Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-06-12


sugar, rice and cotton will be far less seri
GUS than was believed. Indeed, it is ad-
mitted that precisely such condition of
things prevailed in 1858 and 1859, and the
cotton crop Of those years was without pre-
cedent in extent of yield and fineness of
texture.
The strike OF the "freestone" workers at
Boston has terminated by the workmen
disbanding their Union and seeking work
where and at what figures each individual
chooses to decide upon for himself. This
all workmen the country over.
On Wednesday night Mrs. Hoffman of
Holiday street, Jersey city, was awakened
by the screams Of her baby aged seven
months. Upon examination she found
large rat in the bed which had badly lacer
ated the child's hand.
Indian Troubles are again reported, and
General Custer is looking after four or five
hundred Indians who had left their reser-
vations and were believed to design an at
tack on the Texas frontiers. Cochise, a
noted chief, was believed to be dying.
Some papers are "pokiEg fun" at the pc
culiar doctrines and practices of the Dunk
ards. But it strikes us that good many
other denominations might take lesson
in church polity from these simple-minded
| Christians.
! The New York postoffice sends daily
| fifty-eight and one-half tons of mail matter,
of which fifty tons are letters and eight and
one-half tons are newspapers, periodicals,
seeds, cuttings, books, sc.
Out of sixty-five thousand clergymen in
the United States, belonging to various
Protestant denominations, only about one
in nine has life policy, and Of these only
half remain in force, the remainder lapsing
from failure to pay the premiums.
I \ stranger appeared at a Lebanon hotel,
recently, ,and after two days. courtship mar
ried one of the maids employed about the
house On the day following the nuptials
a Reading policeman appeared on the
scene, and arrested the groom for horse
stealing.
a couple Of Warren county lovers went,
one afternoon, for a stroll through a grove,
and while there, came across a Justice OF
the Peace, who was hunting up n stray
horse. He dropped the bride and married
~. Al. H. h,,,1t
ing for one horse he managed to match q
team.
\ woman who recently died near Ban
gor was so anxious lest her body should bC
dug up and dissected by the doctors tina
she left $50 to pay man for watching hel
grave month after she was buried. Tht
watchman is a. his post every night.
Through the vigilance of Mayor Powell
and his assistants. the following parties
have been arrested and lodged in Jail, hav
, ing confessed to the burning of nearly al
the property lover 81 600, ,O00) destroyed b.,
fire in this city since the great fire of Au
gust, 1871. All are active members of tn
Volunteer Fire Department. Their name
are Elijah Beale, James Parker, Rober
Tinsman, William Shultz and Franl
Kalbfeish. - WiUiamsport Sun.
Why is it that woman never cares for wo
man They will simper and whine owe
some good d-for-nothing, lazy, drunken sot
and at the same time tongue deceive'
and wronged one of their own sex. Th
question is often asked but never answered
The Indians in the the vicinity of tn
Cheyenne agency are showing signs of hos
tility. Several hundred have left the re
servaton, ostensibly to chastise the Rec
tribe, but the agent and Gen. Stanley thinl
they contemplate raid on the frontier
Gen. Custer is holding his troops in readi
ness to strike as soon as wars pirit
developed. His scouts are active to kee
watch of the movements of the Indians.
a few evenings ago a colored preache
, and doctor, in Memphis, Tenn, was ap
E preached by darkey of the cOmmone
E sort. The fellow asked the doctor t
go with him, and he would show hin
where he could get trunk full of money
, The doctor went, and near the Orphan
Asylum his guide halted and explaine
that the reverend gentleman was to tax
off his boots and stockings. and go bare
footed to the point named, while his new
found friend carried the boots around T.
the place by circuitous. The doctor ha
, given up the search for the trunk and
looking for his boots.
THE Presidents views on Finance in
semi-oflicial form has caused considerabl
excitement and irritation ut Washington
1t seems to have convinced no one, and tn
attitude of Congress towards the Presiden
is that of irreconcilablity Nothing tha
Congress is willing to pass can receive tn
executive approval, and a sufficient ma
iorty cannot be obtained to carry any mea
sure over the veto so that financial mat
. ters are likely to remain IN state quo for tn
present Congress is for expansion, il
! some form, and the President is for rcsum
ing specie payments and, between the two
nothing will be done. Congress adjourn
4 on the I'D and the people may as wel
make up their minds to continuance c
: the present condition of things until th
E meeting of new Congress in 1873.
e Roland Smith and John Herbert, of Car
G bondale, Luzerne country, have been al
rested aud held in 81, 900 each for trial, 70
: tarring and feathering man named Cole
: who lies in very precarious condition from
G the injuries received. The cause of tn
outrage was disrespectaful words spokel
, by Cole of Mrs Herbert. Cole called upol
t Mrs. ii. to deny the charge, when he wa
seized by the arrested parties and tarre'
| and teathered.
: A lady in Lewisburg, this season, du!
S her own garden, white washed barn, laiC
n plank walk from the same to the house
painted the latter building inside, tore on
$ a plastered partition and did other worl
= which entitled her to public recognition