Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-07-06

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The following curious advertisement.ap- |
pears in newspaper. in Paris: "Agenoy |
general for international marriages. Happi- |
ness guaranteed for a year."
The last sensation is contained in the |
Oswego Palladium, which says that a SER
pent forty feet long has been discovered in
Lake Ontario. A party of excursionists
sailing an the Lake, the other evening, are
reported to have been scared nearly out of
their wits.
North Carolina journal makes the start
ling disclosure that Freedmen have been
induced to enter aboard ships, ostensibly as
emigrants to Liberia, to be taken and sold
into bondage in Cuba. We do not credit
the statement although the recent announce
ment that the slave trade had been reopened
in Cuda, and that several cargoes of negroes
had been landed on its shores, seems in a
measure to confirm the truth of the report.
Late advices are more favorable to the
cause of the heroic Cretan insurrectionists.
Suffering repeated defeat, with great lose,
the Turks, exasperated into demons, with
fire destroyed villages left unprotected and
unfortunately msssacred defenseless peo-
pie. BY this atrocity the savage Turks have
invited Intervention from Christian Powers.
The New Orleans Republican propounds
the following: ....f..' Al
Why is General Sheridan hard laboring
man2 r..... f.....-
Because he follows the trade of ,boring
Wells, and when in Virginia was at his work
Early in the morning.
1t has just been discovered that the 20.
inch guns will bear much more powder than
was supposed. The New York Times SAYS
one was recently fred four times at Fort
Hamilton, and the charges used were respec-
lively 1875, $50, 175 and 200 pounds of
powder. ..e ....7 7,.. ..e
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
the States which form the great Radical
belt OF our country--have all emerged from
the crisis of war with diminished debts
The majority of the States have increased
their liabilities from thousands to millions
since 1860 ' 'a'ra 4f'
Large, numbers of reapers and mowers
| from different Northern manufactures are
arriving at Nashville bound for different
parts of the country. The Southern people
are beginning to learn the advantages to be
gained by the judicious use of machinery
and the various labor-saving machines.
The United States steamer JVsnooski
reached Hampton Roads, Va. on the oath
inst, with forty odd cases of yellow fever
on board, the epidemic having made its ap-
pearance after the ship left Matanzas, Cuba.
The latest dispatches from Wilmington.
N. O., are to the effect that the heavy rains
have not stopped the railroads, but have, on
the other hand, utterly destroyed the crops
In many portions of the State.
The papers in Kansas express much alarm
Tor the crops in that State ON that account
of the army of grasshoppers.
A DISTRESSING CoUGH.-Causes the
friends of the sufferer almost as much pain
as the sufferer himself and should receive
immediate attention. DR.. WIsTAR's BAL
som OF WILD CHERRY speedily cures cough
colds, influenza, sore throat, &c. 1t will
always relieve consumption, and in many
well attesteG cases it has effected O perfect
cure. ,t.-. .g - r-
The King of Belgium purchased at the
horticultural exhibition of Paris, twenty
magnificent orange trees, which cost each
at Laeken, and are intended to adorn Tie
royal park. - !s. v't
According to Swiss journal, a means has
been discovered of making use of cock
chafers. Between four and five millions of
| tuOSc llocCtS WcIC TcCeutiy ScuJ 10 10 Fiji
burg for the "manufacture of gas" and the
residue forms an excellent carriage grease
A fearful accident recently occurred at the
Washington coalpit near Newcastle-on
Tyne, England. Nine coliers were being
drawn up the shaft, and, inconsequence Of
some omission in working the engine the
cage was not stopped at the proper place
The result was that when the iron carriage
reached the 'chocks" the rope broke, and
the poor fellows were precipitated down the
shaft and were killed.
The papers say that the story about the
new French gun which shoots people with
out powder or smoke, is true, The weapon
is really sling, improved up to the nine
teenth century standard. Bullets are placed
in a circular groove of disc of steel, which
driven by wheel of much greater diameter
revolves at a prodigious pace, and harris ou,
the bullets at the rate of about three hun
dred per minute. They strike as hard as
rifle balls .-. ....