Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-11-02
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The Empress Eugcnic has faded very
much the past year.
Gen. Mcclellan is coming home to run
for President.
One hundred and forty-two Smiths have
graduated at Yale.
The Earl oC Campcrdown is examining
the Richmond Notifications.
Commodore Varderbilts income is rcpor-
ted at present to be 81 900 day.
Admiral Farra9ut saw in Sweden an cr-
tire battery of brcech loading cannons of
wrought iron, taken on. of vessel sunk
during the seventeenth century.
Petroleum is now being used as fuel by
steam fire engines of Boston.
Philadelphia is to have German theatre.
The preliminary steps have already been
taken.
Sugar OF lead, in hair dye, combines with
the sulphur in the hair or in the dye, to
make a deadly poison, which often produces
paralysis.
Bishop Kip, Of California. has issued n
pastoral letter urging his clergy to use their
best efforts to bring about ID better obscr-
vance of the Sabbath.
The Richmond Dispatch learns, from un-
questioned authority that there are fourteen
thousand discharged negro soldiers now at
work, mostly on farms in Virginia.
The witty author of Lftith Lank says in
the Citizen thereafter we shall have to be
careful not only who are our Presidents, but
also who arc their wives The tail feathers
of the eagle must not be dragsled.
Colfax well says: every stamp you put
upon a deed, a check or a mortgage, is a
Democratic sticking plaster to remind you
of Democratic Rebellion"
One of the experimental farms to be csta-
blished by the Farmers High School vii! be
located in Chester county, provided the peo-
pie thereof subscribe 50, 900 by the 10th of
November, to be applied to the o5ject.
"THE LOST CAUSE" Radicalism and no.
gro suffrage Boston Post.
CAUSE OF DEMIsE.-Smothcred by revi-
val in the camps of rebellion. - (hattaAooga
Dddy Times.
ter and superior tonic properties Of the Port Grape
Wine over those formerly used by physicians have
deseryedly created for il place in sick rooms
and hospitals. Tho Government now uses it. The
Sanitary and Christian commissions use il and Mr.
Speer, in producing excellent native wine, is a
beneiactor in his line. His business very
| tensiye, and what with drawing oil and bottlng,
packing and box making, quito force is engaged
To the remotcst part Of the country his cases are
sent and by means of his medicinal and Sacramen-
| tai Port Grape Wine the name Of Alfred Speer has
become everywhere familiar household word
| Paterson Guardian.
Our druggists have some of this wine
FAMINE IN SCASDINAyIA.-Emili Carten
the Swedish author, has addressed pa.he
tic appeal to tho women of Sweden on be-
half OF the inhabitants of Norland, on the
Gulf of Bothnia, thousands of whom are
rear starvation. last years bad harves,
and a winter of unusual inclemency, caused
amongst the people destItution which this
years harvest was expected to relieve, but
there has been such a failure of crops of hl
kinds as has not been known since 1912
In Lulea there is not pound of meal to b.
bought. Bark bread and bread OF sallow
leaves, fungi, lichens and moss Gre eaten by
the destitute. The suiferings of the dwell
lers in remote inland villages are said to b'
beyond belief. A famine committee hal
been formed, and subscription list opened
st Stockholm. The picture which Mis-
Carlin draws OF mothers soeking TO keel
life in their starving children by doles o
softeped moss i; very touching