Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-01-26

Ohio Is the sixth state to adept the Com
stitutional Amendment. Other legal States
will soon follow in rapid sueeession, now
that their legislatures have convened.
The number of members belonging 10 the
trades unions in England, is about eight |
hundred thousand They exist in every |
town, and against their combined power no |
Government could long hold out.
The Episcopal Church in the United
States is said to be divided into $500 par
ishes, having 1850 clergymen and 16l, ,225
lay members. During 1866 the members of
this church contributed $3,951 ,807 for
charitable purposes.
One of the capitalists" who accompanied
Sir Morton Peto and his financial party to
this county, Mr.. A. w. Rixon, has followed
the cheerful example Of his chief and of
several others of the party, by "going
through bankruptcy. His debts arc e110,-
600, his assets $4,000.
A chiropoe.ist in Buffalo has huge sign
on which is painted in flesh color human
| foot, with as much leg as would reach up to
the knee attached cosered with warts, bun
ions, carbuncles, contusions, swellings, and
all manner of horrid ana unnatural deformi-
| ties.
! A cruel joke was perpetrsted on Milwau-
kee divine on Christmas day by o couple of
scamps who sent him package purporting
to contain $500 in greenbacks. The man of
black cloth was highly delighted until the
contents of the package developed only q
mass of stiff paper.
The principal mill owners at Lawrence,
Massachusetts, have resolved to reduce the
wages of their operatives.
The rumor is revived that Speaker Colfax
next month, will lead the rich widow of a
: -vealthy banker Of New York to the altar.
DR.. Herring, of Philadelphia, the Nestor
of homeopathy in this country, celebrated
his severtieth birthday on Tuesday.
A salt well in Tuscaroras County, Ohio
yields 600 barrels of water daily, 35 gallons
Of the water furnishing bushel of salt.
The real practica! value growing out OF
the recent yacht race is the new incentive it
will be to the enterprise Of American sea.
men, and such change in the moGG! Of sail
: ing vessels as will so materially improve
their sailing qualities as to leave steam and
} steamships, after all, but little way ahead
1t is stated that a mandatory for making
,, printers type of vucanzed India rubber las
been established at Daston, England. This
new species of type, it is said, is made very
! uulGhly, anu NJ one tnlrQ Tue CoSt OF OTul
nary metallic type, whilst it is claimed tina
: the India rubber type are as durable and o
l.. as good quality as those now in use.
: There is growing sentiment in the Soutl
. in favor of abandoning politics, and payias
c attention to the restoration of the prosperit
5 of that section. A late number of the Rich
mond Wig advises the people to give VI
- the old politicians" and says, 1--WE are begin
o ming new era and must have new ideas AM
new men,"
n Upper Canada is making rapid advance
e ment in educational matters. The schoc
report for 1865 is just out, and from it W
q learn that in 1865 the number of pupils i
q attendance of school of age was 36l CIT, an
. of other ages 22,035, making total of 3S3
652. AS the whole number reported is 426
=. 757, this leaves 43 l05 that fail to attend IL
u schools.
The number of immigrants leaving No
). y. way for the United States is becoming qu
y large. 1t is now reckoned that no less tina
$4,000 annually leave Norway to seek a ne
N home on the other side of the Atlanti
as while it is thought that, as so many of Il
people now have friends and relatives sc
ut tied in America, the number may yet
G. greatly increased.