Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-12-05
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Swans sell in Virginia markets at $3.50
piece.
Mr.. and Mrs. Colfax ars to give great
ball this winter.
Bryant and the New York Erening Post
have dissolved.
The patent Office IS said to be in de-
moralized condition.
West Point contains two huhdrad and
twenty. fonr cadets now.
Peach trees in Florida are AZ pinktwith
their luxuriant blossoms.
Saint Young, OF Salt Lake City, is one
seventy. fifth widower.
Somebody OILS George Francis Train the
Great American Ass.
2,213 cadets have graduated at West Point
since its foundation.
Cincinnati has the small pox bad. One
hospital is nursing 10 cases
The Emperor Of China is fourteen years
old and the Empress eleven.
white velvet robe was the principal part
of Norwich bridal custume.
jenkins has whispered that Mrs, Grant
carries the keys Of the General trunAe.
Gl2,GoO is not too much for au indian
Rajab to pay for a young and lovely wife.
Tho Camden and Amboy monopoly in New
Jersey expires this year, unless it is renewed.
| Henry A. Wise is writing his own biogra.
| PLY. IKE poor fellow is Wise in his own
conceit.
4 swell New York Church proposes to
have full brass and string band instead of
en- organ.
Louisville is supposed TO contain 3,0C0
mechanics and iaborers whe are idle from no
! desire of ther own.
Two men tried to shoot each other at the
| dinner table of hotel in Mobile, the other
day, but did not succeed
Beer and snuff can certainly not make 3
very palatublc mixed drink, and yet that is
what some London ruffians drugCtU their
victim with recently.
A New Hampshire widow, who watts to
sell her farm, refused to do So to Democrat
because she did not want any more of tina!
party in the town.
The aggregate monthly pay rolls of the
manufacturers at Merideu, Conn, amount to
&25O,00O.
The Lake mills at Geneva, Wis, can turn
out one hundred and fifty barrels of floul
per diem.
HG JiOutS W t!IC OtlelSou lNp.IIiS NAIL
at SteuhenyilIe, were S265, l34 in 1866, ano
$175,G $50 in 1867.
new OF! refinery has just been completed
at Titusville, which can refine 5000 barrel:
per week.
A cotton mill, an oil mill and beef fac
tory are all about to go into operation shortl,
in Gonzales county, Texas.
A knitting mill has recently commenced
operations at Dixon, Ill. The propriet or!
expect to make 100000 worth of goods thi
season.
There are about $50 carpet factories il
Philadelphia, using 1000 looms, employin.
5000 hands and making 100000 yards o
carpet per month.
During the month Of October there wer
, GAO arrivals ard GAG departures of vessels q
, the port of Milwaukee. The total tonnag
arriving and departing was over $4,000
tons.
SliGell (the Trent one,) is going to try t
, , get back his confiscated estates by appeal
4 I ing to New Orleans courts. The recen
election proceedings there probably lea
him to hope for success.
A citizen of Copenhagen has iavented
new velocipede, which runs on skates, an
is expected to be very useful as a means {
$ communicating between that city and tn
' Danish islands in winter.
: The persimm0n crop this fall is enormou
. Old woodsmen say that this is sure sig
i of fat 'possums and hard winter
n An Omaha dispatch reports that Re
:. Cloud, the chief OF the Sioux, and o.ht
~ | fan,pps chief. bova eiuual ,root,, nf ,,a,c