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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
Orphans Court Sale.

to an order of the Orphans
i Court of Northumberland County, Pennsyl-
vania, will be sold at public sale, at the Court
House, in the borough of Sunbury, in said coun-
ty, on
MONDAY, the I'd day of MARCH, A. D. 1874,
the following described real estate, late of Jere-
miah Farnsworth, deceased, to wit
lot Of ground in j. W. Friling's addition to
the borough of Sunbury, bounded on the north
by street, east by lot of ground, west by lot
of ground and dwelling house, and south by an
alley, containing in front forty feet and in depth
one hundred and thirty y-seven feet, more or less,
whereon is erected 4 small frame dwelling house.
Sale to commence at one o'clock, p. IN. of sand
day, when terms and conditions will be made
known by
A. n. BRICE, Administrator.
Sunbury, Feb. 8. 1874.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
ADJOURNED CORT. I
Proclamation.

WHEREAS the Honorable W. VI. ROckefel-
w Ter, President Judge, and his Associates,
for this District, have issued their mandate for
an adjourned Court for Northumberland county,
to be held on Monday the End day of March,
A. D., 1874, being the 1st Monday of said month,
in Sunbury. therefore give notice, that all per-
sons interested, to be and appear at the place
aforesaid at 10 O'Clock a. m. of said day.
SAMUEL II. ROTHERMEL, Sheriff.
Sherif's Office, Sunbury, Jan. 80, 1874.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

DEATH FROM HYDRoPHoBIA. - The
Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin says ::
"Mr. Henry Smith, a gravel roofer of this
city, died Of hydrophobia yesterday morn
ing at his residence on Almond street
The following statement was frequently
made by Mr.. Smith to his friends in
this city: That he was bitten by little
dog of his last summer in Elizabeth City,
N. J. The dog was fsothing at the mouth,
aud Mr.. s., noticing the animal spring at
his wife, leaped forward and seized him,
the dog turning his head and biting him
in the arm. He never experienced any
difficulty, and remained in good health
until last week, when his arm commenced
paining him, followed by severe pains in
his head and back. He continued to grow
worse, and on Saturday morning, we are
told, was forced TO take his bed. Soon he
became delirious, and frothed at the mouth;
reason forsook him, and from that time he
remained insensible to what was occur
ring, with one exception, when he ex-
claimed, ''Oh, my God, what have done
that must suffer so 20 Again he became
delirious, and most of the time it required
six or eight men TO hold him. The de-
ceased has no relatives in this section, his
mother, brothers and sisters residing in
Mechanicsburg, Pa. We have not ascer-
tanned when the funeral will take place.
OF all deaths this is the most horrible,
and the bereaved wife has the heartfelt
sympathy of the public in this her hour
of sore distress. Those who witnessed the
sufferings of the unfortunate man state
that they never wish to behold another
sight so painful.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
Auditors Notice.

Estate of Henry Brown, deceased.)
NOTICE is hereby given that the undersign-
IN ed, appointed auditor by the Orphans
Court of Northumberland county, to make dis
of the funds in hands of Hiram Brown,
of the estate of Henry Brown, de-
ceased, will meet all parties interested in said
fund, at his office in the borough Of Sunbury, on
the 2Sth day of February, A. d. 1874,
at 10 O'Clock, a.. IN.
A. n. BRICE, Auditor.
Sunbury, Feb. 6, 1874.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

A young Partisan gentleman has ac-
quired taste for the flesh of dogs and cats.
Lately he feasted upon large and we'll
cooked Tom, and was soon after seized
with extremely unpleasant pains inside.
Tom was avenged. He had dined on a
poisoned rat The gentleman recovered,
and now AYERS a preference for orthodox
beef and conventional mutton.
According to the Greensburg Penn. J
Argus, John Keller, of Unity, has discoy-
cred where the potato bug lives in the win
ter. Grubbing on piece of land the other
day, he unearthed countless thousands,
very fat and equally lively, and all ready
for the summer campaign.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

Gov. Potts, of Montana, at Virginia
City, has received the following despatch
from Bozeman, dated February II 1.-THE
Yellow Stone expedition started to-day,
one hundred and fifty strong and with
twenty wagons. The utmost enthusiasm
prevailed, and the officers were harmoni-
ousIy elected. There is no snow in the
Yellow Stone valley, and grass abundant. ,,
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

