that
wretch.
Ice formed in Boston on Thursday night
to the thickness of half dollar.
vigorous effort is being made in Phila-
dephia to stop the running of the horse cars
on Sunday.
A young man recently wrote to his sweet
heart saying; "There is not globuc of blood
in my heart which does not bear your Pho
tograph." lie had it BAD, hadn't he
The Russians are very eccentric people
If they get drunk, as they often do, it shows
itselfin hugging and kissing being con-
popular among the American visitors
The Albany Knickerbocker says that the
physicians of the Medical College in that
city, in dissecting the body of negro con-
vict few days ago, found his heart on the
right side and the liver on the left.
A fish was caught in the Ohio river near
Cincinnati last week, the stomach OF which,
being opened was found to contain q small
morocco wallet, holding two dollar bill and
valuable diamond ring.
To HEAD BEDBUes. A lady who has
tried it sends us this method of cxtirpating
the repulsve be6bug:
IF any of your readers need q sure remedy
for bedbugs they can have mine, and cleanse
the house OF this troublesome vermin with
ou. expense. They have only to wash with
salt and water, filling the cracks where they
frequent with salt, and you may look in
vain for them. Salt seems inimCa to bed
bugs, and they will not trail through it. l
think it preferable to all Continents" and
the buyer requires no certificate as to its
genuincness."
AT Cincinnati. on Sunday evening, Henry
Browning shot Helena Eplinger, aged seven
, teen years. They were engaged in playful
scuftie. She broke away and ran into the
yard. He picked up an old musket, not
knowing it was loaded, pointed it at her.
telling her to come back or he would shoot
She did not return, and lie pulled trigger,
killing her on the spot.
c. c. Hinsdale, of Cleveland Ohio. after
experimenting many years, has discovered
the process of making Russia sheet IRON
which has so long been kept a secret in Rus,
sia. company called the American Sheet
and Boiler Plate Company is to be organ
ized IN that city, for the purpose Of manu-
featuring the "Hinsdale Iron'
The people of New Orleans have now to
import sugar molasses for home use
1t is estimated that the cost to Austria of
her recent disastrous war venture will be
! $500, 900, 900.
General Logan Of Illinois is among the
! lecturers announced this season by the Iios-
ton Mercantile Library Association.
There are forty-ive applications for di-
/ vorce at the present term of the Superior
/ Court, now in session at Hartford Conn.
! At the funeral of an old lady at Village
Side, in South Reading, Mass, on Thursday
last, those present were addressed by n
nephew of the deceased ninety four years
OF age, while sister WAS present ninety
years old.
Two hundred Italian organ grinders are
moving on" from England to America.
They will be here, turning their cranks, in q
week or two, if they have fair winds.
Sixtythree passenger trains come and go
ut Chicago, every day; that city being the
terminus of thirteen or more railroads, and
the charters for more have been procured.
| EXCESSIVE CoUGHISG. A gentleman seiz-
ed with q TT OF coughing was so unfortunate
rs to cough out set of false teeth yesterday
while coming up James river on Que of those
magnificent steamers which ply those waters.
The gentleman had his head over the hand
rail Mt the time, and the teeth sank into the
/ 'iiS 'uiCiN' NuttlS " IlSC no more.
a CONSIDERABLE NUMBER of families of
wealthy former slave owners have lately ar
rived in Washington from the South with
the intention of taking up permanent resi-
dences north of the Potomac. They repre-
sent that the change in the labor system,
and the unsettled condition of society at
the South since the war, promises to make
that section an undesirable place to live for
some years to come. 1t is these "famiies of
wealth" who have fomented the feeling
which produced this state of social affairs
! in the South, and after the mischief is afoot
| it Is very comfortable for such mischief
makers to come north of the Potomac.
THE Coal TRADE.-The quantity sent by
Railroad this week Is 52,0l7 lS-by Canal,
2l,992 l4-for the week 74,O1O i2 tons,
against 1871 ,76l tons for the corresponding
week last year.
The trade continues very dull, and the
prices offered for coal will not warrant the
starting OF those colleries that were stopped,
and Others propose stopping unless the trade
improves.
The trade after this week will, in AL pro.
babiity, decrease for the balance of the sea