Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-09

lhb NEW IOSTAGE hc Ht"
postage stamps will be somewhat smaller
than those in use at present. but they are
of a superior style and finish, with q nov
city in design. The two cent stamp con-
tains an engraving Of q post boy on horse.
buck in full speed. The three cent has q
locomotive under full head of steam, the
great carrier of our domestic service. The
five cent stamp contains a head OF Wash
ington. The ten cent, the finest of all in
design and execution, has q miniature en-
craving OF the Declaration of Independence.
executed with such delicacy and precision
that the picture suffers nothing under the
magnifying glass The twelve-cent stamp
has an ocean steamship, and the thirty. cent
has finely executed engraving of the sur
render of Burgoyne.
Two gentlemen of Schuylkill county,
Pennsylvania, have invented snow melt
ing machine, for removing the snow from
railroad tracks. The machine is simply an
engine boiler placed in car, and tender
on top of the boiler From the boiler q pipe
leads front and back of the car, down to
within few inches of the road bed, and eZ-
tends from rail to rail, where they are per
forated with small holes to permit the jets
OF steam to act on the snow while the ma
chine is being pushed by a locomotive, or
city railway Car drawn by horses. If sue
cessiul, this invention will prove highly
valuable.
Bayard Taylor advises persons going to
Rome to select beggar and give him
stated weekly allowance He will soon come
to expect it only on the regular day; and,
moreover, be will privately manage that you
are not importuned by his bre,hern at least
in his quarter of the city. In my case this
plan worked very satisfactorily. My beggar
greeted me with bow and smile for six
days, held out his hat on the seventh, and
allowed no one in the peighoorhood to make
claim upon me.
The coin interest to oe paid by the Gov
ernment in January will be larger than any
previous half.yearly payment, reaching an
aggregate sum of thirty millions Of dollars,
and including the interest on three different
issues of Five twen!ies, and three other forms
of debt. AS nearly all of the securities on
which interest will be paid are held by our
own people, the gold will be retained in
this country.
A White oak tree was lately cut near
Haney's Bridge, Pa, on the line of the
Brandywiue and Reading Railroad. 1t was
two hundred and twenty. y.fve years old, and
six feet across the stump at the ground, and
and healthy, and had the railroad not en-
croached on it, might have lived several
hundred years longer. When William Penn
founded Philadelphia and formed treaty
with the Indians it was good sized sapling,
and was more than one hundred and twenty
FIVE years old when the battle of Brandywine
was fought.
There is nothing that adds so much to a
womun's beauty as a neat and tasty hood.
Many bachelor has lost his heart when
gazing at the sweet features of some passing
lady, as they peep forth from tie surround
ing fur of close, fitting hood. But there is
a hood that disfgures the features of the
most attractive face, and that is !alsehood
General Early, in a letter to the Richmond
Dispatch, states that there is no truth in the
statement made by Mr.Pollard, that General
Stonewall Jackson once, recommended a
night at,acl. to be made 10y assailants strip
ped naked and armed with bowie knives.
A burglar on trial in Hartford, Conn.
conducted his own defence, and pleaded
the Cole Hscock decision as d precedent
that no man who commits crime is sane.
The colored men cf Western Pennsylvania
have called convention at Pittsburg, on
28th inst, to initiate strong and determined
movement to gain the elective franchise.
The Dresden Germany tradesmen have a
society to protect themselves against dishoE-
est debtors, numbering 1000 members. 1t
publishes lists of people who are bad pay
/ The hog cholera is prevailing in several
| portions Of Amherst county, Va, and num-
bers Of hogs are daily dying from its effects