Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-12-19
NEWS ITEMS.

in different parts Of the world,
The oil produced in Western Pennsyl-
vania the past year, it is estimated, would
fill canal 25 feet wide at the top, IL at
the bottom, Z deep, and 70 miles long.
A young man of Minersville, Pa, at
tempted suicide one night last week, be-
cause his girl insulted him.
Pottsville will contribute highway rob-
Der to the House of Refuge in the person of
q twelve year old girl.
Schuylkill is happy. There is money in
the County Treasury to pay all Almshouse !
orders issued prior to December l..
Twenty-Five persons were murdered by
Indians twenty-five miles from San Anto-
MO, Texas, on the 9Th inst.
Alexander II. Stephens made speech in
the House of Representatives against the
repeal of the Salary bill.
In Rhode Island there are seven divisions
of Baptists.
The amount of timber annually consum-
cd in the form of toothpicks may be Judged
by the fact that toothpick factory at Can
ton, Me-, recently bought 600 cords ofwood
for making into toothpicks.
"Grangcrs, / will sell you coffins cheaper
than any other man in the city, is what
q Council BLUFFS man advertises.
\ Milwaukee brewing company has inn
ported 1S0,000 bushels of barley and 800
bales of hops from Italy
A Boston court has decided that if a wo-
man lends money to her husband she can
not get it back. The decision will not be
new TO many wives.
A four year old child of Mr.. John Det-
wiler of Williamsburg, Blair county, sctits
aln Arc mil I;uI
the absence of its mother, on Friday last,
and was so shockingly burned that it died
in few hours.
The difficulty which the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad Company is at pre-
sent experiencing, by the strike of its train
hands and miners, is very seriously affect
ing the coal trade along the line between
Port Richmond and the coal mining dis
tricts. The dissatisfaction regarding the
ten per cent. reduction OK wages. is preva-
lent among all the employees of the COM
pany, and there are at present strong indi-
cations that the strike will become general
in the mining and transportation depart
ments.
Five thousand miners and mechanics in
and aboutScranton have agreed to subscribe
ten cents per month each towards memo
rial fund for the support ofthe Lackawanna
hospital in that city.
A child is living in Pottsyillc who has
had 900 convulsions.
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undor the present rates on the docupents
mUulS IIl rm nm;,u Gu. ~ 'v thc,sond dol
lars worth of stamps, and so the House
Post Office Committee will report bill to
have them stamped free and sent out this
winter, as well as the usual supply of gar
den seeds, -,
Alexander Thompson, an aged and pro-
'ImV In nnunt dind E Inst ",. .o"uSnp 1'nu
,,oors ITo Voc tbo fot,o, 90 ,,,a;,t,, aL1S3
Son .o,ontoon Of T,bon, ,,ith ,bo;r yr,nti,o,. uH
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The Philadelphia Press offered prize of
n half-chest of tea for the best essay on tea
parties to be written by bov or cirl I'm.
der sixteen wears of ace. and it was won bv
W. G. ~ Keys, Lebanon boy OF thirteen
years
The people OF Omaha are yariOUsly plea
sanity alluded to by outsiders rs ''Oma-
hogs'' "Omahosses, "Omahorribles, 3" etc.
Tho ,rovos oottro oror oF tho nuosoo+ ,.oo,.
:; 80 - 'tlo o poo naa et't
10 ~ u ii'Ne oro''sn' '90ooo'oo' luVo
David Story q Snlnnp l-nnnop Daor tbn
outskirts Of Hogloton pa vas l,iIInd on
Saturday NIGHT dnrinn n fiohi The noI;ce
have made Girht arrests of emsnoctcd ner-
sons. Hazleton is supposed to have Local
Option laws in force, but there are over
seventy saloons selling LIQUOR.
4 Berl,e copntv Ivceuno bo G d;soussod tbo
SPANISH unnIea easontness and decided in
favor of war. Secretary Fish and that
other fellow after having gone to consider
able trouble to fix things for peace. will re-
gret to hear of this decision.
O,oor Chor,o. d p,o,o,,. r;oh;,
Creek CCoInmbio comntv1 cnnstitnonts Went
TO marker tbn otbnr dov With a WAGON
IooI orL;ar,or,, - WJhor as,- bow bo
sold thonp ho Soid hI.' ;,r,va fu,laTS n hnshnI
or twentv,fvc cents n noel; ;, Of course
everv6ndv bouoht NV The noel, and when
the creeker discovered his blunder, his
language was not scriptural.
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