Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1873-04-26

menced shooting at him. Williams had
been previously notified TO leave, and hav-
ing armed himself he returned the.iire and
killed one of the party, named Bramlette,
and wounded three others. Williams was
wounded, and is now in Frankfort for
medical treatment.
DANyILLE is to have new S2S, 900
public school building.
COTTON planting has begun in Tennes-
see.
AN American club has been formed in
London.
THE cane in Louisiana promises large
sugar crop.
New HAMPSHIRE talks postponing its
annual election to September.
PoTTsvILLE, Pennsylvania claims the
biggest rolling mill in the world,
TIE house of Jonathan Beaver in Roar
ing Greek, was struck by lightning on the
night of April 4th, breaking looking glasses
and covering the floor with splinters torn
from the joist and window frames.
NJ. BAIRD, ESQ.,, head of the Philadel-
phia firm known as the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works, retired from active business,
in which he had been engaged thirtyseven
years. For his interest in business he re-
ceived from the partners who remain 81
| 000, 900.
THERE appeared in the obituary col
umns of the Philadelphia Public Ledger
last week, notices of the deaths of nineteen
persons, six men and thirteen women, who
had lived to. or beyond the advanced age
of eighty years. Two of them were 80 years
( old, one 02 and one 90.
The Perry County Freeman complains
that the no-license law, like the old license
! law, is not enforced 10 that county, and
that "local option, +" although h carried there,
is likely to become a dead letter. The non
| enforcement of laws is great evil in this
country. Laws should either be enforced
or abolished.
A suit has been instituted in the United
States Court, in Boston, against Cakes
Ames for $500. 900 growing out of cotton
! transactions in New Orleans during the
war.
| CRUSHED. D.-KILLED-Anothcr dread
full accident happened last night Just as we
were going to press. On the L. 4 B. Rail-
road, at Northumberland, a young man
! from this place. by the name of Adams,
whilst engaged in coupling cars, was
caught between two of them, and crushed
to death. He was brought up on this
mornings trans Ddnrille InteigencCr.
a. E. Kapp has on his farm an imported
sheep one year old, the wool of which is
! fifteen inches long. He also has lamb
born on the eleventh of this month which
! at its birth weighed twelve pounds.
! The above sheep are of the Cotswold
stock, imported from Liverpool in Septcm-
Der and purchased by Mr.. Kapp in Oct"-
Der last, Dam and Sire of which, were the
winners ut the Royal Agricultural Show
of England. Public Press.
! SIX big girls in Scranton school house
/ got up a club for the benefit Of the teacher.
| His doctors bill was just twelve dollars
and sixty cents.
! SOME fortecn children attending the pub
| lie schools in Milton went home in one day
last week, sick with the measles. The dis
ease is spreading over the town rapidly.
Frederick Roca, United States consul at
Mauzanillo, Cuba, was drowed on the 10th
| instant while on IL nslIiuS v!>Cursion.
The internal revenue assessors have re-
- --I."H :" turn over their papers to
The collectors, preparatory 10 vacating
their offices on May 70.
THERE Is TO be grand tour of nearly
all the crowned heads of Europe in the
course of the spring and summer Nearly
al Shna 9I ihH TGgsn sa saeRstgp RtpgSl s. VII is
going to visit his cousin Of Russia, at st.
Petersburg. The eldest son of the Car
goes to London, and will, of course, be
right royalty received by the Prince of
Wales and her Majesty the Queen. Grand
receptions, reviews, balls and banquets,
will mark these royal journeyings, and the
sightseers of Europe be gratilied with a
long series Of gorgeous spectacles.
THERE Is no telling to what purposes
paper will yet be put. The Connecticut
River Railroad is proud of locomotive
with paper Wheels aud the experienced en-
gineer who drives this remarkable engine
says the paper wheels revolve with less
friction and do not jar near so much as
those of iron. In this view of the case, il
does not seem at all improbable that we
shall soon have cylinders, cranks and pis.
ton rods of paper, the use ofcostly iron in
machinery being confined to boilers and
CRATE bars.
The United States has become the lead
ing cheese producing country in the world,
and from the expectation of 100000
pounds in 1852, the amount has risen tc
10000, 600 i'll 1872.
In New York, on Wednesday evening, a
woman named 1Iennessey, afflicted with
q relighiOus mania, choked her two child
ren, and then roasted their bodies on the
stove and placed them in tub in which
position they were found by the father or
his return from work, She was sent TO the
hospital.