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''Our friend d. &. Dissinger has just re-
turned from a visit to Lebanon county, and
brings the highly important intelligence
that the Democrats of that county concede
the nomination of that party for Congress
to this county. As the district is composed
of Dauphin, Lebanon and Northumberland,
the majority for such nominee couldn't by
any possibility be over 100, 600. ."-Sunbury
DAILY, of Wednesday last.
There is supposition that Mr.. Dissinger
made visit to Lebanon for the purpose
of fixing the political wires to secure the
nomination for himself If you are can
didate for Congress, David, why don't you
say so
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-24


Herring BY MEANS OF AN INTERNAL
MACHINE-ARREsT OF THE SUPPOSED
CULPRIT.
About five O'Clock on Saturday afternoon,
boy aged about 10 years went to the
residence of Mr.. Charles G. Herring, No.
COG South Second street, and deposited a
paper package on the top of a roll of oil
cloth. He said it was present for Mrs.
Herring. 1t was accompanied by the fol-
lowing note directed to Mrs. c. &. Herring.
PHILADELPHIA, July II, 1S74.-Mrs.
C. G. Herring: You will have the kind
ness of looking at samples of Venetian
shades rollers inclosed in package. You
will find something very saleable in your
store. They are a new patterned article
which will demand great call on you in
a few days. You can exhibit the same in
your store free Of charge. If not suitable,
return the same to factory, No. 555S North
Front street.
G.. w. ESHLER & Coz
Mr.. Herring, perceiving that the note was
directed to his wife, handed it to her. She
said the package looked like ''spite box, -
and refused to touch it.
Mr.. Herring opened it in the presence OF
all his family with the exception of one
little child, and after removing three or
four wrappers of paper, it proved to be a
wooden box, with drawer or sliding lid.
The box was opened. and it was found
to contain three pounds of powder, piece
of wood in the centre pierced with holes,
filled with matches, the friction side being
up and the drawer lid lined with sandpaper,
and made to come in contact with the
matches, and 80 explode. 1t was perfect
miracle that the whole family were not i'm
mediately killed and the house set on fire,
which would certainly have been the case
had not the lid been removed very eau.
tiously.
Edward Wagner, residing No. 500 South
Fifth street, was arrested yesterday after
noon by Detectives Mears and Joyce, on
the charge of having attempted to commit
the murder. The accused is a son.in.law
of Mrs. Herring, and the note accompany
ing the box was compared with a bill made
out by Wagner for Mr.. Herring, and the
handwriting is almost identical.
1t is alleged that Wagner has grudge
against his mother-in-law for two or three
reasons, one being that he wished to go
into business with Mr.. Herring, but she
dissuaded her husband from doing so.
Our readers will remember that about a
year ago the residence of Mrs. Herring was
the scene of brutal murder, another SON.
in-law, named Schustereiter, having cut
his wife's throat and destroyed his own life,
having taken corrosive sublimate. 1t is
alleged that letter in German was receiv-
ed some time ago by Mr.. Herring, which
stated that the next murder would be
worse than the first.
Wagner will have hearing at the Cen
trail to-day Philadelphia Inquirer of Tues
dap..
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A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT =

n DEMOCRATIC GOVERkMENT,-
one is simple enough to believe III any
sal cry of the Democratic 'he univer-
change of administrator press that
to Democratic is der from Republican
terests of the cor. -Laned by the best in
the Nashyil)r .ntry, let them read what
ton of T. Bullentjn says of the condi-
tic rr' onnessee, State under Democra-
g. .Ie. Tennessee, the Bulletin tells us,
as upon the verge of bankruptcy. The
people are groaning under load of taxa
ton. The current expenses of the State are
not paid. Warrants are now outstanding
on the Treasury to the amount of near half
a million of dollars. The money derived
from taxation has been transferred to New
York to fill the Golfers of the bondholder,
in whose interest the State has been and is
now being run. The debts due our own
people for services rendered to the State are
unpaid. A large portion of the taxes for
1874 have been collected, and before Janu-
ary, 1875, the outstanding warrants for the
current expenses of the State will amount
TO more than q million. Already six or
seven hundred thousand dollars of the cur
rency have been sent off to New York to
pay the July interest, and as much, or more,
will have to be sent in the fall 10 meet the
January interest"
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Republican Coanty Convention.

