Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-06-20
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Large numbers Of cattle are being driven
from Canada to the United States.
Gipsies are stealing chickens and trading
horses in Daviess county, Indiana.
A large amount Of we'll executed counter.
felt fifty cen: notes are in circulation.
Alexander II. Stephens, cx.rebel Vice
President, predicts the defeat Of Grant,
A daily mail has been established between
Seliusgrovc and Mifflintown.
There are fourteen authors engaged each
on q life of Grant.
A Virginia lady has been paralyzed by
excessive use of hair dye which contained
sugar of lead.
A Democrat Of Fittsburg declares the
only questions before that party are, First
Greenbacts Second-NiggerS.
Counterfeit S2Os on the FIRST National
Bank of Boston, altered from $2's, arc in
circulation.
The Superior Ga.ette says the harbor
there was still obstructcd by jcc on the 30th
Of May.
An Ohio Democrat wonts to know why
President Johnson has given post office to
Nasty.
There are at least n dozen candidates for
South Bend, Indiana, District.
The preparations for pleasure and fishing
parties on the Niagara river were never so
complete as at the present season,
David Crockett, son of the celebrated
Colonel is lecturing on Temperance in Phil
adelpha.
Millions Of grass hoppers arc said to find
timely grave in the waters of the Missis-
sippi river, which they attempt in vain to
Fly across.
Green corn is drug in the New Orleans
market.
The tax of one cent per box on matches
netted the Government a million and half
dollars last year.
The King of Siam has eighty one heirs to
his throne, all his own children. Without
doubt, lie has quiver full of them.
Fifty tons of rhubarb are sold daily in
Boston, and it retails at two cents per pound,
which amounts to over $4,000 per day.
Kit Carson was Virginian; he was born
in Norfolk, and was of more credit to that
State than many another with more high
sounding name.
A young couplcwerc divorced in Chicago
! last week, who had been married five years
and yet are only twenty-one and twenty
| years old respectively.
| A three millionaire in Chicago was worth
just $500 fifteen years ago.
The FIRST tightening rod put up in this
country by DR.. Ben franklin was ut No. 81
! Daniel street; Portsmouth, New hampshire,
and it is still in use.
Mr. Burlingame and the Chinese Embns-
sy were formally presented to the President
on Friday last.
The trial of jeff Davis has again Seen
postponed. 1t is now announced tnat j.
! will take place in October, but we doubt it.
Chicago has recently completed another
immense grain elevator and now boasts OF
sixteen, with a total capacity Of over nine
millions of bushels.
Senator Salisbury is on his bad behavior
again. He daily enters the Senate in a con-
dtion Of beastly drunkenness, and disturbs
the proceedings of that body with his mud
led mut.eriugs. There is again talk OF ex
pelling him
Three miles of Pacrfc Raiload track were
laid on Tuesday. The road is now forty
miles beyond Laramie City, the present
terminus A new town is building at the
North Platte crossing, where the terminus
will be fixed shortly.
The grain and grass could not be more
promising than they are in this vicinity
The only compa int we hear of the wheat il
that il is too rank.
Because the Brown University faculty
omitted to replace a stolen rope and bucket
attached TO well on. the ground, the stu
dents marched through Providence on Thurs
day with a banner labelled Water" anC
bearing sill sorts of untensis to receive it in
Three leaders in the affair have been oXpcl
led.
A WALKING MATCH BY WESTON. EDWARD
Payson Weston began walking match, q
Riverside Park, Mass, Wednesday, for on
hundred miles in twenty three consecutv
hours, for wager of 81, 300. A large nun
ber of spectators were present. The frs
mile was made in fifteen minutes the las
half Of it backward, and the quickest mil
during the afternoon was made in ten min
utes and sixteen seconds.
Accommodation for two thousand troop
is being prepared at st. Johns Quebec
Active preparations are being made t.
, have ready large supply of reserve ammu
milton for the various battalions in garrison
in case Of emergency, in Canada.
1t is not proposed by the Gear of Russii
to do away with all kinds of explosive pro
= jcctiles, but only with rifle and muskct bul
let's which bury themselves in the flesh anC
explode. II is the disuse of this murderou
invention which receives the unqualifcC
approval of Napoleon.
The LewisbuIg Chronioal relates an In
stance o. ssversl young men congregatini
, in store at that place who had determined
: to attend circus, then in town. One O
them, however, proposed that the money 1
be expended for tickets be used for bette
purpose. 1t was agreed to and the fund
J were handed to the editor OF the Chronicl
to transfer to a soldiers widow who reside
in Lewisburg. In the meantime Mr. Cornt
Illus helds the money, and would like TO sc
s it added to by any one SO disposed. w
' would Nike TO see the example abo7e Sc
c forth followed by other young men und5
J sinnllar clrcn a ancen