THE SIAMEsE TwINs.-NEw YORK,
Feb. IA Tribune Philadelphia special
says the autopsy on the bodies of the
Siamese twins took place yesterday. The
examination Of the ligament joining the
twins was made, and the question whether
a severance could have been made safely
in life settled in the negative with almost
certainty. The lining membranes of the
abdomen in each, were found to enter the
band form pouches overlapping each other
at the centre of the band, so that knife
passing through its centre would sever the
pouches and open the abdominal cavity of
each of the twins. 1t was also proved that
there was blood circulation through the
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
Auditors Notice.

estate Of Alexander J. Sober, deceased)
NOTICE Is hereby given, that the undersign-
~ ed, appointed auditor by the Orphans
Court of Northumberland county, to restate the
account of A. ]. Sober, acting administrator and
trustee of said deceased, and to make distribu-
tion OF the funds according to law, arising from
the estate of said Alex. J. Sober, deceased, will
meet all parties interested in said estate, at his
office, in the borough of Sunbury, on Saturday,
the 2Sth day of February, A. D. 1874, at 2 o.
p m, of said day.
A. y. BRICE, Auditor.
Sunbury, Feb. 9, 1874.
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Bridge Letting.

l. soners office, on
MONDAY. MARCH I'd, 1874, between the
hours of 10 and o'clock
to build a bridge across Green Brier Creek, in
Washington township. Plans and Specifications
exhibited on day of letting.
AMOS VASTINE,
J. G. DURHAM,
ID. s. REITZ,
Commissioners.
Sunburv, Feb 13 1873
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

1t is hard to make people understand the
value Of pamphlets and the wisdom of pre-
serving them. Ths late Bishop Wilber-
force left q collection which be had made
and carefully srrsaged from year 10 year,
in l75 thick syos. The whole has been
purchased by the Natiopsl Club for 500.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
AudifOr,s Notice.

In re of the account Of L. In the Court of Con
T. Rohrbach, Assignee mon Pleas of North
of d. S. Herb & Co. } umberland County
TNBE undersigned, appointed Auditor by tn
l. Court TO distribute the moneys in th
hands of L. T. Rohrbach, ESQ.,, Assignee of [
S. Herb Il Co., to and among the creditors Il
gally entitled thereto, will attend to the duties
his appointment, at his office in Sunbury, Pa
on SATURDAY, the I4th day of FEBRUARY
1874, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, of said day, when a
parties interested may attend if they see prope
7. II. B. KASE,
Sunhury Jan. 2l. 1874. Auditor.
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nsb embellishments.
SHEKEE,S SALE.

PY Virtue of a Writ of Venditioni Exponas
ID issued out Of the Court of Common Pleas
of Northumberland county, and to me directed,
will be exposed to public sale or outcry,
Wednesday the 11th day Of March,
1874, at O'CLOCK, p. m, in the borough of
Sunbury, Northumberland county, Pa, the fol-
lowing property to wit:
All those certain lots of ground situate in the
borough of Mt. Carmel, northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows,
to wit bounded on the west by Oak street, Oh
the north by Fourth street on the east BY an al
ley, and on the south by lot number three (3) be-
ing lots numbers one and two, in block number
fifty, as marked on the general plan of said bo-
rough, each containing twenty-five feet in width,
and one hundred and fifty feet in depth, whereon
are erected a frame house and stable; as the pro-
perty of MICHAEL GROODY.
Taken in execution and 20 be sold by
S. H. ROTHERMEL, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Sunbury, February 90, 1874.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

