Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-05-11
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The crops in Texas are looking remarka-
bly, well. a
Miss Kate Field win accompany Ristori
to Europe.
Canada has adopted the American caucus
system. ID tlHGyE.t ~
Greely's Conflict" has sold to the extent
Of I22, 1927 copies
Cocoanuts are used as waterfalls by Ala
bama ladies. lU. yNDff Villfl
French Canadians are going South in
great numbers
1860 emigrants landed at Castle Garden
last month.
Severe weather in Alabama has checked
the plantations. .-sU.u .t.. ...r
Schuyler Coalfax lectures during the re-
cess of Congress.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has recently
been in Macon, Ga.
The tobacco trade of New York city ex-
ceeds s1O0,0O0,0O0.
"Turkey.egg complexion" is shade men
toned in Tennessee.
The medico.political cauldron in New
York is seething and bubbling. ...
A Frcach railway company is getting two
thousand passenger cars. .".o0 .a.'l.
1t is said that the Italian innholders make
the lowest of their bows to the universal
Yankee. % iH Ao-
The cost of living in New England is now
higher than in any other country on The face
of the globe.
The police force of New York is maintain
cd at an annual cost of 81, 100000. ....f.
ut is not sohere we are, but 'ohdt we are,
that determines whether we shall be happy
or be wretchcd," says the Rev. Mr.. Cuyler.
| The underpinnings of royalty are giving
out. The Prince Imperial of France has an
abscess in his leg, and the Princess of Wales
has bad knee
A society for the prevention of cruelty to
animals is to be organized in Philadelphia
| 1t is thought that JEFF. Davis will be taken
to Richmond on Saturday and lodged in jail
The Agricultural Department thinks the
coming wheat crop will be the finest for
many years.
1t will be two years the 22d of this month
since the arbitrator Davis entered the per
tails of Fortress Monroe.
Rev. Dr. M. A. De Wolfe Howe, is engag-
ed in writing a memorial of the late Alonzo
Potter, late Bishop of Pennsylvania.
The business portion of the town of Cam
bridge, ILL.,. was destroyed by fire on Sunday.
Loss 100000; insurance $4,000.
1881 acres of public lands were dispos-
ed of during portion of March at the
Boonville (Mo.) Office 13,425 acres being
taken for settlement under the Homestead
| law. ..
The Eight Hour" bill introduced into
Pennsylvania Legislature last winter, was
| hu l,uf mt hv Go tn
as it slumbered in the hands of the Judiciary
Committee until the session ended.
There is Chinese firm liz San Francisco
with capital of S2,0OO,0O0.
A new Catholic convent is to he built in
st. Louis at q cost Of 100000.
George Francis Train telegraphs from
Platte Valley, in the Far West, that lie is
shooting at antelope aud wolves from q
car window, going at 40 miles an hour"
One thousand two hundred men are EN-.
ployed in the New England lobster trade.
Fourteen thousand traps are used, and $780,,
600 are invested in the business.
The editor of the Claremont Eagle offers
thousand dollars for the invention of what
he terms a sensible set of horse shoes-lght
neatly finished steel shoes that Can be readi
ly put on and taken off by the owner of the
horse or the groom, just as he does the har
ness, when occasion requires
A correspondent writing from NORTH
Carolina gives the following item "On the
road l saw perfect illustration of ont
phase of Southern life. A woman was plow
ing in field, and within a few rods of her
completing the picture-was man, will
dog and gun, proceeding to the hun.."
TAKING MEDlcINE.-To cure diseases oc
casioned by deficiency of Iron an tie Blood
without restoring it to the system, is lik,
trying to repair building when the found
alton is gone. The Peruvian Syrup "a pro
toxide of iron) supplies this deficiency ant
builds up an iron constitution.
Senator Dixon, of Conn, was received al
his home in Hartford, on Saturday, by sal
ute of thirty seven guns, and welcome frcn
the mayor. He made speech in answer.
The New Orleans Crescent denies tn,
statement that ex Mayor Monroe and family
of that city, have gone to Canada, and say
they are still in New Orleans.
The st. Louis board of health expect t,
spend $195,000 during the ensuing year
exclusive of street cleaning) in order t.
keep the city in healthful condition.
During the earthquake in Missouri, tn,
other day, an engineer on the Missouri Rive
railroad turned down the steam and jump
ed from the train, thinking the engine wa
bursting.
Tennyson goes about looking uncommon
ly like an old Guy, with lunatic long hail
an insanely romantic cloak of ancient build
and horribly Gemented hat.
An insurance agent urging citizen tt
get his life insured, said, "Get your life in
sured for ten thousand dollars, and then i
l you die next week, the widder's heart viii
sing for JOY"
The two mon who were arrested shor
time ago on suspicion of being horse thieves
and then taken out and brutally murdered
7 near Fayetteville, Arkansas, have sine
{. proved to have been honest travellers iron
Missouri. The perpetrators of the outrag
, are BOW ON trial, and the prospects are tina
they will receive their just deserts.
There is Eow an experiment in the Bostol
Navy Yard, under the auspices of the Unite,
States Government, which, is the event o
success, will be of the greatest importanc
to the whole world. 1t is the use of petro
leum oil as steam generator, in the plac
. of wood or coal. "....