The Republican voters of Northumberland
county are requested to meet II each ao,toD s1etN
district al such places at which delegate eieeuo'
Saye heretofore been held, on Saturday, the IS
day of September next, between the no. 18th
and O'Clock, p. n, for the purpose ..rs of l
delegates to the Republican Coup' of clecting
70 he held at the Court House y Convention,
sunbury, on Tuesday, sep IN the borough of
O'Clock a. m, for the p cInber %, 1874, at 10
ticket 70 be presented Lrpose of nominating a
at the ensuing e. to the voters of The county
two hundred ection. Each district polling
last genera 4iepublican votes, or less, at the
entitled. election for State officers, will be
three 20 two delegates each district polling
pc' hundred, three delegates and each district
aling over three hundred votes shall be entitled
TO four delegates.
By order of the committee.
EMIL WILVERT, Chairman.
=. NJ. MORTON, Secretary.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-24

FoREIGN.-Cholcra is reported to have
broken out among the fifty thousand Jug
gernaut devotees assembled in Poree, In
dia.
The floods in Northern India are said TO
have subsided, while the southern districts
still complain Of drought.
Servia sends conciliatory proposals to
Constantinople. The Sultan is negotiating
with the Khedive for his aid in case OF em-
ergency.
The French Deputies of the Left are
making active efforts to secure dissolution
of the Assembly in the event of the defeat
of the Constitutional bill.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-24

Several late dispatches show that Indian
hostilities increase throughout the west.
Col. Carpenter, of the Sixth Cavalry, has
been wounded, and six OF his men killed in
fight near Fort Sill. After the fight the
Indians killed and mutilated n stage-keeper,
in the presence of his wife, whom they car
ried into captivity, ana it is believed they
also massacred a party of wood-choppers.
Thirty-fye miners in Wyoming have been
attacked by Sioux, and one of them killed.
In other directions, as far south as Texas,
the Indians are equally hostile.
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a.iu advertisements.
-
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that application for a
charter of incorporation for The Shamokin Coal
Gas Company which has for its object the sup
plying of the borough of 5bamokin with illumin-
ating gas, will be made to the Governor, at Har-
risburg, On the 25th day of July, A. D. 1874, un-
der the provisions of an act of Assembly entitled
SAN Act to provide for the incorporation and
regulation of certain corporations" approved
29th day of April, 1874.
VIM. II. DOUTY.
w. 2. KUTZNER.
JOHN SHIP.
JOHN l.. HAMMER.
A. CALDWELL.
WN. H. VI. DRAM.
Sbamokin, July 10, 1874.-3t.
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A Terrible Fate.

The Elmira Advertiser gives the follow
ing account of the sad accident at Watkins
Glen, which resulted in the death Of a very
estimable young lady, Miss Ruth Van Et-
ten, of Auburn. Size came out with an ex-
cursion party of dozen or more compan-
ions, arriving at the Glen about moor. The
accident happened little above the second
stairway from the entrance to the Glen.
The Glen is narrow at that point, with pre-
cipitous sides rising many feet from the
bottom. The pathway is quite narrow,
too, but we should think sufficiently pro-
tected by stout railing to forbid any fear
ofdanger or anything untoward happening.
Miss Van Etten stood leaning on this
railing looking into the abyss below. In
some unaccouutable manner-ei.her some
loose dirt or a slippery stone being the
cause-she lost her footing and slid down
between the lower rail of the railing and
the edge of the precipice into the gorge be-
low. She first struck on the opposite side,
but bounded back 10 the same side down
which she fell, a distance In all OF at least
ninety-five feet. She was literally dashed
to pieces at the bottom, her neck being
broken and her brains crushed from her
head. She was taken to her home on the
return boat The young lady is well con-
nected and highly spoken Of, and her un-
toward fate cast a feeling of gloom through
every circle where. it was known. She was
about twenty-five years of age
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-24
Republican state convention.

The Republicans of Pennsylvania will hold a
State Convention az Harrisburg, at noon, on
Wednesday, August 10, 1874, for the purpose of
nominating candidates for Lieutenant Governor,
Auditor General, Secretary of Internal Affairs
and Judge Of the Supreme Court.
The representation of the several counties in
this Convention will be based on the appointment
of Senators and Representatives made by the
present Legislature, each Senatorial and Repre-
sentative district being entitled to delegates equal
ia number 10 its representation in the Legislature
under said apportionment.
RUSSELL ERRErT, Chairman.
EZRA LJKESs, iSoo-o,,.;os
Inu~u M,Cr-frorrau ( SOSASNuAAOS-
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SHERlFF,S SALES.


