Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-10-12
BREVITIES.

BkkENhI1ES.
Official reports show that lees than half as
many negroes as Southern whites have been
relieved by the Frcedmen's Bureau.
Three inches of snow fell ut Nelson, N. H.,
on Sunday.
The foreign vote in New York city is So
900 the native, $4,000.
One of the new members of the Vermont
Legislature weighs $50 pounds.
Every town is required by the prohibitory
liquor law of Maine to keep liquor agency.
The yellow fever at New Orleans is won
derfully fatal among children from four to
ten years of age.
The bridge at Columbia, Pa, burned to
prevent the Confederates from crossing in
1868, is being rebuilt.
A decision has been rendered in Chicago .
against the claim of the widow of Stephen .
A. Douglas to her dover.
Kirby Smith is teaching high school in
Tennessee, under the auspices OF the South /
ern Episcopal Theological University.
A Providence paper has colo-ed CORES.
pondcnt in Paris. A great many of the Paris
letters are very highly "colored."
James A. Cutting, the inventor of the
Ambrotype picture, died come days since in
an insane asylum near Boston. He had been
an inmate of the institution for some time
past.
| A chap in Piqua, Ohio, was married last
week, his father giving invitations to large
company to attend the bridal feast. They
had scant allowance of beer and cheap
cake, and the old gentleman charged his
! guests fifty cents each for the supper
! The sportsmen of wayne county have rails.
ed fund toward stocking the ponds of that
county with black bass.
Ap organized band of horse thieves in
/ Butler county arc committing extensive de.
/ predations.
A runaway team at Erie, on Saturday,
sprang through the open door of II fashion
able dry-goods store, and went through it,
stripping it from end to end Of seats Gus
toners, and goods
A youth in New York recently committed
suicide because he had a headache.
Among the actors in the circus at Massa
burn, Iowa, on Monday, a lady found II son
from whom she had not heard u word for
some eighteen years.
General Schofeld has ordered that at the
election in Virginia the ballots of the white
and coioreG voters shall be taken separately.
The aggregate capital invested in the
oyster business at Fair Haven is not less
than 81 900, 900, employing directly fifteen
hundred people. The local dealers are in
tcrested to the amount of Sl60, 900, the ship.
owners $4,000, the keg.makers $500, 700,
the can makers $4,000. There are about
one million kegs and five hundred thousand
. cans manufactured yearly, and twenty six
vessels make six voyages between Virginia
and Connecticut and bring about five hun
drcd thousand bushels to plant, which
t when opened will produce two million six
hundred and forty thousand quarts of meats
, The Wisconsin State Fair closed at Mad
son recently. The receipts were about 81 /,
600 about the same amount rs last year.
/. General Grant, since going into the Wal
Department. has received number of let
:. tiers, some of them anonymous, and other.
from unknown persons, urging him to grca
care for his personal safety. The writers re
present generally that his life is of the utmost
importance to the nation. Some advise hin
, to refrain from going about the city unst
tended. Others knowing his penchant fo
fast horses beg him to handle them with every
! possible precaution. One advises him tC
keep away from theatres, and another urges
caution in the admission of persons who
wish private interviews.
0 Brutality IN KESTUCKY.-The accounts
: continue to be received from Kentucky o
I the brutal treatment of freedmen and lOya
n whites there are of utter horror and shame
t Nearly five hundred victims to Rebel hat
: and blood thirstness have been reported
5 within. one year, the names, dates, and de
c tails, on file in the offices of the Freedmen
# Bureau, giving proof that these charges ar
a not vague accusations. Men have beef
l. beaten, shot, drowned, and disembowled
a women have been scourged, outraged, anC
s murdered, and band of "Regulators,
h countenanced by local authority, and defy
l. ing that of the State, threaten the life o
t every negro or Radical whom they ma,
choose for victim.
JEFFERSON DAVIS IN CASADA.-The lates
!, report concerning this noted person state
IS that he is about taking up his residence IL
@ Toronto. He has for some months been
r. resident of Montreal, and the idea has be
II come current that he was living like retire'
d monarch, courted by the Canadians, ant
d worshipped by those who followed his for
e tunes, and 'left their country for their coun
"a trys good" The truth is, that Davis ha
il for some months occupied an inferior hous
in Montreal, and his presence in that city j
a matter of total indifference to the majorit
= of those who live there. That he is not SUI
;, rounded by any numerous cortege may b
y readily seen, when We state that scarcely
!. day passes over his head that he Is not see
at the St.Lawrence Hotel, where his presenc
creates no more excitement than that of an
= = other person who drops in to hear the new
= and see what is going on. His departur
from Montreal will cause no regret, and hi
presence in Toronto will create o nine day
talk, when he will be dropped. Aaron Bur
.y lived many years after tho public had almos
q forgotten that such man ever had an exi:
10 tence, and Jefferson Davis will no dout
pllov in his footstsps ,EsS,s Jcussdl, ~.