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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-02-11
"A cheerful spirit gets on quick

But above all this be honest, Ifyou in
tend 10 be an artist, carve it in the wood,
chisel it in the marble; if merchant,
write i: in your day book aud spread it in
capitals in your ledger. Let honesty of
purpose be your guiding star.
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Il &. GOBES,
November ., 1872. If.

Z.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Office on east Market street, opposite the City
Hotel, Sunbury, Pa.
Prompt and careful attention paid to convey
ancing.
May II, 1875
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-02-11
ITO all ;he prize is open,
But only he can take it
Who says with Roman courage

BuC ULIE
Who says with Roman courage
I'll find a way or make H."
Strive boys, to catch the spirit of the
times be up and dressed always, not gap
ing your eyes asif you were fast asleep,
but wide awake may turn up, and you may
be something before you die.
Thidk, plan, reflect, as much as YOU
please before you act, but think quickly
and closely, and when You have fixed your
eyes upon an object, pull off your coat
cheerfully, roll up your sleeves in earnest,
and with merry song spring at the mark
at once.
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HOUSE. TIL

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~ Market, Sunbury, Pa. PETER s. BUR
RELL, Proprietor. Rooms neat and comfortable.
Tables supplied with the deicacies of the season
aud the walters attentive and obliging.
Sunqury, Jan. %, 1875.
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~ R.CADWiLLADE Market Street.
W. SUNBURY, PA.
Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils,
'Ilass, Varnishes, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars,
Pocket Books. Diaries, &c.
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NATIONAL HOTEL. AUGUSTUS
~ WALD, Proprietor, Georgetown Norh'd
County, Pa, at the Station ofthe n. c. x. w.
Choice wines and cigars at the bar.
The tableis supplied with the best the market
affords. Good stabling and attentive ostlers.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-02-11
MARRIAGE.

reflect that a sound mind and body are the most
necessary requisites to promote connubial happi-
ness. Indeed without these, the journey through
life becomes weary pilgrimage; the prospect
hourly darkcns to the view the mind becomes
shadowed with despair and filed with the mean-
choly reflection, that the happines" Of another
hnnnrnre hlirhfrd with onr own.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-02-11
. TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.
YOUNG MEN

Who have injured tn mseiyes by certain prac-
tce inaulged in when alone, habit frequently
learned from evil companions, or at school, the
effects Of which are nightly felt, even when
asleep, aud if not cured, renders marriage inpos-
sibe, and destroys both mind and body, should
apply Immediately.
What pity that young man, the hope ol Hie
country, the darling of his parents, should be
snatchcG from all prospects and enjoynents Of
life, by the consequence of devating from The
path of nature and indulging in a certain secret
hahit. such PERSONS MIST before concentrating
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-02-11
ORGANIC WEAKNESS.

Memhrr Of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lon
don, Graduated from one Of the most eminent
COLLEGES in the Tn ted States, and the greater
part Of whose ife has been spent in the hospitals
Of London, Pris, Philadelphia and elsewhere,
has effected some of the most astonishing cures
That were ever known many troubled with ring
ing in the head and ears when asleep, great
nervousness, being alarmed at sudden soands,
bashfuness, with frequent blushing, attended
sr,ma9iarplV
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-15

Island College hospital. He was taken there
on the night OF the fire. On Saturday the Fire
Marshal obtained from him the following tes-
timony:
Had charge of the flies / saw the fire
break out IL commenced in the center OF
the building in the rigging loft, among the
borders or drop curtains. think the draft
brought the border In contact with the light.
There were wire coverings over the lights, but
not always. The wires were close enough,
we thought, to prevent the borders from
touching the lights. The borders did not.
get out Of order in any way; they went up
right, but when | came to let them down
they dragged. / tried 10 put the green cur
tain down and ii broke Nothing broke be-
fore the fire. This was the commencement
OF the trouble. | was unfastening the
grooves when one OF the men went out TO
put out the fire with pole but could not do
IL. We had no fire hose attached or other
wise | saw fire hydrants under and on the
stage but no hose. We had two other fires
in the theater shortly before this last one
one was in the box Office and the other on
the stage. | think the doors leading to
johnson street we're all clear on the stage.
The alarm was given to the police
pretty soon after the fire was discovered.
The audience were not notified Of IL for three
or four minutes. / kept the curtain down
as long as could. In going down I found
/ stayed longer than should have done and
could not get out On landing | met Muir
doch ana he went right up TO his room. |
saw him drop from heat and smoke. /
jumped out of a window on Floods alley
leading from the first landing. Murdoch
and Burroughs first went down on the stage
to get out, and when they found the heat
too great they went up the stairs again.
Other stage hands got out the door on John
son street. We were on the other side and
could not reach that door. / do not think
Murdoch and Burroughs tried to get out
through the auditorium. II l had had a
fire-hose and water on the stage, or in the
flies, | could have put out the fire before it
gained such headway. 1t blazed up rapidly.
Bill Layton saw it first and said: L think
that is a fire. This was the first saw Of
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-15

the conference will certainly result in peace,
mode Of satisfying all just demands having
been found.
The Oxford University Rowing Club has
declined the challenge of the Yale and Cor.
nell clubs TO row on the Thames next
AuUttet
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-15
THE EAST.

