Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-02-03

general throughout the whole Northwest,
and exceeds in severity anything ever
known before.
TIE Persian famine is worse than ever.
A RICH gold mine has been found at
Racine.
TIE California Legislature is asked to aid
the culture of silk in that State.
NINE tons Of bullion silver in bars passed
over the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad on Wednesday last.
ALL the Moscow students who signed
the address in favor of liberty of the press
have been banished to Siberia.
TIE cold is so great in Italy this winter
that there has been skating at Florence and
Naples, for the first time in many years.
BUFFALO BILL has received magnif
cent diamond breastpn from Alexis, and
at last accounts was negotiating for a
shirt.
CINCINNATI is said to be more densely
populated than any other city in the coun
try. The population is about 36, 900 to the
square mile New York, the next most
pOpulous city, has %, 900 to the square mile.
Cincinnati has about liity-eight buildings
to the square acre. London has forty, and
DouDlln thlrty-tWO.
\ pIoUs but uncducatcd Judge closed Il
sentence with the following touching re =
proach: Prisoner AZ the bar, nature has
endowed YOU with a good education and
respectable family connections, Instead of
which you 90 proving around the country
stealing ducks"
\ LITTLE twelve year old boy in Wis
consin was permitted toplay with the lami-
ly gun the other day. lnasmuch as the
boys eldest sister now Sleeps in the village
graveyard in consequence of his antics, the
parents have concluded okead the gun out
of his reach for few years yet .t.
TIE announcement that the Kentucky
Senate had passed the Southren railroad
bill on Saturday was received in Cincinnati
with great satisfaction. The dispatches
from central Kentucky reported great re-
iUicing. The town of Danville was iliumi-
mated and the citizens are firing cannon
and having general jolliiication.
/ STOKES, the debaucher and murderer.
lives luXuriously in the toombs, his cell
adorned with lace-curtains and rich car
pets, his bed of soft-down, and his atmos-
phcTe rekoent with the perfume of exotic
boQucts placed there every morning. 1t is
sort of heroism to be n murderer in New
York.
TIE stockholders OF the Erie railroad are
bgseeching the New York Legislature to
give them power to elect Board of Dircc-
tors of their own choice. Fisk and Gould.
with the aid of Boss Tweed, had cheated
them out of that right
/ WILLIAM THOMPSON, formerly an adiu-
{ tant under General jackson. aud once the
wcallhicst banker in New Orleans, was
4 L., 4 a, g.F'
I Sunday night sick aud destitute, and nearly
starved. lie was taken to the hospital by
the police. He is so years old
NJ. NJ. PoMERoY. yclopt Brick, was sued
/ for $4,000 damages for breach of promise
of marriage, Saturday, by Sallie Wilkinson,
of New Haven, having promised to marry
her in 1856.
! The Treasurer of the United States has
| ruled that the Department will pay express
( charges only on such mutilated currency
as is forwarded directly to the Treasurer
under the government contract with the
/ Adams Express Company.
II Germany the coinage of gold pieces,
according TO the new law, will be apport-
! ioncd 10 the various minting establishments
| in the following manner: Berlin to turn out
million pieces per month, Hanover 3OO,-
! 600, and Frankfort $50, ,0OO, the Bavarian
mint, 200, ,0G0, the Saxon 140, 900, the Wur-
| temberg 200 900, the Badenese 50, 600, and
the lIessian 40, 700 pieces.
Many people, particularly children, suffer
| with the ear ache and for the benefit of
such we give sure but simple remedy.
/ Put in two or three drops of Johnson's
Anodyne Liniment, stop the ear with un-
| dressed wool, battle the feet in warm water
before going to bed, and keep the head
warm at night.
Capt. Charles Sager, who keeps a superb
stock of livery horses in Portland, Me-, in
formed us recently that he uses Sheridan's
! Cavalry Condition Powders regularly in
his stables, and that the expense is more
than Offset by the diminished amount of
grain necessary to keep his horses always
I in good order.
There is a possibility that Congress may
| yet reduce the ratio of representation, in
which case Pennsylvania may secure three
additional members of the House. AS the
matter now stands we are entltled to two
new members, and tho difficulty OF rear
ranging the districts may result in law
! authorizing the election of the pewsniem-
bers Eat large"
THE PHILApELPHIA MEST.-Hon. r.
| w. Taylor, First Comptroller of the Trea-
sury, who was appointed to investigate
certain complaints against The officers of
the mint for mismanagement, reports
that, 'after listening TO the testimony |
find that there is nothing in the evidence
which in the slightest degree impeaches