Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-12-07

Coal AND Iron IN THE WEsT.-A letter
from Dakota reports that in the Laramie
Plains coal Of excellent quality has been
found in beds from seven to eleven feet
thick, and extending over a territory OF
many hundred miles. There is a connected
series of deposits as far as Salt Lake. Coal
beds have also been opened about twenty
miles south of Cheyenne, the present ter
minus of the Union Pacific Railway. This
coal basin is supposed to extend along the
base of .he Rocky Mountains into New
Mexico. Not far from Cheyenne there are
large deposits of iron ore, Of the kind
known as brown hematte.
The untold latent wealth of these coal
and iron beds will now be rapidly dcvel-
oped, since the Rocky Mountains have been
reached by the railroad.
Mr.. Frederick Hall is now in New Orleans.
We defended Maximilian before the military
court in Mexico, and comes to this country
to publish history Of that trial.
There is q negro woman in Philadelphia
who is in her one hundred and fifth year
She was captured in Africa, with her father,
| a Guinea chief, was sold in America, was
liberated in 1890 in Philadelphia, stolen into
slavery again in Virginia, and finally rescued
by some kind Quakers, who brought her to
] EuIiuUcIpulu. SuC llNcS tueIc HoN, suppoil-
ed by charity, and is hale and hearty.
GRAvEL.-W. L. Gordon furnishes the
Marietta Journal with receipt to those
afflicted with the gravel. lie says: Take
common mullen leaf, boil strong tea and
drink it when you want water, tea or coffee.
Let it be your constant drink for six or
eight weeks with cream and sugar it makes
an excellant table tea. have been cured
of the worst spells of gravel and kidney at
fec.ions and have heard of many other
cases Of cure by the use of mullen leaf
The Vermont Senate has authorized the
state librarian to procure the portraits of
all the governors Of that state, at an expense
not exceeding $50 each. Rather an econo-
mical order.
The most interesting suit in the Maine
Supreme Court for a long time is the pend
ing claim OF Eleanor Lawrence on l.. Draper
Cock for $4,000, for breach of promise of
marriage. Both are residents of Gardiner,
and the hundred witnesses in the case come
from the first families of Gardiner, Hailowcll
and Augusta.
INcoMpARABLE.-Gr Grace'e Celebrated .Salre
| is conceded by all to he the best preparation
/ for the cure of cuts, burns, wounds, scads
sprains, and cutancous diseases and erup.
tions generally. In places distant from
medical aid it will be found invaluable, and
) in the nursery it should always be at hand
5 Over three thousand pennies were found
in the collection boxes Of a Boston churc Il
last Sunday after contribution had been
taken up. This was heavy offering.
A single hemlock tree on farm in Con
necticut was sold the other day for onc-hun
dred and five dollars. 1t contained three
thousand four hundred and eighty feet OF
sound timber.
; The last valuation of the property of the
; state of Ohio is LILAC, 900, 900, nearly one
half enough to pay the national debt.
{ A valuable blue sandstone quarry has
been found near the Soldiers home, at Day
ton, Ohio.
The Norwich Bulletin says "the larges,
mandatory of print cloths in Connecticut
has been still, more or less, for the past two
a weeks, ostensibly for repairs, but really be
: cause goods that cost fourteen cents yard
f are selling at wholesale in the New York
] market for thirteen cents, and everywhere
5 We hear of !essened production and dis
l.. charge of hands.
SEE advertisement of Speers Wines another
column. They pure juice wines and the mos
reliable for sickness-superior for communion pur
, poses.
COLD AND WET are the most fruitful causes o.
disease. Nearly all the painful diseases is sub
ject to arise thercfrom. Rheumatism, neuralgia
2 pneumonia and great number Of kindred ahec
i tions result from exposing, TO these influences
/ system whose vital powers are in some particular