Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-12-25


on the Centennial buildings and grounds. |
The mild weather has produced a second
growth of Strawberries it, many Southern
localities
1t is even SO that .iourneymcn tailors in
China are happy with two cents day :of
wares.
\ new potato with rare flower, known
as the white queen, is being cultivated in
France. In good soil from twelve 20 tif-
teen tubcrs are formed, many of which
reach twenty-five pounds.
Senator Jones, of Navajo, is said 10 have
cleared mator of ten million dollars, in
"the money that God made by q recent
extraordinary rise in mining stocks at
San Francisco.
For next year the bullion product OF Ma
vado is estimated at $50, ,000, 600. while Cal
ifornia will turn out its usual quantity. $40,
600. 0OO. This means an increased per cent
of capital and loanable funds.
Capital puuishmentisl is likely to be restored
in Iowa, murders have greatly multiplied
since its hurried abolition a couple ofyears
ago.
That frank spoken gentleman, Robert
Dale Owen, has given evidence that the
''Katie King medium revelations, in
which he belived year ago, are swindles.
| 1t is n significant revelation, coming as it
does from man who, intelligent and ac-
/ ute, was still carried away by the medium
/ istic fever. He has had enough penetra-
! ton to discover, what may never do, and
/ to avow what others never would. So this
! bit OF mediumship rests exposed.
The total receipts Of grain at seaboard
ports from January to December >, this
wear exceeded those of 1873 by over fifteen
million bushels.
Think of it. The mud in ali the streets
OF Virginia City, Nevada, contains silver,
and a recent analysis of q lump taken W
at random shows that the sample contained
at the rate of SOD to the ton.
Cincinnati spends eight million dollars
for intoxicating drinks every year, and
wants to know what is 10 become of the
poor.
Out in Michigan 4 woman with two hus'
bands is not guilty Of biGamy if she mar,
ries her first husband before she is eighteen
years of age. - the courts say.
S-o,l-, 49,, ,,.,-,-oJ I -, IH,,v,,+ t,, - coaD-s
They rise and fall, not according to TIE
movements Of the bulls and bears, but
with reference to the state Of the river
Nile.
Broom corn, which has been driven OF,
of the Connecticut valley by tobacco and
the failure of the Old generous margin o
profit, is iourshlng at great rate in Cali
fornia.
The Pottsville JouTRG! says: Iester
day morning a man named Golden, 4 rail
road repai-man, was found in the house o
man named Michael Flanagan, ut Bow
mans patch, shot through the head, th'
brains oozing from the wound. The cir
cumstances Of his injury are mystery
Flanagan could not be found, and it is sup
posed he did the shooting. \ search wa
instituted io- him, but " hen we last hearC
be was not found. 1t is said that Golden
family are now on their way to Americ.
from the the old country.
The foresight oi the Democracy III Ger
tain directions, - remarkable. Alreadl
Ia Washington they are making liberia
provisions for minist"rinS TO the social ant
sasthetic needs of their party majority il
the next House John Chamberlain, th,
notorious gambler of Long Branch, ha
purchased the late residence OF the BIRTHS.
Minister, with the view Of turning it int
4 fashionable clubhouse" and JOhI
Norrissey, who runs the Democratic party O
New York during the temporary retire
mcnt of Tweed, is understood to be pre-
pairing another resort of similar char acter
There is nothing ike anticipating the re
uuirements Of the iuture-when, as in thi
instance, one knows precisely what the,
are.
Horrors on horrors accumulate" Th
moral people Of that supcrlatively piOu
aud virtuous city, Philadelphia, have beet
rudely shocked a: the discovery OF u hOrri
be case Of malpractice 1t q lying-in h0spi
tai in their midst The body Of the unfor
tunate victim, young women of iinG form
and handsome face, was traced TO 4 medi
cal college on Ninth street, where it wa
found on the disseC.ing table, while 4 trunk
in which it had been packed in sawdust
with the legs piniGned behind the neck
was found beside the table The presiden
of the institution rendered all the aid in hi:
power FOR the recovery OF the body, dis
claiming any knowledge Of its presence il
the building. The physician theaven saw
the mark , named Carpenter, alias Dubois
alias Perpente, charged with the girl
death, has been locked up. When sucl
things happen in Philadelphia, that deposi
tory of Christian charity, and "brotherl.
love" and noble philanthropy, what shal
we expect from less fortunate or enlighten
ed communities Harrisburg Telegraph
The brooklyn scandal is bearing gooC
fruit in Texas. y parson newly arrived
in the State, made pastoral CALI upon &;
lady whose husband was absent from home
The lady asked him his business; he
said it was grace, mercy, and piece: she
said John vast in, and he'd better cal
again pastor said it was all right abou
John; lady said she wouldn't take AM
chances, and invited parson to prance out
emphasizing her request with the exhibition
of revolver, parson pranced. Those Tex
as women are very abrupt in their ways
and that preacher thinks he has call t,
come north.
Correspondence.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
THE JOMFI. .FSS ROYS-ISTERIOR CITIES