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

A wedding party IL said 10 have Assem-.
bled In country town In Maine, few days
since, but the expected bridegroom faiisd 10
put in an appearance. The guests we're
shocked and the bride bystcrical, until a
nice young man, one Of the spectators. Of.
fered himself in place of the faithless swain,
was accepted, and married on the spot.
There are in the city of New York &c, 600
children between the ages of five and twelve,
who receive no education, aLd whose days
are passed in poverty and idleness Utterly
destitute, many without parents, and all
without the active, effective sympathies of
those who could raise them above want, how
can it be that as they grow up they should
be other than dissoute and criminala
A gentleman in Mobile sleeps on mat
tress stuffed with gold and greenbacks.-
Last week he awoke in the morning and
found the floor of his room paved with the
precious stuff. Upon counting the money,
only seventy dollars were missing. The
window was open, and pinned to the sash
was the following = "fdta Ike more f /
didan no you" The dexterous thief had
been operating with chloroform.
The Catholic Archbishop of Cincinnati,
and the Bishops of Pittsburg, Alton, Colum-
bus, Philadelphia and Mobile, sail for Europe,
June /.
A citizen of Crawford county, Pennsyl-
vania. who made safe of an old stove, had
over $500 in greenbacks burned up the other
| day by neglecting to remove them before
making fire.
! Hole-in- the-day, the celebrated Chippewa
chief, has married white domestic of a
hotel in Washington City. Mrs. Hole in-the-
day is young lady of modest and intelli-
gent appearance. Her royal husband does
not design to take her to his harem of half.
dozen or more Indian wives, but designs
living in St. Cloud, Mimi, in the style and
manner of white folks"
The following story of the drunken Ex.
Senator McDougall, of California, is said
to be vertable. He was discovered. one
evening lying in one of the street cutters OF
Washington, thoroughly inebriated. The
person finding him. inquired, after rousing
him, "Who are you ?" With drunken gravi
ty,the PROSTATE Senator replied, wv hen--I-
came here, [hicl l was-McDougall; bu
now [hicl I'm se@ard.
Montana is believed to be richest minera
country in the world. In 1866 the popula
ton was less than 10000, and the yield o
gold was $1s,O00,00O. In the same yea
Idaho produced $l7, ,0O0, ,O00 Colorado SIT,
1000, Nevada $l6,OOO,O0O, Oregon So,
100000. California, with population NOR
than ten times as great, produced $25,OOO
600.
PERUVIAN SYRUP.-Ths valuable medi
cine has been silently making its way int
public favor by the numerous remarkabl
cures it has performed Its singular efficac
is owing to the prOtOride Of Iron, which rt
$ mains unchanged in this preparation, and
l the only form in which this vital element {
healthy blood can be supplied.
f The death of the old horse Henry Cla,
r who in his time has been one of the create!
celebrities, and who was believed to be I'll
t oldest living stallion, occurred in Senec
r county, New York, April 22d. The age
: this horse is announced at AZ years and
months--certainly surprising age for
horse to attain.
- General Pillows splendid plantation
eight hundred and twenty. five acres, ne.
Columbia, Tennessee, is to be sold at auctio
on the gath of June.