SUPPLEMENTARY ELECTION LAW
Governor Hartranft has approved the bill
supplementary to the new Election law, as
passed by the Legislature. The bill is as
follows -
an act declaratOry Of and amending the act
entitled "a further supplement 10 the act
regulating elections IN hiS Common
soealth," dpprored January 80, 1874.
Section /. BE it enacted de-, That the as
SCISSORS directed to be appointed and elected
by the fourteenth in and fifteenth sections Of
the act approved January 80, 1874, are
hereby declared to be assessors only to per-
form such duties as are now required by
law of assessors incident to the holding Of
elections and registration of voters, and
that the Office of assessor for the purpose of
valuation all the duties incident thereto
shall continue and remain as now provided
for by law; prOUided, that in townships,
boroughs and wards composing but one
election district the assessors for the pur-
pose of valuation shall be assessors for the
holding of elections and the registration of
voters.
Section ?. That 30 much ofthe thirteenth
section of the act 10 which this is a supple
ment as provides that nothing in this act
shall require the returns of election or
township or borough officers to be made to
the court as directed by this section, but
all returns of the election of township and
borough officers shall be inclosed in a sealed
cover directed to the prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas of the proper coun-
ty, and shall by some one Of them be de-
livered into his Office within three days af-
ter every such election and filed therein"
oe and the same is hereby SO altered and
amended as TO require the returns of the
election of township and borough officers
to be directed to the clerk Of the Conrt of
Quarter Sessions of the proper county, in
stead of the prothonotary Of the Court of
Common Pleas, as provided in said act.
Section 3. In all elections hereafter the
certificate of naturalization, genuine, shall
be conclusive evidence of the facts mention
ed therein and where the person offering
to vote claims the right on the payment of
tax, the receipt for such tax, if signed by
the proper officer, shall be the evidence
thereof; if such person does not produce
such receipt, then the payment Of the tax
may be proved by the oath of such person,
or other evidence, stating when, where and
10 whom such tax was paid.
The Reading Times, in speaking of the
prospect in the coal fields, says: Every
cloud has its silver lining, and the threat
ened rupture between capital and labor is
happily dissipated. The best of feeling
exists among the companies and their en-
ployees, and the people will be spared
those fluctuations that from time to time
tend to clog the wheels Of progress. The
prospects for the year 1874 are much
brighter and more encouraging at present
than they have been at any time in the
past"
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

WE are indebted to DR.. S. S. Schultz,
Superintendent Of the State Hospital for
the Insane at Danville, Pa, for copy oi
the Commissioners aud Superintendent's
report for 1873. The pamphlet is embel-
lished with good engravings of the hospital,
gas and pump house, boiler house and
laundry. The institution is in satisfac-
tory condition.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
Auditors Notice.

Estate of David Gotshall, deceasedl
NOTICE is hereby given that the undersfgu
IN appointed auditor by the Orphans Cour
Northumberland county, to make distribution
the funds in hands of Henry Gotshall, admi'
traitor of said estate, will meet all parties II
rested in said distribution, at his office in the
rough of Sunbury, on Friday the 9Th day
February, A. D. 1874, at O'Clock, p. m.
A. JORDAN, Aadito
Sunbury, Feb. 8, 1874.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
Building Lots For Sale.

NINETEEN LOTS, 25x100 feet, fronting @
~ Vine street, in Sunbury. Price sl25. Ais
thirty lots, 25x1S7, fronting on Spruce and Pin
streets. Price SIS per foot. Also eight lots,
x90, fronting on Fourth street between Walnl
and Spruce. Price $3.50. Also 81 lots, 25x11
fronting on Third and Spruce streets, betwet
Walnut and Spruce. Price $400. Also 10
2ix230 on the north side of Spruce street. Pri,
5000. Also 16 lots in Caketown. The abo'
prices do not include corner lots. Persons d
string to purchase will do well to call 500
Terms easy. IRA T. CLEMENT.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

About two years ago, it will be remem-
bered, the government bough. a lot of rebel
archives from one Colonel Pickett for S75,
600, which contained evidence that has
saved to the Treasury many times that
sum. 1t has now completed negotiations
for another batch of similar archives,
known as the cotton papers, for $4,000,
for the Southern Claims Commission, to
use as evidence against the claimants-and
a very judicious investment it will proba-
bly turn ou. to be-
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

Mr.. j. II. Puleston, recently elected to
the British Parliament from Davenport,
was at one time resident of Pennsylva-
MIA, edited the Pittston Gazette, then became
connected with the Philadelphia banking
house of Jay Cooke & Co., and subsequent
ly went to London with Mr.. Mccullough,
when that gentleman and Jay Cooke estab-
llsheG banking house in that city. He is
said 10 possess considerable financial abil-
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
Administrators Notice.

