Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-08-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

at Clearfeld, on the 18th inst.
Surveys are being made for another in
ternational railroad bridge across Niagara.
1t is to oe built at Grand Island.
New York must have an enormous appe-
tite for watermelons. Twenty thousand
recently came to market in single day.
One of the last of the Iroquois tribe of
Indians was killed recently by being run
over while in helpless state of intoxica-
tion. -. .....-
A Norristown baby is said to have in
herited the eyes and nose of its father. but
the cheek of his uncle, who is an insurance
agent.
The Allentown Iron company has reduc-
ed the rent of its tenants twenty-five per
cent.
A lady III Harrisburg gave birth, last
week, to four-legged baby. II did not
live long.
Harrisburg has new and handsome city
cars. All the married men are treating
their wives to short trips. The newspaper
reporters are delighted. The city is to
have new public buildings.
Hugh Byrne, of Danville, was killed by
the cars while walking on the track at
Catasaugua, on the 9th inst.
The epizooty has broken out anew and
in severe form among the horses in differ
ent parts of Lancaster county.
There will probably be about forty apple
jack distilleries put in operation in the
upper end of Lehigh county this season.
The camp meeting season has come, and
the voice of the preacher is in-tently heard
in the land. ~.
All the signs indicate that human rights
are again to be prominent issues. in our
political campaigns. ..t ...... ..,..-..f
At special court held 10y Judge Bucher
in Union county, Mrs. Kline and Edward
Clark, who had been arrested and impris-
oned on suspicion of poisoning the husband
of the former. were acquitted and discharg-
ed from custody. The evidence completely
exonerated both parties.
Mr.. Benjamin Bannan, of Pottsville, has
number of jealous friends who are urging
him as fit person for The Republicans to
send to Congress. .
John Colihan, Of Ashland, was nominat-
ed for the Senate by the Democrats of the
Thirtieth Senatorial district, composed of
one-half Of Schuylkill county.
The advertising bills of the great dry
goods merchant, Stewart, generally aggre-
gate about $500, 600 per year. This is and
always has been the secret of his great
success.
All the year round, Sheridan's Cavalry
Condition Powders should be given to
horses that are "kept up" To horses and
cattle that Craze in summer they should
only be given in winter and spring.
Officers and soldiers who served in the
army, physicians, surgeons, and eminent
men and women everywhere, join in recon-
mending Johnson's Anodyne Liniment to
be the best internal and external family
medicine ever invented. That's our expert
ence.
The grasshoprers are reported to have
devoured all the vegetation in Northern
and Southwestern Kansas and Nebraska,
their ravages being greater than in 1896.
The corn crop throughout the region visit
ed by them is said TO be destroyed.
Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts,
has written letter positively declining to
be candidate for Congress in the district
now represented by Hon. Geo. F. Hoar
The name Democrat expresses nothing
Io'' except determined opposition to the
hepnblican party
The President of the hseptine Republic
congratulates President Grant ~ telegram
upon the fact that both countries ar now
connected by electric wires.
The residence of William NJ. Tweed, on
Forty second street and Fifth avenue, New
York, was sold at auction for $780, 900.
The President has recognized Mo-itz
Won Baumbach as vice consul of the Ger
man Empire at Milwaukee.
Four men were lynched in Arkansas
during the last week, three for horse steal
ing and one for murder.
A pauper in the poor house of Lee coun-
ty, Iowa, is "a years old, and has several
children living, ali of whom are in comfort
able circumstances. One Of them is min
lister. He must be rather rusty on the ten
commandments.
On the fifty.eighth anniversary of the
battle of Waterloo, which occurred on June
| IS, there were living tifty-nine men who
were commissioned officers under WelliDg-
ton in that battle.
Enchanting country, that Colorado
The corn crop has wholly failed there. and
that Indispensable staple is now worth two
and a half cents a pound in Denver and
still rising. But the Territory has lots of
lean quartz, dry irrigation ditchers, real
estate spectators, mining thimble-riggers,
and things.
The blackberry crop, which is now in its
prime, is the largest ever gathered in Penn
sylvania. The hills everywhere are
swarming with parties of volunteer gath
erers, who go armed with all the buckets
they can carry, and always return well
| laden.
The Democrats elected jailer At Gym
thiana, Kentucky, and the Democrat of
that place exclaims 1.-THE Democratic
party still lives, aud is victorious in every
conflict"
Americans are a patriotic race. Ninety
nine out OF every hundred will give up
situation worth 5000 year to take an
Office worth $4,000, and think they have