Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-10-13
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The King of Denmark is said to have or
dered an examination of large tracts of land
recently purchased in Florida with the view
of sending forward large number of emil
grants.
In Kansas City, Mo-, the deaths from cho-
lera average fiom ten to fifteen daily.
The Vermont Legislature will meet on the
Xlth, to elect two U. S. Senators and ratify
the constitutional amendment.
General Mcdowell, crmmandng in Cali
fornia, has issued an order authorizing the
enlisting and employment of one hundred
Indian scouts to operate against the Indians
in Arizona
A fragment, eight feet long and eleven
inches in its largest diameter, of an ivory
tlsk originally about eleven feet long, be
longing to an animal of some extinct race,
was dug up in Melford, Clermont county,
Ohio, one day last week.
Rats are swarming in the northwest of
Ohio, destroying corn, potatoes, tomatoes,
and even Ginning frui: trees and destroying
the fruit.
The United States have two hundred
times the quantity of coal that Great Britain
has.
Two hundred organ grinders have sailed
from Italy, on an invasion of New York.
During the late storm Vermontcrs did
not see tho sun for seven days.
A fearful tragedy was enacted at Medina,
Lenawee county, Michigan, on the 9TH inst.
woman named Simms, wife of farm la
borer, took her four children to barn and
cut all of their throats, and then her own.
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dead. The fourth child cannot recover.
A Texas paper says child was lately de-
voured by an alligator near Galveston, in
full view of its father, who WAS unable to
save his little daughter The monster was
afterwards shot, and the remains of .he child
recovered.
\ few days before the Bank of Upper
Canada closed, the Bank of Montreal trle.
grapheG to England for half a million of gold,
which has arrived. The other banks took
similar precaution.
On Saturday, a school girl in Cambridge
port, Mass, named Mcpherson, returning
home slipped and fell upon the Sidewalk. 4
sharp slate pencil which she carried pierced
her side and reached her right lung. The
pencil was removed soon AFTER but she still
lies in a critical situation.
Since the breaking out of the cholera IN
Cincin att there have been l4O6 deaths from
the disease in that city, 244 of which oc.
cured in September. 1t has now almost
disappeared.
The Buffalo On. " Courier, of last week
says A monster trout, measuring four feet
and half in length, three feet round the
body, and weighing seventy pounds, was
in tlal l,,ly
yesterday morning.
project is said to be on foot, under the
auspices of what is called the international
Society,"" in France, for developing the re-
sources of Palestine, by obtaining special
privileges of the Turkish government, and
opening the way for large emigration
thther Of Jews from various parts of the
world.
On Tuesday large chimney, erected for a
factory in Milbury, Mass, hundred and
fifty feet high, was completed, and the work.
men employed on it, twenty five in number,
celebrated the occasion by an oyster supper
on its summit. The very next day the chin
ney fell down, like the 250,0OO brick which
composed it. One man only was hurt.
a cunning exhibitor at recent agricul.
tural fair in Connecticut divided a busbel of
peaches and entered one half in his own
name for competition, and the other in the
name of an influential man in nciphborinr
town. The big man got the prize. and the
other contribution, although off the same
tree was not mentioned.
While three little boys were amusing them.
selves with toy cannon in New Orleans, on
Monday, October LIST, one of them put ball
or some other missile into the little gun, and
fired it in the direction of his mother, not
dreaming OF the injury it might do The
missile entered the mothers right side, and
penetrating the heart, was almost immedia.
tely fatal. The little boys were brothers,
from to l3 years of age, and the mother
had her youngest child, not 8 months old,
in her arms at the time. The babe was not
injured.
The Round Table, in an elaborate article,
declares its preference Cor Charles Francis
Adams for next President.
SUICIDE IN JAPAN.-Acurious illustration
o! the curious fashions of Japan is furnished
by the misfortunes of Kubota Sentaro. lately
in command of the Japanese garrison of
Yokohama, and. it would appear young
man considerably in advance of his fellows
in intelligence. 1t seems that he had trained
a body of about I,200 troops on the European
plan, first having translated the British drill.
book, and for this-although permission had
been given in another iustance-he was de-
graded without warning, his house given up
10 loot, and his property eonhscated. The
unfortunate man attempted to commit hari.
lari, but was prevented by his friends, and
he government, indignant that he should
ny to commit suicide without permission.
ordered him TO be beheaded. The Japanese
iave dry humor, which is quite startling
o those used to living under republican
orm of government.