Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-02-15
HREvITlEs.

A stamp duty 10 to be placed on Tobacco
in all its forms.
Gen. Grants flank movement on Andrew
johnson has bottled the Democratic party.
The mystery of the Rehrer murder is still
unexplained.
A postmaster, appointed by Andrew Jack
son, died lately in Maine.
Cheap calico and muslin should now be
had, as the tax has been taken from cotton
There are laboring men in New York
willing to work merely for their board.
Many ex. Confederate army officers are re-
gistering themselves bankrupts in the South.
Andrew johnson appoints no man to an
Office in the South who has not served the
cause of the rebellion in some manner.
Facts will sooner or later show that the
management of our foreign affairs, by MIR.
Seward, has been disgraceful.
Last week there were 210 deaths in Phila-
delphia, and of these 68 were from lung di-
sease.
A. T. Stewart has sent 81, 900 as dona-
ton to the Bethany Mission School of Phila-
delphia.
The papers say the honorable Asa Packer
wants to be our next President on Demo
cratic platform.
Arkansas gets up just about as many as.
sassinations of Union men nova days as
she did before or during the war.
Brother Brice, q member OF lodge in the
| Island of Jersy is said to be the tallest mason
in Europe. He is almost eight feet high.
The victims of the famine in Algeria are
so numerous that they are thrown promis
cuously into trenches as the dead on battle
field are buried.
The present Legislature of Ohio, knowing
that its chances and time are few and short,
is going quickly through its lows inserting
the word white.
Nearly two million dollars worth of
shoes were manufactured by some 10 firms
in Chicago last year.
Jackson county, H., has just opened a
fine quarry, the marble of which is said to
fully equal that of Italy.
Peoria has two causes of rejoicing one is
the killing of a rat weighing three pounds
and half, and the other is the erection Of
o new Jail.
The Salem Touring mill of Oregon is
making four hundred barrels day. This
is doing pretty well, We think, for the very
hem of the outskirts of civilization.
The insurance companies of Cincinnati
lost over $250,00o in two days recently.
There arc more than twenty two millions
of acres of unimproved land in Texas.
28,s00 passengers were carried by the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company last year.
Mr.. Stanton may have many virtues, says
any exchange, but resignation is not one of
them.
Some fifteen hundred Baltimore vessels
are engaged in the oyster business, and they
take about fourteen millions Of bushels an
nually to that city.
Senator Mortons great speech in reply to
Doolittles labored effort was glorious one.
Persons who have been familiar with the
balls OF Congress for years say that they
have never heard its equal.
California is an Unsuitable State; not sat
ished with the boundles prodigality which
dame nature has shown there, the Califor-
mans have taken to planting and raising
pine apples, and have been successful We
really think anything would grow in that
favored land.
A new use has been found for the great
Pennsylvania product, petroleum. Cham.
pagne is made of it. If all the champagne
drank should hereafter be made of petro.
leum, the search for wells would become as
brisk as ever, for the supply would have to
be doubled
Father Agapius, the Greek priest, who
was welcomed in Trinity Church, n. Y, a
few years ago, as representative of the
Orient, is said to have become convert to
methodism, and having abandoned the gor-
geous ritual of Greece, has become circuit
rider in California.
Napoeon's boy will be twelve years old
in March. His chances of succeeding his
father for any length OF time on the throne
OF France seem to be very slight,
Lord Brougham has at last succumbed.- -
He has been deprived of the use of his limbs,
and he can no longer articulate, yet his
mind is as clear and robust, apparently as
| ever.
The Mexican banker, Jeckcr, is, SO says
II independence Beige, in Paris for the pur-
pose of bringing suit against the French
Government for the payment of thirteen
millions of francs. We wish he may get
! it.
For years civil service appointment has
caused so much dissatisfaction or given rise
to so much newspaper discussion in England
as has that of Mr.. Thornton, the new Minis
ter 20 the United States.
Detroit is said to be the largest fur mar
ket in this country. The amount of that
sort of wealth which reaches that city during
the year is immense. Leipsig, in Germany,
Is the greatest fur market in the world.
One OF the ancient Saxon laws concerned d
leap year, and was little more arbitrary
than might always be pleasant The lady
had the privilege of proposing marriage,
but the unfortunate man was not allowed
| to refuse.
The Portland Ortgonian SAYS that thirty.
| i've men from Bozeman captured eleven
horse thieves in the Yellowstone valley, re-
turned the horses to the owners and ac.
counted for the thieves by saying that they
had gone to States"
! Miss Arabella Bernard was making bed
in her home in Kansas City recently, when
she shook to the floor pistol which was
lying under the bolster. In falling, its load
was discharged and entered into her person.
She died next morning.
! Nine. Miramon, the Princess Miramon, ms
she is no entitled to be called, is attracting
much attention and sympathy in Vienna,
where she is now residing at the request of
the Emperor, who has granted her a very
] liberal npnsiOn