Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-03-16
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A gentleman in Iowa advcrtises for wife !
"wbo wears her own hair, her own teeth,
her own cheeks, her own "buzzum," and
her own calves, without having went and
gone and paid for them" He'll do!
George Peabody has received, since be has
been in this country, 1900 begging letters,
which have been burned. He has no time
to read them.
They work, the Parliament of Finland in
five different languages The Finnish COMBS
in last, and 1t is only used by the peasant
members.
There are 147 7grandees in Spain, Of which
70 are first chop or dukes. About one-half
the whole number wash themselves decently.
- It Is proposed to take away the privilege
of voting from every man who has offered
or taken a bribe at elections. t..ut., ~
An Iowa lady has just recovered $4,000
damages for defamation of her character by
o man who told scandalous stories about
her. ,..a.r. .t..r -L... gs
Nineteen pastors in Harrisburg, belong
ing to the Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist and |
Presbyterian Churches, have signed letter |
to Gov. Geary protesting confidence in that
officer, and approving his moral attitude in |
the temperance cause. ... ..ua
n yOuuR III tut lN0W OElcuuS huotuu',
who goes into the lions den, put too much
pomatum on her hair. The unctuous odor
excited the lions appetite, and when she
stopped to let him jump over her, according
to the programme, the sagacious beast bit
of her waterfall. '.
Our NAvy.-The whole number of vessels
now in the United States navy is 274. OF
the iron clads, 81 are at League Island, 10
at New Orleans, s at Mound City, at
Washington, Q at Boston and at San Fran
cisco. 20 vessels were sold during last year.
| A switch tender, named O'Brien, whose
negligence caused the death of two passen-
gers on the New Jersey Railroad last sum-
mer, has been convicted of manslaughter, at
| Newark, and sentenced to 5000 fine and
three months imprisonment.
A Chinaman having drank too much
liquor, said Rum not proper, make China
man number one fool"
Last week a piece of coal, weighing
1879 pounds, from the mines of the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company, at Summit
Hill, passed over the Lehigh Valley Railroad
to New York, where it is to be shipped to
the Paris Exposition as sample of one of
the products of the Lehigh Valley. "
A man in Philadelphia put his mother,
aged 20, out in the street to be taken care
Of by the police The mothers days have
been long in the land. The sons are not
very likely to be if we accept the negative
implied in the constructive promise of the
fifth commandment.
The Cincinnati Commercial says:-There
are thousands OF people in Alabama starving.
The destitution is more general than our
people suppose. In single county (Chero.
kee) with a population of not over 1900
persons, white and black, there are over 5,
600 without food to eat, and nine teuths OF
those able to work have no supplies of corr,
or grain to plant for the coming year.
A correspondent says there is not more
than grain enough in Georgia to last until
the end of March. .r.
A little girl named Walker, died at AL
bany from the poisonous effect of the green
} coloring on candy which she ate.
Nine hundred and eighty nine love let
I tiers were produced in evidence in q breach
: of.promise case in Liverpool recently.
Large shipments of corn are coming ovel
, the Virginia Central railroad, destined :o
South Carolina. ....
=, Connecticut Millerites are getting thei
: = ascension robes ready for June 10th next
when they expect to "go up"
Gen. d. II. Hills "Land we Love" is sai(
to have a subscription list of 10000.
SAVE Your DoCToR's BILLs.-When DIR
: Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry will CURr
coughs, colds, bleeding at the lungs, and ar
; rest the fell destroyer, Consumption, it does
= more than most physicians can do. Th
: use Of a-eingle bottle, costing one dollar
will satisfy the incredulous that they nee,
+ look no further for the required aid.
The Supreme Court cf Pennsylvania ha
t decided that the shares in National Bank
are subject to State taxation in the hands O
n the shareholders. ..s
Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston, ha
c contributed $500 to the Southern Relic
Fund. In o letter accompanying the dons
4 tion, he saws: ~ fear that our people ar
! not sufficiently alive to the danger of starva
tion which is impending over many parts q
> the South"
- TIE MOST UNHAPPY PERSON in the worl
n is the Dyspeptic. Everything looks dar
and gloomy; he feels ''out of sorts" wit
himself and everybody else. Life is bul
den to him. This can all be changed b
taking Peruvian Syrup "a protoxide of Iron
N Cases of 81 years standing have been cure
Q, by it.
Our consul at Montreal gave o ball at th
1t Lawrence Hall on the 22d to five hundrc
al people. ... .. ..a. .. I'D. s
LONDON is 1866 had an estimated popu
~ la:ion of 3,037, ,S9l, as compared with 2,093
is 5l3 in 1865. In 1866 there were in Londo
3. 107,06s births, and 0,12G deaths.
at An, old woman in Michigan, few da,
II. ago, on her death bed, confessed her guilt
ID completely in murder committed twent,
Of six years ago at Watertown, New York.
Boston has subscribed more for the dest
ID tute of the South, rebels and all, than Ne
er York. What text this ought to be for Il
st South to preach from Will they take il
IN Governor Fen.on, of New York, has T
fused to commute the sentence of Hira
ut Coon, convicted of the murder of Ma
W Baker, aud he will be hung on the %
9, inst.
in A correspondent of the Lewistown Jou
as nal calls attention to the fact that whe
oak forests have existed ever since the fir
W settlement of this country, if the trees a
cut down there at once spring up on Il
III spot pine saplng, covering all the groun