Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-02-16
BREvITIEs


General Grant doubts the report that he
and Mrs. Grant are going to Europe.
Dead crinoline Is being shipped from
England to the South American Mission
aries,
The young Mormon girls are said to be
very ready to elope with young Gentiies.
In one of the wards of New York there
is grog shop to every fifty seven-persons.
Empress Eugenie is afraid of corpulency,
and has taken to diet of vinegar and slate
pencils.
The Federal dead at Lagrange, Tennessee,
are being removed to Memphis by contract.
In England there are five people to one
porker. In the United States it is the re-
verse. .f..
Beecher, in a recent sermon, stopped to
talk about "through tickets for salvation"
Some Of the French newspapers speak of
the American Minister in Paris as "General
Dixie"
A woman in Michigan asked for di-
vorce from her husband because he refused
to wear mustache.
The New York and Massachusetts Legis-
!atures have before them bill allowing hus-
band and wife to testify against each other.
Mrs. Major Williams, formerly the beauti-
full Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, presented her
| liege with an heir on the anniversary day of
their marriage. "
! One of the curiosites of the Universal
Exhibition will be a gallery devoted to the
history of labor, classed in ten sections, and
arranged in chronological order.
A weeping father who testified in Louis.
vile Court recently, against his son, for
forgery, confessed that he had previously
paid between $1,000 and $1,000 Of his for
geries.
The crown Of the Queen Of the Belgiars is
causing sensation 1t is composed of forty
magnificent diamonds of immense size, and
five thousand small brilliants.
Samples of the new fvecent piece have
been received at the Treasury Department.
The coinage has already been commenced at
the Mint, to which application for them
must be made.
Rear Admiral Smith says it would be
cheaper for Government to double or treble
the pensions of aged and decrepid sailors
sailors and soldiers, and let them live at
home, than to maintain institutions for their
care.
A Washington journal says maliciously
that some of the ladies seem to go TO the
skating parks to save fuel. They take their
sewing and sit comfortably at the stove
from the time the place opens until it closes.
Several Continental papers give curious
statistics of assassination. The proportion
of murders is: England, in 67s, 600 souls ;
Holland, | in 163,000 Prussia, in 100, 900;
Austria, l in 77,O00. France is left out of
the calculation.
Boston is announced as returning to
primitive customs, an innovation having
been made upon the rules of fashionable life
by issuing invitations to a stylish party, in
which it is announced that the entertain
ment begins at three and ends at eight in
the evening. The good sense of this pro-
ceeding cannot be too highly praised.
The following is the conclusion of an
epitaph on tombstone in East Tennessee
"Sbe lived life Of virtue, and died of the
cholera morbus, caused by eating green fruit
in the full hope of blessed immortality, at
the early age of twenty. four years, seven
months and sixteen days. Reader, so thou
and do likewise"
The Californians are in muddle. They
have cut down big tree for exhibition at
the Paris Fair, but no ship is large enough
to carry it across the ocean.
The great sacrifice of the Crosby Opera
House, by the lucky winner, Lee, gives just
grounds for doubtirg the honesty of tie lot.
} terry.
George Peabody's possessions are estima.
ted as high as $50,000,000.
A number of citizens of Trenton, N. J..
have been swindled out of two or three hun.
Gred thousand dollars by fictitious oil
company.
The subject of newspapers establishing
/ fol arNh lin nj fhnIr 10 ntl lualu lie
{ cussed at the east, and company is now in
. progress of formation.
, Philadelphians had remarkably good luck
in securing the prizes of the Chicago Opera
House scheme-not less than seventeen OF
! the pictures going to residents in that city
Julius Winkelmeyer, worth half million
dollars, died in st. Louis recently. He left
, all his wealth to his wife, with the exception
of one dollar to each of his six children
, They will care for mother now."
; Isaac Kittinger, of Racine, Wisconsin
, procured a jug of whisky from which ht
freely imbibed and laid down near burn.
/, ing log to sober up. Both his legs were
, burned off before he realized the fact A
/ good temperance sermon for Others but {
, fearful one to him.
: A French photographer has introduced
magic cigar holder, upon which photograph
r appears after the cigar has been smoked fol
s a time.
: A Nashville negro has sued Mr.. Wake
: for false imprisonment, laying damages a
!, $25, 900, because Walker had him arrested
!, = on suspicion of robbery, which, it now ap
y pears, was committed by another.
The wheat crop in the Valley of Virgins
Il is said to be looking remarkably fine.
e The House on Saturdy passed the Nebras
# ka bill over the Presidents veto, and havin,
l. previously passed the Senate it is now law
Natchez sends a saddle to Paris made o
:. Mississippi leopard and native rattlesnak
e skins.
!. A hurricane visited Pine Bluffs, Arkansas
> and that vicinity on Friday last, causing
n great destruction of property and loss of life
;. The people had to take refuge in the opel
:, fields.
;. The largest man in Congress is Mr.. Bald
n win, of Massachusetts,.
e Mr. Bigelow has received from Louis Ma
d poleon complete set of his works, with tn
] thar