Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-04-21

By the simple invention of moulding
common bricks, with dove. tailed grooves, id
various ways, by means of which they can
be more firmly cemented together, a de-
cided improvement in the construction of
brick walls appears to have been secured at
little or no additional cost.
Many of the Weather families of New
York, Philadelphia and Boston, are going
to spend the ensuing summer in Europe.
Some of them arc already packing up to go.
All the steamship lines anticipate from this
source more profitable season than they
had at any time since the beginning of the
late war.
The Montreal papers state that In the
Court of Queens Bench the prisoners
charged with attempting to kidnap George
N. Sanders have been formerly acquitted.
This has happened through technical
blunder in taking the dispositions before
the Police Magistrate, by whom the prison
ers were committed.
The New Orleans Picayune, alluding to
the statement that B. w. Howard and
Judge Shaffer, of California, have the
largest dairy farm in the world, covering
seventy-one thousand acres, says that the
Ranchero Carsitas, of the Cavagos family,
between Brownsville and Corpus Christi, in
Texas, covers over eighty leagues, or moro
than four hundred thousand acres.
An unknown woman, too poor to pay tho
fare across the regular bridge, at Troy, n.
Y, on Sunday evening" attempted to pass
! on the long railroad bridge, and becoming
dizzy, fell through into the water and was
| drowned No one knew her name or his
tory, but it is supposed that she was the
mother of little boy who was found cry
| ing in the streets for his mother on tho
same evening.
Coop NEws.-There is some hope for an
end of the rinderpest at last. the COWS
have taken up the subject. We rejoice to
find, from Bristol paper, that they have
called meeting. Here is the advertisement,
and we hope that many influential COVE
will attend;-"Notce. meeting of the
milk producers in and around the City of
Bristol will be holden in the large room at
| the Bunch of Grapes, Nicholas street, on
Thursday next, at three o'clock in the after
| noon.n
The dairymen of Cincinnati have met and
resolved that the price of pure milk, on and
after May 1st, shall be ten cents per quart.
This news is the reverse of encouraging to
the people who have been anticipating q
reduction in the cost of living in conse
quence of the decline of gold The press
ton in yegard to the assumed fact upon
which their decision is based.
The only prisoner at Massachusetts State
prison, at Charlestown, subjected to close
confinement for life, is James Wilson, who
was incarccrated in 1868 for the murder of a
fellow convict named Adams. lie COM
mitted the deed on the very day he had
completed sentence for stealing. He was
formerly good mathematician and meta
physician, but he has lost most Of his mental
powers by his long confinement.
A Japanese" writes to the London Star
to correct a false impression in relation to
the Tycoon. He says "the Tycoon is not
Emperor of Japan, but only commander,
whose duty it is to execute the commands
of the Mikeado, who stands really supreme
in the midst of Niphon, Called japan BY
foreigners) and orders everything relating
to the whole country"
Money is very scarce in Russia, and 70
, per cent. is frequently charged fer money
loaned. Immense numbers Of estates are for
sale, but no purchasers present themselves.
The most important commerce of the Rus
sian empire, that of cereals. is at a complete
stand still, there being no demand for expor-
tation.
The Atlanta InteNigcncer gives the follow
!. ing striking facts: Within the limits of for
ty-six counties composing this, the fourth
revenue collectors district, there are over
three hundred distilleries. No wonder
"corn" and "peach" are so abundant. Blu!
+ for the tax imposed upon these articles, they
/ would be "cheap as Dirt and, as friend
d at our elbow suggests, not any better.