Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-11-23

Large droves Of sheep are passing through
Missouri from Pennsylvania, on their way to
Kansas
live pickerel was found in digging a
well, ffty.fve feet below the surface. in
Coldwater, Mich.
printer in Texas has dubbed his infant
son BREWER Fuliace Jones. That boy will
learn from long primer and be minion of
knowledge.
Mr.. Amos Muzzy, of Gardiner, Me-. has
enjoyed the unusual distinction of dodginp
meteorite, which fell within few feet Of
MIN. He says it looked like large ball of
hre, sounded like rocket in fight, and left
on on the ground kind of jelly something
like starch.
The Nashville Dispatch saws "The Mavor
of this city lately received a call from Mr.
N' H. Decker. Mr.. Decker's height is ONLY
! thifty,one inches, his weight forty five
pounds, and he is nineteen years of age. lie
Is as smart as he is little, and good looking
.S gentleman of most pleasing address
ana courtly manners"
The blood is perfectly colorless fluid,
peppeteu with little red disks. 1t is hard
microscope. s" '"'
Americans in Europe arc more numerous
Tn I.an ever oefore-"g greatly to the disgust of
| The disgust is mutual. "''o''
Milwaukee has new hotel with ,bc ,enrt-
ing name OF the Cream City House, We
should like to know in what wav tbot
name occurred to the proprietors.
a man recently broke off marriape no.
cause the lady did not possess good conver.
sational powers. A wicked editor on com.
menting on the fact, says "He should have
married her, and then refused to give her 81
new bonnet, to have developed her powers
of talk"
George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, is said
to have offered James Gordon Bennett mil.
lion and half dollars for the Herald. Ben.
nett is considering the offer.
An eel, weighing fourteen pounds and
four feet nine inches in length, is exhibiting
in New Bedford, Mass. He is a rouser, and
must have outgrown his strength.
A damsel in Boston recently borrowed
five hundred dollars, and gave herself as
"collateral." The note has one wear to run
Miss Dickinson lecturcd on Idiots and
Women" before the Middlesex Mechanics
Association, recently, in Lowell, Mass
The Williams Manufacturing Company, of
Derham, Conn, makes 100000 worth of
Japanned tin ware III year.
The statistics of the corset trade in Bos
ton seem to show that one woman out of
every three over the age of sixteen, uses
these straight jackets,
Plthole City, Pa, once containing four
teen thousand inhabitants, polled ninety.
two votes at the late election.
new secret society has been established
in Michigan, called "The Order of the Sa.
cred Temple" Its object is said to be the
moral and intellectual improvement of Wo-
men. Only females arc admitted.
Messrs. J. Q. and G. r. Deise left WAYNE
station, few mornings since, for q deer
hunt, at seven and half o'clock. By ten
o'clock they had killed thir,y-one rattle
snakes and spike buck, and got back by
twelve o'clock. The letter giving US this
information, (says the Lock Haven Uenocrat,)
says they didn't kill half the snakes, but got
sick and couldn't stand it any longer. Snakes
are unusually numerous this year.
Jacob r. Goodman VS.. The PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad Company, was tried in Lancaster.
last week. MIR. S. sued for damages for the
loss o. his wife, who was killed while cross.
ing the railroad in a carriage. The iurv re-
turned verdict for $3.50. At a former
trial $1,000 was awarded, but the Company
obtained new trial, and got a worse YER
dict for doing So.
Illinois bids fair to be great rival of
Pennsylvania in supplying the country with
coal. Nearly the whole State is underlaid
with inexhaustible beds of bituminous coal,
scarcely surpassed anywhere in quality and
thickness ; and as source of wealth, it is
rapidly becoming a leading interest. East
ern capitalists have already organized some
of the very largest companies for working
the mines, from which it is anticipated the
entire West and Northwest will be shortly
supplied with the black diamonds.
B. Ii. Paine, who some years ago wrote a
little book to prove that the negro is not
possessed of soul, is now in jail IN Nash
vile, charged with murder.
The three Austrian archdukes who before
1866 held honorary posts as chiefs of Prus-
sian regiments, and who resigned them at
the outbreak Of the war, have resumed them.
ExK King George of Hanover has at last &C.
cepted the terms offered BY the King of
Prussia. He gets sixteen million dollars
down, the famous summer palace of Hozzen-
hausen, and, probably, the two million nine
hundred thousand dollars in English three
per cents.
The Washington Stor says the auth critics
at the Arsenal in that city have erected head
boards over the trench in which the bodies
of the assassination conspirators are buried,
bearing the name Of the persons buried. 1t
is understood that this is done in compliance
with the orders of the War Department
A man in Wisconsin has written to the
Treasury Department to claim the nineteen
thousand dollars lately received there as
supposed conscience money He says he was
too i'll to write before The Secretary will
scarcely see it in that light, We fancy.
A Texas editor, on being asked how he
get along with his paper, said he had writ
ten one editorial and shot three men in the
previous twelve months.
The Kentucky railroad is nearly compile
ted to the Tennessee state line. 1t passes
through immense Goa! beds.
OF one hundred and twelve men drawn for
the jury in county in Louisiana, but TWEEN
! ty-five are white men.
Recently quite a number of burglsries
were committed in Harrisburg. Six dwell
ing houses were broken open during one
night. and attempts made 10 enter two more