Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-05-25
RREXITIES.


A skeleton of an Indian giant has been
unearthed near Coaboma, Miss.
Gen. Pope has appointed a colored man
as one of the registrars in Georgia.
During the week ending the Goth inst,
S637 emigrants from Europe arrived at New
York.
The President of Jamaica gets $35 900 in
gold yearly.
Great mortality is prevailing among sheep
in Kalamazoo county, Michigan.
New York had five hundred candidates
for registers under the bankrupt act.
The Queen of Belgium is having a crown
made with five thousand diamonds in it.
There were eleven thousand seven hundred
and eleven vessels lost at sea last year.
A Gloucester schooner brought in eighty
thousand weight Of halibut one day last
week.
The charitable institutions of Toronto,
Canada, get all the bread seized for light
weight in that city.
A Boston servant girl stepped upon glass
skylight the other day, fell sixty feet, and
was picked up dead.
Fourteen hundred aristocratc ladies of
London declare they will shop no moreafter
two o'clock on Saturdays.
! Hay is now selling in Pottstown, Pa, at
thirty dollars per ton. The prospects for
the hay CROP for this season, is very encour-
aging.
A woman in Wilton, Me-, is seven feet
high, and weighs $50 pounds.
Fifteen thousand Chinese coolies are said
| 20, ka ha; m Low
The town council of Hanover, Pa, has
passed an ordinance forbidding the destruc-
tion of cats.
The Richmon Times says -"Southerners
who have left the South to make their homes
in Brazil have travelled long ways to get
out OF the frying pan into the fire."
1t is rumored in Europe that England de.
signt to seize Cuba, in the event of any diff
Guilty with Spain, and endeavor to retain
the islard as base in the Gulf of Mexico.
A paper in Selma, Ala, says chat since
the 1st of January last, over So, ,000,0 have
gone from that city and the country tribu
tary thereto, to the Northwest for plantation
supplies, and that it is, perhaps, not toe
much to estimate that at least as much more
must go in the same direction during the
remainder of the season. The cotton ship
ped thence will not exceed 81 100000.
Two hundred thousand more sewing ma
chimes were made in 1865 than were manu-
featured in 1866.
Two thousand dollars worth of goods arr
annually purloined from the counters of A
T. Stewards establishment BY professona
'shcp lifters."
Cergymen in the Western States are urg
! ~ - ~ IL do,
of humiliation and prayer to Almighty Goo
to stay the approach and spread of cholera
The Newburyport Mass, Herald has COM
to the conclusion that the morals of France
are better than those of the United States
Let every locality speak for itself.
Hereafter whenever balance has beef
ascertained and determined as due and ow
ing from any corporation in the Common
wealth, twelve per cent. interest will be ex
. acted after the first thirty days
Basil Duke is canvassing for a newspape
in Tennessee. Ex-senator Iverson of Geor
, gia sells fuel for living.
The Washington correspondent of Bos
ton paper says that the President has in
formed several gentlemen that he diG no
think there was any doubt but that he shoulC
visit "the Hub" in June.
STEWART, the millionaire merchant o
New York, is selling off his stock of dr.
goods by auction, which is regarded as
sign that he looks for an immense fall il
prices to occur at any time.
! A Chicago woman invested few hundred
dollars in wheat, the price of which shortl
advanced, and she made $4,000.
A shoemaker in Lower Saxony, who ha
Ion a1 oil l.
; youth, is now IA years of age.
A land turtle was found in the wood
near Buchanan, Mich, a few days since wit
|, the mark on his shell-"M. d. iS45."
The consumption of beer is largely increas
e ing in England, the quantity brewed bavn
: increased from II, ,sS4 ,770 barrels in 1857, t
25,36S, 600 barrels in 1866.
: The contribution of $40, 900 in gold fror
D California for the relief of the South, wa
L raised in small contributions, not one perso
giving over $3.50
y There is great rivalry between the Oman
: and Kansas Pacific Railroad Companie
who are laying track at an astonishing rat,
= and the contractor for the Omaha line d,
. clares that he will lay five miles in one da
!. before the summer is over.
I A young lady in Kentucky, now "a, hs
/ for the past twelve years slept almost col
/ stantly, awaking regularly twice in ever
It twenty four hours, to receive nourishmen
,s and then falling into deep sleep agail
g When awake she converses and takes h,
}. food readily suffers no bodily pain, seen
n to be in perfect health, and her dispositic
% to sleep defes all medical skill.
q In a row at Waterbury, Conn, on Tuesda
% a man named Carey had his skull crushe
It aud his arm broken by one of his tenan
a named Breeu. The wife of Carey, viii
D the blood of her husband was yet was
upon the ground, soaked cloth in it, an
smeared it over the head of newly boz
10 infant in the arms of Mrs. .Breen, SO tn
s, "the blood of her murdered husband migl