Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-04-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
A Mormon society eaists In Wkeeljuo.

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A Mormon society eaists In Wheeling.
There are three hundred New England
pulpits wanting ministefs. H
a French Protestant was fined onss franc
forfworking on All Saints Day.
$4,000 elephants are yearly killed 10 sup
] Ply Shcifield with ivory f-.4A- Ia -
A financial crisis is expected in Richmond,
Va; There are too many goods in the city,
and rents are exorbitant.
! Mr.. Perrin. of Woodstoek, Connecticut,
with a nice eye for the fitness OF things,
hung himself in his slaughter house.
Five hundred factories in the north cf
France made 1875 100000 pounds Of sugar
from beets last year. a.Ef &c
Two children in Chicago were poisoned
the other day by eating colored popcorn
balls. -. .n.4.r ..... - t,ri...
1 The total fall of snow in1the Lake iSu-
perior country during the past winter
amounted to 40 feet. irsb sii ent,fg 5aa
A dig at Springfield QIl) was changed
from jet black to pure white by the use of
coal oilCto drive away heas. n ~ IeGi l4t ,
The st. Louis Dispatch asserts that pilots
on the Missouri river get from sixteen to
eighteen hundred dollars per month at pro-
SENT niAo. e'' i'- 's "a. '.tj D'1
The emigration 10 Montana and Idaho by
way OF river is enormous. Every boat up
!, the Missouri is crowded with passengers.
/ The death of,a Mormon bishop is thus
announced in a Salt Lake paper .--"He was
| thirty seven years old, and leaves an inter-
esting family Of eleven wives and forty
seven small. children to mourn his death.
4 In Adrian, Mich, lady observing q
building with steeplc, asked her gentle
lman attendant, "Wbat church is that9" The
gentleman, after reading the sign, "Deluge
No. ." replied-"I guess it must be the
Third Baptist." - aEl apas.
In the trial of a vagrant woman in Chi
cago 1t transpired that she generally beat
her husband into insensibiity in the morn
ing, before starting on her usual rounds, so
that he would not require her services for
remainder of the day. What household
fairy she must be 'j r''P tH'
Owens Lake, among the Sierre Ncvadas,
in California, is natural tan pit its waters
are SO strong of boraS, alum, alkalies, &C.,
that one draught will poison man, and
one immersion clean a dog of his hair; and
the Indians, seeking refuge in it from white
mems bullets, find a sharp and sure watery
grave. ..... .... ..-....
It. has come out in the course of alegal
trial now in progress in Cincinnati, that the
butchers there have been charging twenty
! five cents per pound for slop fed beef that
they only paid five or six cents for. This
kind Of thing has not been confined to Gin
cinnati, nor has. this way of doing business
been confined to dealers in beef alone
T. A drunken policeman in Savannah, Ga,
shot two of his brother officers with pistol,
killing them instantly. ...i.a- ass'..t
A company of French capitalists have re-
Gently made arrangements to carry into exc
I cution y grand scheme of colonization in
Virginia
A white stole chicken, and black a
hog, in Goldsboro', in North Carolina. re.
Gently. They were each tied to whipping.
post and Subjected to forty lashes, save one,
on the bare back. '-' .-
The various commanders at the South
have been notified that the Presidents pro.
\ ciamatlon does not do away with martial
law IN the lately rebelliOus districts, nnd
that troops will be kept at all points where
they may be needed. ur r.i ,--t .'...,
\ Tie Aristook (Me) Times says there has
been quite demand for dwelling houses in
the border towns, 10y persons from the
Provinces, who are anxious to keep out o
the way OF the Fenians. .a ....r 80 ...
Y machine for making ice has heen in
venteo in London, which will produc,
eleven pounds of ice in au hour at a cost OF
not more than half cent per pound. This
Is cheaper than the natural article is fur
Hl'nished in most paees1s' a4te -4s.'s'7z's-ssas
gJThe underwriters of st. Louis, .tlponf in.
I'vcStigation, have arrived at the conclusion
that tiIe recent destructive steamboat fires
were crushed ay tile Careless use of coal oil
This has been fyiidwed by notice
that the use of the condemned article on any
steamboat insured, will vitiate the policy.
A bachelor at Albany has about one baby
a month left at his door, accompanied will,
the request that he will "charltably provide
for it and bring it up righteously." An
occasional baby in the regular honest way is
undoubtedly a desirable present, but an at
tack of infantry hy patoons, upon a pocr
unprotected bachelor, must be appalling to
/ the las. degree, 100
h. General Breckinridge is reported to be in
Canada, weary, careworn, grey, aud anxious
to return home. -.,, , ........
| At sale ri coins, in Worchester, Mass,
recently, an American cent. of 1893, brought
$2S3 nickel cent, of 1856, 50, aud silver
dollar, of 1885, $3.50. ,',' ,l.,..,,, ga.
"A man, who was charged with ten gallons
] Of whisky, which a grocer put IN on eight
gallon keg. said he "ditlnt mind the money
forercharged SO much as lie did the strain
I on the keg." 10 7.'u .hls.1g F.. -
I A Nashua On. H. woman, who lost a very
dear child, few weeks ago, on Tuesday
last managed to procure the key of the tomb
in which the body was laid, opened the
coffin, took the child in i,er arms and bore
1T home. There she tended it as though
still living and defied all endeavors to take
II from her for several hours; and it was only
from the effects Of an opiate administered to
\ her that the efforts were at last successful.
In ,Girard, Pa, the citizens hold what
they call Cemetery Soc:als." They must
be grave affairs. m
The chicken cholera has made its appear
ance in Madison county, Alabama and is
rapidly sweeping off the remnants of the
feathered tribe spared by the negroes and
| soldiers. "'
The American Screw Company at Provi-
dence. with capital of 81 900. 900, is re
ported to have divided $1,000, 900 among
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