Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-06-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS.-Ihe
business in Congress is being rapidly push
ed forward, so as to be ready for adjourn
ment on the 22nG inst.
Tine Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company have elected Robert b. Cabeen,
Esq, President pro tempore, owing to the
departure of President Gowen for Europe,
whittier he goes for short sojourn on ac-
count of his health. He does not expect
TO be absent more than three months.
Andy Johnson, the man Of vetoes and
swayer of circles of political preferment, is
more than ever desirous of seat in the
United States Senate, and is leaving no
oratorical stone unturned to secure the
darling object of his ambition.
Two colts have recently been born in
Lancaster county, neither of which have
any signs of a tail.
A slight fire occurred in the State Luna
tic Asylum, Harrisburg,o on Saturday right.
The smoke filling the main building, the
inmates became greatly excited and broke
the windows. The doors were thrown
open and four hundred patients rushed out,
twelve Of whom escaped from the grounds,
and six of these are still at large.
General Robert Fleming died at his resi-
dence in WIlliamsport, Pa, on Saturday.
He was the oldest member of the Consttu-
tional Convention of Pennsylvania of 1897
and 1888, and formerly a member of the
State Senate.
Harrisburg is to have new Democratic
paper, a weekly, to act as the organ Of the
State Central Committee. The capital of
the concern is to be $4,000
An old woman skilled in the art of mat
making has been commissioned by the
King of Hawaii to make two for exhibition
at the Philadelphia Centennial
The Speakers of the Senate and House
of Representatives, met in the Senate
chamber, at Harrisburg, ON Monday, for
the purpose of opening the bids for publish
ing the Legislature Record for the next four
years. Geo. Bergner being the lowest bid
der, the contract was awarded to him.
The Secretary of the Treasury has di-
rected the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to sell one million and half of gold
on the first and third Thursdays each, and
one million on the second and fourth
Thursdays each, or five million dollars
during June. There is no direction for the
purchase of bonds.
Thirteen cOunterfeiters were arrested in
Cincinnati, on Friday. Some of them were
distinguished personages in that branch of
the professionals.
A good deal more hay, wheat and rye is
reported growing in the South than form
erly, and it is evident that mixed farming
will, before long, take the place of the gen.
eral cotton planting in that section.
Capt. Thos. Doebler of Wiliamsport
committed suicide in that city OH Tuesday
a week, by cutting his throat with razor.
He is supposed to have been laboring under
temporary insanity.
The Republicans of Union county have
called their primary election for Saturday,
June 18th, and have elected Capt. J. r.
Orwig, of Miffiinburg, Senatorial, and DR..
Levi Rook, of Winfield, as Representative
delegates to the State Convention.
Complaints of the potato-bug are fire.
quent throughout the West, and form a
source of considerable apprehension.
Over 1000 miles of the best hemp cable
is uGed in the oil regions annually, and
consequently Titusvlle talks Of and extern
sive rope factory.
Julius L. Shuman, who was shot in
Lancaster county, by Jacob Wilmer, is not
dead, as reported last week, but is in fair
way to recover.
The currency question is now in the
hands of joint committee of conference of
the two houses. There is difference of
opinion as to whether the committee will
be able to agree on anything that will meet
the approval of the President.