Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-24

ful to distribute the unissued portion of the
1854 ,000, 600 legal .tenders, and also such
amount thereof as may be retired for re-
demrtion and destruction, 10 accordance
with the apportionment provided in the
act of June, 1870.
As plain as the nose on your face. An
Iowa saloon has for its sign the simple and
appropriate word "Nose-paint.
John Kaiser, shoemaker, of Franklin,
Ohio, ended a four weeks spree on Wednes-
day night by shooting his wife and instant
ly killing her, and then killing himself
Lieutenant-G Governor A. h. Davis, the
acting Governor Of Mississippi, asks the
President for United States troops, to be
stationed at Vicksburg during the election
of August 4, for the purpose Of preventing
possible outbreaks.
On Monday, about midnight, freight
train No. Ii, on the Lackawanna and
Bloomsourg Railroad, ran over and killed
Joseph Goodman, at Plymouth, Pa, mang-
ling him in horrible manner. He had been
drinking during the evening, started for
his home along the railroad track, and it is
supposed laid down and went to sleep.
Secretary Of War Belknap is preparing
to have built the telegraph line in Texas,
for the construction of which Congress, at
the last session, appropriated 100000.
1t is believed that Congress will authorize
no more telegraph lines to be erected, but
will endeavor at as early day rs possible
to get possession Of those already erected.
A digest of the game laws of Pennsylva-
mia has just been carefully compiled and
prepared for circulation by Mr.. J. B.
Spiese, of Harrisburg The book contains
SO small pages and will be sold by the
single copy at 80 cents; to clubs of ten or
more at reduced rates.
Upon examining the general laws passed
by the last Legislature, we find that no law
was passed declaring void the waiver by a
debtor of the exemption laws. A bill to
that effect was presented, but failed to be-
come law.
A British feet is quietly assembling in
Cuban waters, and it is believed at WASH
ington to be in reference to the demands of
that government upon Spain 10 the Virgin
ius matter.
During n recent storm thunderbolt
killed six valuable cattle belonging to Hon.
George Dawson Coleman, of Lebanon.
The bituminous coal tonnage of the Penn
sylvania Railroad east and west averages
about 1000 tons per weeks. On this
amount of coal the State tax amounts TO
$4,000.
IN Maine the Democracy pronounced in
favor of abolishing all revenue laws, and
raising all the expenses Of the government
by direct taxation in Indiana they have
Just declared in favor Of the old exploded
Pendletonian doctrine of payment Off the
bonds in greenbacks, and warning against
the national banks, and throughout the
South they are going into the compaign on
distinctive, unequivocal race issue.
Everywhere they seem to be taking extra
ordinary pains to insure defeat at the very
outset of the canvass.
The exports from the port of New York
for the fiscal year just closed are the heavi-
lest on record, being $354, GAS, l76, against
$685., ,552, l22 in 1878, and S2S5, ASS, 500 in
1872. The imports for the same period
were S396, 900, ,S52. against S420, 374, ,032 in
1873, and S4I5, ,S05, 9l2 in 1872. But the
revenue for the fiscal year was only Sl10,-
423, pa 32, as compared with S126, ,374 600
So for last year, and Sl47, ,900,S9l 81 for
the preceding year-a marked and steady
decline.
The Chicago Times warns machines in
other parts of the country to keep out of
that city for the present. There are al
ready many more laborers there than can
find employment, even should building in
the burnt district progress vigorously, and
the Times says that to multiply them is
simply to augment the army of idlers.
The loss to the government in the matter
of the postoffice at Chicago will be about
seventy-ive thousand dollars, which was
the cost Of fitting up the burned building.
The papers Of the opposition are still en-
gagged in committing assault and battery on
tha ninth commandment.
G:asshoppers have made their appear
ance in myriads i'll the vicinity OF Fort
Garry Manitoba, and have destroyed the
entire crop in New Pale-tine and White
Mud settlements from their western limits.
Business men every where say that their
July bills are being paid, this year, more
promptly than usual-the most encouraging
sign yet for trim trade in the fall.
Graves who traded his wife for razor,
razor strap and a days wolk, to another
man in Potter county, has made his last
swap. lie died last week.
Mrs. Bitner the woman who gave birth
to three children at Port Royal, Juniata
county, few weeks ago, has since died.
The children are all living.
Col. Forney left on Thursday last, for
Europe. During his absence the editorial
duties of the Press will devolve on Major
w. w. Neyin, a cultivated and able gentle
man, who has had considerable experience
as writer.
Nathan Isaacon was on Saturday arrest
ed in Chicago on the charge of having set
fire to the building which coused the con-
fagration of the 14th inst, in the city. The
testimony taken in the case shows that the
accused offered one Wolfshon, a peddlar,
one hundred dollars to set the house on fire.