Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-01-28

lllS CITY IS LDauklul LOT lue CuOi CldnSsS
that came this week. Fog, rain, and te- |
ver-breeding weather were just max
irg ready for host OF small epidemics.
The ice men were sick with hope deferred
for there were no signs favorable for their
annual ice-crop, aud 5000 men were wait
ing for work to begin ut the great ice-hOuses
up river. There WAS little need of inva-
lids going to Florida But the north west
wind brought clear and braclng weather
| that makes life luxury. While the warm
unfavorable weeks, the season is far from
being au unhealthy one, the death rate for
the week being considerable lass than the
corresponding one last winter. After the
| weather, the
BEECHEE TOPIC.
| The motions of Plymouth Church may be
! called cratic, if nothing harsher, Its last
| performance, after suubbiug the idea of
! mutual council, was TO summon Mr.. Bow
| ell, editor OF the Independent, 10 a Church
meeting TO hear grivances against him.
| His two soma were allowed with him. on
suiierance, but the scenographer ne brought
| was promptly turned out. But the repOr-
| ter made good use of bis time while he
did stay, and took down the debate word
! for word, and quietly took satisfaction
in putting the report into next mornings
| papers, where it didn't read credita5ly 10
| the fairness or Older OF private plymouth
! Church proceedings. After all, the charge
| against Mr.. Bowen was that when a church
| demanded that he should tell all that ne
| knew about the Beecher matter, he refused
| to say anything good or bad about it, The
| shrewd, long -witted Bowen knew what
would exasperate the swivel tongued breth-
ern, and did it, by keeping his mouth shut
| He turned the tables on the meeting last
night by taking ground that the church
| summoned him to hear charges and receive
| advice, not to answer, and the Bowen
mouth closed like adament again. The
silent is the strongest in the quarrel.
MOODY AND sANKEY
| BarDum's Hippodrome, where Jersey
and Vermont girls rode Roman chariot
races last winter, and GihmOre's Brass
Band made everybody thirsty enough to
| drink oceans of beer, last summer, iS now
converted into a tabernacle for Moody and
. Sankey's great meetings iu February.
| Seats for 1000 cover the saW-dust, and n
choir of 100 from different church chOirs
will lead the singing. The vast building
has been DIVIDED up into rooms for various
/ purposes. Besides the vast aut0rium for
/ the regular meetings, there arc four very
| large rOOms for ingulrers, rooms for preach
ers' meetings, rooms for classes, and rooms
! for classes, and rooms tor every purpose.
| The money for all this has been furnished
| By wealthy religious people in the city,
! who are determined to make some head
against the depravity that rules the city,
| ana is running it. One liquor seller, who
/ has one of the most popular bars in the
city, subscribed, and actually paid $1,000
| to the fund for the Moody meetings. When
asked why he paid his money 10 a cause
! that was in direst conflict with hi. business
/ he answered that be had real estate, the
! income from which was greater than the
! profits from his bar.-That the demOralI-
zation Of the city, the vice and crime that
made New York an undesirable place to
live in, was hurting his largest interests.
''1f therr howlers kin stop that kind of
thing" said he, "they are doing me
| the best turn they kin - Not very
Christian reason but an exceedingly prac-
| tical one. But when you come TO revival
! nts, there are two in the city who deserve
more encouragement than they are getting;
! DwYER AND MC'CAULEY
| Are two brands sna tched from the burning
| that is, one was miserable drunkard
and the other was a prize-fghter. They
| we're converted, and both felt called upon
to do something for the people they had
formerly known. SO they take lofts or Gel
lars, just as they can, down in Water and
Vandam streets, and they hold services
| among the lowest and most wretched peO-
pie in the city. They are mo5bed, aud
hu,tled, and despitefuly used in all sorts
OF ways, but they stick to it with the zeal
Of martyrs, and are actually accomplishing
something. They have got together small F.!
congregations in both those streets, and !
have actually induced large number of
men and women to Try better life. They |
work without pay, happy when the well |
inclined give them enough to get kerosene |
TO light up their rooms. Men willing to |
labor for humanity where they do, deserve
better encouragement than they have re-
ceiyed or are likely TO.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK
Is Just as bad rs ever. Last week there
were forty six failures, some of them very
large. One .jewelry house went up with IL
abilities TO the amonnt of S40U, 900, with
over 500, 600 worth Of goods in there store
that is goods that had cost them that
3 mount. This 100000 worth of goods
cannot be sold 10 day for one-fourth thuir
cost, for the reason that only very few are
buying iewelry, and that few can buy the
best il the world, Ofindivduals, at half the
prices :hcy can OF dealers. \ diamond
never gets to be second handed, and the
people who have them arc all willing enough
10 realize on them, in the hope of holding
Dn till the better times come. If any of
your readers want so, 900 cashmere sha wi :
Dr. $4,000 diamond, they will do well to I !
strike in now. l would buy dozen or :
.wO myself, but for reasons.
L have no sympathy for those who fail
because of fast living, or extravaganza, BUT
hat is not the class that is going under at
his time. The failures of to-day are caused
by the fearful depreciation OF goods, and
le terrible Gullness of trade. 1t is horr-
e for man who has worked hard all his
e, and is getting in position to retire on
:cent competency, to have it all swept out ;
Dm under him. The sufferers of to-day
O. mostly Of this class, and they are to be
Pied.
THE EXPRESS MONOPOLY. 7
Serybody except the Express Compa- l
nf and their subsidized Agents, ought to 81
hoi for the successful repeal of the postage y
la"vhich increased the rates on all third
clasnatter. This amendment has been .
iaVolbly reported to Congress by the ap- .
proprie committee. The Express Com B
panles re straining every nerve to defeat
1t, DutN shall see Whether Government =
exists he good of the people, or intends .
the pe'pieha!l exist for the good Of mon a
Opoles. "
IheCompnies in New \ York have large
lobby IN Washington, and are spending i
and ending Money widely to influence the u, ~
mattr. AndCongressman who finds his +
experes running high, with the enormous II
ooari or's of lie Capitol knows that he R
has 40 saNr or surer place to apply for .
"temporar orarSaccommOdation' than to one 4
oil the expires lobby. There never was a
measure roirectly for the good of every to
voter VINO mas y dollars year to spend 81
to please hlmseAr his family, than the St
law which send p,kage, by mail for a cent lT dc
an ounce. 1t brolht books and half the 50 50
facilities OF the cItynr getting better goods H.
aud lower prices to t door ofth- loneliest Ct tg
farmer in the north:wt, living miles from
any village, but visite0v ,hr mail rider
once week. The Z ,rass Cnmpan;cs CO
have had the field long eh,yh to make vi. Gr