Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-08-29
BREv1TlEs.


Buff colored paper and envelopes are said
TO DO fashionable again with the ladies.
Gen. Schurz declines to be candidate
for Congress or any other official posi- tion.
The Harrisburg papers complain of fire.
quent larcencies aud burgaries in tha, city
$4,000, 900 of northern capital is said to
have been invested in North Carolina since
the war.
Ex-Governor Curtin and family have been
staying at Bedford Springs.
Montreal (Mnada) cattle are dying in |
considerable numbers from an unknown |
cause.
The Harrisburg State Guard thinks the !
outdoor experiences of the war are the cause
of the great increase iu the number of camp.
meetings.
Sumac is becoming a valuable article in
trade.
Indiana has about five thousand divorces
per annum.
The Erie Railroad has contracted for :he
enormous quantity of eight thousand tons
of steel rails.
Ninety locomotives are now in use on the
Union Pacific Railroad. and 107 others have
been ordered.
The Celestial ambassadors fall in love
with our ladies 10y the wholesale. They
think it pity, however, that the fair ones
of this country have such large feet.
The tobacco crop in the western section
of Massachusetts, this year is said tn be one
OF the largest and best ever gathered.
Pennsylvania possesses, in round numbers.
four thousand miles of railroad, to New
York's three thousand, or one mile of rail
to twelve square miles of territory.
Speaking of the failure of the olive crop
in Italy, western paper remarks that the
news is of little interest on this side of the
Atlantic as most of the olive oil used in
this county comes from western hogs.
When inoccuation for the smallpox was
recommended by Cotton Mather to the Bos
ton physicians only one, DR.. Boylston, re.
solved to try it. He began with his own
children. Many pious people were struck
with horror at the idea. and were of the
opinion that it any of his patients should
die he ought to be treated as murderer.
There are about ninety subordinate coun-
ellis of Red Men in Pennsylvania, with a
| membership of 10000
Garbaldi is said to be distinguished by
three prominent traits of character honesty,
unselishness and independence.
The Hartford Post says that an Illinois
correspondent writes to Brick Pomeroy's
paper that "the woods are full of Democrats
this year" 1t was so during the draft in
l963-"the woods" and Canada were full
of Democrats"
The Erie Railroad Company has construct
ed novel Car, sixty seven feet long. 1t is
divided into three OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
/ rooms at one end, regular couch seats at the
. nth thnr nd nd nj. Il it,,r in,
! the centre.
! A Columbia (Pa) paper makes the fol.
lowing ungallant announcement: "A talk.
ipg match is on the taps between two wo-
men of this town, though no bets have been
made as yet. The time to talk has been set
down for forty eight consecutive hours
Both will win"
Hon. John S. Carlisle, lately Democratic
member of Congress, las come out for
! Grant lie writes thus in u private letter to
General B. f. Kelly: IL can never consent
that the cause lost on the battle field, and
which its advocates staked on the result
of the war they forced upon the patriotism
Of the country, shall be gained through the
ballot. box"
The Philadelphia Post says: "All the
Democratic papers are busy trying to prove
rebellion. Nobody takes that trouble foi
Grant, because it is not necessary"
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Address, DR.. S. NJ. Lands, Philadelphia
Pain.
Two thousand emigrants arrived at New
York on Monday from Liverpool.
Alaska already returns $4,000 in gold OF
account of customs. Good for our new
"acquisition.'
LARGE BIRDs.-A full-grown black eagl
|, measuring seven and three quarter feet from
tip to tip, was captured on the farm o
Judge Eaton, in Mddesex, Vt, shor
time ago. A golden eagle, measuring six
feet two inches from tip III tip of its wings
was recently shot in Green Farms, Fairfield
county, Conn.
, DESTROYING THE ANTS. The following
, is said to be sure way Of Kidding house
and closets of these little pests:
Procure a large sponge, wash it well and
! press it dry, which will leave the cells quite
open then sprinkle over it some white suga
and place it where the ants are troublesome
wa eObu SOIlcSt ul)oh tHC olJ'hSo ah'
take up their abode in the cells 1t is onl,
necessary to dip the sponge in scalding ho
: water, which will wash them out-dead
9 Put on more sugar and set the trap for
. new haul. This process will soon clear tht
:. house OF every ant
. We hear great deal of complaint Of thes
: miniature pests, and it was only day ol
!. two ago that we overheard severa ladie
e taking on SO about the ants eatin pies an,
J, getting into everything so terribly !" The.
= now have the remedy in their own hands
J, So says an exchange.
i The Democracy claim great gains in Ken
tucky. Is there ground for this claim Th
i party lines were fairly drawn in 1860, 1864
# 1867, and 1883 In these years the vote wa
+ divide as follows:
! Union Opposition
I 1850 1854 l43 II
8 1854 27.7s6 81 SO
a 1857 33 935 lO3, 80
IS6S 2b 279 IFS 05