Bethlehem (Pa.) dispatch says more
than one half of the coal mines in the State
are closed. The number of men thrown out
of work is estimated at between 5000 and
10000. II is believed the suspension will be
entire by the middle Of the month.
Vicar-General James Lynch, of the Catho-
lie Diocese of Hartford, Conn, died at Hart
ford on the 9th from injuries received by a
fall few weeks ago.
The body of the late Baron de Palm was
cremated on the 9th at the crematory of DR..
LeMoyne at Washington, Pa. The incinera-
tion was completed in two hours and twenty
minutes
Mayor Wickham, of New York, on the TIN
nominated, and the Aldermen confirmed,
John Kelly as Comptroller, vice Andrew H.
Green.
Edward l. Sears, Ii. D., OF New York,
editor and publisher of the National Quar-
terly Revieo, died on the 7th
John Morrissey on the 7th declared eff all
pools sold in his house on the direct result
OF the Presidential election.
A Portland (Me.) dispatch of the 7th says
foolish lad residing in the family of John
Moulton, butcher at Gorham, was left in
charge of an infant, and, initiating what he
had seen, he killed the child, skinned the
body, cut and hung it up.
The Adelphi Theater, Albany, N Y, was
destroyed by fire on the sth.
John Welsh, President of the Centennial
Board of Finance, says the S1,5O0,OOO ad-
vanced for the Centennial by Congress will
not be repaid until the question has been de-
cided by the courts.
Bvt.-Col Thos. B. Weir, of the Seventh
U. S. Cavalry (Gen. Custer's regimenD, died
suddenly, on the 9th, of congestion of the
brain. His home was in New York.
At Burlington, N. j., on the morning of
the 10th, an incendiary fire destroyed twenty.
six houses, leaving forty families homeless.
Twenty valuable horses were burned Loss
$4,000.
The st. Louis express on the New York
Central Railroad ran into a freight train
which was stuck in the snow, near Looney-
vile, about midnight of the 9th. The
through Chicago safe and contents and the
Buffalo safe and contents were burned.
Benjamin Woodwork, of Utica, N. Y, ex-
press messenger, was burned to death.
George w. Douglass, engineer, and James
vaughan, fireman, on the first engine of the
passenger train, were seriously injured.
A Baltimore dispatch of the llth says the
storm on the Chesapeake ON the 10th was
the most severe for years. Several oyster
boats were driven ashore and the Captain
and two men Of one were frozen to death,
aud the others of the crew were so badly
frozen that they were taken TO hospital.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-15
In the Senate, on the iitb, the House bill ap

In the Senate on the 11th, the House bill ap-
propriating s21 900 to defray the expenses of
the committees appointed TO investigate the
recent elections in South Carolina, Lousi-
ana and Florida was passed with an amend
mont approp rating $1,000 to defray the ex-
penses of the Senate committee In nvestigat-
ing the late elections in those States and also
in Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama. Bogy
tMo) presented the report Of the Democratic
committee which attended the meetings of
the Louisiana Returning Board and moved
that 1t be printed. Objection was made that
It was not addressed TO the Senate, and, after
debate,- 1t was decided that by making IL
part Of the memorial It could be printed
without violation of the rules. Cameron
CWis) introduced bill TO provide for the
redemption Of greenbacks. II provides that
from and after It's enactment the United
States shall receive legal-tender notes in pay
ment of import duties and all other duties
and revenues OF every kind. Referred TO the
Finance Committee. Sherman (Ohio) pre-
sented petition of Gen. Jos. f. Johnston,
asking for the removal of his political disa-
bilities. Referred. Edmunds joint resolu-
tion proposing constitutional amendment
was discussed at length but no action
was taken. Executive session and ad-
journment. In the House the Speaker
announced the appointment of ely
mer (Pa) on the Appropriation Com
mittee, vice Randall, retired. Bills were in
troduced-for the purchase of silver bullion
and its coinage into dollars, which shall be
full legal tender; to reduce letter postage to
two cents; to protect the States from domestic
violence. resolution instructing the Ju-
dietary Committee to inquire into the legality
of the circular letter of the Attorney-General
to U. s. Marshals, issued during the late
campaign, was adopted. Adjourned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-15
WEST AND SOUTH.

