Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-11-23
NEWS ITEMS.

GOuUn bnHn his IOTt1leT messages.
President. Grant has resolved to apply
the civil.service rules in the New York
custom.house, where an appointment is to
be made.
THE oldest steamer in the world is the
Industry of Glasgow, launched in 1914.
At the close Of business on Saturday
there were in the United States Treasury
in currency SO, ,521, 1876; coin, S72, ,997 ,543,
including S21, ,554 900 in coin certificates.
The total revenue receipts for the mouth
amounts to S49,372, 1923.
GOATS are being used for draught pur-
poses in Chicago during the prevalence of
the horse disease.
A FoUR-HoRsE load of people with wa
gon and horses lately tumbled eighteen
feet in mining pit at Coloma, CAL, but
seriously injured nobody.
Grants majority in Virginia is 1875 ;
Greeley's in Tennessee {, S,213.
SEALsKIN bonnets are one of the latest
agonies.
The track of the Monongahela Valley
railroad has been laid short distance be-
yond Homestead, about ten miles above
Pittsburg.
ACCORDING to our exchanges, Pennsy-
vania has her full share of wife deserters,
There ought to be whipping posts for these
rascals.
THE milk producers of Chester, Della
ware and Montgomery counties are in
trouble with the retailers of this article
in Philadelphia, whom they charge with
dishonesty.
THE reunion of the 77th Regiment Penn
sylvania Veteran Volunteers at Lancaster,
on Friday, promises to be brilliant and
| interesting affair.
THE Nineteenth annual session of The
Cumberland County Teachers Institute
is being held at Mechanicsburg. There is
a good attendance, and the proceedings are
reported to be of much interest.
THE mud in the Oil regions is immense,
twenty inches deep being the measure
ment in some localities.
MANY of the oil producers in Butler
county have agreed not to do or have any
work done for them on Sunday.
The Ledger estimates the number of
horses now dying daily in Philadelphia at
from $50 to 200.
The pay roll of the Reading railroad
amounts TO S3 5000, 900 annually.
At Newark, on Saturday, woman was
chlorolOrmed, while her shoulder, which
was dis!ocated, was operated upon, and
she died without returning to conscious
/ ness.
In Alabama, on Monday, the Legisla-
isature was to meet. The members did
gather but in two bodies-the Democrats
| in one place, and the Republicans in
another.
DR.. Uouard has written letter, thank
! ing President Grant for his release from n
Spanish prison.
General Bingham's formal resignation of
the Postmastership of Philadelphia. was re-
ceiyed by the President on Friday evening.
I 1t is dated the 18th, and is to take effect on
December 1st.
The Young Mems Republican Club of
Washington called upon President Grant
last Saturday, and congratulated him on
his reelection. The President said the
vote he received was more gratifying than
the possession of the Office itself, an it show
l cd that the people did not believe the cam
paign ISLANDERS on his character.
IT is estimated that 100000 hogs will
be packed this year in the United States.
RETURNS from 112 counties in Missouri
give Greeley 25,G40 majority. Returns
from JOG counties give WoOdson for Cover
nor 81 ,372 majority. Col. Hay, Repub!i-
cans to nine Democrats
PRESIDENT GRANT has stated to several
friends his determination to adhere in fu
ture appointments to the rules and regula
. tions prescribed by the Civil Service Com
mission The announcement of this fact
has had depressing effect upon a number
of politicians, who we're under the impres
sion that there would be new deal al
, around.
The house of John Watson, near Titus
vile, Pa, was entered on Friday night by
five masked robbers, who bound the family
and compellei Watson to open the safe
After taking $1,000 from the safe, the,
bound Watson with the others, and escap
ed.
THE Official returns from Kansas show
; Republican majority of 33, 700. Republican
, gain, 1850 over the election of 1871
: The Legislature stands ll9 Republicans, l
Democrats.
DR.. Paul Shnppc, who was, on n frs
trial at Carlisle for murder, convicted, ant
on n second trial acquitted, is lecturing o.
:. "Science in Law" From experience h
u ought to know something about the subject
), The Louisville Courjer-Journol is dis
u gusted with the Northern Democracy. an
vents its feelings in this way.
l. The Democrats in the North have NJ
o done their duty. Well, they fooled US i
y lSel, when they swore that Lincoln an
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I, their dead bodies to get Mt the South, an
. they have been fooling us ever since wit
u wordy protestations that only misled u
u If they had stood up to us Greeley woul
~ have been elected. 1t strikes us that, her
~ after, we had best take care of ourselev'
70 and go it on own hook.
TIE resignation by Judge Mercur of h
seat in Congress, to take his position as OF
of the Judges of the Supreme Court, w
u leave vacancy in the Bradford Congre
u sional District. To save trouble al
u expense of special election, the Bradfol
ne Reporter is in favor Of permitting the di
"a trict to remain unrepresented for the sho
Ia session that termininates the iorty-secor
40 Congress.
" ABOUT 700 logs in the Muncy Boom b
longing to Wiiliamsport Lumbermen, we
sold at public sale, at the Lumbermans Z
u change, Williamsport, on Tuesday. II
,s, price obtained was Sl2 for pine and Sc {
US hemlock Jameson being the pu
no. chaser. -Hulcy Luminary.
Is. According to the census for 1870 t
lrt Methodists of the United States are t