Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-09-07
NEWS ITEMS.

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ton. lie was an officer of 1912.
! In Indiana, when they want to announce
Schurz for speech, they say The Hon.
Carl Schurz will go for his little 5000 at
this evening""
In one Oft the counties of Oregon there is a
solitary Greeley man who is waiting for
somebody to come along and organize him
into campaign club.
THE Hon. JoHN J. McCALMoNT, of
Franklin, Pennsylvania, who was the Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress in his dis
trict four years ago, has abandoned Greeley
and joined the Republican ranks. His
accession to the Republican party will, it is
thought, insure the election ofa Republican
Congressman in the Twentieth district now
represented by Democrat.
The workmen at the Dapville Iron
Works raised handsome Grant and Will
son flag over the rolling mill on Saturday
Espy Columbia county has an India rub
/ Der washing machine factory, just finished
at a cost of 100000. 1t is said to be the
only one of the kind in this country.
The new insane asylum at Danville will
be ready for occupancy in ABOUT three
months.
Large deposits of anthracite coal have
been found in the upper end of Dauphin
! county.
A GERMAN in Lock Haven recently gave
his wife uu unmerciful beating because she
did not like him. 1t is not stated what is
the present condition ofher feeling.
A very large mass meeting in San Fran
cisco on Thursday evening last, adopted
resolutions fully endorsing the Atlantic
and Pacific otherwise called the Thirty
fifth Parallel railway project.
A ONE legged soldier was robbed at the
depot at Newcastle, the other day by a
party of rouGhs who had followed him from
Pittsburg for that purpose. They got
about SO from him and escaped. They all
have on white hats.
Over twenty cases of sun stroke, most of
them fatal, occurred in st. Louis during the
three last days of last week. The thermome-
ter during the week ranged from 95 to 100
in the shade at midday. Sunday was the
hottest of the season, The thermometer
marked from 9S to 104 in the shade, and
was 95 at O'Clock in the evening.
At Pittsburg, on Friday, the Western
iron and Western nail associations held a
meeting the result of which was decision
to raise the price of iron to four dollars
on the previous rates, and nails twenty-five
cents per keg.
THE small pox panic continues 10 prevail
at Scranton Many pers9Ganls haMHea haMHeaetfng iii, 'ef of
town, and the msT 81 Tuesday to consult as to
tiieahs to stay the pestilence.
If the Republicans could persuade Mr..
Buckalew to stump this county from this
time until the October election, Lancaster
county would give over z, 900 majority for
Hartranft. ft.-InncaSter Inquirer.
The Chicago ''corner" in wheat broke
down last week, and wheat fell from 81 ,52t
to SIPS. in few hours. In Chicago
they speculate in wheat as they do in
gold in New York. The Spectators in the
necessities Of life deserve to fail.
An official statement to the Internal
Revenue office shows the number of grain
distileries in operation on the 1st instant
to be one hundred and forty four, with
daily producing capacity of 1876, 92l gallons.
The number of molasses distilleries in
operation September !, was seven, with
daily capacity of 1923 gallons. There
was decrease of distillation in August of
22,6lS gallons daily.
There is said to be man living at Waco,
Texas, who has been married five times,
aud is the father of fifty legitimate children
children, boys and girls, by his second
wife; ten by his third wife; six by his fourth,
and three by his fifth wife. Twenty of his
sons served in the Confederate army, eight
of whom were killed; seven died natural
deaths, and the remainder are still living.
The Mauch Chunk Coal Gazette says
We know of an iron furnace at which one
hundred and eighty-six hands are employ
ed. The manager is a Grant man, and he
offers the sum of one hundred dollars for
every Greeley man found among his work
men. Just think of this Republicans!
Nearly two hundred workmen solid in their
Protection to American Industry. Carry
the news to Horace, the (now) leading Free
Trader.
Among other resolutions adopted by the
Venango county straight-out Democrats
was the following:
ReSOlred, That we are not for sale that
when we are for sale we will let Horace
Greeley know that when we are for sale
we shall demand better price than that
now offered by III. G.
The NorristotCn Herald admonishs those
who propose TO desire old party, in this
prophetic style:
Ifany Republican should think of leav-
ing his party at this time let him first con-
slider where he will go TO and the company
he must keep. There are but two parties
in the field, although one of them may
have many names. Has that party been
so thoroughly purged and purified that he
can now prefer it to the one that has never
changed and has never been false to men
or country
Mr.. Buckalew made speech at Lock
Haven on the 26th inst, to which the
Clinton Republican thus refers
Throughout the speech of Mr.. Buckalew
there was not single word uttered which
would indicate that the speaker desired to
change his record during the war. On the
contrary, it was evident that policy alone
prevented him from declaring his entire
sympathy with the Confederacy in its un-
holy crusade against the Union.
A TERRIBLE DISASTER ON LONG
ISLAND SoUND.-On Tuesday night last,
when it was rainy and very dark, the
steamer Metis, running between New York
and Providence, was run into by schooner
and so badly injured that the lower part of
the boat soon went down. There were lO4
passengers on board and As deck hands,
I'M. H. = H..