Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-03-30

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old.
Boston has prohbitory law, and l12l
bar-rooms.
Russia has recently organized $4,000
public schools.
Scranton denies The report of spotted fe-
yer being epidemic in that town.
Judge Davis intends to investigate the
forging of his name to the letter accepting
the nomination Of the Labor Reform Con-
vention, and if the parties are discovered
he will punish them.
Parties from Utah, who are in Washing
ton trying to get that Territory admitted as
State, are case to submit to the Terri
torial Committees of the two Houses.
They argue that its admission as a State is
the only way to solve the Mormon difficult
ty, and at the same time further trouble to
the government.
Colonel Tom. Scott, of the Pennsylvania
Central. has proposed to build the Northern
and Southern West Virginia Railroad if
the counties along the route will subscribe
million dollars. This will make Il stir
along the route. The Counties interested
can raise this SUN easily if they want to-
Alligator hides are tanned by the thou
in the shape of winter boots and shoes.
Hay is very scarce in some parts of SOM
crs2t county, Maine. and several cattle
have died from actual starvation.
Great news comes from the Lake Superb
or silver mining region. At Silver Island
enormous quantities of ore are daily taken
out, the amount being incXhanstible, the
only limit being the force employed.
the lap of spring" is not appropriate to
this latitude, since Miss Spring, as yet. has
not developed any thing like "ldp" for
herself
Asparagus and green peas have made
their appearance in the Savannah market
Large numbers of negroes are leaving
North Carolina for the Mississippi States.
The President has signed the bill grant
ing presumption rights to settlers in Cali
fornia.
George n. Knapp, postmaster orOrleans,
Ind, has disappcard. He is charged with
S4OOOthrough fraudulent money orders.
The best explanation of the almost in
val liable success of the Republican ticket in
the recent elections is that in Tammany-
ism the people see Democracy, and in n
alton, and the general prosperity of the
working masses, they see Republcanism.
The delayed overland mails on arriving
at San Francisco made eighteen large
wagon loads.
An Irishman called at drug store to get
a bottle Of Johnson's Anodync Liniment
for the rheumatism the druggist asked
him in what part of the body it troubled
m en nj hn hou
il in livery houl and corner er me-"
For loss of cud, horn all, red water in
cows, loss of appetite, rot, or murrain in
sheep; thick wind, broken wind, and roar
ing, and for all distractions of the kidneys
in horses use Sheridans Cavalry Condition
Powders.
Mr.. VIM. L. Smiths former well-knowu
Philadelphia Member of the Legislature,
has been stricken with paralysis, and is in
a dangerous condition.
Two children died of hydrophobia in
Brooklyn, in friShtful agony last week.
They, with three others, had been bitten by
little black-an-tau dog in February.
The bill for the election of State Treasur-
er by the people PASSED the lower branch
of the Legislature on Monday.
Excitement over the temperance question
of Illinois are making a vigorous war on the
new law, but it is thought will hardly sue
coed in securing it's repeal. In Iowa a
similar bill has been defeated. Wiscon-
SIMS Legislature is also in trouble on the
same question.
A California lecturer recently made n
point in illustrating the power of heat. by
saying that the iron track of the Central
Pacific Railroad is 1000 feet shorter to-day
than on the 4th of July last.
Thos. II. Greery and John Siney have
issued a call for a Labor reform conven-
tion" to meet at Williamsport on the 7th
of May, to nominate candidates for State
offices, &c.
LATE on Tuesday night of last week, the
Logan House at Altoona, this State, took
tire, new extension, nearly completed,
and containing siXty-siX rooms, being en-
tirely destroyed. The cause is unknown,
and the loss is 100000.
An Arkansas paper says that in Law
renee county, as some persons were clear
ing some land, they set fire to a large oak
lying on the ground, when they noticed a
rattlesnake crawling out from under the
log. They turned it over, when a den
was disclosed, containing seventy-two rat
tlesnakes. two green snakes and one king
snake. Twenty-Five of the raltlesnakes
had from fourteen to eighteen rattles, and
measured from seven to nine feet in length.
France continues to be in very unset
tied state, so far as Paris is concerned.
The rural portions of the nation and most
Of the other principal cities do not seem
to participate in the feeling prevalent in
metropolis. The singular anamoly is pre-
sented of the existence of Republican
form of Government with President at
its head, in the face of a National Assembly
containing decided majority opposed to
i. The truth is. the opposition supports