Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-05-04
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bed recently.
Applications for the positions Of registers
in bankruptcy arrive in Washington at the
rate of three hundred per day.
1t is estimated that the United States will
lose $10,000,000 of internal revenue in Lou
isiana this year, by the destruction of the
cotton and sugar crops by foundations.
Gen. Butler has received many invitations
to visit the South. sl- '1+
Mr. Buchanan, whose fortune is reckoned
at 5000 900, is the richest of our surviving
exPresidents.
| Gen. John Eaten, editor of the Memphis
Post, has been nominated for Superintendent
of Public Instruction of Tennessee by the
radical State Committee.
Stephen Smith, a lumber merchant, is the
richest negro in Philadelphia. He owns rs
houses and is worth 100000.
Beekworth, the Oldest hunter in the Rocky
Mountains, and at one time Chief of the
Crow Nation, died lately while on a hunting
excursion in the North Park, Colorado.
Secretary Stanton has been confined to his
rooms for several days by severe cold.
In Cairo, Illinois, recently, two women
quarrelled about an egg, and one of them
killed the other
Great destitution is reported in North
western Iowa, and measures have been taken
| to relieve it.
Proiane swearing is now punishable with
q fine OF $50 and imprisonment in Buffalo,
| N. Y.
An organ is being constructed in Salt
| Lake City for the Mormon Tabernacle, which
will consume over 10000 feet of lumber in
its construction.
Nine thousand dollars premium is offered
for the best design for the Illinois State
House.
Modesty in a woman is like the color on
her cheek-decidedy becoming if not put
on.
In Bangor, the other night, drunken red
man was urgently pressed to tell where he
got his liquor, but emphatically and indig-
nantly replied :-"Injun much drink, but no
squawkum."
Colonel Mcclure, editor of the Chambers
burg Repository, will start in few days for
summer tour through the Rocky Noun
tains, accompanied by his wife and son.
Three hundred Montgomery Ladies CON-
mitted to the flames as many chignons.
"Wild Bill" who was lately made famous
by Harper's Monthly,is is one of General Han
cocks scouts on the war-path against the In
dians.
Rev. DR.. David d. Field, the father of
Cyrus W. Field and five other distinguished
sons, died at Stockbridge, Mass, on Mon
day, aged Sc years.
The spectators are combined to run up
the price of flour even higher than panic
rates. There are no reasons why that COM
modify should be at such prices, except that
the stock is mainly held by unprincipled
dealers.
Jessup g. Moore's extensive paper mills at
Rockland, DEL, were destroyed by fire on
Monday Afternoon. Loss estimated at $780,
GOO; insurance, $4,000.
An Omaha despatch pronounces the New
York Heratd's report that General Augur
with six thousand troops was to move from
Fort Phil. Kearney westward, and that Gen
eral Hancock's force was in distress, to be
an unmitigated hoax.
Intelligence from Fort Laramie, of the
2Sth OF April, is to the effect that .ne Indians
had surrounded Horse Shoe Station, and
that fighting was then in progress. Seventy
miles west of Laramie the savages had at
tackled supply train, destroyed the provis-
D ions anG driven off the cattle. The tele-
graph will be of no efficience without pro-
lection.
George Murray and Joseph Johnson, who
assaulted and attempted to rob q New York
schoolmaster the other day, have been sent
to Sing Sing prison, each for twenty years.
Mention is made of a man in Covington
who killed himself by lifting barrel of
flour. More likely lie died from trying to
lift the price of it.
A dutiful son, named Dugan, the other
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the funeral expenses of his mother, aud
verdict of $l0l was rendered in his favor.
MORE MAD DoGs.-Eleven children near
Howertown, Northampton county, as they
were going home from school last week,
were bitten by mad dogs.
Horace Greeley and Henry Ward Beecher
are to speak in Richmond Va.
Two men, Noah and Henry Armstrong,
were killed by lightning in Fayette county,
Pa, on Monday the 22d ult.
The dogs in Chicago have become so shy
of policemen that the latter have to dress
up in citizens clothes when they go out to
execute the law on unmuzzled CANNES.
Clearfeld county, Pa, is being flooded
with counterfeit ten dollar bills purportins
to be issued by the "Flour City Bank OF
Rochester"
woman an Davenport, Iowa, who wasn't
married by the man she wanted, sued him
recently for $1l.25, expenses for lights and
refreshments during courtship.
The Dayton (Ohio) Empire of the the 18th
ult., states that female teacher of public
school in that city, punished a little fellow
until he Misunderstanding him about fifty
one blows on the hand.
1t being stated that the United States
gain four hours and a half more of sunshine
by the purchase of Russian America, the
Boston Journal is anxious to know how
much cold is gained by it.
Two young men in Butler county, Pa,
named Samuel and Wilson Crops, blacked
their faces and undertook to frighten a
neighbor, just for fun. One of them got
dangerously shot for his sport.
Over fifty disabled soldiers have been en-
tered at Oxford College, Georgia, under the
provisions of the Legislature of the State,
which allows three hundred dollars per
year for each disabled soldier under the age
of thirty years, for educational purposes.
A wedding is expected in New York, to
which there will be twenty-five hundred
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