Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-02-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

! ANYBODY who knows the new senator
from Iowa knows that kirkwood never
wears red flannel shirt at dinner party,
and some of the papers allege that he once
did.
| Ben Hill claims that when his party
went out Of the union, they took the con-
stitution of the United States with them.
! Floyd and company took the guns and the
money.
! 1t is said that Prince Bismarck has pro.
/ posed % the German Federal Council tha!
the decree Of last spring, prohibiting the
export Of horses, be annulled.
/ The strike among the shoe operatives at
/ Rochester, which has lasted several weeks,
was end ed, lately, by the employees agree.
( ING to resume work at reduced wages.
The new apportionment bill in Louisiana
based on the State census was sent TO Gov.
ernor Kellog, on Monday, and immediate.
F! ly signed. The bill leaves the Senate as il
was, but gives to Republican parishes
seven or eight additional Representatives
iu the lower house.
Everybody will be Republican by the
next fall election if only the Democrats
keep at it little longer.
SOME foolish PhilaGelphians think that
because Mr.. Moody has no. apostolic sue
cession" he has no right ito call sinners to
repentance" If this apostolic success
sion" idea is to prevail, how many of our
religious denominations are there whose
clergynen would be Authorized TO labor
with sinners In these enlightened days,
all such nonsense should be disre.
garded. Let men labor to do good, and to
live righteously, and they have prom ises
higher than apostolic SUGGESTIONS that their
labors and their lives shall be blessed
Lebanon Courier.
A young man and female once upon a
time stopped at country tavern. Their
awkward appearance excited the attention
of one of the family, who commenced con-
versation with the female by inquirins how
far she had travelled that day. Travelled J.
exclaimed the stranger, in dignantly: we
didn't travel--we rid y
The bonded and floating indebtedness of
the city Of Allentown is S470.75G,14 OF
this amount S455, ST. "a is funded There
is besides school debt Of over four hundred
thousand making total of nearly
or quite million.
While we are experiencing winter with
out snow, the south of Europe has been sub
iected to one of the other extreme altoyeth-
er. On the 10Th ult. there was snow feot
deep in Madrid, circumstance almost un-
precedented. At the same date the town
Of Mende,, in the Department of Lozere,
France, was completely surrouded by it
and all access was cut off for three davs.
Thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars
in cash was recently raised by fashionable
New York church for foreign Missions
When we think over the power of sin in
Dur own land, and read the daily record of
arson, adultry, outrage, gambling,
theft and drunkenness, it is sometimes as
much as we can do to feel sorry for those
oreign PittSburgh Commercial |
The Ledger says: Hotel accommodations
q Philadelphia promise to be ample for T!
he demands TO be made upon us during
he Cen tenuial Exhibition, and it is not |
likely that prices will bB increased beyond |
present rates. One of the new hotels with |
n a square of the Centennial buildings |
las already published its scale..of prices for |
odging. A single bed will be furnished
or one dollar per night, aud meals can be
procured at restaurant prices, either in
be hotel or elswhere, as the guests may
lesire.
A freight train Oh the Pennsylvania Rail-
oad was robbed near Waverley, n. j., Oh
friday night, of $4,000 worth of goods con--f
igned to western merchants. The goods
we're thrown off the cars in boxes and bales /
similar robbery was perpetrated near
he same place week ago. A man named
;ohill has been arrested as one of the
hieves.
What beggarly wages boys received in
Jew York, and how brutally they are
reated, are shown by the following from
New York paper:
The boys employed in the buckle factory
I Lincolon- St, Oh the flights, were given
otice few days ago that their wages
'ould be reduced 10 per cent. Saturday,
hen they received their pay, they COM
lained about the reduction. as they only
yerage about II q week for their work.
raucs Weiss, the foreman, told them to go
ITO an adjoining room and he would give
lem their wages in full. They retired,
nd shortly atterwar DIS he appeared with I
leather strap, and beat them in a sewers I
anuer. Louis Webber, who was badly {;
1t about the bead, complained before
st;ce Davis, and Weiss was arrested and &
I'D in bail. 4