Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-03
; TIE news from Mexico IA AGAIN favor

TIE news from Mexico is again favor
able to Che government, giving accounts of
the defeats of the revoluuonists between
Camargo and Mier. The leader of the
rebels, General Pena, was killed. General
Cortina asserts his determination to sup
port the government, and telegraphs to the
commander Mt Matamoras that he expected
to be beseged yesterday, but was confident
Of his ability to resist successfully. Martial
law has been declared in San Luis. The
Legislature protested and dissolved. Ad-
ditional disaster to General Porfrio Diaz's
army is reported from government sources.
THE Press suggests that now that Tweed
and Iammany have gone down together in
New York, there will he fair elections and
uniformly Republican victories in Connecti-
cut. We think it is very probable.
The Republican State Convention of Con-
necticut met on Wednesday last, and nomi-
mated a State ticket. The election does not
take place until April.
A Few OLD BooKs.-Our esteemed
citizen, John b. Hall, has several copies of
books, venerable for their age and their
contents. A copy of Rutherford's Letters.
! printed in 1887, is in n very good state of
/ preservation. The Law Unveiled, an Ex-
! position of the Ten Commandments, by
James Durham, was printed in 1875. A
Man, was printed in Philadelphia 1923,
and copy of Boston's -Four Fold State,'
printed at Darrstown, NOW Lewisburg,), J,
in this State, in 1885, IVillid,nSport Gu
zette.
! REV. L. w. KIRBY was tried on charge
of adultery, before the Franklin county
court, at Chambersburg, last week. The
verdict of the jury was guilty and the
Judge sentenced the prisoner to thirty
days Imprisonment, two hundred dollars
fine and TO pay the costs of prosecution.
THE post Office at Scranton, Pa, was
damaged by fire on Monday night, four
small frame houses adjoining it being con-
sumed No injury resulted to the mails.
IN the United States Senate, Tuesday
the French Spoliation bill was reported by
Mr., Cameron, providing for a commission
Of three, to be appointed by the President
and confirmed By the Senate, to examine
and audit such claims, and order their pay
mcLt to the extent of Sj,0O0,0OO.
a NEW disease has appeared among the
cattle of Texas. Cattle affected by the dis
order run in line, irOth at the mouth, look
redeyGd, aud have the general appearance
Of madness produced by hydrOphobia.
The Legislature of Wisconsin has passed
, a bill providing for a loan of $50, 600 to en-
able the sufferers by the late prairie fires to
purchase seed for the next crop.
The fate of the tariff bill now before the
United States Congress pro posing the re-
dlction of tie duty on coal to fifty cents
per ton causes great anxiety among Nova
Scotia dealers.
The weather all over the country is in
tensely cold At Poughkccpsc, Wednes sday
, morning, the thermometer stood ten de
grccs below zero, and in West Virginia the
Kanawha river is iroyen over, and all the
mails are delayed.
They have discovered process in
5 France by which the same quantity OF
grain will yield thirty per cent. more bread
than by the old process, but it takes fifty
per cent. more time to make bread. As
labor is dcarer than grain in that country
the idea is not feasible.