Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-06-01

lner0 ID an act OF Assembly, hpprOVeu
March Both, 1854, which forbids the shoot |
ing Of wild ducks, in any Of the counties |
bordering on the Susquehsnna river, between
the first day of April and the first day Of
September, inclusive. The penalty for Of |
Tending against the law, is fve dollars for
each and every offence, with all costs and
charges ~ .-a-- ~ -.
Preparations are making to take the cen.
sus of 1870, through the agency of the ln.
terna Revenue organization. During six
weeks in November and December last an
experiment was made by this means, which
proves that it can be successfully accom-
plished According to the census then
taken, the population of thirty seven States
amounted to "a 100, ,255-States and Terri
tories together, 84,505, ,S82, showing, not
withstnnding the war, an increase of 3,062,-
SCI since 1860.
The Richmond Whg is advocating Re-
publican principles. Sensible.
An intoxicated man in Ohio was run over
by four railroad trains.
Philadelphia has appropriated million
dollars to the building of new school houses.
A lucky man named Jerry Lowry, of
| Waterford, Coun., found an old stocking
leg full of silver dollars, in his garret, on
Thursday last.
President johnson has offered plot of
ground to the freedmen of Greeuvile Tenn,
to be used for school and religious purposes,
if the freedmen will select the ground.
In New York an ingenious mechanic has
made novel inventi0n, designed for the
comfort of horses during the hot weather
1t consists of a small reservoir, filed with
water. placed upon the animals head, keep
ing the brain cool, and thus warding off the
effects of the and sunstroke.
The Buelington Times says that John B
Page, Of Rutland, will be unanimously nom
mated for Governor of Vermont.
Eleven buildings were destroyed by fire r
Oshkosh, Wis, on Sunday afternoon. Los,
about $4,000.
The United States gunboat Ashrelot ha!
been bombarding town in Formoss, thu
natives of which had murdered the crew o
an American 5arque, the Rover, who wer,
|. shipwrecked upon that coast. Formos,
lies off the southeastern portion of China
and the inhabitants are savage and inbospi
table. The offense was very gross, and ther'
seems to be no other way of teaching barba
rians the duties OF humanity, than by physi
cal force.
Queen Victoria has FIVE daue hters. Th'
oldest is the wife of the Crown Prince O
' Prussia. She is destined to become the fu
ture Queen of Prussia. The second, Alice
is the wife of the Prince of Hessedarmstadt
5 whose prncipality has been lately absorbed
by Prussia. The third, Helena, became re
Gently the wife of the Prince of Teck, wlK
is prince without principality. Two re
main unmarried-Louise, who is in he
eighteenth year, and Beatrice, who is in he
ninth. What is to be done with Louise
now that, most of the Protestant German
Princes have been ousted from their petit
] thrones 10y Prussin2 There is only one Pro
. testant Prince now available for royal ccu
f jugal purposes, and he is the brother of tn,
. Princess of Wales, King George of Greece
Mr.. Gladstone is, consequently, to proceed
. to Athens to enter upor his delicate nego
! tiation Her purposed husband is a mer
r. youth, who dances well, and is fond Of
good cigar, and is tolerably good looking
He might make an admirable clerk in a mi
= linery store, but is altogether out of his plac
as the chief of the spirited Greek nation.
A PROMPT PENALTY-But few officer
;, have been removed from the PhilaCfelphi
y Custom House thus far, by Collector Cake
but he very properly made an example Of
tide. waiter who on Saturday last, laborin
under an attack of his natural feelings, en-
J. tered public house in the vicinity of th
' Inspectors headquarters and called upo
all hands to drink. He offered us toast
8 THE health of jeff Davis" He was promp,
s ly dismissed. d.-Miners Journal.
ACCIDENT. s. Mcclure, of this place
brakesman on the L. & B. X. r., was severe
8 ly injured on last Friday a week, at Chuias
u ky. He was engaged in connecting cars
and became entangled in the coupling, whe
n the engine made sudden start. aud caueh
a his leg between the bumpers. We are ga
to know he is getting along finely.
y THE ATLANTIC CABLE BRoKRY.-It wa
= fortunate that the Atlantic Telegraph Com
!. pany, after successfully laying the cable G
S 1866, Immediately repaired that of 1865
The cable of 1865 has just been broken b
d an iceberg and the only line of communics
!. tion with the Old World is at present th
y cable of 1865. 1t appears hy letter fror
r. g. +. Stewart, chairman of the company q
London, that on the 4th inst, at 8 so p. NJ
large iceberg grounded of the harbor q
:. Hearts Content, Newfoundland, about !
: miles N. N. w. of northern point, and abou
10 two hundred yards cas-. of the 1866 cable, i
about sixteen fathoms of water. On the 81
l. instant the iceberg disappeared, but in pass
o ing over the cable of 1866 such damage wa
" done that the signals through that cable bt
l. came imperfect, and have now ceased. TIL
u capacity of the cable of 1868 exceeds the re
Gnirements of the business, great as it il
q but the company expects to repair the da
a mage to that of 1866 without DELAY,