Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-06-29
GENERAL NEWS ETENS.

An Indiana editor locates the Holy Land
in Nebraska.
Taxation is unknown in Morocco; the
funds raised are called loans.
The cheese factories all over the western
reserve are now in full operation.
Florida is the only State in the United
States without Il daily newspaper.
Illinois produced 5000 tons ofpig metal
last year; five years ago, not ton
Duyal county, Florida, has produced an
Irish potato 70 inches long and nearly as
many around.
In Dresden they have an American club.
II is a very agreeable place wherein to pass
an hour or two i'll the morning.
An English paper states that there are
altogether two hundred and two princes
and princesses of royal blood in Europe to-
day.
Compulsory military service is now the
law of France, with no substitutes and no
exceptions, after the German style in this
respect.
Next to Rothschild, the wcalthiest bank
er in Vienna is man who in his youth
started an errand boy at 4 salary Of one
tlorn week
Massa Christopher Columbus was
queer man, said negro orator; a notion
crossed him one day, and den he crossed
an ocean.
Jennie Clailin responded, when elected
as colonel of the Eighty-Iiith, in Il little
speech. in which she said she would make
the regiment the foremost one Of the Ma
tional Guard.
1t is estimated that the total watcr-power
OF Maine is equal to the combined total en-
crgy Of 3i,OOO,O0O men laboring day and
night all the year round, or exceeding the
actual working power Of all the men in the
United States, England, France and Ger
many.
Statistics hare been compiled, from which
it appears that during the first four months
Of 1872 the amount OF money sought to be
raised for new loans, banks and industrial
undertakings brought out in England,
America and on the continent was about
GlGO, 900.
Within the past thirty-nine months, the
Republican party, under President Grant,
has reduced the debt about 1892 900, 900.
Beat Grant
/ Gen. George B. Mcclellan has "done
4 HOllc NTOuH, anu llDH say = llt VIZ L NOlc
/ for Greeley. What's the differences The
/ Second Napoleon always helps the cause he
/ fights, and no doubt this is his understand
ing with Greeley.
The mine inspectors in the anthracite re-
Gion report the number Of workmen killed
| during 1872 at 272. About one-third OF
these were killed by the explosion of gas,
and nearly oue-siXth lost their lives through
their own negligence. The number injured
was G22.
\ Mrs. Welsh was shot by her son in
Philadelphia, on Saturday night last, and
died on Monday morning. The young man
seemed insane, imagining his mother was
about TO poison him.
In West Chester, on Sunday, an un-
known man took a horse and wagon stand
on the street, and drove until he upset, re-
ceiving injuries which caused his death.
1t is thought he was insane.
In Brazil bitter contest is going on be.
tween Masonry aud U!tramOntanism. The
Masons are struggling for more freedom in
education, for which they are eXcomunicat
ed by the Ultramontane Priests.
THE old Episcopal Church on Third
street, Williamsport, was sold to the Wash
ington street Baptist congregation. They
have re-modelled and retitted the building,
aud it was dedicated on Sunday, the Rev
Il. Clapp preaching the sermon.
TIE Jersey Shore Herald says: w. B.
Wilson, of this place, while in Chetopa
Kansas, October 5, 1870, marked a ten dol
lar greeuback with his name and the above
date. On the Sth inst. the same bill came
into his possession. Taking the distance
into consideration, it seems strange.
WILLIAMsPoRT hack drivers charge al
the rate of 81 an hour for hauling strangers
from the depot to different parts of town.
The Middleburg Post reports locusti
alarmiugly plenty in Snyder county, almos
every tree aud shrub being laden with them
The salary of the Milton Post Master
has been raised from fourteen hundred dol
lars to sixteen hundred dollars per year, L
commence July l, 1872.
MEssRs. JACOB BUsHoNG, Henry Bush
ong, Herbert Bushong and IL. Y. Benja
min have purchased the anthracite furnace
at Williamsport, of John Fox, for $40, 900
: No body in this county seems anxious tC
take any stock in Buckalew. He is not !
, tayorite even among the Democracy -
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