Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-06-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Washington monument has failed in the
House.
The Altoona Tribune proposes to issue
n monthly magazine on the first of July
next, at 81 per year.
At the decorating of the graves of the
Confederate dead, at Baltimore, a hand
some cross and boquet, bearing the inscrip-
ton, "a tribute to the Union dead from Con-
federate soldiers" was placed upon the can
non guarding the lot in which the Union
| soldiers are buried.
The Senate Claims Committee have
| to report the House bill with the agreed
amendments appropriating 100000 to
pay awards of the Southern Claims Commits
sioners in favor of about one thousand
Unionists throughout the South.
Our population in 1870 was seven mil
lion greater than tina: of Great Britain.
Yet while our banks do not reach an ag-
gregate value of Sj,000,000 the British
banks reach $3.50, 100000.
RHUBARB VINEGAR.-Drain off the first
water from rhubarb when it has stewed five
minutes evapOrate it to the requisite de-
gree of sourness and use Il instead of vine
gar for the table and for cooking. 1t is an
agreeable acid, and in many cases it can
be used instead of lemon. 1t is natural
acid, and therefore much more wholesome
than vinegar formed by the decay of sweets,
or by any other chemical process. 1t may
be evaporated (by gentle heat TO an in
tense degree of sourness, and kept in cans
or in bottles for future use, and reduced
| with water when wanted.
Democrats are mildly trying to get a
little comfort out of the Oregon election,
but it is hard work. Last fall they carried
the State by 2,07l majority. Now not
withstanding the temperance vote was
drawn mostly from the Republicans, Gov
ernor Grover was reelected by only 400
majority, while the Congressman is yet in
doubt. That tidal wave don't seem to have
reached Oregon yet.
The yellow fever, which appeared last
week in New Orleans, has now broken out
in Pensacola Florida.
The Sheriff of Omaha advertises twenty
acres of George Francis Trains land, near
that city, to be sold for delinquent taxes
and interest.
The principle agricultural problem in
Minnesota and Iowa is, whether the set
tiers vii! drive out the grasshoppers or the
grasshoppers drive out the settlers.
Dispatches from Prescott, Arizona, state
that On the 21st of May Lieutenant Kings
command attacked band of Apache In
dams, camped on Mesa river, near Dia-
mond Butte, and killed nine of them, and
that eighty-four Apaches, with three chiefs,
had surrendered at Camp Verde.
An auction sale of the personal property
belonging to the late Senator Sumner was
held on Wednesday in Boston, and attract
ed 4 large attendance. The articles sold
consisted principally Of china, glass and
Other articles of tableware, with some vases
and parlOr ornaments. Good prices were
realized. The Sumner memorial fund
amounts to $4,000.
\ Goliad county (Texasj paper says ::
'Corn and cotton are looking fine, though
they are beginning to need rain. Grass on
the prairie is luXuriant, and cattle and
horses are sleek fat. The two industries
of Goliad county-agricutura and stock
raising-were never more flourishing. All
we lack is more emigrants to help us out
Land can be had on easy terms. There is
large amount of public land in this county
that is good for farming or stock raising :"
The leading Republican paper of South
Carolina has come out in favor of cumula-
tive voting and minority representation.
1t will change its mind when it has tried
the system while.
y new process Of sweating or infiat-
ing the currency is in vogue The notes
are slit lengthwisc, in such a way that
out of six bills seven are constructed,
slightly narrower than the genuine
The steamboatmen of the Mississippi
Valley are coming to tho opinion that the
preposterous style of chinneys so long
maintained upon that river are not only
unnecessary, but positively inefficient.
The rattlesnakes in the knobs of Lincoln
county, Kentucky, have formed corner"
in water, and the supply OF some families
is cut off. They gather IN large numbers
around the springs and suffer no one to ap-
proach
The Pennsylvania State Fish Commits
| sioners at a meeting in Harrisburg, on Fri
day last, adopted Brewers Improved Fish
Way, and will put one in the Columbia
Dam, this summer. The work will be let
to the lowest bidder as soon as the neces-
sary plans and specifications can be prepar-
ed. Mr.. Brewer will superintend the work
and look after the interests of the commits
sion. We congratulate James upon his
success. Mi0,cy Luminary.
ADMITTING COLORADO.-The House of
Representatives, by vote of 10 to 65, has
passed the bill admitting Colorado into the
Union. According to the census of 1870
Colorado had a population of 47,164, of
whom 1900 were Indians mot taxed), leav-
ing 80, S64 as the population upon which
representation would be based.
Gov. Hartranft has issued warrants for
the execution, on July 10, of Rosentine and
Moody, the colored men who murdered
Abraham Benin, near Middletown, in
November last.
The Bloomsbury Republican tells the fol-
lowing almost incredible story {: "On the
north side of town is an abrupt precipice
known as the Rocks. \ little girl, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Mason, of Rock street, aged
about nine years, in company with some
other girls of about her own age, was play
ing the:e, when she ventured too far and
fell distance of probably one hundred feet,
and landed on the railroad of the Blooms