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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14
RECIPES, Ac.

GOOD RECEIPT FOR DoUGHSUrs.-~Tw
pounds of sugar, ;hree quarters OF poun
OF butter, three pounds of -four and oi
pint of warm milk and cup of vet yea
Make up the dough six or eight days befc
baking and knead every day. i presul
the weather should be cold. Cook them
lard like other doughnuts.
SAusAaE.-A neighbor thinks my form
receipt for sausage called for too much ss4
| Here is her method.
To every twelve pounds OF sausage M
three tablespoons Of salt, three do. OF pc
per- half teaspoon red pepper and six
blespoons Of sage When the sausage is
seasoned as above, che generally throws
two or three more tablespoons of sage.
MUsH.-We like mush very much TO
change, and instead of frying it for bre'
fast We put piece Of butter in small dl
ping pan with some cold boiled mush .
merely heat il thoroughly, mash;ng it
up together. 1t does not brown any
does not fry, and We prefer it TO frying,
is it not better for the health 7
MINCE PIEs.-Take = pound Of beef,
from skin and strings, and chop 1t '
kne; then two pounds Of suet, which ]
wise pick and chop then add three pou
os curran.s nicely cleaned and perfectly :
one pound and q half otspples, the peel
Juice of lemon, half pint of sweet "
half nutmeg, and few cloves and m
, with pimsnto IN 6po powder; have cil
orange, and lemon peel ready, sad Put =
in each NJ he pics y Neu made.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14
NEW SERIES, VOL. 4, NO. 9.
POLITICAL.
BETTER THAN GOLD.

Better than grandeur, better thnn gold,
Than rank and titles thousand fold,
Ia healthy body, mind nj ease,
And simple pleasures that always please;
A heart that cnn feel for anothcr's woe
And share his joys with genial glow,
With sympathies large enough to eniold,
All men us brothers, is better than gold.
Better than gold is conscience clear,
Though toiling for bread in an humble sphere;
Doubly blest with content and health,
Untried by the lust of cares OF wealth;
Lowly living and lofty thought
Adorn md onnOble n poor mans cot,
For mind and morals in natures plan
Are the genuine test Of II gentloman.
Better than gold is the swcc; rcpose
OF the sons of toll when their labors close;
Better than gold is the poor mans sleep,
And the balm that drops on his siumbers deep
Bring sleeping draughts to the dUwny bed
Where luxury pillows his aching head,
His simple opiate labor deems
A shorter road TO the land Of dreams.
Better than gold is thinking mind,
That in the realm of books can find
A treasure surprising Australian ore,
And like with the great and good of yore,
The sage's lord md the poets lay,
The glorics Of empire passed away,
The world 8 great drama will thus cnfold
And yield pleasure better than gold.
Better than gold is peaceful home,
Where all the freSide charities come,
The shrine Of love, the heaven of life,
Ballowed by mother, or sister, or wife,
However humble the home may be,
Or tried with sorrow by heavens decree,
The blessings that never were bought or sold
And centre there, are better than gold.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14
& story About "Eaise eauir."

Among the really interesting curiosities
of the Paris Exhibition, every traveller tells
US, are the picturesqucly attred girls who
are to be seen in front oi the tar eastern and
northern departments and remarkably those
who represent the national Scandinavian
peasantry. In front of the Swedish restaur-
ant, q real child of the North, arrayed in
silver braided skirts, and covered with fila
gree ornaments, had attracted a good deal
of admiration. A thick plait of fair hair is
wound round her muslin tuIban. Some
doys ago. two loungers in the Swedish De-
partment of the Exhibition building were
discussing vivaciously the merits OF blonde
Swedish girls One gentleman maintained
that the solid pait which fastened her coi:-
! fure was of her own hair, while his COM
panion pronounced it to be false. They
made a bet about it, and finally the girl was
called, and one of the disputants addressed
her. lis that all your own hair e asked he.
| why, whose should 1t be" answered the
| fair Swede, naivcly. ut might have been
bought such things are often DONE SAID
her questoner. "In our country we often
,ell our hair" was the reply, but We never
buy it-why do you ask me such ques-
tinn r. "Brcause my friend, here, declares
that it is false" After such an assertion
there was nothing left for her hut to undo
her plat, which fell in magnificent protusion
to her feet. She did not appear at all sur
prised at the proceedings until the winner
of the bet gave her the twenty francs he bad
won. Then she was fairly aStouished. That
Was a happy day for her, and she counted
on the recurrence of the incident, and built
an niry castle with the money her hair was
going to bring her during the Exhibition
She would buy a fishing boat and nets will
the money she had made, and then what
crowd of devoted admirers she would have
round her when she returned TO her Swe
dish home! But human curiosity has IT.
bounds, and she had no further invitation
to loosen her massive plaits.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14

