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

Indians.
Gen. Mcclellan aud family will soon re.
turn from Europe.
Pork is dull at six cents pound in West
Virginia.
New York spent thirty thousand dollars
at the theatres last week. |
Mayor Hoffman says the funded debt OF
New York is 30,642,070.
The petroleum works at Calcasieu, Louisi-
ana, ore said to be flourisbing.
An exchange says Vice. President Hamlin
Is looking after the Maine chance.
A man in Chicago has cut his throat be-
cause he lost $4,000 in oil speculatons.
A marketman in Harrisburg has manufac
tured a sausage fifty feet nine inches in
length.
Fred. Douglass has nearly completed ar
rangcments for the issue of q new weekly
journal.
A gold nugget, weighing one pound, has
been found in the ChauGfcrre mining dis
trict, Canada.
The Fenians have denounced James Ste
phens and adhere 20 President Roberts.
The ladies of Cincinnati care for the news
= boys and provide clothing for them.
!. The Presidents first swinging round was
in sewing circle.
). They call young Bennett now Prince James.
n Gen. Washington stood six feet three in
c his slippers.
General Tom Thumb and family are in
. Manchester, England.
l. Bsmark's plan of territorial absorption is
heartily opposed.
!, The Baptists are very generally moving
a for open communion.
# One Steinmeter, of Jersey City, is charged
4 with stealing lady's garter.
|, Every night wolves may be heard in full
: chorus in the neghborhood of Ottawa.
$; A child in Thetford, VT, was killed by be-
q ing bitten through the necS by horse.
y Troy has q "Praying Band" Its members
~ go wherever they may be invited to pray.
le Philadelphia is going to find out how
N many children in that city do not attend
Of school.
,t at every public dinner in New York o
dozen policemen help to discuss the yictuals
;, The number Of scholars enrolled in Penn.
>. sylvania equals the population of Wisconsin
Minister Campbell is at New Orleans wait
y ing, Micawber. like, for something to turn up
One hundred and sixteen NJ. C's have
OF their families with them at Washington thi.
winter.
p A lottery is advertised in Maryland fo
drawing comfortable berths in buryine
y ground.
" England invests annually $1,000, 900 fo
A dried carcasses of that tiny insect called tn
~ cochineal
An unusual number of "brilliant youn;
ia. men" have drfted into New York durin,
the past year.
~, More new houses were erected in Nash
or vile last year than in any previous year 70
ty, half o century.
Cornelius Vanderbilt keeps stud of min
es- horses. He also has new colt no. ye
In drought out into society"
A new counterfeit twenty dollar bill o
W. the Fourth National Bank, Philadelphia, ,ha
49, made its appearance in the West.
~ A Mr.. Coffin, of Boston, has had an infar
son named Mahogany. A very grave jok
Ristori has thus far made 800 900 to cal
,r. ry back with her to foreign parts. Agains
nv this Artemus Ward will bring home $50, ,00'
,:e the earnings OF his lectures in England.
Sc, young German lady fell dead in a wall
at Turner's ball recently held at Boonvill
no.
an Senator McDougall has nearly ruined h
a'c health in on effort to swear off drinking.
l,s The valuation of Lousvils-~hows TIL
uai city to be equal to one.iith of the en.i
,ch valuation of Kentucky.
of A great temperance reform is about
ted take place in Philadelphia. Somethir
needed there.
air The Stewart divorce case is still on tri
md at Chicago. The evidence is unfit for pu
tee lication.
'r a Real estate in Philadelphia, proporto
ately, sells 30 per cent. cheaper and rents
n'e per cent. less, than in Pittsburgh this seaso
M'ne M The unlicensed liquor dealers of New Yo
q q have been notified that they must take
, " their "signs and tokens" before to-day,
y ',r ;" the excise law is to be vigorously enforce
int Isaac Bradley, Hartford mechanic b
and just invented a very superior breechlcadil
rifle. 1t carries ball of 45.1O0 calibre,
,nrs 500 yards.
ces, A gang of horse thieves are operating
hat Washington county, Pa. They palm thel
ally selves off as wool buyers, and have succee
the ed admirably in pulling wool over the ey
of the unsuspecting farmers.
The steam woolen mills of Utica, NJ
III York, have adopted the eight hour systs
zen instead of eleven, and pay accordingly.
nh Madame Demorest speaks feeingly of t
Inv ';na "elastic which keeps the stocking up at t
oar knee" as impeding the free circulation of t
49, blood.
ods The wife of Berks county hotel keeI
five scalded constable with hot water, becal
lou. he attempted to levy upon some of her hi
and bands property.
five A microscope, with double the power
lred any previously constructed, has lately be
lion completed in England, magniiying 100
The diameters.
gre. The Toronto Board has adopted the c.
and tai system, to go into effect March l, u
resolved that barrel of -four should
hereafter 200 pounds.
wa was The music of piano forte stimulated a
ma M sustained the individual in Charleston W
oI, oah succeeded in walking one hundred miles
,1no as many hours.
ara. A New Yorker complains of huge
In. staring him in the face while he was discu