Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-11-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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brim.
The total value of the effects of the late
DR.. Livingstone, the African traveller,
amounts 10 about 1890.
Some japanese youths are to be sent to !
Germany to learn the art of brewing beer. |
An eX-rebel General who served under |
Stonewall Jackson, is shoveIing dirt on the |
Chicago, Rulington aid Quincy Railway. !
The Providence Press seems offended !
because Budd Do5le said that Goldsmith !
Maid could trot across Rhode Island in !
two minutes.
Father Jacqucnut, a Catholic priest of
Baltimore, has abandoned the Roman
Church, and returned to his first faith, !
Presbyterianism.
1t has turned out that the Herald's dis |
patches about a change in the Cabinet were
manufactured in New York city, and were
never sent over the wires at all. There's |
enterprise -
The Supreme Council of Masons, in
France, has invited the Supreme Councils |
of all the lodges in the world to take part
in the proceedings OF 4 general Congress,
to be held on The first Monday in Septcm-
Der, 1875.
y bill has passed the Oregon Senate, |
which provides that husbands and wives !
without children may be considered divorc-
ed by simply ceasing to live together.
wealthy church in Massachusetts, has
been without 4 pastor for two years, during
which time it has heard eighty-live differ !
ent ministers, and is still looking for the !
right man.
At the beginning of the present year the
order of Jesuits number S,10i members |
OF these 2,207 live in France, 1927 in Italy, |
1850 in England, and English colonies,
l,5SS are on missions, ,, 7O7 are in the Unit, |
ed States
AS Brigham Young's early demise seems |
highly probable the question of his success
sor is freely discussed among the Mormons. |
The most prominent candidate for the I!
position is George Q. Cannon, one of the I!
bishops and delegate in Congress from
Utah. lie is said to be, in general affairs. |
the best posted man in the Church is
familiar alike with the WAYS OF the world |
and the temper Of the Mormon people is
the easiest and most pleasing speaker, and |
stands above average rs a inancier and !
business man.
The approach of winter, the serious cur
talment Of operations at our railroad !
workshops and manufacturing establish
ments, and the discharge or suspension of !
hundreds OF hands, combined with the !
panic and hard times generally, have oc-
casloned degree Of suffering among our
people which the usually prosperous city |
OF Reading has not experienced for many
years. .--Reading Times.
Shocks of earthquake are felt ut intervals |
along the route from Vera Cruz to Guiana !
juato. The shocks commenced on the 18th |
inst
IN attempt was made on Monday night |
to rob the First National Bank at Curwens-
vile, Clearlield county. The robbers Grill. |
ed the safe, bnt put in too big a charge of
powder, which awoke the cashier. and they /
fed.
An island two acres in extent broke |
loose few days ago in Lake Superior, and |
tioatcG down into the bay at Duluth. On .
it was trees three feet in diameter, and the I.
whole tract is thickly studded with timber, .
while the soil is rs solid, to all appearances,
rs that of the mainland.
Under the new schedule of rules lust
issued by the Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany, that intOlerable nuisance in railway
car, a drunken man, is to be abated, and
that other nuisance, who occupies two
chairs aud four places, compelling others
10 stand by his selfshness, is also to be
abolished and, best OF all, that nuisance,
the novel selling, peanut vending illustrated
paper peddling, prize-candy package demon |
of travel is TO be curbed and restrained by
such wholesome regulations rs to prevent
him from continuing to be constant
source Of annoyance to passengers.
The transit OF Venus, which occurs on
the Sth of December next, is one of the
most important astronomical events Of the
present century.
y party is about TO start from New York
TO continue the work of exploration and
survey commenced some two years ago by
the Palestine Exploration Society.
The Philadelphia Conference between
the German Reformed ana the Dutch Re- !
formed Churches of the United States has
adjourned without accomplishing its pur-
pose of effecting and organic union.
Il is announced that bulls from the Pope /
are daily expected, creating new sees in !
Pennsylvania, the bishops OF which make I
their headquarters at Reading and Potts
vile, respectively. The Very Rev Maui !
rice Walsh, Vicar General of Philadelphia, |
is spoken of as one Of the new bishops.
Goat Island, in San Francisco Bay, is !
spoken OF as an asylum Tor mOthers-in-law. |
The peculiar advantage of this island over
the main land lies in the activity Of tie |
coast sharks.
Four tons OF silver were sent recently |
from the Assay Office to the United States /.
Mint in Philadelphia 10 be coined into half !
dollars. This is the largest quantity ever
sent at one time.
1t costs less to advertise than to send /
out statesmen. a good advertisement: is
seen and read by more people in one day
than most statesmen call on in 4 year.
The New York Mail says that at the
funeral of 4 young lady in that city recent
ly, the coffin was placed on 4 platform in
the parlor, draped with black velvet and
Jet. The flowers exhibited cost nearly
three thousand dollars, anG chorus was
sung by hired yOcalists. On either side of
the coffin stood four young girls dressed in