WINTER IN THE HoUsE.-There are many
beautiful botanical experiments which can
be conducted in the parlor during winter
which are not embraced generally in the list
of flowers and vines to be found in our par
lors and windows.
How many of the fair readers of the Teie.
graph have the beautiful vine Of the Sleeet
potato running over their mantelshelf? This
pretty sight can be enjoyed by placing
sweet potato in tumber or other glass
vessel, filed with water, passing a pin
through the tuber so as to keep the lower
end from one to two inches from the bottom
Of the vessel. Keep on tue mantelshelf, i'll
Il warm room, md every day give it sun for
an hour or two, and in few days rootlings
will begin to appear aiming for the bottom
Of the vessel, and in two or three weeks the
eye will begin to shoot and rapidly grow
and run upon suspended twiue or any little
trellis- work prepared for it. The di0ScOre,I
6atatus is the prettiest for this purpose, when
it can be obtained.
The Morning Glory" can be propagated
in parlor windows, where there is some sun,
to perfection during winter; it flowers with
its natural cOlors, and the delicate little
vine can be made to run over the windows
\ hanging vase is the prettiest for this.
! Suspend AL acorn by cHtton thread so
rs nearly to touch the water in glass ves.
sci, "a hyacinth glass is perhaps the best,l
set upon the window or mantel, and let it
remain there for eight or ten weeks, more
or less, without being interfered with, ex.
I cept to supply the evaporation of the water,
and the acorn will burst, and as it throws 9
root down into the water, a sprout or stem
will be sent upward, throwing out beautiful
little green leaves; thus giving you an oai
tree, in full life and health within your par
lor
Again, tie piece of lace over tumbler
letting 1t down about halfway; put in som
sweet peas. fill with water so as just to cove
the peas in little while roots will appea
and seek the bottom Of the tumbler, the
the vine appears and can be trained on
twine or support and it will soon begin
show its pretty flowers.
There are many Of the MOSES which ca
be very successfully grown in the hous
through the winter, and with the foregoin
an interesting and refined enjoyment for til
feminines of family and real pleasure
all who have a taste for the beautiful to wi
uess. We trust to see a greater ipcliuatio
on tho part of the ladies 10 introduce int
their houses this most agreeable addition
their domestic pleasures. GsrmdntoWn Tel
OrdDh
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14
SOnin;IInDUii~lic.-- h-ndy
went 40 hsed in "a Strange place
What sHnppencd EerefroIn.
IFrom tho Quincy tIlID Wing


Somnambulists are guilty of great num-
her of curious freaks. We heard last even.
ing an instance that occurred not hundred
miles from Quincy. a lady and gent
figure as the principals. The lady and gen
tleman in question have been, up to the hour
of the occurrence. for Il long lime hetrothed,
and were only waiting fora favorable oppor
,uuiiy to come around when the twain would
ue made one flesh or thcreahOuts.
The lady is IL somnamhulst "of the highest
order" About month ago the lady and
her lover had spent the evening together
and had separated ut an early hour, the gen
tleman repairing to his room, some two
blocks off, and was soon sound asleep, dream
, ing of the fair being who would soon he his.
She, in her still chamber, by her midnight
lamp, pored over the precious pages of the
latest new novel investing, doubtless, the
hero lover with the form and features Of him
who was all In all to her.
But ere the "balmy messenger" has come
to her pillow, imagination again wanders on
the scenes so lately presented, the various
actors start from their hidings anew, while
her ideal heroine becomes identified with
! herself, and she arises. A drawer close by
contains those hidden and delicate mysteries
carefully prepared for use during the honey
J moon, aud re-robing herself, shc starts out
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14
AGRICULTURAL. &C.
How 10 Isuy Poultry.

