Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


of Commissioner of the District of Column
bia.
Charles Behrans, of New Orleans, has
been sentenced to death for the murder Of
Edward Coleman.
James Gleason, wife and child were burn
ed to death in their house on Monday at
at Everett, Michigan.
Joseph S. Sprague, a Boston bank clerk,
shot his daughter and then committed sui
eide near that city on Sunday.
The latest defalcation turns up in Henry
county, Ohio. 1t is a Democratic county,
and never had any but Democratic officers.
The county loses 500, 200 by its dishonest
officials, as far as ascertained but as the
county books have all been stolen, hidden
or burned, the exact mount is still unde
cided.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad !
Company has declared Il quarterly div
idend of two and half per cent payable /
on the oath of July.
On the Fourth The corner stone OF the I
new Public Buildings of Philadelphia will
be laid, and the grand bridge over the |
Schuylkill at Girard avenue opened to the
public for the first time.
Delaware has raised about seven and a
half million quarts of strawberries this sea-
SON. There is good deal of gold in this
kind of quartz.
\ floating island of several acres in ex
tent in Lake Monomanauk, between Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island, is creating a
good deal of interest thereabouts. Little
Rhody should attach it. IL would double
her area.
a number of far western journals affirm
that the Indian scare on the frontier is
simply the result of the marauding of horse
thieves and other desperate white outlaws.
4 New York party who believes in ad-
vertising paid bill of $4,000 the other
day for years work, but it was money
well spent, for the earnings resulting from
that advertisement, which were divided
among four persons, footed up S650,OO0.
The Turkish Vessel Kars with $40 per-
sons on board, was run down in the sea of
Marmora, on Friday, by the Egyptian ship
| Behra. The Kars sank in few minutes,
carrying down with her 800 human beings.
Last year the National Secretary of the
Grangers, at Washington, received nearly
$1,000 for salary and arrears, beside other
perquisites. Better than farming, truly.
i fire at Newport, Perry county, Pa,
on Thursday afternoon, destroyed nine
stores, four dwellings and hotel. The to-
tai loss is over S25, 900
John Hoy, of Bellefonte, owned fine
saw mill in West Virginia. The other
night, he dreamed that this mill, with its
contents, had been burned. lie was finally
convinced that the dream was based on
reality, but his family and friends ridicul
cd the idea. Two days later, Mr.. HOy's
son arrived at home, bringing news that
the property had been destroyed on the
night of the dream.
The Society for the Prevention Of Cruely
to Animals would call attention to the
suffering of horses in our streets during the
hot season, and recommend to drivers and
others having animals under their care the
most cOnsderate treatment. 1t twOuld also
recommend the feeding a small bundle OF
wet hay, or a couple of quarts of oats in the
middle of the day to use but'little corn,
as it is very heating, and tn soak whatever
is used for twenty-four hours in salt water
before feeding to use the wet sponge on
the head to furnish a little drinking water
as often as practicable, when not overhead
ed, and, as further means of refreshing the
animals, to throw water upon the legs and
such parts as are liable to chafe by perspira-
ton or otherwise to drive slowly, and
lessen the load usually imposed in cooler
weather to loosen the check rain, or bet
ter dispense with it altogether to cover
the animal with q fiy-net, or preferably,
with light sheet.
THE New POSTMASTER GENERAL
Hon. Eugene Hale, of Maine, has accepted
the appointment and enter upon the duties
of Postmaster General the latter part of
this week. The Philadelphia Inquirer
says Postmaster General Hale is young
man, the youngest in the Cabinet, having
completed his 3Sth year in the same month
wherein he is summoned to the council
board of the President For his age Mr..
| T,tn hoo h,l IL hltrl
in public affairs. A lawyer by profession,
he was admitted to the bar in 1851. Soon
after his admission he was elected county
attorney for Hancock county, Maine, filling
that Office for nine consecutive years 4; leay-
ing it to enter the Legislature of his native
State, of which he was member in 1861,
and 1868, retiring from the legislative halls
!, of the Sunrise State to take his place in the
national House of Representative, where
he completed his second term on Tuesday
, last. In Cougress Mr.. Hale proved himself
fearless champion of what to him seemed
, the right, OF the measure of his admins
trative abilities the county will soon have
practical evidences.
The following ticket was nominated by
the Republicans of Union county
Congress, Scott Clingon Assembly, G.
5. Wolfe Prothonotary, c. II. Hassen-
plug District Attorney, Alfred Hayes !;
County Commissioner, George Schoch !;
County Surveyor, r. f. Brown County
Auditor, J. II. Brown, Coroner, John Nc
Faddcn.
According to statement in the Potts
vile, Pa. Journal, the largest locomotive
in the world is the pennsylvania, :" on the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. The
diameter of the cylinder is twenty inches,
the stroke twenty-six inches, the number
of driving wheels twelve, the diameter of
the drivers four feet, and the weight of the
engine alone sixty tons.
During the last session of Congress, nine