Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-02-13
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A citizen of of Lock Haven lately skinned
and dressed a beef in II minutes and 26
seconds, or wager.
Spring is coming. Somebody has seen
the wild geese flying northward.
Delaware is agitated concerning a pro
posed change in the interest laws.
A State Temperance Convention is to he
held in Harrisburg on the 23d of February.
A New Haven firm is making twenty We.
locipedes week for the New York market.
A dozen young ladies Sc renaded mum.
Der of bachelors in New London few
nights since.
Eight million people are employed in the
French vineyards.
Indiana has 600 900 legal infants, of
whom 436 900 attend school.
There is some talk of establishing a State
asylum for inebriates in Ohio.
The new tax bill looks as though il would
pass the present Congress.
Ex.Gov. Curtin will be strongly pressed
for seat in Grants cabinet.
Oysters are sold ten for cent in Tcnsa.
cola, Florida.
The great Alaska bribery question is
whitfield down to the little end OF nothing.
The tariff bill is as given up. There is
no hope for it at least before the fourth of
| March.
The Legislature of Georgia seem determin-
| ed to set the Reconstruction laws and the
/ Government itself at defiance.
Boston has two potatoes on exhibition
! for which the owner wants fifty collars
apiece.
Nearly as many people are killed in the
/ London streets as on the English and Welch
railways.
JEFF. Davis and his wife live in small
boarding house close TO the NotIe Dame
Cathedral.
Peace meetings are being held in all parts
of Arkansas.
The keeper of groggery in Hartford
killed his bartender because he snored so
loudly.
1t takes eighteen hours to go from Den
yer to Cheyenne by stage, and costs ten
dollars.
THE Republican State Central Committee
on Thursday of last week, at Harrisburg
decided to hold the next State Convention
in Philadelphia, June 23d next.
The Senate will not repeal, but will modi
iy the Tenure of Office act, just to the extent
stated in these columns nearly two months
ago.
The President who began his term breath.
ing out threatenings and slaughter against
traitors, seems likely to end it paTdoning his
predecessors assassins.
The President has pardoned Carlo Latrygs
and Francis Martinetti, who were sentenced
in 1866 to serve fifteen Years in the peniten
tiary at Frankfort, for cOunterteitiug United
States currency.
Grant has peremptorily declined to ridt
in the same carriage with johnson to tho
capitol on the day of his inauguration The
man who before the world charged hin
with ialsehood, when he was himself The
liar, General Grant will in no way cUuntG
nance.
The Sunbury papers continue to urge The
establishment of Il Steam Ferry across thC
Dam. Such ferry should have been estab
iished there long since, and we are surprised
that the people of Sunbury have SO long
neglected an improvement of so great im
portance to their town.-SelinSgrore Times
One bull fighter in Spain made $4,000
by his perilous profession, and then dice
without using it,
Twenty'four new passenger vehicles ar
being built for the Pennsylvania Railroad
, Company, and nearly hundred of differen
, kinds for the Reading Railroad.
} A petition for writ of ha5eas corpus, il
: behalf of Arnold and Spangler the assassi
nation conspirators, imprisoned on the DIR.
} Tortugas, was presented in the Unite(
States Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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