Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-04-07

ardiy worth paying for at five cents
,ord bv telegraph. Then the subjects ol
lost interest i'll town are the very ones
,hich the editor sternly iOrbids to his
nckles. writer. We correspondents are
made aware that country readers do not
are to hear about theatres, lectures, books
nd music. at all, but little about the social
or club life so far distant from cI
heirs. in every way. Writing New York >,
eiters under these restrictions is not max
no bricks without straw, but making them c,
nj of straw, and pretty finely chopped
straw at that, so it is n matt er OF congratu-
ation to the writer when he hnds his
on the poor out OF WORK mas
moved some one in Yates county TO seho i
him an application for servant girl 10
help on farm, offering her q gooa holhe
for wears if she can suit. The application
was handed over to lady visitor OF ot.
Johns Guild, who will take care that tne
demand is filled. Persons who make sucn
requests in future will remember that ID Is
necessary for them to send satisfactory !
references from people OF standing Us 10
their ability to pay and treat servant
well, before any one will be willing 70 rlsh
going to them.
No one who has any feeling for the poor
them to homes and employment where the
benefitis as much on one side as the other
In the country, where help is scarce, 1t Is
pitiful to see the numbers out OF work here,
vot il is difficult to find those willing to
leave the city, A sewing machine agent
lately sent to New York for an operator 20
90 to a Western city. offering salary
Cearly twice what one could get here, out
not one woman could be induced to take 1t,
thouuh it vas offered TO some whose earn |
inos were hardly enough to pay their board, |
and whose chance at best was very preca-
rIous. The poor creatures will run the
risk of starving rather than 90 out oil town
| where they would be welcome and comior-
| table.
The fact is, they will not leave the city
| so long as they can exist III 1t. 10 the
poor bred here, and accustomed to the
CITY, there is nothing so terrible as the
country. They cling to the city with all
its wreuchedness, ignorant that their IS
ANYTHING better for them outside. Hall
the unemployed girls in New ork are
needed in the country, where they couia
have good comfortable homes, but they
will not go.
TILTON -BEECHER.
You havn't seen this headline lately IN
my letters, and you wouldn't now, only l
have something new. 1t is rumored tnaI
the whole matter is to be re-opeued early
in the spring. Tilton, it is said, has new
. evidence in the case, evidence that VIII
satisfy the public beyond all doubt; and 10
yindicate himself he will commence ne"
suit, backed with all the money that may
: be necessary to fight it out. ! give this as
a rumor, for | cannot vouch for its cor
l.. hat H.
or has taken no part whatever in the
e Moody and Sankey meetings, he being tne
b, only clergymcn of any note who has not.
:, The other clergymen of the city fight shy
c of him.
: FREIGHTS.
- The merchants of New York are making
!. an effort to get back their lost trade
J. They are sick Of fighting Boston and Baltl
If more barehanded, and are going to protec'
l. themselves. They are organizing to d'
what should have been done years ago
viz. Build 4 straight air line freight roat
q from the city to the prominent frelgh
n gathering points, with proper termlna
"a facilities. They propose to own the road
and have it operated i'll the interest OF IN
CITY and the people of the West, and TO
away with all the little swindles and extol
Id tions that have driven the trade away iro1
r. the city. The matter is in the hands
i. men who mean business, and who have tn
s. money to do it. 1t is expected to have I'll
ct survey commenced early in the spring, an
DIS the road commenced at once. 1t Will De
ts straight road to st. Louis, with branch'
OF to the principle points and will be exclusiV
iy for freight. The trains will make q
average OF sixteen miles an hour, ana
IN will be double-tracked its entire lengt
~ The road will save the farmers CT The we
IN 80 cost every five wears, for when hnlshed
,s~- BUSINESS
@ 'e is dull again, and the weather is averagir
:" badly. Last week we were treated to
regular hurricane, which blew down bull
- inss, aud tore things generally. But Il
mild weather that followed has broug!
- the country merchants, and therefor it
hailed with delight.
HEALTH.
The city is fsarfully unhealthy. IL
.p spring suns are exposing masses of fit
r. that have accumulated during the wintc
and the miasma that is in the air is SOM
thing frightful. Ague and Bilious Fevt
Is more prevalent than it is in Indiana, an
the variety is of the most malignan
IF Bilious Fever mears mOle here than
n does i'll the country, and when it comes I
J j
in the air that is terrible, and children an
10 weak adults are dying at a rate unheard o
20 L Mess steps are taken at once to clean th
n. city, the summer will bring q pestilenct
:, 1t is shame that it should be in such
as condition, when the arcount of money pai
a each year for the purpose of cleansing i
N ought TO keep it as sweet as a flowerbe
/ RELIGIOUS.
\ The advent of Moody and Sankey, an
h The enormous audience they have attract
- ed, have had the effect to set Christians tC
r. thinking OF various things. Among Others
$ the system of renting pews. is being dis
n cuSsed with much feeling. The more
earnest workers Insist that the churches
= shall be free, that the seats shall be free
4 and that the system OF first come, frs
served,n shall OF adopted. They insis
(, that only in this way can the masses b,
p brought INTO the churches and under Cos
= pei influences. On the other hand thG
\ holders OF pews hold that as there are al
E ways sittings for all who come, there is nc
+, reason why those who desire it should not
have there sects, and continue the regular
family idea of the church. The matter has
got into the papers, and much is being
said pro and con. The preachers are TAX
ing it up, and the Christian world is being
divided into pew and no pew parties.
shall not attempt to settle it, but will give
my notion in a speech made by an advo-
cate of the pew system. Talk" said he,
'of the necessity Of bringing sinners in to
hear preaching. Who needs it more than
are do? And who needs inducements more
than we do? p As he was pillar in the
church his statement was most candid
confession. PIETRO.