Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-10-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

sorghum fields.
The coal trade is threatened with an un-
profitable wrangle between the great pro-
ducers, owing to threatened overstocked
market.
The Fall River factories will start up
again next Monday, paying the wages Of
fered to the operatives before the late fool
ish vacation"
The next gain of the population Of Cali
fornia by immigration during the first
eight months of the present year is esti-
mated at eighty thousand
An Ohio congregation recently had their
preacher on trial for merely saying darn
it to Texas" when he stumped his toe and
went heels over head into the mud.
The order of Odd Fellows in this coun-
try now embraces nearly half million
members, and last year expended S1,37l,-
81 tor the relief Of bepefcaries.
The government has accumulated go large |
an amount of gold in California that it has |
been found necessary to transfer some of it |
east. Arrangements are now being made !
for that purpose.
In Warwick county, INDIANA, they ad- !
nit widows to the fair grounds free of
charge. By this infation of widows stock
| in that county, the value of an ordinary
husbands life has deprecated fifty per
cent.
Alexander II. Car of all the Russias,
has another granCsOn, the child of the
Grand Duke Vladimir. This latest scion
of royalty is to be called His Imperial
Highness,
The Missouri Valley Poultry and Pet
Stock Association are making great pre-
parations to shov the visitors to the Cen
tennal exhibition what the Missouri Val
| ley can do IN fhe way of fine poultry,
! Kansas aGds sik-worm to her other ex-
portations few day ago two boxes of
eggs worth at least $4,000 were shipped to
| France.
The Liverpool emigration returns for
August show a reduction Of 6,l24, while
the total diminution IN the year amounts
to no less than 26,S70.
Topers are looking forward with the
liveliest interest to the eclipse Of to-nOr-
row, which serves as an excuse for turning
the bottoms of glasses upwards.
The people of the Colorado Valley in
Texas are going largely into the sugar
growing business. Land and climate are
both admirably adapted to the purpose.
The September report of the Department
of Agriculture says of The corn crop ::
Gould it be thoroughly ripened its aggre-
gate would exceed any previous CROP"
1t is estimated that the people of York
have spent over $4,000 for excursions,
fairs and picnics this summer.
Rich silver and gold discoveries on thu,
north shore of Lake Superior are reported, +,
the estimated yield of the ore being from
$500 to $1,000 ton.
|. The value of foreign imports at Phila-
delphia in August was 81, ia, ,016, of which
amount 81, las, SAG came in American YES
sells, aud $50, ,470 in foreign.
| A nortorious horse thief, named Jacob
Crawford, otherwise known as Jack Sa und-
ers, died in the Eastern Peniten,iary some
days since. He was from Wyoming
county.
Elk shooting is one of the amusements
in Colorado. The steaks are nice, and the
hide makes excellent buckskin. An ordin-
airy specimen weighs, dressed, from 800 to
200 pounds.
Senator Morton addressed very large
Republican meeting in Pittsburg last Fri
day night. The hall in which he spoke
was packed, and hundreds were unable to
gain admittance.
Jos. Sullivan, little boy in New York,
was lost two weeks ago, and nothing has
since been heard of him. 1t is thought he
was kidnapped. His parents, naturally,
are almost distracted.
The decision of an English cuu.. makes
the aronaut responsible for damages to
crops, fences, etc., occasioned by his bal
loon, or by the crowd, when 1t alights.
The recent storm on the Gulf of Mexico
destroyed the town of Indianola, and many
of the lives ofthe residents of that place.
A correspondent from there says dead
bodies are strewed for twenty miles along
the bay"
There is still trouble at Fall River,
Mass, between the strikers and those
who are willing to 60 to work IN the mills
Several of the mills have started with those
who have withdrawn from the union. The
militia are out to preserve the peace.
Piolet went to the Erie convention boast
ing to his Demo critic friends there that he
could controld the Granger vote, and bar
tering that vote for place on the ticket.
We shal be disappointed in the intelligence
of Granger if they can be sold and deliver
ed by this political adventurer.
The Republican States and T erritories
already carried this year are New Hamp-
shire, Maine. Rhode Island, Michigan,
North Carolina, Colorado and New Mexico,
and this is much better record than we
were able to present at this time last year.
The Reading Times says that there are
numbers of Democrats in that city who
will not vote at the coming election. They
are so utterly disgusted with their party,
with Pershing and Plollet, Bill McMulen
and back-pay Speer, that they will stay at
home and sulk.
All over the country, while Democrats
are quarreling over the financial and other
issues the Republicans are consolidating
/ and preparing to present an unboken front
to the enemy.
Remember that appearances are often
deceiving Many pale, thin young lady
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