Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-02-09
Mrs. Colt, of Hartford, Connecticut, T.
about to erect o church in that city, to cos'


Mrs. Colt, of Hartford, Connecticut, T.
about to erect church in that city, to cos
csc, 900. ,.-.r,-- ~ uNI /
A marble quarry of superior quality has
been opened on the farm Of Mr.. j. A. Logan,
in Rockbridge county, Va.
Five inches of snow fell at Enterprise,
Ala, last Tuesday, to the astonishmens even
of "the oldest inhabitant."
A lady In Ohio travelling in a railroad car,
with one of her feet out of the window, had
her leg torn of in crossing bridge.
The value of the estate Of the late Edward
Mott Robinson, ef New Bedford, Massachu- |
setts, is sworn at "a, SOC, 600.
The celebrated burning we'll near Frank
liz, Pa, is again on fire, the flames frequent
ly shooting up to height of one hundred
feet.
At a recent Wool Growers Convention IN
Springfield, Illinois, il was stnted that
there ore in that State 1900, 900 sheep, worth
81, ,oOo, 900, yielding annually 100000
A little six-year old urchin, away up in
Maine, being unable to drive al obstinate
COW out Of the barn, set IT ona fire: ''She
run then" 80 the boy told his mother
From all accounts there is very large
lobby for and against the tariff bill now be-
fore the Senate at Washington. Senators
are hourly called ont and "horse.shedded"
in some of the anterooms.
The South Caroyinidn says there is grow
ing disposition among capitalists of the
North to loan money to the producers of
cotton, for the purpose of enabling them to
carry on the !abors of their plactations.
1t is reported. in Constantinople that a
war between Russia and Turkey is regarded
as imminent. The Turkish Government has
called out 10000 reserves, and Russia has
ordered that all military furloughs shall end
on the lst of March.
La Pdtrie has q new theory of the cause
of potato rot. 1t says: "The microscope re-
veals two hundred ferocious animals, of a
coleopteric form, in the space as large as a
pins head. These animals bite and tear
each other with great fury"
During snow embargo, recently, on the
New Jersey road, the hotels were filed at
New Brunswick, and the saloon keepers
taking advantage of the wants of starving
passengers on the blockaded trains, asked
ten dollars and a half for plate of mutton
chops and cup of coffee without sugar.
The importatons of canary birds for the
current year, comprises from $4,000 to 2O,'
900 birds, valued at say $4,000.
The quantity of salt inspected at the
, Onondaga Salt Springs during 1865 was
1892, ,230 bushels.
r A French Clergyman declares that mer
who do not intend to marry have no righ,
to go into society.
1t is said that the man who piloted Lees
| army into Pennsylvania is now practicing
medicine at NASHVILLE, few miles from
!, Peoria, Illinois.
Horace Greely, Henry Ward Beecher and
Clement l.. Vallandgham are to be invited
to deliver lectures in course for the bene
) fit OF the poor in Atlanta, Ga.
r A merchant in New York, who failed
. twice in fifteen years, and was forced to sci
his wife's wardrobe to procure the necessa
+ res of life, has just retired with fortune Of
). $500, 900.
e 1t is stated by authority, appearing to be
v good, that the present capacity of the Erie
d canal for the movement of property, is equa
D to that of eighty railway trains daily. The
proposed enlargement of the locks, as pro
t vided in the bill introduced in the State
n Senate, will, when consummated, augmen
e the capacity of the canal so rs to be equa
l. to more than two hundred railway train
=. daily.
:, A colony of six hundred families Of Italian
immigrants is being established within
few miles of Peru, Indiana.
c A CLERGYMAN writing to friend says
"My voyage to Europe is indefinitely pest
j. poned. | have discovered the fountain o
health" on this side of the Atlantic. Thre
-, bottles of the Peruvian Syrup have rescued
. me from the fangs of the fiend Dyspepsia.
> Dyspeptics should drink from this fountain
n. The lives of three children. who were bu
N RED in a snow-drist at Gloucester, Mass
q. week before last, while going home fror
school, were saved by the barking of dos
ID which brought help to the place, thong
is the youngsters were nearly frozen to deaf
, before they were rescued.