Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-06-13
BREvIlIf:S.

Scranton is to have an alarm bell weigh
ing three thousand pounds.
Lager is sold in Chicago at from one cent
to three cents glass.
Ex. Governor Bigler and son are erecting
q large steam saw-miil in Clearfield.
+. J. Franciscus, of Lewistown, has q
straw berry stalk with four hundred berries
upon it.
The Reading railroad company is to re-.
ceive 81 ,424 40 for carrying the mail daily
during the year ending June 30, 1869, be
tween Columbia and Sinking Springs, with
branch to Lancaster.
All the crops in all the countries of Eu-
rope are promising.
Pennsylvania manufactures more stoves
than any State in or out of the Union.
The grasshopper is destroying crops of
all kinds in Utah.
Beefsteaks are canned in Texas, where
cattle are cheap, and sold in New Orleans,
where meat is dear.
Mormon missionaries are at work in
Georgia.
Philadelphians call bar-tcndcrs decantists
to distinguish them from decanters.
Plug hats have been decided not to be the
proper thing for the saints in Utah to wear.
Marriage is said to be means of grace
inasmush as it breaks down pride and leads
to repentance.
A woman in Buffalo, recently, had ear.
| ring Knocked violently out of her ear 10y
! lightning.
The Pittsburg MAJ is paying attention to
quack doctors. 1t would be blessing to
the community if all the newspapers would,
expose their fraud.
Cornfelds are plowed up to plant cotton
in certain parts of the South, the farmers
being infatuated on the subject of high
prices for the article.
| Reports concerning the crops of Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ala
bama, are very encouraging. The wheat
crop of North Carolina and Arkansas never
was more promising.
The heaviest incomes in Schuykil county
are those of George w. Johns, St. Clair,
$427lS; c. Tower Pottsville, $lT,5S2
Benz. Haywood, si2, 2,loi; James sslly yman,
Pottsville, S6,9S4
SAD. Matrimony and measles are pre-
vailing to an alarming extent at present in
Harrisburg.
! AN EDDIFYING SIGHT.-To' see the mig.
ger hating Democrats supporting the ne
gro-loying Chase for the Presidency
A Young women tried to drown herself
at Harrisburg, on Monday evening" because
her lover was proving false to her.
Santa Anna, who has possessed so much
wealth in his day, is now beggar and
dying. His life has been an eventful one.
Morrow B. Lowry announces that he will
not be a candidate for the u. S. Senate.
Some Others who have been spoken of
should make similar announcement.
Col. FL. Slifer has been elected President
| Of the Union National Bank, at Lewisburg,
and DR.. Harrison, President of the Lewis.
burg, National Bank, at the same place.
MoCool and Coburn are undergoing a
forty days imprisonment in Jail in the State
of Indiana, for their attempt to engage in u
prize fight. The Democrats speak of run
ming Coburn for Congress.
The two sons of Stepeen A. Douglass,
both of whom are residents of North Caro-.
lima, with the family of their mother are
4 earnest members of the Republican party,
the oldest being private secretary of Hon.
w. w. Holden, Governor of that State.
Arunaway couple were recently discover
ed in Cincinnati by "a pursuing father, O
we'll known trunk upon hack betrayinR
them. The old gentlemen quietly put the
young man out of the carriage, got in him.
self and drove back with his daughter
In Indianola, Texas, the streets are crowd
ed with wagons, aud the amount of goods
and merchandise daily arriving and car
ried TO the interior of Texas and Mexico, ID
said TO be wonderful.
General Mcclellan was, on Saturday, re-
ljected in the Senate of the United States, as
Minister to England.
| A Grassland was arrested in Savannah,
by order, of the Mayor, q few nights since,
for breach of the peace in serenading the
Republican newspapsr. % a+
The Republican journals in California
that bolted, during the late State campaign
have all placed the names of Grant and Col
l fax at the head of their columns