Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-02-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

! The little steamboat has been launched !
at Lewisburg.
! Charles II. Dougal is chief burgess of
! Milton, aud j. Il. Cooner of Watsontown. |
| Charlotte Cushmans estate is valued t |
! sG00,000.
! California has just decided that its Leg |
islature chaplains are superlluity.
The Columbia County Agricultural So |
cety will hold no fair this year.
Twelve men have been killed at the Cen
tennial buildings in three months.
I The President has nominated Seth J.
Comfy for Collector of Customs at Phila-
delphia.
The Oldest female in Lewisburg is Grand
mother Lawshe. aged 9l years next eldest
is Grandmother Nicely, aged 80 years.
! Counsel in the Babcock case, have got
their work in pretty well in the speech ma
king line.
An insurance company has been organ
! lied in Hazelton, 20 be called The Luzerne
company.
! A. M. Slingis, Of Lewsburg, sent
! pistol ball, which he intended for a cat,
! throgh his own hand.
An appropriation OF $4,000 is asked of
the legislature for the BoOmsburg normal
school, aud it is thought will be granted.
DR.. Aaron Eyer, of Lcwisburg. cuntem-
plates going to Glasgow, Scotland, in June
next, to attend course of lectures Tor one
year.
! \ Hazelton -lockmakcr has constructed
fac siniilc of the great clock at Strasbourg,
one third its size, with al its automatic
figures.
DIR. 5. II. Rhoads, of Pittston. has rare
book in his possession--a copy of Homer's
Had, translated by Pope, printed in 1715.
iD London.
Kansas City. Mo-, is anxious to have the
new mint located there, and offers the
ground aud a buildn. as an induce
ment.
| DIR. Helmboii has again been declared
insane by a commission IN lun acy appoint
ed by the court, aud will be placed in a
proper asylum.
| The opinion prevails in Washington
that some western city will be selected as
the place for holding the National Demo
cratic Convention.
| Brooklyn ministers have taken TO alto
gether new diversion. One of them the
other day trnunc9d his mother u-law with
! borrowed umbrella.
/ They want new county formed of terri
tory taken from Clinton. Clearlield. Gamer
on aud Elk counties, with the county seat
al Remove.
| Everywhere the revolt against the gas
monopoly deepens and widens, and the
shout of the people for Queen Kerosene is
heard throughout the land.
The Hungarian papers contradict the
statement of the Austrian journals that a
basis has been found for the establishment
of a Hungarian bank of issue.
| England gives more subsidies for trans
atlantic business after this year. She has
sivsn the Cunard line $50, 600 and the In
man line G25,uGO annually for carrying
the mails.
The New Hampshire campaign opens in
! a lively manner, with adds in favor of the
| Republicans. The Democrats are stag
gering under the weight Of party blunders
at Washington.
A fire in Danville, Va, Friday, destroy
eG the machine shops Of Crews, Roden
heiser 4 Co.. leased oy Clarke & Co. The
first named firm lost $4,000 and the latter
! $4,000.
! Representatives OF the great cOal-produc-
! ing companies Of Pennsylvania and New
! York met in New York city Friday and
permanently organized the board Of con-
| troll.
The l. Louisana senate has appointed 4
committee to investigate charges against
the mayor and city administrators of n ew
Orleans for misoppiying the consolidated
interest fund.
| 1t is alleged that the house resolution of
inquiry as to the actual amount of gold
! owned by the government available for
the resumption Of specis payments was i'll
spired by Wall street gamblers.
! In the proposed organization of the in
! ternal revenue districts it is said that Deu-
ware, Maryland and the District Of Col
umbia, collectively, will be divided into
but three collection districts.
! The clerk of the national house of rep
resentatlves has appointed Elias Polk as
messinger. He is a cOlored man, and came
to Washington with James X. Polk when
he VAS first elected to congress.
The investigation of alleged ire egulari
ties in the Pittsburg custom house reveals |
the fac. that importers have been charged
an illegal fee of g on each consignment, |
for which no return has been made.
! Charlotte Cushman has given her last |
farewell" and passed from the stage of
life. leaving behind her the record of one
of the purest, greatest. best among the |
wo A. en- of her time.
A newly divorced wife al Toledo ihyl !
ted all her witnesses, court officers, attOr- |
neys, &c. to accompany her across the
street to beer saloon, where she ordered
key Of fresh lager to be tapped for them.
Mrs. HelmbDld thinks her husband is
insane because he bores men to death i'll
the Office where they print papers. Ii all
the men of this kind could be declared iu
sane. what a happy thing it would be for
the editors.
The jury in the case of Henry Decker, |