Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-12-31

pace LOT nOlulnH lilHll neAt uuhual ihcot
ing.
One hundred and thirty-two ties for n
railroad were recently cut from one tree in
Washington county. Ono log furnished
forty-three.
A Young man, name unknown, lost his
life by inhalng the fumes Of sulphcr at a
limckin. in the spperhs of i;ending, re-
Gently.
Mrs. Charles Erhard, Of WiI!iamsport,
was probably fatally burned on the 2lst
inst, by her clothes catching fire while
she was at work near the stove. :.
The fat has gone forth in Philadelphia
that all owners Of clipped horses which are
not properly blanketed in The streets are to
be arrested for cruelty to animals.
The Ayondale relief fund has been
wound up, the last payment having been
made last week. The amount distributed
among tie sufferer; was Sl70,075 Co.
1t is understood that several appropria-
ton bills will ba reported to Congress by
the Committee Of Ways and Means early
next month.
The Controller of the Currency has called
upon the national banks for report show
ing their condition at the close OF business
on Friday, the 18th Of December
\ negro named Patterson kicked his
wife so inhumanely on Saturday in the
township of Ewing, near Trenton, n. j.,
that she died. Paterson was committed
for trlal
General Babcock and Secretary Bristow
both emphaticaly deny the charges pub
llshed in the Chicago Inter Ocean about the
latter's collusion with Western crooked
whisky men.
Last week little daughter OF James
Gross, Chester county, got something fast
in her throat while eating supper at a
children's party and was strangled to
death.
North Patton, young man living near
Alensville, Mifiliu county, accidentally
shot himself, Oh the 18th inst, while load
ing pistol, lie is not expected to sur
vive.
Lebanon has citizen who boasts that
I in the course Of forty years he has been
arranged before the courts of justice twen-
ty-one times, and yet has never been found
guilty.
A work house is being built at the Dau-
phin county poor house, and it is proposed
to make the tramps who come to that in
Stitution earn their ratIons. This is 4 pro-
per movement.
A Bucks county man going home the
other evening stopped at a spring by the
wayside 10 drink. In the morning he was
found dead, with his mouth and nose Just
under the water.
During severe thunder storm at Mem
phis on Sunday the house Of Joe. Vincent
| (colo-ed), on South street, was struck by
| lightning, and he and his wife badly in
jured. and are still in a critical condition.
A vein of coal eleven feet thick, is said
30 have been dicoYered in Scioto county,
Ohio, about eight miles from Portsmouth.
4; A reduction in miners wages has been
made at Arnot, Tiosa county, Pa, of five
nets per ton of coal mined, and twelve and
one-haf cents per yard.
| The iron business is improving about
| Coatesville, Pa. The Eal0n says the mills
are all busy, with bright prospects for the
! future.
The Presbyterian church at Irondale,
Jefferson county, was burned to the ground
on Sunday. The fire broke out during the
morning services.
John Bisler. uncle OF ex-GOvernnr Big
Ter, of Pennsylvania died recently in the
Auglaize county poor house, aged about
ninty-fve years.
A Democratic contemporary says
"Why, bless your soul there are more
lighting men in the present than nnv two
former congresses" There are, but they
fought on the confederate ide.
1t is well enough TO pay for President
Grants denomination, if you desire it, as
Bishop Haven did, but it is likely to take
an extraordinary about OF praying to
effect the object.
\ masked man attacked 4 married w0.
man on the public road in York county,
recently. He threatened to kill her if she
made any alarm. After he had taken her
pocketbook he committed an outrage on
her.
Joseph Schneider, who served under the
Little Corporal, and participated in the
terrible march to Moscow, has Just died in
Pottsvilic, aged eightysix years. He bore
on his person the scars Of eighteen wounds
received while serving under Napoleon.
Johnny Britton,'' of Lewisburs, who
was recently married, has been converted
under the p,eachins Of Moody and Sankey
and is now laboring for the conversion OF
her old companions.
The collieries of this region stop work to.
day, and no IN ore coal is TO be shipped un-
Ill the 22d OF January, at which time it is
certain that many of them will commence
operations and work through the year.
Dead work, or repairs, is to go OH pending
the suspension, which will give large
NUMBER of men employment. The present
outlook, although we are on the threshold
of suspension with long winter before
us, is not discouraging. We have reason
to believe that :herc are very few in this
region who are not fully prepared for the
dull season. PottScdle Journal, 22d.
A despatch from Lebanon, Ky, says
Thomas II. Chandler, town marshall al
Lebanon, recently summoned number OF
men to assist in arresting George F. North.
craft, whose conduct at the time was very
disorderly. When approached by Chand
Ter and the citizens he resisted arrest, and
called on some roughs to assist him. \
general row ensued, number of shots be,