Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-08-07

Two Russian civil engineers have just
concluded a visit to the Lehigh Valley,
Mauch Chunk in particular. They were
Joseph Kulakoosi and Thomas Krejeryski,
and their business was the inspection of
American railroad locomotives, with a view
to their further introduction on Russian
railways.
Rev. Mr.. Van Pelt has resigned the
pastoral charge of the Grove Presby terian
church, of Danville, and accepted call
to Mercer.
The amount Of banking capital operating
in New York city is in round numbers
S75 1000, 600, being decline nearly 3d.
100000 since last year.
A gentleman who writes the prefix Rev
before the name of G. w. Frisbee predicts
that Titusville will, on the 10th of August,
be swallowed up as were Sodom and Go
morrah. 1t is true in Mr.. Frisoee's case,
as in that Of other prophets, that he has
not been honored in his own country where
| irreverent people call him a fraud
The sons of Stephen A. Douglass have
finally won their long pending suit for his
Chicago property, and are S250,000 richer
than they were last week.
! 1t is rumored that an eminent English
Psychologist and paleontolosist, has been
induced to accept the chair made vacant by
the death of Professor Agassiz at Harvard
| University.
Fifteen cargoes of alifornia new wheat
are now afoat for Great Britain, against
ten cargoes during the month Of July last
! year.
4 child three years of age was carried
| of, in New York, on Sunday. 1t was
found on Monday, in the possession of a
| beggar woman.
Some of the Judges of Louisiana, if what
is said of them be true, are not exemplary
| temperance men. John II. Stone, of Clin-
ton, that State, writes to a northern paper,
that L have seen Judge sit in judgment
for five long weeks, determining causes of
millions Of dollars, and for five long, tedi-
Gus weeks never draw a sober breath, with
a bottle of whisky sitting by his side-not
Slightly intoxicated, but too drunk to arti-
| culate'
THE PUBLIC DEBT.-The public debt
statement shows a reduction during July
of 81 ,2S2, ,866. The reason why the reduc-
ton is not greater is the falling off Of GUS
toms duties and the internal revenue, ow-
ing to the depression of business.
A Minnesota preacher who has been re-
ceiving spring chickens by the dozen, and
and thanking Providence for the liberal
hearts of his Pensioners, was astonished
to hear the other day that terrible cpl
demic was raging among the fowls.
Gold fell on Monday to 100, the lowest
point touched since it went up with the
fall of the nation's hopes and credit during
the war. Whether the placing of the new
five per cent, the improving tone of busi-
ness, or the recent financial legislation, is
the cause of the gradual decline of the last
few weeks, we will not say, but one fact
ought to be noted viz, that act Of the last
Congress, which was to all intents and pur,
poses an Initiation measure, has not in
creased the premium.
Mr.. VIM. Kupp, Union township, Berks
county, who is but twenty-four years o
age, weighs four hundred pounds. What
is singular, up to within two years be wa:
an ordinary sized man, and has attained
this extraordinary weight since that time
and is increasing. 1t now takes five yard:
of cloth to make him 4 pair of pants.
The largest oil still in the world is in th'
refinery of Porter, Moreland & Co., at I'll
tusvi!le. 1t is forty-fve feet in diameter
nine feet deep, and holds thirty-ive hun
dred barrels of oil.
The Odd Fellows of Marietta, Lancaste
county, will dedicate their hall on the It'll
Oh August. The Goromonins will be con
Quoted by the Grand Master and the otli
GERS of the Grand Lodge Of Pennsylvania.
The Lebanon Negs tells the story of al
attempted abduction of beautiful child
whose parents reside on England street
Lebanon, but gives no names. The sup
posed abductor is described as ''well dress
, ed and of fine appearance"
The fish commissioners not having flee
a certain certificate on or before the 1st da,
of June, that in their opinion the fisher,
at Columbia was a success, the fshway
to be constructed in the Clark's Ferr,
dam, Shamokin dam, and in the first dan
in the Juniata, will not be commenced thi
year. For the purpose of building thes
Gshways $4,000 were appropriated by tn
last Legislature.
4 want has been felt and expressed b,
physicians for safe and reliable purga
tive. Such want is now supplied in Par
sons Purgative Pills.
, Henry X. Bond, Of Jefferson, Maine, wa
, cured of splitting blood, soreness and weak
ness of the stomach, by the use of Johnson
AnOdyne Liniment internally.