Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-06-27
Hs1sEVIlEES.

Illinois is complaining of the potato bug
Senator Wade says he will not accept
Congressional nomination.
California ia reported by the Surveyor
General to have over 1000 orange trees.
1t is estimated that $3j7 900 will be need
ed next year for school teachers salaries in
Chicago.
Gov. Curtin is not n candidate for the L.
S. Senate.
Chase is free trader, which commends
him to the Democracy.
Bogus five cent pieces have made their
debut.
The State debt of Virginia is $i7 900, 900.
Colfax has concluded not to lecture any
more.
The young Emperor of China has Just
been married
There are more houses being built this
year than ever before in the United States.
Horace Greely is spoken of as II candinate
for Governor of New York next November.
one. Its production coS Napoleon $4,000,
900.
Harriet Lane received about $50, 900 from
her eS-uncle estate.
Several hundred Swedcs are to be brought
over to Louisiana.
Franklin Pierce is the only living man
who was ever elected President OF the Uni
ted States.
Five poor little children, all under fifteen
and quite penniless, are the legacy left by
poor Kit Carson.
4 a., .; -
State Committee, wants to go to the United
States Senate, it is said in place of Mr.
Buckalew, and is therefore, paying especial
attention to the election of members of the
Legislature.
A whole family was poisoned in Cincn-
na.i last week, by using milk which had
been kept too long in tin cans.
At Honesdale, Pennsylvania, two child
rem aged respectively seventeen and fifteen
years, having first obtained the written con-
sent of their parents and guardians, were
recently united in wedlock,
Pennsylvania, New York and Alabama
are of the same size, that is the area OF each
is 10000 square miles.
The Second Adventists have made ar,
rangements for the world to come to an end
three days before JEFF. Davis's trial comes
! off in October.
Old maids are astonishingly on the in
crease in Massachusetts. II the young mai
dens would be less dogmatic aud wear few
er spectacles more OF them would cease tC
be maids before the obiectional adjectiy,
could be properly applied. $3.50.
I The Richmond Dispatch thinks the chance
of harmonizing the two wings of the Demo
cratic party is almost hopeless. 1t says th'
/ War Democrats would vote for Genera
Grant rather than for Pendeton; and tn,
/ Copperheads or Peace Democrats woul6
rather that Grant should be elected thar
Hancock. ,
! Democratic ticket in New York, last year
are now organizing for Grant and Colfax.
The Democrats of Philadelphia held thei
! delegate meetings on Monday, which wer
| attended with much bloodshed, disorde
and rioting. 5 g' .|s.
Hon. NJ. II. Walworth, of Kentucky, for
merly prominent as rebel, has taken tn
stump for Grant and Colfax. Having laiC
down their arms on the most liberal con
/ ditions that rebels ever received, he accept
the situation on its proper basis and vii
not array himself with his fellow rebels VIII,
appear not to know that they have beei
! beaten. g.i flt...... ...g -... r.|
Two or three hundred tons of railroa,
+ iron for the Central Pacific Railroad ar
daily transported over the New Jersey Cen
. tral Railroad, from Scranton.