Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-01-04
BREVl'EsES.


The business men of Scranton, Luzerne
county, propose forming Board of Trade.
The court house at Bloomsburg, Pa, is
to be enlarged by an addition to the rear
oft
Deers and bears arc unusually plentiful in
the neighborhood of Huntingdon this year
OF the latter many complaints are made.
The Pope is said to be failing rapidly
under the reaction from his late intense cX-
element
Three thousand Romans are in prison for
having given aid, comfort or sympathy to
Garibaldi.
Rev. DR.. De Witt, of Harrisburg, died in
that city on the 23d ult., in the 10th year OF
his age.
There are one hundred and forty.three
newspapers in Iowa, one hundred and eleven
of which are Republican.
Wagon bodies are made of hardened
rubber composition in Connecticut
A new definition of "foot notes"-dauc-
ing tunes.
A revolutionary Characteristic man in
the moon.
The happy plan.er-A man burying his
mother-inla
The citizens of Washington, d. c., are
contributing literally for the relief of their
poor.
General Grant has ordered fifty cords OF
refuse lumber to be distributed for fuel to
the poor of Washington.
The South Carolina Convention will as
semble at Charleston ON the 14th of Janua.
ry, by order of Gen. Candy.
San Francisco is suffering from severe
storm. Stage and railroad communication
has been temporarily suspended.
1t is proposed that the Legislature of our
State pass law dispensing with the presen,
fee systems, and give fixed salaries to all
county officers.
We understand there are six children lying
dead in homes on the Flats, all victims OF
membraneous Group and diphtheria.-.Seron-
ton Republican.
The black tongue disease is prevailing
among the horses at the Trappe, in Mont
gomery county, Pa, and also near Reading.
The disease, if not attended to Immediately
in short time proves fatal.
The Rev. John II. Grier has married no
less than five hundred and thirty nine couples
since he became resident of Jersey Shore,
Lycoming county, Pa.
In addition to the wall from Berks county,
VIC have one from Centre relative to the
scarcity of water. People outside of Belle
fonte are carrying it three or four miles.
Others resort to melting the snow.
The cane crop of eastern Florida ia said
to be excellent, and the syrup sells at from
fifty to seventy cents gallon.
Two coaches on the English plan are to
hn v,lo Iar M 10
Railway next month. They will contain
six, eight, and ter passengers, and be furn-
ished like parlor.
stick, near Amherst, Wis, the other day.
The bird was in the act of attacking a flock
of geese.
Wolves have appeared in large numbers
near Leayenworth, Kansas, and the inhabi
tants are frightened.
The general government continues the
work of reducing the force of mechanics
employed at the various navy yards.
Ten thousand bushels of apples have been
raised in Calumet county, Wis, this season
Hon. Samuel Oaks, an old and well, known
citizen of Montour county, and at one time
a member of the Legislature, died at his
Friday last.
The report is, that in the great wheat
growing counties of Central Illinois, a large
breadth of land, more than that of last year,
has been sown.
The old Greek silver and lead mines OF
which the historian Xenophon once had the
management, and regarding which he has
left memoir or State paper, have lately
been brought again to notice, from the fact
that French company at Port Mandri are
diligently smelling down the old scori@,
Stag and refuse from them, and extracting
as much as thirty tons of metal a day. The
work is said to pay well, and the lead goes
to England in Newcastle ships which bring
out coal for the furnaces. The value of the
daily produce of the works averages $4,000
francs, and it is calculated that there is q
sufficient quantity of scorie between Port
Colonna and Port Mandri to supply the
works for fifteen years to come. The yield
10 between seven and twelve per cent. OF
good metal.