DY virtue of sundry Writs OF Fieri Facias,
ID Venditioni Exponas, and Levari Facias, is
sued out of the Court of Common Pleas OF Nor
thumberland county and to me directed, will be
exposed to public sale or outcry, at the Court
House in the borough of Sunbury, Pa, on
Saturday, Ist day Of August, 1874,
at O'Clock p. m, the following property, to wit
All that certain one storied frame building, fif-
ty feet wide, and three hundred and thirty feet
in depth, located on lot or piece of ground stu
ate in the borough of Northumberland, North
umberland county. and State of Pennsylvania,
bounded and described as follows: bounded or
the northeast by land of estate of j. c. Horton,
deceased, and on the northwest by land of Bird.
Jenkins and Simpson. on the southwest by land
of Bird, Jenkins and Simpson, and on the SOUTH
east by the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg- rsits-
road as the property OF THE MOKrhU MBEE- HI.
LAND CAR AND MANUFACTURING CON-
PANY.
ALSOs
A certain lot or piece of ground situate in the
borough of Mt. Carmel, county of Northumber-
land, and State of Pennsylvania, known and de-
signated on the general plan of said borough as
lot number five, in block number fly, bounded
northwardly by lot number four, eastwardly BY
Apple street, southwardy BY lot number SKIS
westwardly by Oak street, containing in width
twenty-five feet, and in depth one hundred and
fifty feet, with the appurtenanees consisting of a
two story frame dwelling house as the property
of ALEXANDER McKIM.
ALSO,
A certain lot or piece of ground situate in the
borough of Turbutvile, Pennsylvania, bounded
northward by Main street, eastward by land of
Anderson Denius; southwark by an alley, and
westward by lot Of Mary Christnan, containing
one-fourth of an acre, more or less, with the ap-
purtenances consisting of q two-story frame
dwelling house and other outbuildings.
Also, All that certain lot or piece of ground
situate in the borough OF Turbutville, Pennsyl-
vania, bounded northward by an alley, eastward
by Washngtonville road or street, southwark by
Broad street, and westward BY lot OF Elizabeth
Frymire, containing one-fourth of an acre, more
or less.
Also, All that certain lot or piece of ground
situate in the borough of Turbutville, Pennsyl-
vania, bounded northward by an alley, eastward
by lot of William Savidge, southwark by Broad
street, and westward by lot of Anderson Denius,
containing one-fourth Of an acre, more or less
as the property of MILTON TRoXELL.
ALSO:
A certain lot or piece Of ground situate in the
borough of Milton, county of Northumberland,
Penna., bounded northwardly by lot Of VIM. G.
Lawson, eastwardly by Front Street, southwark
by lot of Geo. A. Piper, and westward By the
West Branch of the river Susquehanna, contain
ing in front on Front street, thirtyseyen and one
half feet, andg extendin back to low water mark,
with the appurtenances, consisting of one three
story brick dwelling house with store room, and
one two story frame shop; as the property of
JOSEPH ANGSTADT.
Taken in execution and to be sold by
SAMUEL II. ROTHERMEL, Shelf.
serif's Office, Sunbury. July Il, 1874.
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Dem embellishments.
Pocket Book Lost.

r OST on the public road leading frou Hern-
II don to Sunbury, on Tuesday morning last
q POCKET BOOK containing sixty dollars in
money. The finder will be suitably rewarded BY
leaving the same with the owner, or with the
Postmaster at Herndon.
CHARLES Il. wOLVERTON.
Herndon, Nerth'd CO., Pa.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-24

1t now appears that previous to the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Jewell TO the position OF
Postmaster General, the honor was tender
ed to Hon. John B. Packer, of Sunbury,
Congressman from the Northumberland
district, but was declined by that gentle
man. This action Of his is to be very much
regretted, as he is one Of tie best and ablest
men of his party in this State and would
have made a most efficient officer and
would lso have given Pennsylvania her
position of having representative in the
Federal Cabinet. Bloomsbury Columbian.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-24

