Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-06-28


nation is that Commons was under the in
tiuence of liquor, though for three years
past he has been II member of temperance
society in Shenandoah city. His home
was AT Lost Creek, where he leaves a wife
and four children. Miners journal.
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TIE coinage at the mint in San Fran
cisco during the month OF May amounted
Ia -, ,760, 0U0 in double eagles and Sl2 600
in half dUlllTs. IL the "nrrnspOndinu
month last year the amount coined was
S4.02OOjU in double eagles. No more
crude bullion viii be received until after
July /. Cuinlge operations will cease this
week unti; after the annual clcar-up, which
will require three or four weeks In the
meantime tive bullion will he received aud
COIN paid for it, the same as usual!
WHISKY taken in large quauGts, is a
Sovereign lu,uOty tor thc venom o., g.ttle-
snakes, ;nI l. used tr,e.y rs sura 4 the
Suu,h and Wro,. Massachusetts. I,onle
think Of importing a large stock ci rattle
snakes for nom. us".
The reported nvem.nt /, form an irish
polt.rl ra.' $500, fig upa" buf Jrsh-
meu f.. H. m ives o.. Boston P3pt. an
lrisa 3arual. % SAY ..s. 'Ia-Lg.-u.aau
who "'utu rr..crIt, IS native American
and the native American wao would pre-
scribe an'lrishman are guilty Of the same
crime against the principles Ot the ConsIi-
ton. But the Irishman is guilty Of more
than the other; when he joins a secret
society he is recreau! to his religion when
he joins ploscripiivG society he is recreaut
to his citizenship"
General Wm. O. Butler. the Democratic
lnt for in,
the ticket with General Cass, is still living.
lie is in his ei.hty-third year; but Ken
;ucky .urndI says he walks at least osix
miles each day.
An exchange says some idea may be
form of TIE extent of the lumber trade
on the Pennsylvania Canal. when we mra.
tion the fact that many lumber boats, car
rying from 50. 0OO to $4,000 feet of lumber,
pass down the canal daily, and large lots
are unOadcd at way points. On the wharf.
rear of Lebanon Valley depot, over $40. 900
feet of white pine lumber has already, been
urshiped this season all of which will I've
reloaded upon The cars and taken up the
Cumberland Valley. 1t requires from ci4ht
to twelve hours hard work 30 unload boat
Of $4,000 or 80, 600 feet, for which the hands
get twenty cents per |, 900,
THEY understand somthing about the
value Of advertising in New York. A
correspondent states that one firm has
just settled bill of S7S, 900 for one years
advertising, and that the earnings result
ing from that advertisement were $3.50 900,
divided among four persons.
A NEWSPAPER has been sta rted in the
South among the objects of which are two,
20 repeal all divorce laws and promote uni
vcrsal love, that ought to insure it long
LIE, particularly the latter purpose, which
is an ingredient Of society not much used
at the present time.
THE wheat crop now being harvested
in Southern Ohio, says the Toledo BLADE,
Is the finest cut for many years. II is free
from all the Ills wheat is heir to.
THE War Department is about to invite
proposals for 250 600, headstones for the
dead Union soldiers.
A girl in Reading possessed herself of her
fathers handbook, forged check for all
the old mans balance on deposit, had it
cashed, aud "lit outn with Handsome
young foreigner" who had made her ac-
qualn'ance through handkerchief llIta-
tiOn.
Last Sunday man in New York at
'NiiP'Nu W oIulh MS WIG Win u lOal Ol
stale bread. The interesting affair took
place on the sidewalk in front of his house
1t didn't hurt the wife much, bat it furnish
ed perfect Belshazzar feast for the spar
rows.
Eleven thousand five hundred people
were killed in the United States in one year,
we learn from the last report of the Bureau
of Vital Statistics, after this fashion: From
burns and scalds, 1891, explosions, 800 |
falls, 2,O74 falling bodies, 7l2 railroad
accidents, 1850 mining accidents, 365
injuries by machinery, 429; gunshot
wounds, 429 other injuries, 1883 total, /
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