Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1870-03-19
BnEvfTIEs.


A vote Of censure has been agreed upon
by the Cadethip Investigating Committee,
in the case ofthc Representative II. II. But
Ter.
Mr.. Seward says that specie payments
will be resumed in ninety days.
The law reducing the valu of American
silver coin in Canada twenty per cent,
went into effect on Tuesday.
A Quebec bank has three tons of twenty
five cent pieces in its vaults.
The Dakota Indians report that more
snow has fallen in the mountains than for
many years.
A Debating club in Worcester lately dis
cussed the important question, "Whether
a ROSTERS knowledge ofdaybreakis is the re-
sslt of observation or instinct"
A Louisiana man has tame alligator to
decoy others within rifle shot.
Josh Billings writes that" Philosophers all
agree that the milk is put into the koker
nut, and then the hole is nearly plugged up;
but who the fellow il who duz it the
philosophers are honest enough for Won
der to admit, that they kant tell."
An absconding wife is thus pathctically
appealed to in personal column: "Janc,
your absence will ruin all. Think of your
Children, your parents, your husband.
Return, all may yet be well. AT any rate
enclose the key Of the cupboard where-thc
gin is.
jeff Davis, who will be recolected for his
somewhat prominent connection with one
party to the late civil war, is succeeding
admirably as life insurance canvasscr. 1t
is said he took five hundred risks at Hunts
vile, Ala. recently, VIII ich is more than he
ever allowed himself to take when President
of the C..S. a.
There isa new gold excitement in Califor-
mia, leading thousands to San Diego county.
This is the most southern county of the
State, bounded east by Arizona and west
by the Pacific. The Arizona gold mines
are just across the Colorado, from San
Diego. between the Gila and Bill Williams
branch Our latest mails are to March 4.
They say nothing Of the gold discoveries
there, that are reported to be attracting
great Numbers. The distance from San
Diego is 4j0 miles direct.
An cntcrprising New York merchant
placed large oyster basket full of silver
coins in his show case, over which was
placed the inscription, ''spccie payments
resumed" Being afraid the temptation
would be too much for the cupidity of pass
ers-by, he stationed on the step Il man in
the costume ofa Zouavc, bearing a muskct
to guard the silver. 1t is doubtful which
excited the most attention, the soldier or
the silver.
Senator Rcvcls, of Mississippi, aprropri-
atelv commenced his active Senatorial ca
reer,with the presentation ofa petition pray
ing Congress to remove the political dis
abilities 1f the DISTINGUISHED people of his
State. This does not look much like the
beginning OF the war Of races, 50 dJlefully
foret0ld by Andrew ,Jonson.
General Breckenridge did brave thing
in Louisville recently when he denounced
the men who belong to the KN-lEiuX Kan
us either idiots or villains, and expressed
his readiness to respond to SUNNI ms
from the Sheriff as one Of his posse to bring
them to Justice. Ifall the former leaders
OF the rebellion were as bold III dissoun-
tcnancing political assassination we shou d
have a better state Of affairs in the
South.
A raid is about being made on the
State treasury by a lot Of lawyers from the
border counties, uTlcr prctcns1 OF paying
persons in those counties for losses sustain
ed through the rSbc;s during III, war. The
millions Of dollars.
! \ Case Of Deafness Of Il years stand:n-
rhc result of CatarrlJ cared by the ust Of
Dir. Sa%c's Catarrh Remedy. .evi Springer,
Esq, Of Durban's Corners, William. Co., .,
writes, under date of January 4. 1869, that
he has been using DE-. Sagc'a Catarrh
Remedy, and says it has cured him ofd1at-
ness of fourteen years standing. lie was
80 deaf that he could not hear person
talk when seated by their side, and can now
hear the church bells ring two miirs dis
taut. 1t is sold by druggists, or send sixty
cents to DR.. r. Y. Pierce, Buffalo, y. Y.
a nice young man in New Orleans ran
away with and married the supposed
daughter Of a highly respectable lady. and
came back for the lady'S blessing VIII ch
was freely given, together with the inform
alton that the girl was not her daughter,
but quadroon servant girl. He sid it
was swindlc, and left for parts unknown.
VILE CHERRY BALSAM-Thc memory
of DR.. Wistar is cmbalmed in the hearts
of thousands whom his BalSan. of wa
Cherry has cured of coughs, colds, con-
sumption, or some other form of Pulmonary
disease. 1t is now over forty years since
this preparation was brought before the
public, and yet the demand for it is con-
stant'y increasing.
spccr's E'1rt Grape Wine.