Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-12-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

/ sluc IN tne senate during lne Winter. lie
/ has acted in his capacity only few days
/ since his term Of office began, being advised
/ by his physician To avoid excitement and
hard work. His appearance in the chair
of the Senate will therefore be a bulletin of
/ his restoration to health.
The Schuylkil Court has decided that
the County Commissioners elected this fall
enter upon their duties January !, 1875.
The rate Of city taxation in Washington
/ is - on the 500, in New y York 1888, and
/ in Philadelphia S2.15 There is no State
! tax in Philadelphia, and the rate in New
! York includes the State tax and all other
/ taxes.
. Louise Kellogg iastcns her garters with
800 diamond clasps. Anna Dickinson
snaps pair of amethySts round her little
calves, and the widow of Captain Jack ties
up her old army socks with pair of
+ Shacknasty Jim's old suspenders.
Eight hundred ami thirty young girls
applied at the Grand Opera House, New
/ York, in answer to an advertisement for
one hundred young ladies to dance in the
bal'e, Many of them were beautiful, and
among the number were six who had
taught school aud had given music les
sons
Next Monday he second session of the
Forty-third Congress will begin at Wash
ingtnn. Oh The 4th Of March.
Judges PaXeon and Woodward drew
lots on Saturday TO determine which should
be Chief Justice thirteen years hence, and
/ Paxson won.
: The new horse disease, called pink eye,
has made it's appearance in New Haven,
/ Conn, and elsewhere. When the disease
/ first appears the horses refuse their food.
/ Swelling of the limbs and swelling and
running of the eyes, accompanied with a
cough in some instances, immediately fol-
low. The disease generally lasts from
three to four weeks before the horses are
fit TO work.
Early On Thursday morning last excite
rneut prevailed at Frernansburg, Pa, over
the reported stealing of an infant of Allen
GOss from its cradle during the night.
Cnremittins search by the citizens and au-
/ thorities resulted in finding the body of
( child in the I.chigh river. which was rec
ogniZed as The missing baby. The evil
dence indicates that the mother threw il in.
Mrs. Goss was arrested and conveyed to
the Easton Jail On Friday morning.
THE Schuylkill county papers are deny
ing that crime is rampant in that section,
and that peace and quietness prevails as
much as in any other mining districts.
They are very severe on some correspOn-
dents of the New York Press who they ac-
cuse Of coming in their midst and without
asking for information, manufacture the
high cOlUred stories of Wholesale assassina-
tions and robbery in the coal country.
Referring to the FreeTrade plank in the
platform Of the Maine Democracy, Con-
gresham Eugene Hale, in accepting the
denomination rendered him by the Maine
2
it means that system of taxation should
be adopted that would treble the burdens
of our taxpayers. admit to our coasting
trade vessels built by our provincial neigh
bors, and shut up in silence and decay
every ship-yarG on our coast"
The oyster trade of Baltimore has in
Ia, >, la.
former extent. Four years ago there was
not single packing establishment in that
city, and the starting of one would almost
have been ridicued. Now there are ten
firms
The Harrisburg poorhouse was recently
the scene Of n row, the inmates, for the
most part tramps and vagrants, having Sc
cured some liquor and imbibed until intox-
icatcd. The Mayor arrested a large num-
ber before any material damage was done.
In some parts Of the South they ale be-
ginning to whisper the name of Wade
Hampton in connection with the next
Democratic Vice Presidential nomination.
He is the man who procured the insertion
in the Democratic platform OF 1868, Of the
clause declaring the reconstruction acts
unconstitutional. revolutionary and void |
Heavy monthly reductions Of the public |
debt are evidently things of the past, the |
Government, like individuals, being com
PEELED To- postpone the discharge of its in /
40 Ia r..tt Of
The statement issued on Tuesday. aud !
printed elsewhere, shows a decrease during .
the past month of Sl23, 427.GS; the coin
balance is SSi.Ol3. 3.37G.6S; currency, SlG.-
go, 9,2ll.4S; coin certificates, S23, ,O45, 400;
certificates of deposit, S47, 120, 600.
\ new plan 10 cure drunkenness is about
to be adopted in some parts of this country.
1t is 30 publish once n week the names and
occupations of al transgrcssors. The plan
is said to have worked well in Liverpool,
England.
Some Berks county gentleman captured
what they thought was bald eagle, and
presented it to the Philadelphia Zoolocical
Garden. An examination by those posted
in ornithOlogy, however, revealed the fact
that it was turkcy-Ouzzard.
Without doubt hundreds Of people who
will read this item are suffering with kidney
Decease in some form, which might be cured
with bottle or two of Johnson S Anodvne
Liniment, used internally. Why not try
IL?
Parsons Purgatiye Pills, which are now
being extensively sold in this State, are
purely vegetable, and are mild and gentle
n their operation. One is a dose. Good i
qualities, certainly.