Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-07-27
BREVlUlES.

Southerns are again appearing at Saratoga
this year.
A man in Rutland, VT, was cured of
deafness by stroke of lightning.
There were four hundred and eighty
eight divorces in Connecticut las. year..
Pennsylvania furnishes seventy three and
three-fourths per cent, of all the coal pro-
duced in the United States. e
General John G. Lee has accepted the
nomination of the Union party of Ohio, as
Lieutenant Governor. The State ticket is
now complete, and the campaign will soon
be opened.
A pnrty of Yale students are arranging a
pedestrian trip to the White Mountains,
starting from Northampton, Mass, and a
large number will pass the summer vacation
in a trip to Europe.
| Joseph Barba, an Italian, was 30 severely
scolded by Rosa Epstein, in New York, that
he sent bullet directly through her tongue
and cheek, which literally made her hold
her jaw. He was arrested.
The Philadelphia Press says that the
preliminary sketch of the proposed picture
of the battle of Gettysburg will soon be
ready for the examination of the Legisla-
tive Committee. The painting is to be of
| an unusually large size.
Official statistics say there are 10000
paupers in the State of Georgia.
The beggars in New York are noticed as
wearing large number of fnger-rings.
Single county of Ohio yields 100000 BUSH
els of wheat, valued at 81, 900 900.
The convicts in the Illinois Penitentiary
are earning for the State ten cents day
each, over the cost of food, clothing and
guards.
The New York Journal of Commerce says
the fact that peach growers have commenced
croaking as pretty sure sign of full
crop"
Mr.. John L. Goddard, Grand Master of
the Masonic Order in Pennsylvania, died at
his residence in West Philadelphia, on
Wednesday the 18th inst. after O brief
illness.
A hopeful youth at Boston, named Will
liam Wallace, stole bis IN others feather bed,
worth $40, and sold it for 81, to take his
girl riding, the other day.
Santa Anna's gold epaulet!es, worth S1,-
900, were stolen on board the Virginia.
Women helped to work the engines at q
recent fire in Ithaca, N. Y.
An old man in Portland broke his thigh,
few days since, while pulling off his
boots.
A chap named z. F. Abel is under arrest
in Harrisburg for forging check for $3.50.
A life of Christ has been written by a
convict in the State Prison at Charleston,
and illustrated by another.
The money value of the crops this year,
as estimated by writer in the New York
Times, will be $400, GOO, 900 greater than last
year, so large has been the increase.
1t is stated that over one hundred million
feet of logs are doomed on the Mississippi
above the Falls of st. Anthony, to be sawed
into lumber. . ... ....... ... f....
Horace Greeley was nominated, on the
Goth inst, Minister to Austria, but Mr. Upton
of Nebraska, objecting, because he went
bail for JEFF. Davis his case goes over until
Congress Ieassembles in November.
A new vehicle, styled the exclusive, '
has been introduced in Paris by an Ameri.
can lady, and is now the fashion in tina,
city. Itjust gives room for the lady and
her skirts.
At meeting of the House Judiciary
Committee, held after the adjournment on
Saturday, it was decided that the testimony
taken should not be published at present
but might remain under the seal of Congress
: until it reassembles.
Outrages still continue to be the order o.
{ the day in Texas. Union men are in mo
mentary peril of their lives, and Judge
!. Latimer, prominent citizen, has beer
compelled to resign his commission al
e Bureau Agent, on account of threats agains
, his life.
John Smith and Mary Ann Mickenfoos
who killed John Couira, near Rineholdi
o station, Lancaster county, Pa, recently, hav,
f been arrested and sommited to prison Il
: answer Il charge of homicide. LIZ
: A kinsman of George Washington, who
. was impoverished by the rebellion, has for
: warded to Thomas X. Wallace, ot the Trea
sury Department, in the city of Washington
: for SALE portrait of Washington. 1t Dur
9 ports to have been painted by Gilbert Stuart
!, = and is said to be an admirable likeness, anC
: the price fixed upon it is four Thousand dol
lars. There has also come to light from
the same source a certain sword mentioned
by Washington in his will this relic is a
!, present in the hands of Francis p. Blair, O
= Washington.
!. John Clarke, of Baltimore, has left $3.50.
900 to st. Johns Methodist Church, in tha
!. city.
n Major Rathbone, of the United State
!, Army, and Miss Clara Harris, daughter o
: Hon. Ira Harris, were married in Alban,
). on the 18th inst. Chief Justice Chase wa
# present. Both bride and groom were will
President Lincoln's party IN the private bo,
q at Ford's theatre on that fatal tight o
e April, now so tragically historic. Tn
: bride is the daughter of Judge Harris b,
It his first wife, and Major Rathbone is th
h SON Of Mrs. Harris by her first husband.
An English .ayern-keeper recently illu
trated puncuality in this wise. Speaking
of one of his customers, he said /: "He is th
most regular man in Harwick he come
e and gets drunk every Saturday, and ha
70 done so for ten years, except when hi
q mother died, and at that time he came OF
Z Sunday. 1t is q grand thing to be pune
tual. .., G1pstl ...... ..f. .51s
!. t1f 'sThe perfumed light H1
~ Steals through the mist Of alabaster lamps,
10 And every air is heavy with the breath
OF orange flowers that bloom
10 J. the midst Of roses"
q Such was the nowery land filled with healing air
and life-prsservng products, whore DR.. Drake dil
covered the chief Ingredients Of his wonderful Toni
Msdicine-PLAHrArIok BIrTsRs-ths enchante