Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-03-09
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Indiana is troubled with milk sickness "
They eat Scotch pony in some parts of
France.
The "mad itch" is raging among Ohio
cattle.
Drops of grease caused the great fire at
Yokohoma.
England tremLles beneath the footsteps of
Reform.
The philosopher of the Tribune has been
done in marble.
New Hampshire has 100000 invested in
school houses.
Harrisburg lady unconsciously roasted
two cats in a kitchen range.
The damp is playing havoc with the frcs-
Gees in the Houses of Parliament.
Several thousand tons of Table Rock. at
Niagara Falls, fell the other day.
William 3. Astor, of New York has recently
given 500 900 to the Astor Library which was found
ed by his father, John Jacob Astor.
The present population of Texas is estimated Mt
| the rebellion.
Recruiting for the regular army in New York is
very brisk. owing to the number of men out of en-
ployment.
The Railroad from Birdsboro to Whining.
ton, it is now said, will be built.
| Why are n good many young men like
babies! Because they live on Pap.
The Executive Mansion at Washington
has been renovated at Il cost Of about $40,
00O
| The military at Fort Dodge, on the plains,
are very badly scared about the Indians.
They have Indian on the brain.
Maple sugar making has already com
mcnced il Vermont. and will become genera
throughout New England in couple of
weeks.
Spring has set in at Macon, Ca, the buds
beginning TO open, and the thermometer
ranging between 60 and 20 degrees.
The Princess of Wales has her third baby.
a daughter, born on Wednesday, the goth.
She has been married not fonr years, and Las
! three children.
A waggish editor says that the streets of
n Western town are to be lighted with red
headed girls. We'd like to hug the lamp
posts.
The homestead of Sam Houston, in Hous-
ton, Texas, which he built himself some
twenty-five years ago, has just been demol-
ished.
a journal of Turin, Italy, tells of a family
of five persons in the neighborhood of that
city who have lived ON cats flesh for the
past year. The eldest boy catches the cats.
Solomon johnson, n colored man, formerly
President Lincoln's barber, has been appoint
ed first class clerk in the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, with desk in the
Secretary's Office.
Statistics show that the Northwest con-
tains one sixth of the improved land of the
countrY, and produces one-ha,f of the entire
bulk OF the products of the United States.
In Jefferson county, Iowa, recently, a man
was devoured by wolves, after losing his
way in the woods and becoming supplied
with cold.
Two highwaymen shot and killed, a man
in his buggy near Cincinnati on Thursday
night, and the horse, taking fright, ran away
with the corpse still in the vehicle until he
was stopped by some citizens. The muir
oerers escaped without any of the booty
they expected to obtain by the murder
We are told in one of our exchanges of
young man at Milwaukee, who, boasting of
his strength, said he could knock the panel
out of a door by single blow of his fist.
out, but his hand has been paralyzed by the
injury inflicted upon it, and is gradually
withering up.
SHEEP SALEs.-Yictor Wright, of Mid
dlebury, VT, has sold twelve ewes to a Yves.
tern party for Sl2 900 81 900 each. Edwin
Stowel, of the same place, sold ram lamb Tor
$4,000, and L. hammond sold ram lamb
for $1,000; another gentleman sold a year
IA hut b.
ago for $3.50. The sheep were all thorough
bred Hammond sheep, and choice animals.
When Sheridan taught school, he had in
one class boy who always read patridpes
FOR patriarchs. "Stop," exclaimed Sheridan,
you shall not make game of the patriarchs."
A rebel soldier, while in an Indiana prison,
Whitfield out model OF a cotton press. He
claims that with the help of good gin he
can gin and pack bale os cotton, weighing
five hundred and twenty five pounds, in two
hours.
1t is rumored in England that another re-
bellion threatens to break out in India, and
that its leaders await movements in Europe
which are expected to involve England, in
order that their designs may be carried out
against the least possible military opposi-
ton. re
The soundings for the cable between Cuba
and Florida have been made, and the cable
will be laid next November. A submarine
mountain was discovered while making the
soundings.
A silver mine has been discover on tue
farm of VIM. Bradley, Esq. on Pass Run,
Page county, w. Va. The ore is said to be
very rich. -fst ~