Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-08-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


sand immigrants, principally from Ger
many, England and Ireland, have been
landed at the port of New York since the
first Of the present month.
SENATOR BRowNLow says: "Elect
Greeley and Brown and we are placed back
where we were in 1861, when the traitors
fired upon Sumpter."
New MEXICO recently decided against
free schools, the vote standing 81 for TO 5076
against. \ poor place for a schoolmaster.
4 COLORED nurse who ofliciated in the
family of President Madison has just died.
aged l07.
TIE stamp oftwo cents on bank checks is
not to be reduced to one cent on and after
the 1st of October next. The recent tariff
and tay law repealed all stamp taxes of
schedule B excepting only the tax of two
cents on bank checks, drafts or orders.n
A LARGE tract of grain has been burned
in California, by native laborers, because
tho-iarmers were about TO eiAploy Chinese.
TIE beer stamps issued during the fiscal
year ending June 30 were y, ,5Oj, 600, an
increase Of 5000, 600 over the year previ-
Gus.
FROZEN Watermclcns are the latest lux
uries at tie South.
THERE will he enough grapes in Texas
this year to make more wine than was ever
manufactured in France in one year.
PARIS is oycrrun with counterfeit gold
coin manufactured III Spain.
TIE mosquito crop in New Jersey this
season is said to surpass the yield of any
previous year known to the oldest inhabi-
tant.
IN view Of the immense wheat crop in
California certain parties arc engineering
''corncr" in freights
THERE is every prospect of an immense
npach crop this season. Our New Jersey,
Delaware and Maryland exchanges all tell
the same story, with the addition that the
quality viii be finer than in any preceding
year. The Delaware crOpis just ripcnlng,
though no good specimens Of the fruit have
as vet got into market.
MIFFLINBURG rcjoices in the acquisition
Of Il magnetic telegraph.
one of the great sources of disaster and
loss in the oil It glons is by lightning strlk-
ing oil tanks.
THIRTY THOUSAND young shad were de-
posted in the Allegheny river, at different
| points, week before last
/ TIE venerable Andrew Stewart, long n
member of Congress, and distinguished for
| Tariff advocacy. died at his home, in Fay
cite county, on Tuesday Of last week.
ALAw passed by the Legislature of the
| District of Columbia, extending equal rights
/ to all citizens, irrespective Of color, in pub
/ lie places, went into effect on Saturday.
In 1871 the total quantity of tea entered
! at the custom house in England for home
! consumption exceeded the enormous num-
Der of one hundred and twcnty-threc mil
lion pounds.
A want has been felt and expressed by
| physicians for Il safe and reliable purGative.
| Such want is now supplied in Parsons
Purgative Pills.
Henry X. Bond of Scferson, Maine, was
cured Of splitting blood, soreness and weak
ness of the stomach, by the use Of john
sons Anodyne Linimcnt.
The nomination of Buckalew over Cass.
was Il triamph of the Reading Railroad
over the PENNSYLVANIA Central. AS Gov
ernor Buckalew could be of more service
to the former road, than as its attorney,
in all future contests with the people Of the
coal regions.
ANDREW JOHNSON intends to swing
around his little Tennessee circle in behalf
of Greeley, and says Grant must be beaten
hy all or any means. Andy tried tC beat
him when he was President and the Gen
eral Secretary of War, but he was so badly
worsted that he has hated Grant even
since.
TIE n. Y. Tribune admits that the
Tammany organization supports Greeley,
but labors to show that Tammany is not
as bad as it used to be. The people have
learned enough of Tammany to look with
suspicion upon anything it supports
Tammany, is not denied, robbed New
Work city of millions or dollars. Let il
get control of the government through
Greeley, or any other person, apd it vii
steal by the hundreds Of AlllionsF
f. b. WINGERT, for number of years
cashier of the First National Bank OF Ash
land, Pa, and one Of the most enterprisins
citizens of that town, died on NJ ondaN
night
E AN American citizen inCarcerated in {
Mexican Jail on false charges has been re
leased. General Rocha has levied IL forced
loan of $50, 900 on the merchants OF Mon
terey. The condition of the country is re
presented as being deplorable,
A CONVENTION of Irish-American citi
zens iavoring the election of Grant ant
Wilson will be held in Philadelphia in Sep
TEMPER. ltls proposed 10 MAKE IL an lillpos
! ing demonstration. The Irish are no long
er the property Of the Democracy.
', WHILE the Greeleyites are talking S
|, loudly about the presents Gen. Grant ha
; accepted, and making lists of them, VIII
do they leave off by far the larger portion @
! them ~ 4 large Democratic convention
! assembled at AppomattoX Court llous
. 'ouce upon time" and their chief office
was so well convinced of Grants worth an
!, power, that he presented him a splendi
sword whereupOn the whole convention
: followed his example and made presents {
property to the value Of millions, VIII
! leave this out
D Since the close of the rebellion not les
I than hcenty-thrce thousand persons, blac
: and white, have been scourged, banishe
f or murdered by the KuKlux K!ans of th
S south. The victims of their horrible ban
a barity, have been Republicans. Not
. single Democrat has suffered,