Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-11-30
RREyITIES.

to the United States.
A physician in New York cauterzcs can
GERS and the like by concentrating sunlight
Fitz Greene Halleck, aged eighty years,
died at Guildford, Conn, recently.
Dispatches from Havana state that st. |
Domingo city has been destroyed by an
earthquake.
Seven shocks of nm earthquake were felt
at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 1lth and 18th
inst
Thad Stevens is determined to introduce
q bill to suspend civil officers while under
trial for impeachment quoting Constitution
al authority for it.
The diocese of New York has raised the
salery of Bishop Potter from $4,000 per
annum to $4,000.
At Columbus, Georgia, prisoner escaped
from the sheriff by throwing pepper in his
eyes.
The bridge over the Mississippi at Quincy,
will cost million and half, and will not
be ready for use until next August.
An effort is making in Pittsburg, Pa, to
establish n state normal school near there.
1t is likely to be successful.
Vcnison is very abundant this season in
Minnesota.
A murderer in Iowa says he prefers death
to n communication Of his sentence to impri-
sonmcnt.
| The Stock of wheat in California is esti-
mated at two million two hundred thousand
centals Forty thousand barrels of flour arc
in San Francisco warehouses.
Cleveland, Ohio, spent. last year $780,
900 for various kind of "grog."
I. =. 4. 4
male and four hundred and ninetyfour tc-
male students.
The meteors made good show at Bangor,
Maine.
At Cincinnati, the female principal of the
Normal school receives $4,000.
A man by the name of Sheperd has been
backed to walk from Chicago to New Or
leans in twenty days. He will have to
average seventy five miles day
The Germans of St. Louis have succeeded
in obtaining the repeal of the Sunday liquor
law in that city.
St. Louis corn, shipped TO Arkansas, has
been sent back The home crop was sutii
cient.
Sixty pounds of cents were deposited one
Sunday in the collection boxes OF Boston
church u few weeks ago
, Gen. Montauban, the commander ir CHIEF
OF the French army in Rome, is n notorious
: infidel.
: An original letter from John Wesley has
turned up in Detroit, and has been present
} ed to a Methodist society there.
! The best peanuts come from Africa. The
yield is great, generally amounting to some
, thing like seventy five to one hundred bush
!, els per acre.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is said to bt
about fifty years of age, and to resemble tht
, pictures of Martha Washington, in her ap
pearance. She lectured, recently, in st
, Louis.
There is q man in Ohio who was dis
charged from the military service in 1912 OF
the ground of old age, and is still alive agcc
:, los.
John c. SAKE says man proposes, but wo
i, man disposcs, and an exchange says tina
sometimes women is disposed of whethc
y she is so disposed or not
| During the recent kangaroo hunt in Aus
/ tralia $4,000 of the springy creatures gav'
. up hopping. Such wholesale destruction a
t that will be likely to produce Kangarooin
h Miss Edmonia Lewis, the black sculptress
? has executed beautiful statue of lliawa
/ tnas Wooing, which Miss Cushman has pre-
g sented to the Young Mems Christian Asso
l citation of Boston.
u The receipts of wheat at Milwaukee las
week were 73,345 bushels, against 4l0,32
{ for the corresponding week last year
:, The Houston (Texas) Telegrai h exchange
p with South Carolina paper which reache
it through the postoflice wrapped in thou
. sand dollar Confederate specie bonds.
f Texas abounGs in minerals, and all sh,
| requires is selected government and
+ capital to develop her immense resources
e A fine bed of stone coal has recently been
c discovered in Anderson county.
t The New Orleans Picoyune is opposed tc
procuring white labor" 1t says: "W'
: want white men here to 90 to work them
t selves and not procure labor. The system
f of mercantile farming which has so long
5 cursed the South, and bred debt and idle
! ness, must cease or our decay will become
c ruin"
. There are five ship.loads of German cmi
grants on their way to Texas.
A school.boy in Maine last week waket
!, five miles in forty nine minutes, on a wager
: The regular trains on the Union Pacific
ltailroad began running on Monday to Chey
enne, from which point there is daily lint
OF coaches to Denver.
9 The Montana Post of the I'd reports
number of horses stolen in Galatin Valley
a The suspected thieves were caught in pos
session of the horses, and although it is sale
q they left for the states, it is generally be
! lieved they have been hung by their cap
I tors.
The excitement about Weston is SO grea
: in Ohio, that special trains are advertised
t for the places through which he is to pass
: The contract for building the Atchson
) Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad from Topek
e south, has been made, and the work vii
: begin by December 1st.
: An immense business is doing on th
. Kansas Pacific Railway in the transports
3 tion of cattle from the herds at Abilene =
Long trains are moving daily and abou
! five hundred head were received at tn
= packing establishment at Ottowa on the BOT
II ult.
Il A lady in Wisconsin recently plunge
into a mill pond to save two boys fror
4 drowning. Her crinoline foated her, anC
r. clinging to that, the boys were kept aboy
il water, and the whole party drifted safely t
n the shore.
G. The Lock Haven Democrat says that tbs
p town is improving faster, probably, tha
M onu nthar town in thp country New bnil1