Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-12-16
NEWS ITEMS.


The temperance men of the State are or
ganzed to besiege the Legislature for pro-
hibitory laws.
| A telegraph line is to be put up along
the Sunbury and Lewistown railroad.
Protracted religious meetings are being
held in many parts of Snyder county.
When the smallpox broke out in Milton,
| Dr. Davis made it his business to give up
| all other practice, and attend to that mala-
dy alone. Pass his name around ms
moral hero.
Deer were 'Ri}fi R}ieo LemnG,g d ~, n,a snss slo noun
tain opposite this Borough, Saturday week
three by parties from this place, and two
by parties from Wiliamsport
A new magnificent synagogue is being
built by the Jews of Wiliamsport
Iowa comes to the front with bale of cot
ton of as good quality as any in the south.
Fernandina, Fla, has ripe Strawberries.
The Manassas battlefield has been sold
for eighty dollars an acre.
Forty thousand emigrants are expected
TO arrive at Duluth next season.
They have a man in Pottsvile who eats
mice at n lunch.
They have q fashion in Coatesville of
stealing the silver communion service from
the Episcopal church.
Oil strikes are exciting the people of Pit
hole, and new wells are being opened -'o'S
day
The Jobigh y..ry Railroad company
bo, n.juocI tolls on coal from Mauch
Ghf,rL 'iIi 20 NV York, from 81. l3 to &lS7.
The Sunbury and Lewistown railroad
company advertises its readiness to pay all
just claims which parties may hold against
it.
1t is reported that the Mexican town of
Saltillo has surrendered and that the Revo.
lutionists are marching on san Luis Potosi
from Saltillo, and are also advancing from
Monterey on Mier and Camargo.
The tobacco crop was immense last sea-
son, and growers all over the state are
complaining of a loss Of money and stock
for want of sales.
Many of our State exchanges are adyo-
eating the passage of a law enforcing COM
pulsory education.
The erection of a stupendous anthracite
furnace was commenced at Scranton, on
Friday last.
1h of Nov@Sm6er ven The consructfen % afe !" Of ,fPs
railroad to the Caracoas mines had been
/ begun. The telegraph line between Val
paraiso and San Felipe has been completed.
ne hospitals were insufficient to accommo-
date the smallpox patients.
Goo. Francis Train is publishing little
paper 9t Omaha, Nebraska, called The
IfdR L'gne, which advocates the claims
OF George to the White Eouse. Ali his
documents are signed Next President e
'"ica.n
The colin.
the SAlabama',", for the arbitrations of
bbcGrEaSfna ann if%itTarland, if% on mil! assemble at
hhnut G, tS ssi..',7e '"m continue &C. GDecem-
e. cnuonI ,u I'VE hundred cases will be prcsetGr
Trying to do business without odvor,;s
nhs is IKE winknS at pretty Girl tbronrI
pa!r Vi green goggles YOU may knGH
""'' so" Gre doing, but nobody else does
Receipts of fractional currency Gr A.,
week, S76G, 100; shipments, S90I 7o9. m shinI tne
ments ofnotes, 81, 522, ,4jS, Tho Tre,,smrap 1",p,
holds as security for national honk c;ro',io
Iioh, S3OO, oh, 900, and for deposits of nmh.
tic money, Sl5,229 900; national hank cir
I 773,45G '''' ~'-o,
Awoman who spent her life in catherine
rassi aI fort Wayne, Ind, recently died
ana ocqueathed her husband $4,000.
inc deaths from smallpox in Philadel.
'hl'i iast week numbered l00 which is 34
lGss than the previous one. The renort or
Tue board OF Health shows that The disease
Is now pretty well distributed over the city
new cases are less frequent than beGaro
anu the panic that existed two or three
weeks ago now mostly subsidized
a PrIssion engineer has invented n ma.
o.lno olno ",iich VIII manufacture ice without
chemicals, merely by compression and oS'
puision of air. The specimen mocbino
now mt New York makes two.tons of ino
per day, and the capacity can be increased
to twenty tons, '"''u
non John BiSler, Ex-Governor of CoIi.
IT, ","' uIou NJ sacramento on Friday last.
Pennsylvania. "'ser oi
iliE Hdtonida relates that Mrs. Doyi1
montgomery was quite seriously inipraJ a,'
rluay week, by being thrown from n hu,,'
" near hemerer's mill. Mr. and Mrs
~ ~ Niio,h.,Sonery were returning home from
'.''' w m'tui, When u part of the harness
.',,' ,'oAo anu tle morse They were driving be.
'TfN''.NHi iAil blis upset The bl00N |
md threw ,hem out. MIR Al os,"ss3 n"ss3
Without serious injury, while Mrs. NJ, was
ever ever y injured, u being reported at one
ilne 'hal she would not survive her min. NM
l,s, rs, pr 1. II, Hull was sent for and rem. rem
9fei proner medical aid, aud we are Mo-
q 10 lea,n that Mrs. NJ. Is now etitins
long we'll, w." s''''"s
,i,, ii'G G,,i.I leI'a95catle press seem TO be in
l'al df'al OF our little army. Tho su"'
eslion OF General sherman tRat the psN
en- be clothed with discretionary mower :,
Keep the companies t0 "A standaTJ r,,,'' "
= os,seen sixty aud one hundred private
'Jo'd'nS 'istd .p 'ne nature OF the services re'
lii.d OF 'he lroopA," has st lhs Who'll
Sn"efalle party la a llutteE Thov sss
,"ie W ihe suggestion that Il contains
h' s,neh sun'tllsder aai bayonet ruls
"Nl1'of al Washington, and oppres.
.lst 49, ltahhy an over lhe eonntry. 4,
hAl .iAh4ply Creatures they arr. Ths, Y
akhll ekrff act al ihe aln,lni....,i' Y