Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-10-28
NEWS ITEMS.


NEVADA has a spring that will color the
hair q jet black.
KEEP clear of man who does not value
his own character.
TIE Chicago fire has used up nearly fifty
insurance companies.
THE Allegheny river has not been so low
as il is now since 1881.
THERE is talk of establishing a match
mandatory at Reading.
THE $500 premium offered by the st.
Louis fair for the best bale of cotton from
that State on exhibition was found to have
sufficient merit.
Quite q riot occurred in Lincoln, Eng
land, on Saturday, growing out of the
strike among the miners. The police were
overpowercd, and considerable damage
was done.
General Sheridan has ordered 1000 army
blankets, 2000 ovcTcoats, and 100 wagons,
to be sent for the people of Northern Wis
consin.
Terrible fires are raging in the woods in
Campbell county, Kentucky, and the peo-
pie have sent to Louisville and Cincinnati
for assistance.
The Hague is said TO be the wealthiest
town for its population in the world. One
third of its citizens arc wealthy enough to
live without work.
The order of United American Mechan-
ics, at the session of its State Council re-
Gently held in Philadelphia, took ground
against that system of the Trades Unions
which limits the number of apprentices
that employers are permitted to have.
Geo o. Evans, charged with embezzle-
ly ta1 m
and has been lodged in Jail at Harrisburg,
to await trial.
IT seems that the Tammany ring are
making pseudo military arrangements on
their own account to secure matters all
their own way at the coming November
election, by organizing the laborers on the
public works into military squads. Their
only hope is TO pollutc the ballot box and
again obtain place and power through
fraud.
Lycoming county elected Republican
Associate Judge, Prothonotary and Sheriff.
This is the first time the Democrats of Ly-
coming have been defeated in seventeen
years.
On joint ballot in the Ohio Legislature
the Republicans have a working majority
which may be interpreted to mean the re-
Senate of the United States.
England, Ireland and Scotland are no.
bly, responding to the cry for relief sent
across the ocean from Chicago. Thus far
over Sl5l 900 in gold has been collected in
London, Glasgow and Dublin alone.
a terrible riot, attended with bloodshcd,
occurred at Los Angle, California, on Tues
day, growing out of resistance to the laws
by some Chinese, fifteen Of whom were
lynched.
On the 18th instant a large party of Che
rokee Indians arrived in Raleigh, n. c., to
give an aboriginal exhibition ball game"
Three squaws participated.
TIE WEAKLEY CAsE-There will be
no ditlicultyy whatever in this case. Mr..
Weakley is so clearly entitled to his seat
that We do not think his right will be ques-
toned by single Senator. Mr.. Skilcs,
the Franklin county return judge, has
signed q certificate of Mr.. Weakley's cleo
tion, having been convinced that his refu-
sal to do so in the first instance was vio-
lation Of his duty under the law. This,
with the official returns showing n maiori-
ty of SOB in his favor, is all sufficient, and
Mr.. Weakley will, we think, be permitted
to take his seat at the opening of the scs-
sion as a Republican Senator without oppo-
sition. There is really no ground for n
contest, and the Democrats know it,
Harrisburg Telegraph,
BURNING MoUNTAINs.--A fire COM
menccd burning ON the mountains along
the dam below BiXler's gap on Thursday
last, which gradually spread until most ol
the knobs and main mountain in the Mar
rows were burnt over. On Sunday another
broke out or was set on fire through
Granville gap, which ragged furiously into
the night, presenting a long line of flames
to the top of the further mountain. The
weather has been dry, and occasionally
windy, but it is hoped the showers of Mon
day night put a stop to its further ravages
--LeWiStOtcR Gazette.