Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-06-20

Hhe novel experiment Of moving house
| Dy water was tried at Bridgeport, Connec
ucut, with success the other day. A large
house was launched and foated through the
ara" or1"ge anG down the river, landing
safely in East Bridgeport its destination
e., A party Of farmers in Green Lake county.
Wisconsin, nun bGring about thirty, CHOSE
sides las: week and went on u gopher hunt,
for q supper for the party. Tho hunt lasted
week, and two thousand two hundred
and twenty-one gopEers were slain.
The Chicago 7ri5une Company hSye
| begun the erection Of splendid four story
building, with front Of sevesty feet, on
| the corner of Dearborn and Madison streets.
! 1t is to be completed by December next,
will cost S475 900, and will be one of the
most complete newspaper offices in the
| country.
The Cincinnati Enquirer Gssrils Speaker
Colfax because he offered a. resolution for
the expulsion CT AleSsraer b. Long from
J Congress- when the latter during the war
declared he hoped the Union army would
be defeated. We hope the Copperhead
papers will keep publishing the fact.
The Raleigh ,Stdnaar@ says that sufficient
evidence can be obtained for the conviction
of some CT the X. X. K. in one of the coun
ties in North Carolina, in which they elec-
! tionoered for the Conservative ticket by pa'
! cling coffins before the doors of loyal white
men, whom they had oppressed during the
rebellion for their loyalty, and whom they
now attempt to keep from the ballotbox
| with threats of death.
There are in Lowell by latest accounts
| 43S,4lS spindles, Of which some 10000 are
woollen. In Fall River there were before
the burning of the White Mills, which de
! stroyed 9,240,507,900 spindles, of which
! 2,756 are woollen and $500 linen, the rest
| being cotton, SO that it leads Lowell by 40,-
600 spindles The Fall River factories pro
duce ia, ,364 900 yards Of cloth from 23,-
$4,000 of cotton, and their monthly pay roll
amounts to 5000, 900. The factories consume
annually 32,4S2 tons of coal, 1890 gallons
of oil ana 63l 800 pounds of starch.
THE BosToN CCMPETITIoN.--The throngs
! of passengers on the Boston routes tax the
capacity of the boats to the utmost. Mon
| day night the Newport brought thousand
passengers from Boston, tae Narrsgansett
was equally crowded. and the steamers of
the other lines are filed at every trip. The
competition is likely to continue for some
times none of the companies seem inclined
to yield.--N y. Poo:.
Seventy-two thousand seven hundred and
thirty-threc acres of land were entered at
the Hannibal land Office, Kansas, in the
months of January, February, March and
April.
1t is estimated that there are over sixty
thousand Germans in Texas, and that at
least three fou.ths of them are engaged in
agricultural pursuits. Careful and intelli-
gent observers believe that at least one third
of the whole cotton crop Ql Texas is now
planted and secured by their labor.
J Whom hapr iklife ia hut n
dream" tread on his corns and wake him
up. Life is real.
resolution thanking Judge Chase for
the ability with which he presided over the
Impeachment trial, received but IL votes.
The Senate "couldt see' the ability.
lady who was married on Friday,
when asked Why she Consrmmated such i'm.
polter: business on such an uniucky day,
responded that she had been married on
every other day in the week, aud had always
made such poor fist o. it that she had con
cluded to test hNngman's day, hoping the
halter wouldn't slip this time.
( A gentleman" advertising lately for
wife, says ."It would be well if the lady
were possessed OF a competency sufficient la
secure her against tho effects of excessive
grief, in case OF accident occurring to her
companion" Amiabe forethought.
O'Leary, gazing in astonishment upon
an elephant in menagerie, asked the keep
er "What kind of baste is that attn hay
with his tail 2"
Sehoolmaster- -"Bill Smith what is Il wild
ow9" Bill-"A widow is a married woman
that hain't got no husband cause he's
dead" Master-"Very well, what is a wild
over 2" Bill-"A widdiwer is q man what
runs after widders." Master-"Weil Bill