send the following, which have obsery.
ed for some years in purchasing poultry,
and which may be OF use to some of your
readers who mag not DC familiar with the
age of poultry.
Few housekeepers, and fewer cooks, are
as good judges of the age of poultry as they
ought to be. We all know when poultry
comes upon the table, whether it is tender
or tough; and there should be no difficulty
of Knowing just as certainly, whether
chicken, duck, goose or turkey is old or
young, when it is offered for sale. Now,
the following is offered as rule by which
poultry can be safely judged, which, if read
over few times, and then laid away for
ready reference when needed, no person need
purchase old, tough poultry unless from
choice.
If hens spur is hard, and the scales on
the legs rough, she is old, whether you sec
her head or not but the head will corro-
I borate your observation. If the under bill
Is so stiff that you cannot bend it down, and
the comb thick and rough, leave her, no
matter how fat and plump, for some ono
less particular. A young hen has only the
rudiments of spurs the scales on the legs
are smoth, glossy and fresh -colored, what.
ever the color may be; the claws tender
aud short, the nails sharp, the under bill
BUN, anu Tue COmU lnln and 5mOtn.
An old hen turkey has rough scales on
the legs, callosities on the soles of the feet,
and long strong claws young one on the
reverse OF all these marks. When the fcath-
ers are on and the old turkey cock has a long
tuit or beard, II young one but sprouting
one and when they are of, the slnoth scales
on the legs decide the point, besides the
difference in size of the wattes of the neck
and in the elastic shoot upon the nose.
An old goose, when alive, is known by
the rough legs, the strength Of the wings
particularly at the pinions, the thickness
and strength of the BILL and the fnencss of
the feathers; and when pucked, by the
legs, the tenderness of the skin under the
wings, by the pinions ane the bill and the
coarseness of the skin.
Ducks are distinguished By the same
means, but there is this difference--that a
Gucklipgs bill is much longer in proportion
to the breadth of its head than the old
duck A young pigeon is discovered by
its pale colurs, smoth scales, tender, collaps.
ed feet. and the yellow loug down inter
spersed among its feathers. A pigeon that
can fly has always red colored legs and no
down, and is then too old for nse.-- Ger
maatown Telegraph.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14
SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER IA, 1867
The rogush twinkle in the old mans eyes

The roguish twinkle in the old mans ewes
broadened into smile.
you've got the right metal in you after
all, " he cried "Come in, lad-comc in.
shouldn't wonder if we made trade after
ALL"
Nothing 10th Luke oheyed.
"Moliy !" Jawled Mr.. Bifkins, thrusting
his head into the Kitchen door.
Molly tripped out into the entry. The
round, white arms were barred above the
elbows. and bore traces OF the flour she had
been sitting Her dress was Il neat giughani,
over which was tied blue checked apron
but she looked as winning and lovely as.shc
always did wherever she WIS found.
She blushed and smiled rs she saw Luke,
and then. turning her eyessupon her father,
waited, dutiiully, to hear what he had to
say.
The old man regarded his daughter for a
moment with quizzed look.
"Molly, this young man -mayhap you've
seen him before has brought me lot of
tubs and barrels. all of his own make--a
right good article, too. He asks pretty
steep price for 'em; but if you are willing
to give it. well aud good, and hark ye, my
girl, whatever bargain you make your old
father will ratiIy."
As Mr.. BIikins said this, he considerably
stepped out of the room and we will follow
his example. But the kind of bargain the
young people made can readily be conjec-
tured hy the speedy wedding that followed.
Luke Jordan turned his attention to the
study of medicine. of which profession he
became II useful and influential member, but
every year, on the anniversary of his mar.
iiuge, he delights his ialherin law by some
specimen of the hant;icrait 10y which he won
what he declares to be "the best and dearest
" lie in the world"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14

Il MONIN TALE-wARRANTED PURELY vEGI-
TABLE. AND NONE GENUINE OSLEss SIGNED
BY THE PROPRIETOR.
by Petroleum V. Nasty, L. NJ, (wich is
Po,tmlster)
CHAP l.

by Petroleum V. Nasty, i. NJ, (wich is
Po,tmaster)
CHAP. |.
1t WIZ in Moo York city, that gay metro
polls, the sect NV luxury and rein, meut and
the home NV John Morriscy and the Black
Crook.
Thither he'd cone, after o how many
days NV trcsume waIkln eZ the rear guard
Nv drove Nv the cattle Nv thousand hills
Nv western PcnnSylvany. | wuz in Moo
York, and on Broadway wuz site! The
:umblin, jumblin, mass Nv wagons and stage S
and coaches. the sidewalks filled with II
hurryin mass, the rich, the poor, the high,
the low, the proud, the humble, the ugcd,
the youthful
gazed into the windcr Nv a drug store
Fatal gaze! Unlortnit look That look he'd
an irilouence onto my tuchcr life.
Wat did seel
A card.
Thus it red "Barrett's Hair Restorative'
with Il pictGr Nv Il man with thin, gray lOX
ature usIn it, and the same man with heavy
hair ~ black ez POc's stately raven Nv the
days Nv yorc, after yoosin it.
OnIy this and n0thin more.
1t wuz enuH. My hair wuz gray. ! bought
a bottle and applied it ez 10y directions on
the wrapper.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14
CuAP. III.

