Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-03-28
BREvHTIES,

Sixty thousand Cinnamon live in Califor-
MIA.
The Newark steam man is now on exhibi-
ton in New York
There are five hundred young Americans
at school in Germany.
Buffalo has husband who gets drunk
and beats his family, and is only thirteen
years of age.
The dog tax in Vermont yields that State
q tax Of $4,000.
The greatest mathematician in Europe is
said to be the Italian Prime Ministe. Gen.
Menabrea.
Philadelphia physicianesses are well paid
One returns an income, derived from her
practice of $4,000.
Rev. Morley Punshon is going to move to
America from England in order to be able
to marry his deceased wife's sister.
The second of April is to be day of
fasting III Massachusetts. 1t generally is
here too for those who move on the first.
The Pail Mall Gazette cost its owners
$l50,O0O before it began to pay expenses,
and now it has circulation of but 1000.
Schuyler Colfax's mother presides at his
house in Washington. She is said to be as
proud of her son as is Gen. Grants father of
his.
Brick Pomeroy says he despises Andrew
johnson, and always did Surely there
must be some good in Andrew yet, else why
should B. p. do thus2
A four thousand pound lump of zinc was
discovered few feet below the surface by
an Arkansas company engaged in sinking
a shaft for mining purposes.
! A gentleman who recently bought large
tractOf land in Overton county, Tenn, is
now on his way thither with over one hun
dred settlers from Pennsylvania and Illinois.
Thirty saw mills that have run proftably
for thirty years on the Androscoggin, (Me., }
have ceased. on account of the failure in the
lnm5er supply.
A steer on exhibition at Lancaster, Pa, is
six feet high, twelve feet long, and is said
to weigh four thousand pounds
Cactuses fifty feet high, that grow up like
q cigar, and bear delicious fruit, have been
discovered in Arizona Territory.
10000 hogsheads is the estimated tobac-
CO crop this year, says the Louisville Demo
crat
A Richmond paper thinks that the grape
and wine production is soon to become q
leading Virginia interest
A st. Louisan has invented new flying
machine which he is going to test himself
by tying it on and then jumping from bal
loon two thousand feet in the dir.
One hundred Germans have settled in
South Carolina, twenty miles from Columbia
They are working 80 very quietly and ener
getically that the people in the neighborhooc
think of driving them away.
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They say that the wheat rye and barley, al
though injured, are not completely killed
off, and pretty good crop may still be look
ed for.
Justice, though tardy, is sure, and strike
men even in the third and fourth genera
; tions. The family of the great originator O
reduced to penury. He is dead but he sui
fers in his children.
Crafts put into old limbs will bear muc
. earlier than those put into side shoots.
The Washington monument has reache
4 the height of l74 feet, ut u cost of S240
900, and is to be further elevated S74 feet.
, Edwin Booth, having long been trouble
by opportunities TO go abroad to play, seem
: at least to have succumbed. He will begi
: by playing next month in New Jersey.
Carlotta is not as crazy as she was NJ
n half. She wrote letter to ask the Pope
/ pray for the soul of the ex-Emperor, and h'
! note paper had as deep black border to
Q as any note paper could have.
Il Charles Dickens, whose greatest merit u
# doubtedly is the fact that Thackeray praise
b him, is getting bags ready in which to car
G back to England his so, 900 pounds sterlir
{" in gold, which Americans have paid f
looking at him,