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

The Pennsylvania State Prohibition
nominating convention met at Harrisburg
on Wednesday, and nominated candidates
for the various State offices.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has leased the Allegheny Valley railroad.
General Custer's Black Hills expedition
started on its return to the settlements on
thursday last.
Barney Aaron, Collyer's principal Sc
cond, announces that himself and col
leagues concede The stakes and fight to
Edwards.
Reports from England give favorable
accounts of the wheat harvest.
1t is reported from Madrid that England,
France and Germany have recognized the
Spanish Republic.
William NJ. Randall. of Pottsvile, feel
ing satisfied that the Democratic party in
Schuylkill county are opposed to the nomi-
nation of James B. Reilly for Congress-"
announces himself as an independent can
didate. The county is very close, being
Democratic by only about two hundred
majority. Unless the tactics of last year
are pursued, when there were two Demo-
Gratis, two Republicans, and Labor Re-
former for the single Office of State Senator,
the Republicans will stand fair chance of
sending the man to Washington.
The theory that when man who hasn't
mora. character enough to preach, is the
proper person to edit newspaper, MAY do
for New York city, but not for anywhere
else.
The Department of Justice at Washing
ton is overrun with reports of Ku-Klux
outrages in Texas, the banner Democratic
| State of the South.
There are many very good people in our
day who begin seriously to doubt whether
religion, as mething distinct from moral
ity, has any existence at all.
There has been no change in the "situa-
tion'' at the Allentown Rolling Mill. The
helpers still hold out against the proposed
reduction of wages, and the works have
been idle since August 1st.
Ex-Mayor Whitman, of Boston has been
arrested for debt, and is now in Jail in that
city. He was one of the directors of the
Franklin Coal Company of Lyksns Valley,
an insolvent organization. Ely Byers, of
Harrisburg has recovered judgment
against the company for Sl4,S6. Whit
man denies that he was direcor at the
time the execution was issued, and, there
fore, he is not liable.
The body of Robert A. Mackey, 4
wealthy drover, was found in creek, near
Odessa, Delaware, on Saturday. He had
evidently been robbed and murdered. A
man named Joseph Taylor was last seen
with Mackey, and the police are searching
for Taylor.
Victoria Woodruff, Jennie G Clahin,
Col. Blood, and some more of the family,
sailed from New York for Europe, on Sa-
turday. If there was an assurance that
they would never return, there would be
cause for gratitude.
All tho houses in Philadelphia were
searched by the police, last week, To make
sure that Charlie Ross was not sec,eted in
that city.
The Democratic Convention Of Columbia
county, Pa, met at Bloomsbury, and un-
animously instructed their delegates for
G. B. Brockway for Congress, and E. ].
McHenry and 5. p. Ryan for the Assem-
bly,.
TAX Unionsn in South Carolina arc the
same as "White Leagues in other South
ern States, and they both mean aKusklux.
"Old foes with new faces you know.
Four national banks werEorganized last
week in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Mi
chigan and Wisconsin, with a total author
lied capital of 500, 900.
In Lockport, Pa, horse, owned by a
farmer three miles out of town, trotted alone
into blacksmith shop, where he had been
shod the day before. He was lame, and on
t',lling of one of his shoes it was found
mat nail had been driven so as to hurt
his foot.
Inc storm Z. Saturday did great damage
to property in Altrpua, but no lives were
lost. bridges, crossi'zs and sidewalks
were swept away, hunL.eds of cellars
flooded and other minor miscir~f done
STERN REALITY.-It may seem stl NOE
but it is nevertheless true, that alcohol, re.
gularly applied to thrifty farmers sto.
mach, will remove the boards from his
fence, let cattle into his crops, kill his fruit
trees, mortgage his farm, and SOW fields
with wild oats and thistles. 1t will take
the paint off his buildings, break the glass
out of his windows, and fill them with rags.
It will take the gloss from his clothes and
the polish from his manners, subdue his
reason, arouse his passions, bring sorrow
and disgrace upon his family, and topple
him into drunkards grave. 1t will do
this to the artisan and the capitalists, the
matron and the maiden, as well as to the
farmer for in its deadly enmity to the hu-
man race, alcohol is no respector of per-
sons.
The first nugget of Georgia gold was
found in Dukes creek, in 1929, and weighed
three ounces. 1t is believed that the mines
Of Georgia yielded about SlS, 900, 900 before
the establishment of the United States
Mint at Dahlonega, in 1898, and the mint
coined $4,000, 900 before it was closed at
the breaking out of the war. Since the
war gold mining has been almost neglected.
An Ohio man hitched his wife and step
daughter to 4 shovel plow, and ploughed
three and half acres of corn with them.
TeIegraphic News.