Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-12-01
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Sugar making in Louisiana has already
commenced.
A great revival is going on in the Metho.
dist church, ut Savannah, Ga.
The Presbyterian Synod of Virginia is
holding its sessions at Norfolk.
Of three million children in England over
one million do not attend school.
Kossuth is now at Turin, where, it is said,
be intends to fix his permanent residence.
The first American Sunday School was
formed IN Pittsburgh in August, 1909.
The Siamese twins are travelling together
in Michigan.
1t is a beauty's privilege to kill time, and
time kills beauty.
Gen. Van Valkenburg. our minister to ia
pan, has arrived at Yeddo.
Letters from He'll" is actually the title of
q London publication.
They talk of introducing cloroform into
the New York slaughter-hOuses.
A new novel by Buwer is published. Its
title is, "Welcome, Little Stranger"
The freedmen in Middle Tennessee are re.
fusng to make contracts for the coming
| year.
The New York Central has its entire road
| between Albany and Buffalo laid with dou-
ble track and ready for trains.
| 1t is proposed to build a railroad from
Warren, Pa, to Dunkirk, N. Y. The esti.
mated cost is $S00,00
Why should there t:e no free seats in u
church3 Because you ought not to BE made
good for nothing.
| Gen. Henningsen. a well known fillibuster
and rebel, is engaged in distilling forty.rod
whiskey at Richmond.
Fred. Douglass and his son have purchas
ed house at Alexandria, Va, and will soon
take up their residence in that city.
At the election 10 Frederick county, Md
on tue 9th inst, there were l45 rejected
| voters.
There are ia Baptist churches in the
State of Connecticut, with total member
ship of 1880.
A man has been arrested in Albany for
collecting money for the benefit of church,
and repairing his house with it.
The Moosic Powder Mill, near Carbondale
Pa. blew up on the evening OF the 5th inst.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Nearly twenty thousand boxes Of eggs,
containing one hundred dozen each have
been sent from Maine to Boston this year.
Tennyson, the poet laureate, has become
n subscriber to the English fund for Gov.
Eyre, the woman whipper of Jamaica.
Gen. Slocum has taken up his permanent
residence in Brooklyn. A correspondent
says: II saw him and Gen. Howard in Mr
Beecher's church last Sunday.
The ground on which the battle of Bull
Run was fought, and the site of Lees sur
render at AppUmatox, were both owned by
one man-Mr. William Mclean, who now
offers them for sale.
A law exists in Germany to prevent drink
ing on the Sabbath during Divine service
II runs thus: ANY person drinking in an
ale house during service on Sunday or other
holyday, may legally depart without pay,
ing"
General Naglee answers the gentle Schell,
who has sued him in San Francisco for
100000 for breach of promise, by setting
up, first that he never promised to marry
her; and, secondly, that he has discovered
her to be of loose character.
The Chicago Republican learns that Messrs.
Scott, Thompson, Terry and other parties
associated in the construction of the Kansas
branch OF the Union Pacific Railroad, have
just paid George Francis Train $50, 900 OF
the $4,000 due MIN as commissions in
earlier negotiations of that enterprise.
The Dyspeptic and Rheumatics are the
titles OF two base ball clubs, composed OF
artists and engravers in New York. In a
late match game Dyspepsia got ahead OF
Rheumatism.
Henry Bergh has written a letter calling
for merciful means of transportation of cat
tie from the West to New York. Similar
demands might be made on behalf of thu.
mans" transported on certain lines.
The Artesiau Well at the stock yards in
Chicago has reached water, and the pure,
crystal liquid is flowing at the rate of sixty
Thousand gallons every twenty -four hours.
This Is not enough, and they are going to
keep boring till they get one hundred ard
fourteen thousand gallons per day.
France supports, by voluntary coptribu-
tions, $4,000 evening schools, employing
$4,000 teachers, and attended by t00, 600
pupils, mostly adults. ar r' =
Last year 499, 900 vessels cleared and en-.
tered the ports of Great Britain, and only
one per cent. of this great multitude were
wrecked. .,a .-r..a-f -.r
Hon. John Morrissey is sin trainingn at
Willisrd's Hotel, Washington. Somebody
calls him the great ex ,pouSdsv.
j A movement has been inaugurated by the
jews ct Baltimore to repeal or change the
present Sunday law.
~ ssz wsxAH, In another column, picking
ssnharg grapes for spssr's Wine, II 10 an sdnira.
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