Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-18
BREvITIEs.


Victor Emanuel is the most beggarly po-
tentste in the world.
Cold weather is creating immense distress
in portions of Iowa.
Large numbers of farmers from Vermont
are settling in Illinois.
The tobaconists of Richmond aro in
panic.
Horace Greedy lectures oftener without,
than for pay.
The new Gait House, ut Louisville, Ky,
will cost 81 zoe, 900, aud will he finished by
July next
The new steel rails for the Hudson River
Railway are said to cost one hundred and
sixty dollars Il ton in gold
Samuel Nicolson, inventor of the wooden
pavement, died in Boston recently.
1haddeus Stevens is so weak as to REQUIRE
two stout men to carry him up the steps of
the Capitol, to his seat in the House.
Democrats in Congress still hugely enjoy
themselves in arguing in favor of the mark.
ed inferiority OF the negro"
Gen. Pope called on the President on Sat.
urday, and poked fun at him for having re-
lcvcd him of command, remarking he was
| thankful to the President for what he had
Done 10 MIN.
! A man 10 Chilicothe, Ohio, heard com
motion in his hen.house the other night,
and calling out who's there Z" received no
! answer, aud fired into the darkness. The
next morning dead negro was found with
chicken under his arm.
An applicant for foreign mission from
! New jersey mentioned the 1900 conserya
! tive majurity in that State as q recommen.
dation. Yes" said the President, but
think VIC ought not TO reduce that majority
10y sending you away"
The ancestry Of the Indian Col. Parker, i:
a tonic of newspaper discussion. His fatni
/ ~ owes its origin to u French officer, sta.
toned at Fort Du Qucsne, (Pittsburgh) and
II Senaca squaw. They had daughtel
which was brought up i'll n Scnaca wigwam
and became the mother oi the present Col
/ Parker. lie is not related by blood to the
celebrated Red Jacket, though he belongs
, to the same clan and was once elected 4
chief of it. The stores Of his social relation.
are pronounced calunnious; he has nevcl
been married to a squaw, nor has his tribt
ever sought to marry him to one.
y FLurTER AMONG THE EpIsCopALiANs.
Bishop Whitingtam et Mtrylani on .1muso
ments William Robinson Whiitiughum
Bishop Of the Diocese of Maryland atlec
tiouutcly calls The attention Of 1hc clergy
men ard laity of the Protestant EpiScopa
Church of Maryland" &c the following ca
non, declaring his Judgment that it bind
I'll. consccnces Of members OF that church
Canon XVII. Attendance upon Theatri
cal Exhibitions, Horse Races, and other val,
and light amusemCnts. being considered in
cousistunt With the Christian character, it i
hereby declared to be The duty OF member
of this church carefully to abstain from en-
cournging them by their presence.
WILLIAM RoLLINsoN WuT1lNGuAM.
Bishop of Maryland
The promulgation of the above canon, ii
sli the daily papers OF Baltimore has create,
considerable sensation among the play gOcr
and ball roam attendants ot Baltimore.
= That Iron is Valuable ~ Mc.li,iIc ha
long been known, but it is only since th
preparation Of it in tie particular form q
Peruvian Surup was discovered that its tul
power U,cr disease has been brought t
light Its effect in Gases Of d. spcpsiI an
debility is most salutary.
worth fore than PtmiumS-T test
mony of thousand of business men all owe
the world to the excellence OF FAIRBANKS
STANDARD SCALES, from actual use !c
many wears, is more valuable than any pr,
mums. In aQition to this, they have r,
ceiycd mnic premiums than all other scales
inciuling the highest ut the Paris Expos
tian