Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-12-05
BsfEylThES.

The first sewing silk factory in America
was erected at Mansfield, Conn, in 1910.
The bodies oftwo thousand seven bundrcd
aud ciFhty.nine Union soldiers lie buried
near New Albany, Indiana.
Forty thousand young men came of tgo
in Pennsylvania this year. AS a result tho
tailors are all busy making freedom suits.
Several of the bakers in Troy have reduced
the price of bread from ten to eight cents
per loaf, in consequence of the decline in the
price of flour.
A man in Coventry, VT recently presented
q bill of thirty.sx dollars against school
district for water that the scholars had drank
from his we'll.
One million sacks of wheat ere stored ia
tho warehouses o! San francisco.
Chicago viii sell this year about one thou
sand millions oF feet Of lumber.
Lemons are now sold in Boston by retail
at less than one half the price asked for
apples.
Counterfeit 81 bills upon .hc St. Nicholas
Bank of New York are being circulated ir
that city.
Two hundred persons from Pennsylvania
are to settle in Caroline county, Nd, during
the present year.
Query by Quiggins Does it follow, since
Tue n0hu OF tue hOthSCDllu family Is QeGu
that the family has dead head 7
Chicago hurIahitaraus get up public balls
for the benefit Of the destitute families of
murdered watchmen and police.
+ New York he's twelve clergymcn who are
each paid over $4,000 year, and hun
, dred others who don't get $1,000 each
. The lumber business of Burlington, Vt. ia
I getting to be immense, four firms employing
8 nearly coo hands. 1t takes nearly $3000,000
capital annually to transact the business in
4 that line.
y Doctor of Literature is now degree re-
:, Gently established by the University Of Lon-
S don.
i a young New York broker paid 5000 the
other day for standard of flowers for his
a lady love, an uptown belle.
/ The WashJurps of Illinois and Wisconsin,
!, ere both over fifty, have gray hair, aud live
Il together in Washington.
d Toe much whiskey led a western chap TO
y steal a watch. Remorsc, next day, caused
), him to hunt all over town for the owner,
o that he might return it.
:, Louis Napoleon is buying war material
right and left. The granaries, warehouses
q and arsenals of the empire are filled to over
d flowing still the work goes on.
4 In Georgetown, Ky, on Monday last, hogs
i were sold at from $6 rs to 81; fat cows S4-
p IS per hundred milch cows $33 to $87 ;
p oxen 500 to $l20; two year old mules 800 to
. $ll7 two-year old stoors $34 horses SEQ to
q STA.
Minnesota, official is : Grant, 1874 Sey-
mour, Is, ,204 for impartial suffrage, &c, ,322,
| against impartial suffrage, 29,906. In the
First District the vote for Congress is
Wilson, Democrat, 1850 Donnelly, I11,-
207 Andrews, $3.50.
: The Supreme Court of PENNSYLVANIA, in
session at Pittsburg, having disposed of the
business of the September session, has just
. adjourned, to meet in Philadelahis on tho
first Monday in January.
, The slaughter of wild ducks on the sus-
, quehanna and rivers IN Maryland commenced
about two weeks ago. The first Gay that TIE
law allowed cunning over 1000 ducks we're
= killed on the Susquehsuna alone.
q Turned JNvENToR.-Ole Buil, the great
a viOlinist, after charming foryears the musical
/, world by his skilliul performances, has
. turned inventor. lie has invented an im.
! pIoyemeat il sounding boards for pianos, by
, whici: the sound can be prolonged. This
has been long sought desideratum.
, The Home Jjuraai appoints the following
young ladies' bellies Of their respective cities:
Miss Tudor, OF Boston; Miss Emily Schom-
berg, of Philadelphia; Miss Daniels, of Bal
I timore Miss Hnnore, of Chicago Miss Kate
3 Park, of Brooklyn; Miss Butler, of Wash
I ton Miss Burnett, of Cincinnati Miss Josie
r Fenton, of Albany.
DR.. Weed, who is pastor OF a Methodist
, church in Brooklyn has taken upon himself
to say that Christian cannot dance DR..
Weed, unlike most of the weed family, must
> have taken long time to grow, as his ideas
! date from The time Of Oliver Cromwell.
t Il lady in Bangor Maine, hung her hoop
? skirt on nail in her chamber, and member
of her household, while exploring the prem
ises, wac 80 unfortunate as to get his head
caught therein, and being unable to extricate
! himself, soon expired. The name of the
victim was Thomas Cat.
wag, stroling with friend through
; country churchyard, called attention to
grave, the stone of which had no name or
inscription on it. This" said H, sis the
, grave of the notorious gambler, Mr. R..
, YOU observe there ia no name recorded on
the tombstone, but I think | could suggest
an appropriate epitaph." "What would
you suggest J" inquired hi. friend. Wait
irg for the last trump" was the reply.
The man Who minds lIis business was in
, this town few days ago, but left immedis-
} tely, he felt so lonesome
If man is without enemies we wouldn't
give tea cents for all hi. friends Ths man
who can please everybody hasn't got sense
enough to disp!ense anybedy.
A southern exchange says An did de.
formed negro woman was passing along the
, street, when a fashionable miss, troubled
considerably with tho "Grecisn bend,n
: turned around and looked after the poor old
= negro woman, and was rather disposed to
make fun of her dsformity. The old negro
woman stopped and looked at her minute
or two. and very truthfully remarked :"Lor.
miss, you needn't be pokin' fun at me, ksse
de Lor a. mighty knows you's bisge. Curl
) osity to look at dan is" The young lady
"huDped" herself
r LITTLE TnINds- SPRING. are little things,
but they are sourceS of large streams q
helm 10 little thing, but it governs the
coure of q ship; a bit is a little thing,
but see its use and powers; nails and pegs
are little things but they hold the parts Of 3
large building together; sword, q smile, q
frown are all little things, but powerful for
good or evil. Think of this, and mind the
little things. Pay that little debt; if it il q