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

AN Eastern literary paper, in its pros
pectus, offers as premium to new SUBJ
scribers, wonderful chrome, entities ''The
Artist Cow" This wonderful painting
is thus described
The picture represents an artist in the
field, with paint, easel, and palette, pant
ing landscape. He has for moment left
! his brush to chat with pretty girl at the
door of the cottage near oy. Meanwhile a
COW has discovered his picture, and is
busily engaged in licking off the paint,
while her calf has poked its nose into the
artists tools, and tumbled them all in a
heap on the ground. A little back noble
bull is seen marching to the scene, attract
ed no doubt by huge white umbrella,
spread and fastened to stake drove into
the ground to keep the sun from the pic
ture-maker while he is at his work. 1t
should be in every farmers library.'
ut should be in every farmers library" {"
! What should be ? The noble "bull,'. or
the huge white umbrella"
The Louisiana sugar crop is not expected
to exceed that of last year, viz, l0S, 500
hhds. a new method of extracting sugar
is to be tried on plantation at Bayou La
! fourche, which is in use in Europe for beet
1t is said it will produce three times the
quantity given by the old method,
| A fire broke out Oh Saturday in the en-
! gine room of the postal card manulactory
at Springfield, Massachusetts,, destroying
the registry room of the agent About 81
600, 600 manufactured cards in the vaults
were damaged by water and rendered unfit
for use.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
on Monday last TO distribute to sharehold-
ers of the six per cent scrip for the semi
annual dividend of five per cent. declared
last month. The scrip is selling at about
| 921 per cent. of its face, and is in consider
able demand by those having instalments
on the new stock to pay.
The Philadelphia Underrriter sounds q
nete of alarm in this shrill style: Look
out for wildcats in Philadelphia after
January next. The new Insurance law
of Pennsylvania was framed in the interest
of fees, not security to the insured.'s
The great depression in the coal and iron
interests at Scranton has partially su5sided,
and better feeling prevails among employ
ers and workipgmen.
The American officers, Stone and Loring,
| in the service of the Egyptian Viceroy,
I have been promoted to the rank of major
general.
| NINE ACCIDENT Friday, at Beudy
Collicry, Polishman, whose name we did
| not learn. was badly burned about the
! hands and face by the explosion of can
and keg partly filled with powder, The
| powder was ignited by spark from his
lamp falling into the can. - StdmOkjn
Herald.
n. B. Forrest, celebrated cavalry lead
I in, tho Gnlaro to rupV has offered his
services to the government i'll case OF war
in regard to the VirginiuS affair.
Rufus Chapman of Liberty, Maine, had
q stiff leg bent at the knee, limbered and
strengthened by the use Of Johnson's Ano-
dyn6 LtnimeHt.
The proprietors of Johnson'S Anodyne
Linement, Parsons Purgatire Pills, and
! tShcriddn'S Cardlry Condition POlCderS, have
published n readable and instructive pamph-
| let, which may be had free by mail.
Judge l1olt's reply to Andrew Johnson s
"vindcation'' of his course in the matter OF
the Surratt trial, conclusively shows that
The latter, whether rightly or wrongly, act
ed with a full knowledge ofthe recommend
alton for mercy by the military court. II
! is very sad that so old man should so OBJ
stinately persist in making an Ananias OF
himself,
The Reading Railroad Company having
reduced tho -v"soo of ito employees ten per
cent, the brakesmen and lirelneu on the
lateral road, in Schuplkll county, have
struck, and some of the laterals are not
now operated. 1t is very o'l time to
strike. ,,,a5u
in ManayunR Sw6e fept fSeptiPHssi siG"0 l"' GoSd and
$1,000 n bank She haon t the money now,
though Man came with a pistol and
! carried sway the treasure.
: a Pennsylvania farmer who had boarded
; $40, 900 II greenbacks in various places
about his Nouse, recently found that $4,000
had mouldd SO as TO prevent Identification.
OUR REIPE FOR CURING MEAT.-To
one gallon If water take l lbs. of salt,
e ID. Of sugr, or of saltpetre, ! OF, pot
S ash. In thhratio the pickle can be in
creased to an quantity desired. Let these
be boiled togther until all the dirt from
y the sugar rise.to the top and is skinned
n of. Then thOw it into tub to cool, aud
+ when cold pou it over your beef or pork,
q to remain the tual time, say four or five
weeks. The mat must be well covered
with pickle, and,hould not be put down
{ for at least two Gys after killing, during
c which time it shO(d be slightly sprinkled
If with powdered saDetre, which remove all
: the surface blood, C., leaving the meat
e fresh and clean. pme omit boiling the
/, pickle, and find it t'auswer well, though
}. the operation OF boihg purifes the pick e
e by throwing of the DIT always to be found
IT in salt and sugar G7aant0tcn Itlegraph
y PENNSNkANIA.