Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1869-01-23


In Cincinnatti, nineteen ladies have formed
an Equal Suffrage Society.
New Orleans owes s15, 900 900, and her
assessed value is s200,o00,000.
The canals of New York last year yielded
q surplus revenue of So, ,293, 800.
The grocers of Philadelphia, five thousand
in number, have formed protective union.
Mail advices confirm previous reports of
the submission of the Cretans to Turkish
authority.
One of the gentlemen of the jury which
tried Aaron Burr for treason is still living at
Chillicothe, Ohio.
The prospects are that the Moorhead tariff
bill will not meet with consideration this
session of Congress.
Mr.. Eggleston, of Cincinnati, announces
that he will contest the seat OF p. w. Strader,
in the next Congress.
Massachusetts, is said not to have now
single highway or bridge on which toll is
charged. All are free.
A paper has been started in New England
which is called The Comet, because it has an
original tale every week.
In Paris there are said to be twenty eight
regular newspaper correspondents, twenty of
whom are Americans.
Washington is dull this winter, fashion.
ably speaking, as indeed it always is during
the last winter of President.
The New York Cooper Union has estab.
lishcd a school for the practical instruction
Of women in telegraphy.
The fortune left by Baron Rothschild is
more than half as much as the whole annual
income of Great Britain.
Strange as it may seem, there is smaller
per centage of foreigners in New York than
in any other of the States.
Capt. Kenny, of the United States Army,
committed suicide in Alaska by shooting
himself through the heart.
The last rumor says Napoleon's mind is
breaking up, ard the Tuilleries may soon be
delightful private mad-house.
Fifty thousand people in New York wear
wigs, aud the perruquiers OF that city do an
annual business of $2,000,000.
During the past three years, in England,
more than six hundred boys and men have
been killed by colliery explosions.
Advices from Sandwich Islands state that
the slave trade is openly carried on between
the Islands and the coast of South America.
There are great complaints in New York
that at every fashionable wedding there
somebody steals somebody else's overcoat.
During his late visit to Florida, Senator
Sprague purchased nine thousand acres of
the best land in that State for zen dollars an
acre.
The Darien canal will be about thirty
miles in length, including a seven mile tun
mel, and the estimated cost is about SG5 ,000,-
600.
Mr.. Henry Bergh, the champion of dumb
brutes, has been arrested in New York for
obstructing travel by stopping overloaded
horse cars.
Baron Brisse receives ten thousand francs
year for publishing daily bills of fare, and
receipts for cooking the various dishes, in
Girardin's paper.
A Massachusetts inventor has made appl-
cation for a patent for an arrangement by
which all the cattle in burning barn can
be turned loose without loss of time.
An old green grocer, who died in London
last month, left Els, 900 to Dickens, on con-
dition that Charles reads the trial scene from
"Pickwick" in presence of the grocer's family
once year.
A distinguished chemist makes the un-
of raw sugar which is put in a cup of tea or
coffee is alive with vermin. Refining the
sugar kills the insects.
An exchange says Jubal Early will take
advantage of President Johnson's amnesty
proclamation and return home, singing,
"Tbe year of Jubal e. is coming return 20
wandering sinner, home"
An ardent couple was married in Charlotte
county, Va, lately, standing on one muddy
bank of swollen stream, while the officia-
ting clergyman stood on the other. The
bridges had been swept away.
The Standing Committee of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania nave re-
fused, by unanimous vote, to sign testi
monial for Rev. DR.. Doane, recently elected
Bishop Of the new Diocese Of Albany, New
York
An old hunter who represents the Pen
obscot Indians in the legislature, has six
hundred traps set for wild animals, and says
that the beavers have Increased very much
on the Penobscot river within the last few
years.