ESTATE OF SUSAN FERTENBACH.
NOTICE is hereby given that letters Of adm
IN istration have been granted on the estate
Susan Fertenbach, late of jackson townsh
Northumberland County, Pa, deceased.
persons indebted are requested to make imI
date payment and those having claims to
sent them for settlement.
AB'M BLASSER, Admir-
Lower Mahanoy twp, Dec. &c, '73.-6t.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

The soup-houses are doing a great and
good work in feeding the poor, but what
good is soup-house to a woman who can
not get to it ? 1t is estimated that 400 men
and women perished from cold and hunger
in this city last week. Why any human
being comes to or stays in great city, is
something beyond my comprehension. 1
don't know why l am here. Where one
succeeds thousand fails, and success here
does not mean as much as it does anywhere
else.
THE GRAIN TRADE.
continues to excite especial attention. The
fact is that New York ought to lose it for
she has never done anything to foster it.
All the grain that comes to this is handled
by hand-it has to be carted from the depot
to the vessels and the cost of transfer al
most eats it up. A movement is on foot to
build tracks by the water side-to erect
elevators as in the Lake Cities, So that the
loaded into vessels at slight cost. This is
all that can possible save the trade, and
this will not do it unless the Erie Canal is
enlarged and the exhorbitant tolls thereon
lessened. Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia
and Baltimore all have superior facilities
and they are taking the trade, Why don't
the farmers organization take some action
in the matter of the canals There is little
use in looking to New York for relief.
PIETRO
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

ELECTION NOTICE.-Notice is hereby given
Il that an election will be held in the Arbitra-
tion Room, in the Court House, Sunbury, Pa,
on Monday, the 9th day of March next, between
the hours of l and O'Clock p. NJ, for the elec-
tion of officers of the Union Park and Agricultu-
raj Association of Sunbury, to serve the ensuing
yelr. SOL. MALICK, President.
P. Fl. MOORE, Secretary.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

NOTICE is hereby given that application has
IN been made TO the Court of Common Pleas
of Northumberland county, for a charter of in
corporation of the ''Seven Points Mutual Fire
Insurance Company" and that the same will be
granted ut the next regular term of said Court
unless cause be shown to the contrary.
l.. T ROHRBACH, ProthonOtary.
Prothonotary's Office, Sunbury, Feb. Is. 1874
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
Notice i'm Divorce.

NOItct III DIVOrct.
Catherine Glitch, IN the Court of Common
by her next friend Pleas of Northumberland
Isaac Bubb, County.
vs. Pluries Subpoena for Di-
Henry Lewis vorce. No. &c. March
Glitch. Term, 1874.
To the respondent above named;
You are hereby requred-tO appear at Court
of Common Pleas to be held at Sunbury, for the
County of Northumberland, on the second Mon
day of March next, to answer the complaint of
the lihellant in the above stated case.
S. H. ROTHERMElI, Sheriff.
Sherlff's Office, Sunbury, Pa, Feb. 6, 1s14.-4w
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

Martha Straub,byl IN the Court of Common
her next friend Pleas of Northumberland
Peter Bixler, County.
VS. Pluries Subpoena for Di-
vorce. No. 155, March
Charles B.Straub) Term, 1874.
To the Respondent above named:
You are hereby requested TO appear at Court
of Common Pleas, to be held at SunbuTy for the
County of Northumberland, on the second Mon
day of March next to answer the complaint of the
libellant in the above stated case.
8. Fl. ROTHERMEL,
Sheriff.
skeriff7s Office, sunbury, Pa, Feb. 6, 1s74.-4w,
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20

THE election at Harrisburg on Tuesday
resulted in a majority of 133 for John ID.
Patterson, the Republican candidate for
Mayor. The whole Republican ticket was
alaofaA
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
asb advertisement
Taverns, Restaurant and Liquor
Store Licenses.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following
~ persons have filed petitions in the Court of
Quarter Session of the Peace of Northumberland
County, for Travern, Restaurant and Liquor
Store Licenses, and that the same will be pre-
sented to the said Court on the ninth (9th) day
of March next.
TAVERNS
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.