The Colorado Legislature on the 9th
adopted and sent to Washington a protest
against the refusal of the House TO admit
j. D. Belford as Representative from that
State.
A Milwaukee dispatch Of the 7th says 1t
has transp!red that d. L. Downs, one Of the
Republican electors Of that State, is an ex.
amining surgeon OF the Pension Bureau.
The Democrats claim that he is therefore in.
eligible. The Republicans argue that the
position of Pension Surgeon is not an office
within the contemplation OF the Constitu.
ton.
Great excitement is reported In Oregon on
account Of the electoral quarrel At Jeffer-
son Gov. Grover wac burnt in ehigy. His
house at Salem is under guard. At meet
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-15

NHW lUHh, UtN' IL
The Tribune publishes carefully prepared
list of the names OF 27i persons absolutely
known TO have been lost; OF these the re-
mains of 2l7 have been identified. solemn
mass of requiem was celebrated In number
of Catholic churches to-day Some of these
lost as many as thirteen members
and others from one TO four each. The re-
porter's badge OF Stewart G. Hand, OF the
Commercial Advertiser, who perlshed in the
flames, was found this morning. A girl
named Cassidy, who played a heartless trick
on the officials by pretending TO identify
body as that Of her brother, has been ar
rested. OF 295 bodies recovered all but
forty-two are males. John Cummerson, fly
man in the Brooklyn Theater, who was in
jured In the disaster, died yesterday in Long
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-15
WASHINGTON.

Alfred N. Young, of Ohio, Consul of the
United States at Santiago de Cuba, has been
removed by order of the President.
The principal changes made in the Senate
committees are those caused by the resigna
ton of Morrill, (Me.) and the death of Caper-
ton wv. Va.). Window (Mnn.) becomes
Chairman of the Committee on Appropria-
tions and Blaine (Me.) Is placed on the same
committee and also on the Committee on
Naval Affairs Dawes (Mass) is placed on
the Indian Committee and the Committee
on Commerce, rice Boutwell, (Mass.) Har-
vey Kan is made Chairman Of the Special
Committee on the Civil Service, and Mitch
ell (Ore) Chairman of the Committee on
transportation Routes to the seaboard yice
Window. Price (W. Va.) is assigned to Caper-
toms position on the Committees on Claims,
Railroads and Revision of Laws. Chaffee
(Col.) is placed on the Committee on Terri
tories, Patents and Mining, and Zellcr (Col)
on Laws and Pensions.
The following compose the Senate South
ern committees to investigate the late cleo
ton, under Edmunds' resolution: For Lou
isiana, Howe, Wadleigh, Mcmillan, Bout.
well, Salisbury and McDonald for Florida,
Mitchell, Teller and Cooper; for South Car
olina, Cameron Of Wisconsin, Christiancy
and Merrimon
President Grant, on the 10th, in an inter-
view, said he never instructed Gen. Ruger to
place troops in the South Carolina State
House, but Gen. Ruger understood his or
ders that way. Had it not been for these
troops, he said, Gov. Chamberlain would be
refugee to-day, as Gov. Ames is. He thought
all was now quiet in the South, and as far as
he could he would protect everyone from
violence. He said there were now 600 or 800
troops in Washington, and If there should
be any necessity for more he would order
them. Referring to the political complica-
tions, he said he had an abiding faith in the
people. He did not believe they were anx-
ious for another rebellion.
The President on the 11th nominated A.
L. Snowdcn for Postmaster at Philadelphia
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bic. On the floor lay large number Of
charred bodies, but In many instances it was
impossible TO tell whether they had formerly
been male or female, human or brute In
some cases the mass was only about hand
ful Of charred bones and flesh without a
remnant Of clothing or other property that
could possibly lead to identification. In
other cases all the clothing was either torn
and blackened remains-bodies they cannot
be called. MY God" said one poor wom-
an, as she gazed on the charred mass of
bones /" that may be my boy, but who can
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-15

JosEPH SMITH, of Ipswich, Mass, aged
ninety.three, has voted at every Presi-
Dental election since 1904. Three of
the voters in Sandwich were Asa Brown,
ninety years old, Charles Nye, eighty
eight, and William Fessenden, eighty
five.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-12-15

WISCONSIN tobacco is shipped to Ger
many.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-02