Husband, mine!' sed she to me in her
winninest tome, thy locks is black, While
mine, alas is gray. Buy for me also Bar
rtlt's potent cure, that | may lie ez iust yoo
kunwd me in loves young drenm!"
Good | resist the entreuty Nary.
bought bottle. and 10 in Il month she wuz
transformed. Her rusty gray hair become
ez black ez jet. y new set Nv custom made
teeth, wich cost me fifty dollars, completed
the metdmorphose, and she wuz young nsin
her yuoth costin me fifty one dollars, cash
Disastrous investment -Four weeks from
that date, she run oti with yankee pedlar
who spused she wuz but twenty.innr!
KIN sue Barrett and Git Judgment fn
her valNon Alas. no! And - piod 0r
wearily and alone, Il mizable obUick.
Good marry agin eZ young man, bu; thu
fond heart kin never thump for anuther.
False Looizer Jane Too etiicaShus Bar
rett
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14

GwINE TO LOSE NIGGER.-There was
an immersion to take place on the banks of
Il certain river. Several colorcd converts
had already been baptized, when the Off
ciating minister led another into the water.
Moving cautiously into the stream for a
suitable depth, it happened, unfortunately,
that the location of the stepping off place
was miscalculated, and all at once minister
and convert were floundering in the water
fifteen or twenty feet deep. The preacher
succeeded in clambering back on the ledge
of rocks without much trouble, but the dar
key, frightened out of his wits, struck wild
" across the stream. Arriving at the oppo
site shore, he crawled, heavy and weary
upon log that projected into the water
and shaking himself like wet dog, anc
looking back with intense disgust, he ex
claimed "Some white mans gwine TO lose
nigger by dis foolishness yet !"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14

BADLY MIXED TELEGRAMs.-A merchant
who was absent from home, received tele'
gram iniorming him of his wile's safe deliv-
cry of little girl; at the same time letter
from his partner advised him that drat,
had been presented for $4,000, and the sig
nature seemed rather doubtful. The mer
chant replied to both letters, but misdirccted
them. The astonishment OF the wife may
lie imagined when she read 81 kIow moth
ing about it; it's swindle." The partner
received a hearty congratulation upon hi
safe deliyerance.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14

A school mistress, while taking down the
names and ages of her pupils, and OF their
parents, at the beginning of the term, asked
one little fellow. whats your fathers
namc7" "Oh, you needn't take down his
name, he's too old to 60 to school to wo.
man." was the innocent reply.
A California story tells of man who re-
solved to quit drinking, and went to notary
to get him TO draw up su affidavit to that
effect. The document was drawn, read aud
approved; the party held up his hand and
murmured the usual "s'elp me-" 1t WAS
properly sealed and delivered. Whats to
paw z" asked the pledgcr. "To pay-to pay Z"
exclaimed the party; nothing, of cource--
this is a labor of love" Nothing to pay n
returned the grateful but very forgetful
affiant. you're brick. Let's take a
drink !"
A Lawyer, neither young nor handsome,
when examining young lady witness IN
court, desired to perplex her, said: Miss
upon my word, you are very pretty" Ih'
Young lady replied: II would return tn,
compliment, sir, were not under oath"
Dan Rice, the Snowman, is n great admire
| of Weston. the pedestrian, and offers to wa
| ger $50, 900, 500 to go to Weston II b
wins, aud the balance to be donated 10y tn
winner to any suitable public charity, tha
he (Weston) can walk one hundred miles Il
twenty. three consecutive hours.
BOSS, want twenty-five cents" said
jour. printer to his employer. Twenty NV
cents how soon do you want II, Jake
"Ncxt Tuesday" "As soon as that 20
can't get it. have told you SO often tha
when you were in want of so large sum
money you must give at least four week
notice I"
i Why is lawyer like "lszy man in u
morning ~ Because he hee first on one sid
and then turns ovsv and liss on The other,
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14

George" asked a minister of one of his
parishioners' little boys, "where is your
sister Minnie r.
"Gone to Heaven, sir"
"What is she dead2"
"Oh, no, sir; she went to buy box OF
matches"
"Wby, you said she'd gone to Heaven"
"Well, you said last Sunday that matches
were made in Heaven, 90 ,houghtsbo vent
there"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14