The property of Samuel Gossler, deceased, sit
uate oD the corner of Fourth street and Shamokir
Avenue, in the borough of Sunbury, is offered a.
private sale, on reasonable terms. For particu.
lars call on, or address
PETER s. GOSSLER, Sunbury.
JOHN Y. GOSSLER, Scranton Pa.
Executors
Or on VI. C. Gearheart, Market street, Sun
bury, Pa.
The above property ifnot sold by March 14th
will be sold at public sale to the highest bidde
at the Court House, in Sunbury, Pa, at o'cloel
p. NJ.
To-
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OMAHA. Nebraska. February II. 1874,

OMAHA, Nebraska, February II, 1874.
Emil Wtlvsr ESQ.,:
From this progressive, busy city of the Great
West, permit me to send you my congratula-
tions on the enlargement and improved aspect Of
your 'sA,nericGn." Go ahead, sir, you deserve,
and will achieve success. Nebraska, new
State, in 1850, had no political existence. In
1860, only %, 900 souls, in 1870, 12300O. We
shall soon number half million. Here, 20 de-
grees west from Sunbury, the same God rules.
The same sun warns, and the same blessings
will crown the efforts of the industrious and
economical. Our leading churches the Me-
thodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Catholic. But
emigrants bring their religion along, and organ
izc according the dictates of their consciences
l hear, with pleasure, of the coming of Mr..
Reitz and others, from good old Northumber-
land county. We extend to all hearty welcome
to the original hunting grounds of the Shawnees,
Pottowottomies, and other aborigines of our ex-
tcnsive praries. We have room for the coming
millions. "The Devil and the Lawyers in
your Ameriean, February 6, reminds me of the
long past period of my boyhood, when l used to
scribbe rhymes for Jimmy Shannon's Sunbury
'GG,etteer." Ienclose preserved number, June
90, 1926, from which you may, if you please, re-
publish one of my juvenile effusions, addressed
to one whose name is still repeated in the pulpit,
and in the lowest gambling he'll.
In 1926, John Quincy Adams was President.
The Jackson party was organizing for battle and
for victory. They won. They had their days Of
power. They are gone. The momentous ques-
tion of slavery, secession, disunisn arose. They
were met, and settled. They belong to the past.
But the "Prince of Darkness" the old Copper
head 'Serpsnt,ms Gntiquuna, q'si est diGbVles ct
Sdtanas,'' is still busy. He was prospecting out
here in the Platte Valley, and suppose he is yet
prowling about leose in Sunbury, seeking whom
he NAV mislead. w.
An Ode
To tie Prince ot-DGrk1tsss.
Begone thou prince of He'll away!
No longer on earth's surface stay:
Trouble OF man the foe of God
Richly dost thou deserve his rod.
Before all worlds thou vert untrue,
Aud lost thy rank and glory too;
Twas thou who caus'd man first to stray:
Thou lead'st him still the crooked way.
Each evil passion of the heart,
Thou ddst in nature first impart:
Each hellish action man has done,
Twas thy influence urged him on.
But thou shalt to thy fate submit,
To be confined in hell's dark pit,
Thy thousand years must be fulfilled,
For so eternal power hath willed.
Then shall misguided man be free
From thy clandestine tyranny:
Murders and wars and thefts shall cease,
And all shall serve the PRINCE of PEACE.
The glorious GOSPEL then shall roll,
With rapid speed from pole to pole
Fair LIBERTY as far extend,
And SCIENCE shall her steps attend.
June 20. 1926 8. B..
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DEN aSbsrtisn,emts.
SHERIFF'S SALES.

pY Virtue Of sundry Writs of Fieri Facias
- alias Fieri Facas, Vendtioni Exponas, alias
Venditioni Exponas, second Pluries Vendltioni
Exponas, Levari Facias, and second Pluries Leva-
ri Facias issued out of the Court of Common Pleas
of Northumberland county, and TO me directed,
will hn pYn0sed In Ouhlio soil or ouforv
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
Notice.

Sunbury, Feb. 13, 1873.
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IMMIGRATION

The decline in immigration is now very
marked. During the past week the total
number of immi grants landed at Castle
Garden was only 456, which is the smallest
number received in q single week for several
years. But they are of good class. Ger
many is largely represented. Sweden, Nor
way and Denmark, contribute their quota.
The ScandinaYians mostly go to the North
west, the Germans to the Western Middle
States, while the Irish, as many as possible,
stay III the large cities, where they can run
grog mills, and finally become Aldermen,
contractors, and run things generally.
THE POOR
Are suffering this winter. There is work
enough in New York for 80 per cent. of the
working men, so there is no occasion for
much distress among those who have health
and strength. But the sick and the weak
are in pitiable condition. Every day sick
men and women are found in the garrets of
the over-crowded tenements and in the Gel
lers as well, dying from hunger and cold.