Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-03-13


Uniforms are 10 be furnished 20 the
members of the fire department OF Lewis
burg.
At no time within twenty years, it is
said, have horses sold at 80 comparatively
cheap rates in New York as this winter.
Praying in houses of ill-fame is the next
reform. II has been introduced in Ciacin-
natti.
In Union county. where local option was
carried, the Chronicle, a strong temperance
paper, says .'the law has heen ruthlessly
trampled under foot, - aud lit has already
become dead letter on our statute books. "
A preacher, physician and an under
taker recently happened TO visit the office
of the Jersey Shore Herald at the same
time. The exemplary editor, frightened.
at once proceeded to review his past career.
but suddenly exclaimed, II am innocent" "
Nhereupon the trio explained that they
had mer,-ly called to pay their subscvip,
tions. The editor recovered
Judge Harding. in Luzerne county, re-
Gently announced as follows, viz: ''lf "A
constable refuses to deliver a prisoner,
properly committed by justice of the
peace, at the county Jail at Wilkesbarre,
report him to the court, and he will take
the place of that prisoner for three or six
months in the county jail"
Mark the difference between American
and British travellers. The former GO
abroad to spend money. The latter COME
hither to make il.
The new Masonic Hall, at Harrisburg
was dedicated on Monday evening. Rep
resentatives were in attendance from New
York. New Hampshire. Connecticut. Dis
trict of Columbia, Ohio. Illinois. Kentucky
and Pennsylvania. Altogether seyent,
LODGES were represented. Richard Vaux
p. G. NJ. of the Grand Lodge Of Penusyl-
vania, delivered the dedcatory address.
Out in California the other day mol
90. hold of the wrong man, and came neal
hanging lawyer instead of the robbel
whom he was prosecuting. Still it was not
an unnatural mistake.
The bill fixing the salary of Judges has
finally passed both houses Of the Legisla
ture. Their salaries arc as follows: Su
preme court judges, $1,000; district court
judges, $1,000: county judges. 1000
separate orphans court judges, $500
associate judges. a day; but not less than
$500 a year for any of them.
The father of the late Governor Wm. F
johnson, is still living, in Westnoreland
county. at the advanced a.e of 100 years
At 9S years Of age he regularly rode or
hnrseback. but Of late has been too fcebl.
for that exercise.
Last fall the Liberals carried the city o
Rochester, New York, by large ma joritv
At the recent election the Democrats pu
Il straight ticket in the field and the Repub
licans carried the city by larger majority
than they have had for years.
Governor Davis, of Minnesota, has refused
an increase of salary from 90, 900 To 81, ,00t
the only instance Of the kind, We believe
on record.
We have always heard that Kentucky
girls went it strong on hog and hOminy,'
but Miss Mary Jane Sevence has the mos
prodigious appetite of any women we hav,
eyer heard, in or out of Kentucky. Ac
cordins to the Mount Sterling Sentinel sh,
ate 1T one sitting, on wager of twenty
dollars, whole roast pig. an entire stuffed
turkey, all of an opOssum, ten large corr
dodgers, and drank a gallon of hard cider
The Sentinel says she is plump and pretty
brunette, and lively rs a cricket.
Recent disclosures concerning the manu-
ficturc of syrups from old rags have Great
ed CONSERVATION far and wide among pan
cake eaters. AT the Portland argus office
there has been on exhibition recently som.
golden drip" which il Is claimed, was
manufactured, with the aid Of the necessary
acids. from a couple Of old towels and q
pound of saw dust.
The workingmen creditors of the Nation
al Iron Works of D,nville, the property O
which was lately sold in bankruptcy, can
not be paid the wages due them until it i,
decided that the tax debts OF the compan,
do not take precedence Of wages and al
other claims.
The Supreme Court of the United States
holds that all savings banks are Bound u
pay internal revenue tax on their cOntin
gent funds. and That an action for debt
will lie for the recovery of the tax, even al
though it has never been assessed.
The young ladies of Alton, Illinois, have
organized n secret society, one of their
strctest laws bein. that not one Of its mem
bers shall 60 with any young man VIII,
drinks, smokes, chews, takes snuff, or uses
profane language, or drives fast horses
If the young ladies live up to their rules
they will I've the lOneliest set of girls in
America.
Poor Andy johnson will have to emf
crate from Greenville, Tennessee. In thai
village prayer has pulled the shoppers out o
the bottles and the bungs out of the keys.
Harrisburg has been reveling on fresh
southern shad for severa! weeks past.
New Orleans may be happy yet. The
receipts Of cotton of that port up to date
are upwards of million Of bales; l35, ,O0I
more than were received At the same dat.
last year, and the largest receipts since the
war.
New ten-cent fractional notes are coming
into circulation. They are modelled after
the latest pattern of tfty-cent notes. a
new twenty cent note will also be ready fol
use in few days.
The wife of Anthony CogsW ell, Of Chap
manville, Pa. died and was buried during
his absence On his return he had the col,
fin opened, when the body was found to BE
turned. showing that the woman was only
i'll a trance, and had been buried alive.
The husband was SO affected by the dis
coy.ry that he ia now a maniac