Home ogin home agin from furrin
shore lwuz on the threshold Nv my home
std, wich WIZ home to me, humble
though it wu2. LOuizer Jane. the vile NV
my huzzum, wuz at the gate gossipin with
her nubor ez wuz her wont.
''Luoizrr Jane :" Shreckt |.
"S-i !" sed Sic in IL surprised tone.
"Ila," hist |, "is this the treatment fond
husband receives on his return to the bug
zum ny his family :"
Husband yoo is't possible Where is
them gray luX Hast grown young agin ez
when in manhood's pnmc thou woodat and
won mef 1t cannot he,-aud yit,-that
breath. 1t is it is :" and she swoondid nj
my feet. The children | he'd none trouble
with, but they finally acknowledged me
The nose wuz the tcecher they took hold Nv
that wuz unchanged
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14
Relation of the Sexes.

1t may be laid down rs general rule that
amusements which separate the sexes are
dangerous. would not press the truth too
narrowly and literally; but undoubtedly it
is a general truth that where women seek
their amusemcnts in one way by themselves,
and men seek theirs in another way by
themselves, there is in both ways a tendency
to degeneration and temptation. God meant
that man and woman should live together,
work together, and in all the functions Of
lile-civii, social, religious, artistic and in
tellectual-cn-opcrate with each other; and
their mutual relations are harmonizing and
balancing, and nowhere else more than in
the seeking and prosecution OF amusemcnts
l believe that boys and girls should go to
school together. AS they sit together in
the household, so think they should sit
together in our temples of learning. Col
leges should not be for all men or for all wo-
men. but the same buildings and the same
professors should be provided for both in
common. And as 1t is in everything else,
SO it should be in amusements. There is
much greater liability to temptation and
immortality where amusement IS sought i'll
the isolation and separation of the sexes.
Therefore, all exhibitions Of pictures and
statues. all provisions for public recreation,
all institutions for public amusement, should
be such as to enable the people to go in
groups and families.
do not think amuscmcuts can be good
generally in community in which man is
ashamed to take his whole family to them
If there is anything you would not like your
wife and children to participate in with you,
the presumption is that it is wrong; and il
there is anything you would like them to
participate in with you, the presumption is
that it is right. And this might be made a
rule of judgment far moro widely than j,
now isl H. w. Beecher.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14
JOB Rim T I N O..

We have connected with our establishment well
,olocted JOB OFFICE, which will enable Us TO
execute, In The neates, style, every variety Of
Printing
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE EEND.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-02-09
u. $. Internal Revenue.
ASSISTANT Ii%,SESSGR"S OkTYCE,
TwENTY-S -SECoHD DIVISION
3rd District Of South Carnlina.

TwE%Tr- -SECo%D DIVISION,
3r,l District Of South Caralina,
PIcKnNs DIsTRIcT, S. c.. Jamnry g. 1867.
III ANlNG received orders tn complete my
i Il lists by the 18th of February next of the
Income Taxes fn,-thc years 1864 and 1860 in.
cluding the tax on Buggics. Carriages, Enld
Watches. Gold and Silver Plate Sc ; also, the
Licenses ana Special Tax p,. Professions, Man.
nfactnrcs, Stallions and Jacks, Di$ti!lcrs. Nlcr.
chants, &c. &c. Also. the quantity of Distilled
Spirits made between the LIST day Of May 1868.
and the present time; the number of slnugh.
tered animals. &c. The ctizcns of nv Divis
ion are, therefore, notified to meet me promptly
ut the following named times and places to
max their returns. And wonl most respect
fully advise every one who may possibly be ln
ble to any Internal Revenue tax to meet with
ont fail, as failure will subject parties to pen
nlies which would lie painful to me to see on
Cnrccd-all of which failures | am bound to re-
port. however painful:
At Wm. S. Williams -Salubrity-on
Wednesday,, Thursday, Friday aud Saturday
the 10th, lIth 18th and 10Th days of january
instant.
AT r. Elliott Ilnlcnmhe's, on Tuesday. Wedncs.
day Thursday and Friday, the I'D 23rd, 24h
and 25th of January, instant
AT Punpkinto&Vs nH Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday. the 2ath, 29th and 3Oth January
at John Mckinncy's on Tuesday, Wrlncs-
day, Thursday aud Friday, the 6th, 9Th 7lh
and Sth days Of February next.
The balance Of the time to the 18th of Febru-
ory, at my Office at home.
III a. HOkE Asst. Assessor,
22d Div, 3rd District of s. G.
Jan. Q. 1867 l6 If