Divorce suits, where separation is asked
in consequence Of cruel treatment, are usu-
ally brought by the wife against the hus-
band. In a recent case in New York,
however, this rule was reversed. The
complainant was the husband, who charged
his wife with cruel and inhuman treatment,
and so satisfied was the Judge from the
testimony given of the truth and gravity
of the complaint, that the divorce was
granted. So it seems that in this as in
other matters, there is IN important excep-
ton 10 the rule, and that there are some
times husband beating wives as wei! as
wife-beatino husbands,
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school Teachers wanted,

1--WE SCHOOL TEACHERS,
II Two male teachers, one for High School, and
three female teachers are wanted to teach in thu
Mt. Carmel borough school district, during the
next school session. Application must be made
to the president and secretary of the Board.
By order of the Board.
JOHN LAZARUS, PresId't.
THOMAS SCoTT, Secretary.
Mt. Carmel borough, July II, lS74.-4t
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-24

At last those feminine advocates of total
prohibition in Ohio, known under the ap-
pellation of crusaders, have done something
to merit the gratitude of consumers alcoho-
lie beverages. Ina recent convention these
once enthusiastic, but now methodical and
and practical ladies, formally demanded the
execution of half-forgotten law of the
Buckeye State, a statute providing for the
appointment of inspectors to test liquors,
and empowering them to destroy all that
are adulterated. Governor Allen will be
at once asked to have this enactment car
ried into practical effect, and how he can
refuse to perform so plain duty it is diff
cult to surmise. BY the enforcement of n
Pure Liquor law there will be more drink
ing saloons closed in Ohio, one hundred to
one, than were retired from business by the
novel efforts of the well-mcaning but over
jealous crusaders.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-07-24

In re of the account of Henry Lahr, committee
of William L. Wilmer, a lunatic-
Notice is hereby given that the account of
Henry Lahr, committee of William L. Wilmer,
a lunatic, was sled on the 23d day of March, A.
ID. 1874, and will be confirmed by the Court on
Tuesday, the 4th day of August next, unless
cause be shown to the contrary.
L. l.. ROHRBACH, PrOthonotary.
Sunbury, July 10. 1874.
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Auditors Notice.

Notice is hereby given to all persons interest
ed, that the undersigned, Auditor to make dis
tribution of the money raised and paid into
Court ON sale of the defendants property under
and by virtue of Venditioni Exponas, No. 173
August Term, 1873, at the suit of j. G. Frick vs..
D. c. Smink, will attend to the duties of his ap
pontment, at his Office, in the borough Of Sun
bury, on Tuesday, the 21st day of July, 1874, at
ten O'Clock a. m.
w GREENOUGH, Auditor.
Sunbury, July 10, 1874.
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NOTICE.

All persons knowing themselves indebted to
me for Lime or otherwise, will please take notice
that all accounts must be settled by the first Of
August next, as have payments to make and
must have the money.
CHARLES HAAS.
JuIy 10 lSr4-3t
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NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that application has
been made to the Court of Common Pleas, OF
Northumberland county, for charter Of ineor-
poration of the 'Coeur De Leon Castle, No. 81.
Ancient Order of the knights of the Mystic
Chain Of the State of Pennsylvania" and that
the same will be granted at the next regu-
lar term of said Court, unless cause be shown to
the contrary.
L. T. ROHRBACH, Prothonotary.
Sunbury July 10. 1874-3t
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NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given to all persons not o
IN meddle with the following property, to wit:
one bay mare, one black mare, one two-horse
wagon, 5 hogs, and one set double harness, the
same having been purchased by me at Sherifrs
Sale, June %, 1874, and loaned to Hiram Clark
during my pleasure, and are subject to my order
and disposal at any time.
DAVID B. LEITZEL.
Jordan township, July 10, 1S74.-3t.*
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TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received at the Com
missiOners' Office, from 10 o'clock a. m. to
O'Clock p. m, August 3rd, 1874, for the erection
of a Covered Truss Bridge across Holowin Run,
near Elias Hetricks, and one across Green Briar
Creek, near Peter Rebuck, where Plans and Spe-
eiications will be exhibited.
AMOS VAsTINE,
j. G. DURHAM,
d. 8. REITZ,
Commissioners.
Attest :-P. W. GRAY, Clerk.
Commissioners ONCE, Sunbury, July 10.-4t.
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Auditors Notice.

