Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-02-02

BREVITIES


A French clergyman declares that men
who do not intend to marry have no right
to 60 into society. Neither have some who
do.
Rev. Joel Lindsey, the preacher who
whipped his child to death in Orleans coun-
ty, New York, last summer has been con-
victed of manslaughter in the second degree.
Mr.. VIM. Everett, son of the late Hon.
Edward Everett, has entered the lecture
field as an expounder of "Some Parts in the
Character of st. Paul"
The Philadelphians are mourning over
the deterioration of the Schrylkill water. 1t
is now fit for hardly anything except to
water corporation stock.
The English papers are filed with ac-
counts from all parts of the country of storms
and floods and shipwrecks and deaths from
cold and starvation.
The President has approved of the bill for
the meeting of Congress on the fourth of
March.
Gen. John NJ. Palmer is likely to be the
Radical candidate for Governor of Illinois.
A dinner was given near Paris .he other
day, of which the principal dishes were dog,
shark, horse and rat.
Mrs. Henry johnson, late Miss Harriet
Lane, is now the happy mother of boun-
cling boy who rejoices in the name of James
Buchanan johnson.
The deaths of seventeen infants, all "acci-
dentally suffocated in 3ed," were registered
in London in one week recently.
A Memphis paper says that some of the
Southern born people are sending their
daughters to the North "to be polished"
On Tuesday of last week there were sixty
| five cars snow bound near Pittsfeld, Mass,
having ON board seven hundred cattle.
Where month ago there was nothing at
point on the Union Pacific Railroad, there
is now a settlement of over five huno1ed
! persons.
Those States which sent out the largest
number of able bodied men to the field du-
ring the war, exhibit the largest increase of
| production.
A NEW sensation comes from st. Louis.
The wife of a well known criminal lawyer
named Mitchell sues her hus band for d-
vorce on the ground of al ultery. The fair
| creature who is alleged to have seduced the
unfaithful husband, is no other person than
Ella Ellwood, poetess of considerable fame
and ability and one who has written some
intensely moral lines. The case attracts
considerable attention, and public opinion
is in favor of the injured wife. AS the par
ties all move in the first circle of society the
case will call many of the leading citizens
Of st. Louis into court as witnesses.
.SoME" POSTAGE STAMps.-It will scarce.
ly be credited, at first thought, that twenty
tons of postage stamps have been used du
ring the year. Such, however, is the fact
and by artificial measurement they would
cover an area of forty-eight and hal
square miles, or, as a curious calculator says
enough to roof a large township, with al
its houses, barns, churches, gardens, forests
and farms or, if you choose to make a rib
bon of them, enough to reach nearly from
the equator to either pole, or twice the
length of the Mississippi river. so that if
everybody would be obliging enough to ust
the Government stamp on the envelope 1t
SELF the mere omission of these little extr,
bits of papers would tighten the mail bag
by more than forty thousand pounds, ant
save in paper fifteen or twenty thousan(
dollars Philadelphia Press.
Alabama has just taken State Census
and reports total population of 045, ,244
whereof 442,445 are Blacks. In 1860, sh
had 064, ,296, of whom ABS, 132 were slaves
, 1t is evident that her Black inhabitants ar
Just about as numerous as in 1860, while he
Whites are but 10000 fewer. We infer from
this that the Southern States have general,
nearly if not quite as many inhabitants nov
as in 1860, and will have more in 1870. Th
stories that the Blacks are "dying out" seen
to be utterly baseless. A good many o
them have migrated northward or beel
taken to Texas; but they will number a
least 100000 in 1870.
COLD BLooDED ASSASSINATION OF A TEN
. NEssEE STATE SENAToR.-The Nashville
r Press and Times, of the 18th inst. says w
were overwhelmed with grief last evenin.
on hearing intelligence of the brutal assas
> sination of Dr. Almon Case, Union Stat
Senator from Obion county, West Tennessee
7 who was shot dead at his residence, few
evenings since by an assassin. Our present
information is as follows Late in the eve
4 ming man rode up to his residence anC
called for him to come out Mrs. Case wen
to the door, and in answer to the mans in
: quiry, replied that he had gone to town.
The man rode off in the direction indicated
and met Senator Case on his return, witt
whom he rode back On approaching tn
house the assassin pretended to depart, bu
Immediately after wheeled and shot his un
suspecting victim dead, and made his es
cape. Senator Case was good, brave ant
faithful man, an advocate of progress and al
, enlightened public Office. He was an earl
friend of colored enfranchisement, and it i
worthy of particular note that he was il
, favor of universal amnesty, and allowing al
citizens to vote, irrespective of their politica
! antecedents of color. But his liberal view
made him no less obnoxious to Rebel male
: Violence He has fallen by the hands of on
! of the very men whom he was ready to pal
don and restore. Only few days prior I
! the beginning of the present session his sor
an excellent lad of sixteen, was shot dea,
while the family were returning from churcl
where the young man had just made pre-
fession of religion. The father was wearing
Grape for his murdered son at the time q
his own assassination.
The Westera Mirror, published at Can
bridge City, Indiana, contains the follow
ing ng:-"Died.-Davis Harris was found dca
4 near his residence on Wednesday evening
: January IS, 1867. An inquest was hel6
! which revealed no marks of violence II wa
. therefore supposed that he died a natur,
{ but sudden death. When found, he Wa
q near his horses in the act Of endearoring