Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-10-27

The manufacture of pottery in England
employs llO, 900 persons.
1t is found that of the dry substance OF
the egg forty per cent is pure fat.
Six missionaries have opened 225 nurse
ries of piety" in Missouri,
The banker Torsnia has given tho Be-
logna Cathedral an altar valued ut $780,
600.
Ono million dollars have already been
for the Centenary of American
I...|U
One man pledges $4,000 to pay the ex-
penses of the famous Seventh Regiment to
Pars next summer.
A man in Alexandria, Va. hid four thou |
sand dollars when drunk, and couldn't find
it when sober.
There are more hogs than humans in the
United States England has but one pig
Tor every nine persons.
Scotland, with one. half of the population
Of Ireland, consumes annually 1854, 900 gai-
lans of whiskey, while Ireland drinks only
100000.
A Mademoisclc de wilma was recently
murdered in Paris under romantic circum
stances 1t is said she is q daughter of the
Emperor Napoleon and Mrs. Howard, his
English mistress.
The subject of steam street railroads for
New York city is attracting marked atten.
ton.
Mr.. James Caskie, one of the oldest citi-
zens of Richmond, died on the llth inst.
A 6ecayed locust tree fell upon dray.
man in Cincinnati, on the 18th inst, as he
was driving past his own house, killing him
instantly.
A man eating shark, weighing 1000 lbs'
was caught off Point Shirley in Boston har
Dor recently.
The assessed value of Chicago this year is
$9l ,O0O, ,000 an increase of S27 900, 900 since
last year.
The Trcdegar Iron Works at Richmond
are receiving immense quantities of rails,
damaged by Sheridan in his raids, to be
rewurkcd.
A Wall street banker, in New York. has
given $25, 900 toward the rebuilding OF St.
Patrick's Cathedral.
1t is stated that Gen. Mngruder is about
to give up his residence in Mexico, and will!
return either to New York or New Orleans
The Wisconsin eagle, "Old Abe" is to b,
sent to the Paris Exposition.
The revenue of the Bishop of London fol
the year 1865 exceeded 100000.
Two eminent physicians of Chicago Drs
Hoph and Winner, have died of the cholera
Hon. J. NJ. Mason and family, late or Nlr
ginia, will spend the winter at Toronto.
GEORGE PEABODY, the eminent Londor
banker, visited Phillips Academy, n. u, OF
Wednesday, and briefly addressed the boys
He remarked that he had never had the adj
vantaees open to them, for he had not beer
ut school since he WAS ten years old. Many
and many time he would have cheerful,
given half his fortune for the sake of al
education.
Incendiaries are trying to burn up tn,
rest of Quebec. Threats are made to burr
the city if the tenement houses are not re
moved.
A wicked but pretty little chambcrmai,
stole u lady's jewels at the st. James Hote
in New York, valued at $4,000.
A company of negro volunteers was AZ
rested on the 18th, at Charleston, for viola
ting the military order prohibiting miitar
organizations in South Carolina.
Governor Patton, of Alabama says tha
there are fully twenty thousand widows an
sixty thousand orphans (whitcs) in Alaham,
and three.fuurths Of them are utterly dcst
tute.
About nineteen thousand eight hundre
boxes of eggs. o! one hundred dozen eacl
come from Maine To Bt ston during the yea
besides the large quantities received irol
Canada.
Gov. jenkins, of Georgia, has issued
proclamation ordering an election in I'll
Atlanta district on the 2Sh day of Noven
her fer IA member of Congress, to ill the V,
cancy created by the resignation OF Hon. v
T. Woiford
Ristori received S2G.0lO for sevcntee
: performances in New York.
Gen. John A. Logan, of Illinois, il n
ported i'll.
Several new IS inch guns have been r.
ccived in Detroit, and ure to he mounted O
the fort that guards in the city.
!. The telegraph OF Switzerland is the proT
erty of the State, and they charge one Ger
per word for any distance.
A man at Dubuque, Iowa, got his life il
sured and then tumhled from church spil
h ana knocked his brains out.
t Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mi
j sissippi. pay this year an internal rcyenu
J. tax OF Sl9.000,00 on tobacco.
Major NJ. o. Van Horn is said to hay
u ridden on horseback from Huntsville, Ala
to Delaware, Ohio, to vote at the late Gle,
ton.
A boot backing machine has male il
, appearance nn the streets of Buffalo. great
. to the Indignation of the professionals"
4 The Hudson's Bay Company have sent I
f Montreal this season IL, 400 bales of butial
robes.
Confederate notes are again coming int
; circulation in the remote South, and the "o
D cause" is so far revived in North Carolin
J. that storekeepers advertise that they will r
; ceive them us currency.
A drove of 430 California wild horses r
Gently arrived in Denver, Colorado, havin
made the long overland journey witho,
serious detriment to their health
), 1t is proposed to establish direct line
l. cmigrant packets between New Orleans an
t. Germany, for the purpose of attracting
o that city portion of the foreign emigr
). ton.
Il Chief Justice Chase has been elccte
}, President of the American Freedmcn's an
J. Union Commission, in place of Bsho
!. Simpson, resigned. .......
S Hon. Schuyler Colfax's official majnrit
for Congress in tine Ninth District of Indiar
is 2, l6S, a gain of about 800 over the yo