Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-02-08
BREvlTIEs.

Seven cents pound is the price of Moose
in Quebec.
There are ten thousand negroes in Lexing-
ton Ky.
Boston is to have mammoth fair for the
Crctana.
DIR. Livingston was living man on the
list of October. ..t-. .EE...
The paper having the largest crculationis is
the paper of tobacco.
Poor men and rich ones can get hot din.
ners for nine cents apiece in London.
Louis Napoleon skates badly, and often
falls, and always on the bony part.
Twenty Indians were naturalized in Topc-
ka, Kansas, at the last term of court there.
Sixteen divorces were granted at the last
term of court in Henry county, Illinois.
1t is proposed to make foreigners reside
ten years in Virginia before they can vote.
The editor of the Moscow Gazette speaks
and writes seventeen different languages.
$4,000 hogs were packed in Keokuk this
year.
Eugene is said to be the most graceful
smoker in Paris
! Miss Anna Dickinson nearly froze to
death in Minnesota.
Santa Anna is still silent partner in the
revolution business
Counterfeit five cent pieces arc extensively
circulated in Chicago.
| A granddaughter of George the Third is
living at Long Branch
A western paper says the pretticst girl in
this country lives in Peoria.
Hartford has q new National Screw Com.
pany with capital of 81 100000.
Quite number of Ohioians have settled
near Tuskeegee, Alabama, and gone to farm
ing.
A Pennsylvania has bought for $4,000
the 1900 acres farm of Rufus Pitzer, ESQ,
near Fincaste, Va
What's the difference between horse and
a barber? One can't live on shavings, and
the other can.
Twenty-Five villages in Upper Silesia,
Prussia, have suddenly been afflicted with
the worst type of cattle plague.
The new rector of Grace Church, New
York, is a son of the late Bishop Potter, of
Pennsylvania. His salery is $4,000.
Colorado will be admitted to the Union
by the present Congress.
Two prize fights arc now the average in
New York city every day.
A short crop of tobacco is anticipated in
the South the coming season.
Child murder is carried to fearful extent
in New York city.
The rebels of the South arc displeased at
the idea of being placed under the COM
mand of the butcher, Grant"
1t is very likely that the gold interest
: bearing bonds will be redeemed before long
The disposition of Congress is to pass n law
to secure this redemption.
Mr.. John Jones bit off the nose of John
|, Robinson in St. Louis recently. Mr.. Jones
was not hungry, but he was angry. These
men were coal diggcrs.
The Swedish peasants have been existing
{ for some time on cakes made of birch bark
e and moss--cakes that are as hard as rocks
e and almost as indgestiblc.
s Our new brethren of the Alaskan persua
3 sion are learning English; they can sweal
: now just as well rs the best of the Ameri
cans, or as the worst either.
John W. Ayres married his fourth wife il
Dclavan, ILL.,, recently, and it has Just beer
discovered that they arc all alive and as wei
as could be expected.
Mrs. J. G. Bennett wore 100000 wortl
, of diamonds at the opening of Pixies Opera
House. La Grange saw her and went $50,
, 900 better the same night.
1 Canada papers ore impcrtinent. One o
: them recently, in noticing the fact that
week of Prayer bad commenced in the Unitct
$ States, stated that year would be better.
, The negroes of St. Landry, La, are fright
t ening the whites so much by their forward
ness that the latter have asked for a return
: OF the United States troops to Opelousas.
! A New England mechanic has been tel
o years at work getting up combination or
u gan and piano, which is to be operated b,
one set of keys. 1t will consist of nearly tel
thousand portions
Commodore Mutt is about to marry Min
+ ME Warren. These two nuts are worth
h nice plum of $250,000.
4 The remnant of the Cherokees in Soutl
e Carolina, some l 900 in number, are gettin!
;. ready to move to the Indian territory.
n The Duke of Newcastle thinks it is a sat
= thing that the Prince of Wales was no
o drow ned on his way home from America.
l. Extra bolts and fastenings in large mum
: bcrs have been put up at Windsor Castle
g The New York Mail say that if you asl
C whyl The answer is Pat
. AS the body Of n gentleman in Kansa
was recently being lowered into the grave
the coffin, which was of cotton wood, fell t
pieces, and the corpse sprawled into til
grave amid the shrieks of the horrifcd rela
tives.
y Fifty tons of trout have been caught il
o Moosehead Lake and shipped to New Yorl
d and Boston.
!, Mike Lipman, the circus man, has bank
y rupted in Cincinnati, with debts amountin,
II to S32, 800.
Rev. Phillips Brooks, Of Philadelphia, ha
collected over 81 200, which he has sent t.
r the Cretans.
j. Another large bed of garnets has bee
!, found in Bohemia. Most garnets come iron
y that classic country.
= Napoleon can't get over his chagrin at hi
i Mexican fiasco, and can't be induced to sen,
! a minister to Juarez
Il The Prince Imperial has a small stcan
engine, which his kind father gave him OF
New Years day, because lie had been gooC
!. boy.
q A lady in Paris recently found bracele
Q worth thirty thousand francs in her muff, a
the opera, and she does not know how il go
. there.
G George Peabody has presented Cyrus W
t Field with magnificent silver dinner service
j. consisting of twelve large pieces, weighin,