Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-02-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

prohibited from chewing tobacco.
Perseverance isn't always rewarded. In
Indiana, lately, 20 men handled 80 cords
of wood TO get ut a rabbit, which escaped
after ali.
1t is proposed to cultivate figs for fatten-
ing hogs in Southern California.
Theo. I. Derringer, inventor of the pis-
tol of that name. died at his residence,
Philadelphia, on Saturday last, aged 63
years.
The earnings of the Pennsylvania rail-
roam company and the United companies
of New Jersey for 1873, foot up S34 1892,
S4S 95; expenses for the same period,
S23, ,S14 67; net earnings S11,S77,-
034 %.
A new horse disease of an alarming char
acter has appeared in New York.
The citizens of MiffiinLown have subscrib-
ed their quota of stock to the Selinsgrove
and North Branch railroad, and regard its
construction as fixed fact.
Hon. Thos. Chalfant has been placed
upon the Special Committee to make a re-
port of the necessary changes in the capitol,
for the accommodation of the increased
number of legislators.
II. Bucher Swope, Esq, United States
Attorney for the district of Pittsburg, who
had been seriously i'll for several days past,
died there at four O'Clock Monday morning.
Kansas has 3,133 school houses, aggre-
eating in value S3,40S,9 And yet
Pomeroy went to the Senate from that
State.
George Washington could not tell lie,
and the Boston papers propose to follow
his example BY not issuing paper on his
birthday.
If Butler feared conscience rs much as
he does reporters, he would be safe.
The aggregate coinage of the three
United States mints during the past fiscal
year was 80, 523, $40 pieces, of the value of
S,6S9, 1873.
The Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias, of
this State, will meet at the 4 ssembly build
ing, Philadelphia, next Tuesday.
A proposition is pending in Congress for
the repeal of the tax upon bank checks, the
annua! revenue from which amounts to 81
100000.
Neil Nc cBride, miner, was murdered on
the main street of Beaver Meadow, Pa, on
Saturday evening, opposite the public
house of Peter Schwob, which he had just
left, with the intention of going home.
The supposed murderer is an Irishman, 20
years c!d, named Neil Paul, who has es-
capped.
A man named n. NJ Wood. at Rut-
ledge, Ga, shot himself and poisoned three
of his children ON Saturday night. The
desertion of his wife was the cause.
The women began a temperance move
ment in JefIersonville, Ind, on Saturday,
by visiting the principal saloons in body
and conducting religious services.
Our statesmen are not the only ones both
cred by the financial question. Mr.. Glad
stone recently declared that the real issue
before England was finance, while the same
is said to be ms true of France, Austria and
Russia as of England.
Photographs are usually rather monot-
onous, but an interesting sun-picture must
be that of Mr.. Almer Huntly, Cuba, n.
Y, aged 107 years, sitting upon his horse
as upright rs 4 statue.
1t turns ont that female Justices Of the
Peace were once known in England, but
then, on the other hand, they were ap-
pointed by "Bloody Mary"
The daily exports of Lexington, Scott
county, Ind, are stated to be five carloads
of milk. The daily imports are ten barrels
of whisky.
As suggestive bit of statistics, it may
be mentioned that go gin-houses have been
burned in Georgia since last September.
In Hardin county, Iowa, is family con-
sisting of one Mr., one Mrs, and two
Misses. Aggregate weight of the four
1,150 pounds.
Mrs. McCrum, of Kalamazoo, has twins;
but she isn't proud, for one of them weighs
only ID. 10 o., and the other only ID. 8
OF. This is a case in which the ounces
are of importance.
New Orleans papers complain that fraud
ulent Northern made syrups flood their
markets, underselling the genuine article,
discouraging home trade and home con-
sumption, as well as attacking health by
the most deadly and insidious agents.
Yesterday an old topper, learning for the
first time that the women in Ohio are
emptying barrels of whisky into the gut
ters, pathetically exclaimed, "What happi-
ness to be an Ohio gutter"
The cotton trade of New Orleans this
season, despite the panic and the strong
competition of other markets, is exceed
ingly satisfactory.
Semmes, the Confederate privatcer, who
inflicted SO much injury upon the COM
merce of the North during the rebellion, is
the latest applicant for political amnesty.
In quite number of the various State
Legislatures now In session, the question
of compulsory education is, we notice, un-
dergoing earnest consideration and discus
sion.
The latest novelty of life insurance is the
case of a woman in Detroit, who visited
every Office in that city trying to get a
policy of $1,000 on d six-month old baby.
No takers.
\ disconsolate gentleman in Chicago
advertises that the thief who stole his WELL
bucket and rope will obIige him by coming
and taking the well, for which he has now
no use.
Two thousand dollars is a high price
to pay for single rooster. That is what
Mr.. Davis, of Portland, has just given to
Ira Batchelder for black Spanish cock
considered the best game bird in the
country.
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