Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-03-23
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Therc VIII be biue tulip OF the Paris
Exposition .-,vr-l - --e.,.- ,.--vy-
The jewish population Of 81. Louis /, ten
thousand. |
Geo. Peabody says that after his return
from London lie shall take up his residence |
in Salem, Mass. 81
L. w. Jerome, of New York, has lost
within short period about 100000 by
the decline of Pacific Mail stock
Michigan has followed the example of
Ohio in refusing to enfranchise the negroes.
There is an alarming exodus Of able bo.
died negroes from Kentucky.
In Mound city, ILL.,, on the Ohio river,
serious suffering exists in consequence of
the inundation of the town by the high wa
ter.
An association to encourage immigration
to California has been formed in San Fran.
cisco.
Brigham Young sent 800, recently, to
James Pine, ESQ.,, of Pore Byron, New York,
| to pay a board bill contracted thirty years
ago.
The wages of the female operatives at
the Merrimack Mills, in Lowell, Mass, have
been reduced, and some of the girls are on
strike.
Statistics prove that but one Pennsylva-
nian in Thousand arrives ut the age of 60
years.
A daughter of St. Louis chimney sweep
is shortly to be married, and the father has
issued no less than eight hundred cards of
| invitation. ..-. ". ... ..
An epidemic has broken out among the
hogs at Lykens, Pa, and the Register says
large numbers of them are dying, the disease
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One man in Gardiner, Maine, has made
$40 900 from ice cut from the Aroostock
river.
The Prince of Wales is said to be writing
a book about what he saw in his tour in the
United States.
Peach trees are in full bloom, and the
trees are putting on their summer dresses in
the Gulf States.
A rural town in Maine has had ball, the
proceeds of which are to buy hearse.
A man was knocked into the creek, and
his head held under water while his pockets
were being robbed of $3.50, near Petroleum
Centre, last Saturday night.
In the death returns of New York, last
week, the hanging of Wagner, the wife nur-
derer, comes under the head of Deaths from
accident or negligence"
One of the young men who drank corro-
sive sublimate, thinking it whisky, at Co
pake, N. Y, has died, and the other will
probably recover.
Miss Carmichael, the poetess of Salt Lake,
having become the one wife of one husband,
and left Mormondom, is about to publish a
book on the Mormons and her life among
them.
Green leaves begin to appear on the ma
! pie trees in Richmond.
One Cincinnatian has sued another for
selling him mocking bird that won't sing.
A butcher in Wheeling, during the past
thirty-three years, mas made 625 miles OF
sausages. .
A simple looking freedman recently pre-.
sented hmsef at the bureau" in Southern
State, and expressed desire to be married.
"Al right, fetch your sweetheart along" was
the reply. II hain't got none, mars'r," was
the reply "dey tole me it was your bus s'ness
to ind me one."
A Canadian practical joker has been an
noying Kingston people by painting the
Fenian coat Of arms on their fences.
, The entire valuation of the taxable pro.
) perty of Kentucky last year was$392, 355, 952
an increase over the previous year OF $780,
, S02,7l7.
. An English medical journal says that legal
steps have been taken in England to arrest
the practice of certain of those quacks who
, having been struck off the rolls of the col
eges, still add to their names the initials
indicating the possession Of their titles.
5 A sleeping car on the Niagare Falls road
, ran off the track on Wednesday morning
near Rochester, and landed in ditch. Aside
2 frnp hnip,, yae pl N N rat hpr suIIanly a N n
somewhat frightened, the passengers were
+ uninjured.
1t is rumored that John G. Whittier, the
poet, is to he married in his old age, to {
widow of Philadelphia, with whom he ha:
been in love for Thirty years.
General Gleeson, who is now military
, director of the Fenian Brotherhood, ha:
given contract for two thousand uniforms
to large clothing firm in New York.
, The unanimous opinion of the Londor
clubs is that the recall of Mr.. Motley from
Vienna is disreputable to Mr.. Seward
disgraccful to the President, and misfor
tune to the American people"
e A mot of Prince Napoleon is being repeat
5 ed in the soliOns: 1.-THE Emperor has twice
! deceived France-frst in lS4s, in making
her believe that he was fool; next, in 1865
III uiohiuS hei uSiicNS uc W 10 Sculuo.
Two physicians have been appointed by
the authorities of Columbus, Ohio, to atten6
to the smallpox cases, which are becoming
numerous in that city.
PRIMITIVE IRON WoRKs--Mr Samuel
Baker, describing the natives living real
the banks of the Nile, Africa, says they
i. make excellent iron weapons although thu
4 blacksmiths have nothing but stones for al
anvil and hammer. The natives, however
e are absolute savages. The men have nc
/ clothing, but the women wear what he call!
: "a shirt of mail" an apron nine inches long
and six inches broad He obtained one O
/ the "shirts," which had belonged to tht
wife, of chief and he found that it haf
: been made of rings of iron, neatly joined to
gether The work had been done by {
r blacksmith, who had used cleft stick for
pair of tongs, and a stone for an anvil, ant
another stone for hammer.
A man, who was charged with ten gallon!
of whisky, whicha grocer put in an eight gal
lon keg, said he"didnt mind the money over
I CHARGED so much as he did the strain on the