Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-06-06
RREVITIES.


Congress will probably adjourn by the
middle of July.
Speaker Colfax will visit Denver, on the
adjournment Of Congress.
General Grant intends to spend the sum.
mer on his farm near st. Louis,
S2,347, ,s45 in specie was shipped to Eu.
rope from New York on Saturday.
Brigham Young forbids the Mormons to
eat pork.
There is general demand for more labor
in Minnesota.
1t is thought probable that the trial of JEFF.
Davis will be postponed until next October.
A young woman in Indiana has been ar
rested for horse stealing.
An important treaty between the United
States and the Usage Indians, was concu.
ded and signed on the 27th ult.
Accounts from Southeastern Virginia
represent the negroes as working well.
One.third less cotton is being planted than
last season.
A Southern paper thinks it won't do to
prove General Grant fool and drunkard,
as if he is so proved it will be q decided
reflection upon the ex-rcbel generals who
were beaten by him.
Gen. J. b. Buckner who since the war
has been residing in New Orleans, will soon
remove te Louisville, KY, and become edi-
torially connected with paper in that city.
In all parts of the South, according to
reports, heavy crops of co tton are being
planted; and, also, warned by previous
misiortunes, the planters are sowing good
deal of corn for home consumption.
In New Orleans two Spaniards werc ar-
rested, on the 9Th inst, having in there pos
session gold bnrs estimated to be worth
$4,000, part of the proceeds ofa Mexican
robbery.
The President of one OF the Boston Say
ings Banks states that the deposits have
been doubled during 1887, through extcn.
sive advertising in the newspapers.
Another section of twenty miles of the
Union Pacific Railroad, Kansas branch, is
completed, and the Commissioners have
gone out to examine it. This finishes the
track to the three hundred and eightieth
mile post
Wives arc drug in the Nova Scotia mar.
ket. A man in Halifax sold his wife lately
to man named Norbury for SO, Nova
Scotia currency.
One morning last week there were eighty
harbor of Gloucester, Mass, all of which
was sold during the day, and boxed up
ready for transportation the next morning,
at six cents per pound.
The Pennsylvania delegates to the Pro.
testan: Episcopal General Convention are
Rev. Drs. Howe, Rudder. Hare, Goodwin,
the Rev. Messrs. E. N. Lightner and b.
w. Morris, and Messrs. Win, Welsh Horace,
Tr Froiorick lV,ttu Jnhn Ean-
yngham, Geo. L. Harrison, Chas. l.. Lex and
S. Austin Allibone.
We are soon to have teegraphic commu.
| nication with Sante Fe; at least a telegraph
line is going there at the ratio of eight miles
per day.
The resolution confirming Gen. Soho.
field as Secretary of war by tho Senate, had
a preamble to it declaring the removal o!
Mr.. Stanton unconstitutional and unlawful.
Trumbull voted for it, and Fcssenden de.
clined. to vote at ALL If the act was uncon.
stitutional aud unlawful, why was the Pre-
| sident acquitted 7 The recreants should be
consistent, and not try to crawl back into
the Republican party where their treaehcry
| is abhorred and themselves despised.
Mr.. James Emmitt, an Ohio State Senator,
has offered to give 800, 900 for the purpose
of identifying the State House grounds at
Columbus, ifthe State will give $50, 900 for
a new fence and landscape gardener.
"Old Grimes" was burned in effigy at
West Liberty, Wisconsin, on Tuesday of last
week. The eifigy was planned, made and
hung up by the ladies Of the place.
Horace Greeley had but one son, pre-,
cocious child, who died many years ago.
| His two daughters, Gabrielle and Ida, aged
| respectfully nine and eighteen, are said
| to inherit much of their fathers intellect
and their mothers strength of character.
| At the end of the year 1867, the total
number of locomotives in Germany and
Austria was $3.50. OF these 445 have been
imported, the rest all made at home Bor-
sig, of Berlin, alone built lG67rof them.
A Chicago mother who dotted on her son
became convinced the other day that fog
| ging could be no longer dispensed with. To
| the infinite credit of her maternal tender
ness, she had him placed under the in
fluence of chloroform before commencing
the punishment.
| A Louisville paper says that the girls of
the Blue Grass region consider it breach
of hospitality to refuse an offer of marriage.
1t instances the case of young lady who
was engaged to fifty officers from sccond-
| lieutenant to brigadier, while Gilmore was
in those parts, and was finally married to
a farmer.
Frank Lyon was shot dead in the city OF
Reading, this State, about l2 o'clock on
Saturday night last, by Julius Weaver, who
at once gave himself up to the Mayor He
claims to have done it in self-delense, he and
his son passing quietly along the street, wert
attacked by Lyon and another man with
! = 4.
would fire.
A nttie flat'Boat, containing young
man, his wife,a boy, and dog, arrived a
Baton Rouge, La, few DAYS since, all tn
way from Venango, Pa. They were thir
teen weeks on the way The distance i
nearly one thousand miles. r'' 7r