Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-30

Lancaster county raised $500, 900 worth
of toba eco last year.
A gang of thieves and incendiaries is said
to intest Lancaster.
Kentucky still maintains the whipping
post, as well as Delaware.
Counterfeit nickle five.cent coins are ex.
tensively circulated in Harrisburg.
man in Schuylkill county recently died
Of hydrophobia. He had been bitten by
terrier, which had given no symptoms of
being mad
The total shipment of shoes from Lynn,
Mass, during 1868 was 159, ,236 cases. The
shipments for the first two weeks of this
month were 1884 cases, against 1853 for the
corresponding weeks of last year.
Columbia county wants to be divided.
The Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad
Company have ordered steel rails.
The largest nugget ever taken from the
South Australian gold mines has been sold
by auction for $3.50,
There is tcamster in Connecticut who.
FOR the last forty years, has gone barehead-
eG.
Old maids are described as "embers from
which the sparks have fed"
A number of ladies in Sullivan, Ind,
marched around to the liquor saloons the
other day and held prayer meetings, praying
vigorously for the suppression of intemper-
ance.
At the execution of Wooley, at Freehold,
N. j., on the 9TH instant, large number of
well dressed women were present, and while
the wretch was still hanging a crowd of
! oh,
the spectacle.
Mrs. Twitchell was acquitted in the Phil
delphia Courts on Friday last, of participa-
tion in the murder of her mother Mrs. Hill
Gen. Grant visited Baltimore, last week,
to attend meeting of the Managers of the
Peabody Educational Fund. He was given
all the public honors he was willing to
| receive.
Congress is so far, this session, proving
| impregnablc to the assaults of the "Railroad
ring" as well as the "Whiskey ring Ii the
| depredations of these "rngs" can be war
ded off until the 4th of March, we predict
that their occupations will bel gone. The
| Executive influence will then be against them
instead Of exercised in their behalf.
Mr. Thomas Dutton, of Village Green
| Delaware county, Pennsylvania, has voted
for every President from Gen. Washington
to Gen Grant. At the recent election be
was placed in carriage and escorted by a
body guard of his ncighbors, who walked
on each side of the carriage to the polls
and there lifted him into chair and bore
him on their shoulders until he deposited
his vote. Mr.. Dutton enjoys his usual good
health, and will be one hundred years old
in February next.
| The rebel Gen. Cheatham is farming on
three hundredacre plantation in Georgia.
Had all the traitors done this before the re.
bellion there would have been none.
Friction matches can be made perfectly
water proof under any circumstances, by
dipping them, when completed in the or.
dinary way, in a solution formed by adding
two parts of glycerine to one hundred OF
collodion.
A young man rushed through the streets
of Toledo, Ohio, the other day, followed by
a very excited German. The latter was
shouting as he ran: "Bolees, bolees, shtop
der man he ish going nit the reeyer, und
der ice under, for to suicide commits
Several citizens joined in the chase, and
the fugitive was captured just in time to
prevent him from leaping into the half fro
zen river.
General Grant is Al, and Mr.. Colfax 46
Andrew Johnson is 61; Mr. Seward, 6S
General Schofield but 3S; Mr.. Welles, 67
Mr.. McCulloch, So; Dir. Randall and Mr..
Browning, SO; Mr.. Wade, the President OF
the Senate, is 60; Senator Sumner is IS, and
Senator Trumbull, 56. The members OF
the House of Representatives are nearly all
young men. James Brooks and Il. B.
Washburne are among the Oldest, and are
respectively 80 and So years of age.
| DELIcIoUsLY MEDIcINAL.-This is the universal
| verdict pronounced upon PLANTATION BIrrERs by