Auditors Notice.
Lippeneott, johnson & Co. No. 6s March T.,
vs.. 1874, Fiera Facias,
c. B. Smith. and No. 60 March
T., 1874.
Notice is hereby given to all persons interest
ed, that the undersigned, Auditor to make dis
tribution of the money arising from the sale of
the real estate of the said defendant, will attend
to the duties of his appointment, at his Office, in
the borough of Sunbury, on Wednesday, the 22d
day of July, 1874, at ten O'Clock a. m.
W. I. GREENOUGH, Auditor.
Sunbury. Julv 10. 1874.
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Correspondence.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

THE BEECHER ROw-MR. TILTON's NEW
DEPARTURE-WHAT THEODORE is Go
ING TO -DIPTHERIA-DIRECT TRADE
OF THE WEST WITH EUROPE BUSINESS
-ORANGEMEN-THE MAYOR.
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AUDITORS REPORT

nF THE TOWNSHIP OF LOWER MAHA-
" nOy, county of Northumberland, State of
Pennsylvania, made March eth, A. D. 1874.
Statement of the Supervisors of Lower Maha-
noy township. Jacob Snyder,
DR..
To amount of Duplicate 81 ,293 20
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Arents Klincken, who came from Hol-
land with William Penn in his first voyage
in 1852 built the first two-story house ever
built in Germantown and Penn was pres
ent and partook of the raising dinner, which
must have been an inviting one in those
good old times when everything was cheap
and nlenty
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DISTARDLY OUTRAGE.

AN ATTEMPT MADE TO MURDER MRS.
Herring BY MEANS OF AN INTERNAL
MACHINE-ARREsT OF THE SUPPOSED
CULPRIT.
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In the Court OF Common Pleas Of
NOrthum berland County.

Lower Mahanoy twp, June "a, 1874.
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July 10. 1ST4.-3t.
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Statement of the account of Elias West,
Treasurer of the Lower Mahanoy School Board,
June 9, A. d. 1874.
Elias West,
DR..
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Statement of the accounts of the Overseers of
the Poor for the Township Of Lower Mahanoy,
March %, 1874.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-11-26
Looking Back to the Old Love,

Wasn't it neat, though, the cottage where clam
bered
bosc, the reddest that ever YOU knew:
AuI wasn't it sweet though the wild WAY we
wandered
over tue hill where the Strawberries grew:
hnd dldu't You weave Inc girdIe Of grasses,
" "aying kiss in with every link?
Md tldn't yon leave me the @laddeSt of la>Ses
hen Yea went down to the spring for a
drink:
Oh bnt the blaekbird> went singing and sing
ing
into the heart OF the d,ised dclls
oh. but vour new words went ringing and ring
ing,
Into my heart like tiutter of bells
Oh but YOU loved me, you said, and my bushc,
Rivaletl the strawberries under our feet:
And oh, but YOU proved me Your own in the
bushes
ot the MAY morning 50 tender and sweet.
Bat Wasn't it queer. though, how our youns
passion
Faded away like i frolics0me snow:
or weren't You dear, though after fashion
Just for 4 little short summer or SO,
Laughing little, toy with my llces-
Real, with a clasping OF diamonds, dear
Thinking how brittle are ties TO old places
Thinking how mighty the bonds that are here
And Who i, 10 blame now for all the Swce
folly:
You are The king of castle. and |
" Ould say ii NOH came now. wasn't it jolly,
The old time dreaming for ever gone by
For what needs 4 woman but Jewels and lace
And station to make all her living divine:
No matter how human the cry for old places.
II cannot be heard in this kingdom of mine
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-11-26
Out of the Window,

put of the window she leaned and laughed
A girls laugh, idle and foolish and sweet
Foolish and idle. it dropped like call
Into the crowded, noisy street.
y he glanced at the gancing face,
W ho had caught the laugh as it tlutterci and
fell,
ANA eye to eye for a moment there
IheN held each other A. il by \ ~rc]i
All IN moment passing there
And into her idle, empty day.
All ia that moment something new
suddenly seemed to lind lis way.
And through and through the clamorou~ hour,
That made his clamorouS busy day
\ girls laugh, idle and foolish and sweet.
into every bargain found lis way
And through and through the crowd Of the
streets.
Al eyery window in passing by
He looked moment, and seemed to see
A pair Of eyes like The morning sky
Nora Perry