Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-03-27
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ty, Illinois.
IMPROVED implements of burglary are an
nounced in California.
THE school property in this State 1s esti- |
mated at over $ll 100000.
A KENTUCKY parent keeps his daughter
chained to prevent her marrying the wrong
fellow.
A Kentucky law prohibits the marriage
of first cousins.
New York uses nine million eggs a week.
The deaths in Philadelphia last week
numbered 277.
Kansas is going more extensively into
grape culture.
Wisconsin proposes to abolish tho grand
jury system.
Alexander Won Humboldt is said to
have died very poor.
The Paris Moniteur has an article ON
Field Marshal Grant"
-Four women are returned as'shipbuildcrs'
in the Vermont census.
Noah L. Jeffries has resigned as Register
Of the United States Treasury.
Passenger trains commenced crossing the
new bridge at Columbia, on Thursday week.
The President was visited on Saturday by
. delegation of the veterans Of 1912.
The Grand Army of tac Republic meets
in convention in Cincinnati in May.
A French millionaire has just tiie. who
made his fortune by sellng fish bait.
A bankrupt Individual in Chicago, named
William Williams, is called deficiency
bill"
Grass is six inches high in some parts of
California, and snow is sixteen inches deep
in other parts.
The Newark Courier thinks the whole
velociped subject is being rapidly propelled
into the ground.
It is getting common with the Baptists to
warm the water in which candidates are to
be immersed.
e73,000 in specie arrived at New York,
from England on the Goth inst.
General Samuel Fessentlen, father of Sen.
| ator Fessendop, died on Saturday night, 20,h
inst.
The BODY Of murdered man Was found
in the Schuylkill, near Reading, on Friday
evening, 10th inst.
The nitro glycerine seized in New York,
recently, appears to have been consigned to
an agent of the United States Government
| at Savannah.
$1,500,000 has been sent from Cuba to n
private banker in New York, the interest of
the money to be devoted TO the sick and
wounded OF the Cuban patriot army.
The colored people of Washington are
making arrangements TO celebrate, on an
extensive scale, the anniversary of the aboli
tion Of slavery in the District of Columbia
An exchange SAYS A. ]. dan't like Grants
inaugural, and thinks he would veto it if he
could.
More wheat has been sowr in Tennessee
than ever before, and it looks as well as pos.
sible.
A man has been lynchcd in Colorado on
suspicion OF having stolen Two hundred and
City dollars.
Lemon juice is said to he specific for
neuralgia.
The prohibitory liquor law 10 now strictly
enforced in Maine.
General Grants inaugural has been trans
lated into Russian. for the ST. Petersburg
and Moscow papers.
Better that no dog should be permitted
to live than that one human being should
die Of hydrophobia.
1t is rumored that Rev. Petroleum V.
Nasby, postmaster at the Confederate
Cross. roads, is to be transferred 10 the post.
Office at Toledo.
Hon. James Guthrie, Secretary of the
Treasury under President Pierce, died on
Saturday at Louisville.
Mrs. Lydia Beechcr, mother Of Henry
! Ward Beechsr, died in Brooklyn on Satur-
day, aged eighty years.
At the Inauguration ball, part of the
amusement was week females in tight dresses
fain,ing every five minutes.
The Secretary of the Interior has appoin.
ted Col. W. +. Forbes MS Pension agent at
Philadelphia, vice E. w. c. Greene.
Prince Amadeus; Of Italy, is said to be
badly henpecked. His wife often slaps his
face in the presence Of the servants.
It is an invarinble custom TO present the
doorkeeper of the Indiana Senate with o
suit of clothes at the end of each session.
For the positions of the collector Of the
port, naval officer, postmaster and marshal
Of Baltimore, there are fifty applicants.
Tin is said to be often adulterated with
lead, which renders the vessels made Of il
very deleterious for cooking purposes.
Holmesburg, Bucks county, claims the
kiist IN thC 0totSy ~
been built in 1870.
The Butler Herald advocates the election
of State Treasurer by the people instead oi
the Legislature.
At Girardville, Schuylkill county, recent
ly, a cock light led to general melee, ia
which three men we're seriously wounded
with fire arms.
$4,000 in specie was shippe to Europ,
from New Yorh, on Tuesday.
T The Union Pacific Railroad has commsnc
ed carrying passengers and mails 10 Ogden
. 1894 miles west of omaha.
{ A white woman named Mabb, was mur
dered by q negro at Saratoga, N. T., or
Monday. The murderer gave himself up.
BIsnoP AMEs of the Methodist church
declared in conference held at Alexsndria
Va, that tobacco was doing more harm to
the church than whisky.
ssow.-The depth Of snow In the Maine
, woods is said to be seven feet on . level
and the Bangor Whig says some OF tbs
gangs of lumbermen, in starting 70 come
. out, have found it necessary to put theil
horses upon large sleds, TO be drawn over
the drifts by men upon snew shoes. Ihi,
Indicates snow enough TO satisfy sny on(