Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-04-13

Saviour was when on earth which can he
identified at this day.
The readers Of Boston paper have been
puzzled for some time past to know what d
'defaticater, advertised in that paper, is.
Their anxiety has been relieved, however,
BY the information that 1t is an instrument
for skimming soup.
The tobacco now on hand ip the counties
Of Halifax, Pittsylvania, Franklin and Hen.
| rs. in Virginia. and Rockingham and Cas-
well, in North Carolina, 10 estimated to be
worth 100000. The crop of Pittsylva-
mia alone is placed at $3000,000. These
estimates are based on careful researches.
| The militia of Tennessee are being called
upon to enlist under the State military bill.
Easy service and good pay are offered.
Every public retail liquor saloon in Boston
has been closed BY the authorities, except
the bars connected with hotels.
The State treasurer of New Hampshire
receives salary Of only 5000, and is obliged
to give bonds of 100000.
| In Quebec, on st. Patrick's day the Amer.
ican flag was carried in procession by the
Irish benevolent societies.
A German girl, who died in Cincinnati
the other day, after living on charity for
year, was found to have had SO. 900 hidden
away in her room, 81 500 of which was in
gold.
The raid on the "chignons" still continues.
The London Lancet says it is certain that
many ladies carry about with them in their
chignons the seeds of ringworm, which it
calls an "intractable malada." It also says
that much of the hair used for chignons is
church yard hair" pulled from the scalps
of the dead.
writer sends to Providence paper the
following prescription for hydrophobia,
which cannot do harm. Eat the green
shoots of asparagus raw; sleep and perspira-
, tion will be induced, and the disease can
thus he cured in any stage of canine mad
ness. A man in Athens, Greece, was cured
/ by this remedy after the paroxysms had
, commenced.
The property known as the Gold Ridge
farm, in Prince William county, Virginia,
was disposed of the other day, to G. A.
Wbeeock, for $685. 900, or 800 per acre.
The Massachusetts State prison is crowd
ed with six hundred inmates, and a new
wing, to contain two hundred cells, is to he
, at once commenced.
- The Sheriff of Warren county, Pa, offers
4 a reward of FIVE hundred dollars for the ar.
= rest of Ben Hogan, noted rough of the oil
regions, charged with murder.
At the rental of pews in the First Baptist
Church IN Springfield, Mass, lately, one gen
8 9 tleman bought all the gallery seats and pro
y = poses to make them free to the public.
# The Bentonsport Qowa) Signal says that
y one druggist in that village sold over three
hundred gallons of whisky ia two months
What a sickly town
The Alexandria Gazette says: All th,
prospects are good for fine wheat crop il
Is Virginia this year; and, notwithstanding thu
&c lateness of the season, we hope, also, ther'
d d will be time enough for good corn crop.
The salt Lake correspondent of the Atch
isOn Champion states that man who hat
married Cheyenne squaw, and lived among
# the Indians for thirty years, was obliged I,
% run away from the tribe aud go to Denver
His red brethren confscated his horse cattle
furs, &C., which were worth 100000.
s. The New Orleans Picayune, while cram
le ming its mouth with strawberries, exults a
the approach of backberres, cantaloupe
:. and peaches.
y Seventy-fve new buildings, twenty o
Is them saw mills, have been built in Pensacola
Florida, since the war.
re IT appears from the report of the Attor
T. ney-General, submitted to the House of Re
,e representatives. by the President, in answer t,
Or resolution of that body, that from Apri
l5, 1865, to March 2, 1866, Gov. Bramlett
4. of Kentucky recommended for pardon 6"
~ Rebels Gov Brownlow of Tennessee, 263
ri Gov. Fletcher of Missouri, AS; Gov. Well
ID of Louisiana, 256; Gov. Bradford of Mary
land, 95; Gov. Hamilton of Texas, 525
Gov. Murphy of Arkansas, 1875; and Provi
u, sional Gov. Marvin of Florida, o.. In Mis-
~ souri,, SO Rebels were pardoned on the re
ne commendation Of the Hon. Austin A. King
lc The President ordered the pardon of IL
'h Rebels.
y, The people of Charleston are indulging i
y, y, ripe and luscious strawberries.
n San Antonio, Texas, has ceded to tn
q. United States the ground near the city use
te as burial place for the military.
g. P. T. Burnum claims,t to have been electe
ty to Congress, anil will contest his seat, I'll
or majority recorded against him is about so
r. Louis Schade counsel for Wirz, the Kee]
gu er of Andersonville prison, has published
VI letter to the American people, in which
attempts to prove Wirz's innocence.
S SaS TRAVEL IMPEpEp IN UTAH.-The trav
=" of stages from the north, east and west, sa,
the Salt Lake Vidette of the 7th instan
ni' have been much interrupted of late in cons
IT. quence of bad roads. The drivers say tht
og have never experienced such deep mud f
m many years, and it is with difficulty tn
he they can make the trip. Communicate,
ne with California has been entirely cut of, an
ng the fall of snow is measured by feeling, n
he inches.
Gu THE WHEAT CRoPs IN ILLINoIs.-Tl
Illinois State Journal says: "We learn til
the wheat iu Sangamon and the adjoinir
counties looks finely better than during Il
nd corresponding season for several years pa.
The winter and spring thus far have be,
asst favorable for winter wheat, and farmers a
expecting large crop.
ew A CORRESPONDENT of Northern journ
writing from Georgia, says many of the pc
,ed pie of that State are perfectly satisfied wi
to reconstruction on any basis that leaves
rebels the privilege Of holding their Ian
,ro and earning living. They feel that if {
aaI South had been victorious, much harsh
'"' terms would have been imposed upon I
North than those embraced in the late leg
TO lation Of Congress.
WEIGHT OF PRopUoE.-Our Lepislatu