Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-07-20
BREvlTIEs.


Paris spends twice as much money Ior
wine as it does for bread. vi /
\. A Yankee Is going to furnish Jeddo and
Yokohama with gas.light.
Under the new reform bill, seat In Far
lament will cost about $25,OO0.
A woman With well developed pair of
black whiskcrs visited Goshen, Ind, the
other day.
The burnt district in vicksburg is being
rebuilt, and fine iron front stores are going
up in other parts of the city. .tg
The Prince of Wales is rated severely for
winning $40, 600 on Hermit
General Tom Thumb has acquired slight
moustache since he went abroad
The Marquis of Hastings is reported to
have won Gl00, 900 in London "hell"
Henry Ward Beecher denies that he takes
glass of ale the first thing in the morning
Commodore Mutt and Minnie Warren are
to be married. The bridal outfit is prepar
ing. .tnie" ..l
Mile. Nunez, a girl of eleven, wore $780,.
600 worth of diamonds at the late cbildren's
ball in Paris. a. 't aI
New Orleans drinks three thousand kegs
of lager daily.
An Indian gentleman has just married his
sixth wife.
A Memphis dwarf is 81 inches high and
weighs 85 pounds, .a.
An Indian scalp receives no bounty in
Colorado unless it has the ears on.
1t is said the Indians in the west are busy
collecting their poll tax. They take it out
in hair.
A Texan Sam Patch is amusing Houston
by jumping into the bayou from hight of
so feet. ,,. -. ..
The Illinois girl who lately lost ber speech,
save Whispering has had forty offers of mar
riage
The Chicago penitentiary is so full that
seventy had to be turned out to make room
for new corners.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of dia-
monds decorated lady at recent wedding
party at Pittsfeld.
WIsTAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHLRRY, is
ga combination and form indeed" for
healing and curing diseases of the throat,
lungs, and chest. 1t. cures cough by
loosening and cleansing the lungs, and al
laying irritation; thus rsmoring the CAUSE,
instead of drying up the cough and leaving
the disease behind. .......
Ex-Governor johnson, of Georgia, has
written letter advising the Georgians not
to accept the terms of the Military Recon.
struction act.
President johnson on Tuesday, appointed
Mr.. Frank Cowan, a son of ex Senator Edgar
Cowan, to be his Secretary for signing land
warrants. ...
A freshet in the Colorado river has. des-
troyed Arizona City; only two buildings
remain uninjured. The Overland Mail Com
pany's quarters were also totally wrecked by
the inundatioD.
} The Queen of Spain's daughter is said tc
be the homliest girl in Europe.
Fifty sheep were killed by lightning a,
Pitts6eld, Mass, last Thursday, a week.
Ostriches are to be "accimatzed" il
E Australia. They can be bought in Africt
. for $3.50 apiece.
A man with one leg, and that drawn NJ
Q so that he walks mostly with his hands
f and said to be worth 10000, is begging il
: the streets of Cleveland.
Q General Sheridan is reported to hav,
brought on an engagement" with Louis
lana lady who owns fine plantation OF
Bayou Teche.
A Professor of a Theological Seminary il
I study of Macbeth" us means of acquiring
= proper knowledge of human nature.
! A down East clergyman says the skunk i
a a domestic animal and may be very easil
i. trained. He will doubtless enjoy mono
v poly of the training business
J. The United States colonists in Brazil ar
Y suffering the greatest destitution, and bitter
!, ly regret their emigration.
|, The Japanese Commissioners, now a
d Washington, have purchased 10000 volume
t Of school books for the instruction of th
o japanese.
!, three quarters of an hour near Providence
It at the same time drawing boat with 81
men in it.
T. A woman in Pittsburgh, day or tw
!. ago, gave birth to child in one of thei
street cars. 1t is suggested if boy, he b
= called Oscar; if girl Car o'line.
l. Three singular beings covered with hal
= but having human voices, have been foun
u , rowing wildly in Missouri, and St. Lou
y paper suggests that they belong to ne
n race. ...
4, The Hereditary Prince Maximiliau {
Tour and Taxis has just died at Carlsbad
His wife, a sister to the Empress of Austri
le had given birth to q child only few day
'e before. ....
'e In Ballston, N. Y, they bored 600 fe,
y well for OIL but struck medicinal sprin
u of great virtues instead. They accepted I'll
situation, aud have opened doctors sho
at the place. -. ...-..
johnson is represented as 'highly indi.
y nant" at Attorney General Stanbery fl
X having divulged the fact that Jerry Blac
wrote the veto of the Military Reconstru
ie tion bill. -...
q There is a probability of the West Branc
10 canal being enlarged sufficiently to perm
10 the free running of steamers. One OF sue
!. steamers recently arrived at Williamsport.
10 The colored people throughout the Sta
e. OF Pennsylvania are making extensive a
D. rangements to celebrate the First of Angus
the anniversary of the West India EmanG
ID patton. .f'. flsaIt
L. The last descendant of the Swiss Reform
Zwingli-Rev. Henry Zwingli-has ju
ID died in Dittikon, near Wintertour
SO The great tabernacle of the Saints at Sa
or Lake City is now finished. 1t is two hu
is dred and fifty feet wide, and furnishes col
Portable sitting room for ten thousand pt
enns