Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-11-28
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| High tortoise shell combs are worn at the
Tuileries.
Apache Indians live in condition Of
slavery in Arizona
Gen. Gates was the first cadet that ever
entered West Point.
eco members Of the Smith family reside in
Springfield, Ohio.
Patti was worth $1,000 when she mar
/ RED her Marquis.
Tennessee has had man one hundred and
( iifty-iour years old.
Partisan horse caters consume about . 800
horses per snnum.
/ Paris says Louis Napoleon has a grown Up
son in New York.
/ There are said to be many more ba(laloes
( than horses in China.
The 40 royal carriages OF the Queen of
spain have, since her departure, been used
as public cabs.
$4,000 factory girls are employed in Law.
renee, Mass.
Ha'f the people of Belgium have no educa-
tion whatever.
Gen. Cold gave one Of his lawyers $4,000
as retaining fee.
Two Ohio rutians murdered traveller
FOR h- modey, and obtained eighteen cents.
English straw brsiders are distressed at
the disappearance Of bonnets from female
heads.
Unbranded cattle over a year old arc com
mon property in Texas.
A wooden wedding--The marriage of
blockhead.
A grave error or-Burying a man alive.
Five thousand nine hundred and one
-, Il,
diers by our Government.
81 cups ofS coffee is good deal to drink
st ore time but Frenchman recently did it
and won his bet at the same time.
a correspondent estimates that 10000
busts Of Queen Isabella, Of Spain, have been
smashed since her departure from Spain.
| Louisville could not See the metcors on
/ Thursday and Friday night. We always
thought that . very black cloud covered
Kentucky.
/ The first areenhack issued by the United
States is in the possession Of Cincinnati
saloon keeper. 1t is No. /, series A, and is
signed in Cbase's handwriting. The owner
has refused $50 for it.
The planters of Mississippi having dis.
covered that their soil is admirably adapted
tn the cultivation Of wheat, will turr their
fttciitAou W It's HipiC GAttH9lNc tu'i NbtI "a
, in future.
Brigham Young is issuing currency in
Utah, generally resembling the national
greenback There is said to &c a good deal
of it in circulation and the Mormon Prcsi-
dent finds his banking operations very pro.
fitnble.
man roasted in the top of maple tree
in New Haven four hours on Saturday, in
compliance with the terms of an election
wager. The winner sat on curhstone to
see that he performed tho task. The two
fools looked at each other.
The ladies Of the First Presbyterian Church
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are to give genuine,
old fashioned, New England dinner to mem.
bers of all denominations on Thanksgiving
day
The Florida fruit crops have been increas-
ing so fast that if they keep on in a like ratio
for little while longer, the United States
will be under no further necessity of import
ing oranges and lemons from Cuba.
-Four hunters of Lykens, Dauphin county,
recently returned from n hunting excursion
in that county, with four deer and a bear
weighing $50 pounds. The bear before it
was killed, had committed many depreGa-
tions in Sugar Valley among the swine.
THE following naive lovers promise was
offered as an irresistible temptation to the
ilially given ia2mojWtl IL like you,' said
the girl to her sutor; "but I can't leave
home. I am a widows only darling; no
husband cHn equal my parents in kindness"
"She is kind" pleaded the wooer; "hut be
my wife, we will live together, and see if |
don't beat your mother"
The following advertisement appeared in
a Texas paper: '!f the person who took
Gt is concluded by niistake) the white water
proof coat belonging to Captain Johnson,
will apply to the harricks, he can have the
peg it used to hang upon, as it is OF no fur
ther use to the owner
A regmcntal cofin-maker was asked
whom he was making coffin for. and men
toned the intended. "Why, he is not dead,
man 2" said the querist. Don't you trouble
yourself replied the other; "Dr. Coe told US
! to make his coffin, ana | guess he knows
what he gave him.
! A wife wanted her husband to sympathize
! with her in q feminine quarrel, but lie re-
! fused, saying, "rve lived long enough to
! learn that one woman's just as good as an
other, if not better And L. retOrted the
exasperatcd wife, "have lived long enough
to learn that one man is just as bad ss an
other, if not worse ~
Geu Howard tells story OF planter, who
assembled all his hands in the spring, and
told them that they must vote for the Demo
.crats or he would not employ them. The
darkies waited until the cotton was whiten-
ing, and then called on him and told him he
must give his word to vote the Radical ticket,
or they would leave in q body. And he did.
Imagine his wrath, however, at being pre-
senteG the alternative of losing his whole
crop or becoming "scalawag."
YoUNa LApIEs.-Au exchange gives some
excellaut advice to young ladies', who should
accord it practical acceptation, especially
those Just entering the social circle. Man
is by No means all that he seems, and the
thonehtless upwittingly cause unhappiness
young ladies, you need not Halter soutff
selves that you are such good stnhehis i;S.;O VI
human nature that you can always n'an, uis.an
puish between genuine young 'senuenen !,
and the mere young man. Your means ol
Judging are entirely inadequate, ana Tue
sipns from which you draw your conclusions
are generally false. Besides many young
ts,en of the most honorable intentions are
thoupbtless. These do more harm, perhaps,
. than those who are malicious. The only
safety for you, girls, is to move within the
, strietest rules OF social proprlety so lai as