This year men have three hundred and
sixty-six days in which to make fools of them
selves, and candor compels us to say that
they make excellent use of the opportunity.
Not contented with this perennial exhibition
of the folly of humanity they have set apart
one day in the year in which to make fools
of each other-a superfuous occupation,
like painting the lily, yet one in which
everybody takes particular delight. Yester-
day was the 1st of April and it was celebrated
with great enthusiasm and unusual success
Some of these follies we would briefly report
I. Intense excitement was caused early in the
day by the rumor on Wall street that Grant
had really decided to be candidate for a
third term, Notwithstanding the ruin that
has fallen upon his administration. Thou
sands of people were made April fools of by
the story that Tilden had written letter
declining to permit his name to be submitted
to the ST. Louis Convention. A very large
number of persons were hoaxed by the an
.nounccment that Tweed had returned to the
city. The report that Pendleton had given
back to the railroad company he SO ably
represented in Washington seventy or eighty
thousand dollars was not so successful,
most persons receiving the intelligence with
undisgused derision. The statement that
Schenck, after the conclusion Of the investi-
CATION Of the Emma mine, intended to 60
bnck to England and insist upon vindica-
ton in the British courts, was also met with
incrcdulity. On the contrary, the story that
Bergh had been arrested for soaking cat,
which every night bewailed its lost loves on
the wall beneath his window, in kerosene,
and then setting FIRE to its tail, met with
more acceptance. 1t was thought that he
was entitled to that little luxury. A great
number of we'll meaning but ignorant peo-
pie in Brooklyn were deceived by the report
that Mr.. Beecher intended TO sue Moulton
for libel. Finally, great hoax was success
fully perpetratcd by the announcement that
Tooker, having attended the services of
Moody and Sankey at the Hippodromc. had
been accidentally converted, and intended
to exchange the dramatic profession for the
ministry.
1t is strange that in New York, city
renowned for its intelligence, with grand
Intellectual press, ruled by the noblest in
tellects, such as and and -
(the reader will readily recognize the allu-
sion), with its schools, churches, libraries
and its countless benevolent institutions,
lunatic nsylums and hospitals for the de-
velopment Of imbecilcs, il is strange, we
say, that such hoaxes rs these could so
easily succeed. But it is so-we regret to
say it-but it is so. Our people have been
fooled SO often and SO greatly. that even
IL they were told they never had been
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-02

THE ILLNESS OF PRESIDENT GRANT causes
considerable uneasiness among his intimate
friends, and is threatening to assume very
serious phase The President complains OF
physical prostitution, which produces reac-
ton on the brain and renders a cessation
from oil mental effort positively necessary.
1t is satisfactory to know that everything
that medical skill can suggeAt is being done
for the distinguished sufferer and that abso-
lutte rest for short time will help in great
measure to restore him to health. The cares
of the Presidential Office during the present
period of excitement must necessarily in
juriously affect temperament naturally
disposed to quiet.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-02

hungry singers beyond the seas. We use
this figure to illustrate fact. although il
may sound like q cynicism. The snort.
ing-bufialo ideal Of freedom may
be an improvement on the red
ideal Of strangling the last king with
the entrails of the last priest but it is
still . little wild to run steady government
on. These are some Of the reasons why Mr.
Whitman is unsuccessful here. Whether his
"Leayes of Grass" will. like Draytons "Poly-
olbion." be dug up after couple of CEN
turtles TO give subdued mummifed pleasure
to the curious. we leave to the literary bur
rowers Of that period, and the defence of our
poets, whom Mr.: Buchanan calls ''crows,s
we leave to themselves.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-02

There is now no doubt that the title
Empress of India" will be added to the
royal style of England. The English growl
will be drowned in the salvos of big
guns and the blasts Of the royal
trumpeters. Nominally to honor the
most important of English conquests--
Indin-it will give most satisfaction In
another conquest-Ireland- because to the
Irish people alone it will bring gift. The
release Of a few unimportant prisoners was q
small price for Ministry to pay for so i'm
portant triumph, but in accepting bar
gain with such conditions Ireland has no
cause for regret, and in helping to force o
distasteful title on Englishmen the patriots
Of the Emerald Isle may persuade
themselves they arc having sardonic
revenge on John Bull. Next in in
terest to this imperial topic comes
the inter- university boat race. The eight
blue" is becoming a faster color in sporting
estimation, but the sympathy of the Lon
doners will row in the Oxford boat, as they
have long count Of defeats to wipe out
Spelling bees, it appears, have had their
hum out in England, ns they have
had here, and the new society amuse-
ment about to take its place is a
very primitive one. Whether dancing
or singing is the older art, it is fairly demon
strable on philosophic grounds that people
danced en6 sung. or hoped and howled,
before the great god Pan went down in the
reeds by the river to discover the germ Of
Magnetism in his pipe. That in civilized
age stated, nay, maddened, with the con-
cord OF sweet sounds from brass, wood,
sheepskin and catgut, society should
turn away from instrumental music and
dance to choruscd nursery rhyme
is suggestive that tho human tympanum
has its limits of endurance 1t is return
to first principles, recalling the stated
Sybarite, who turned from pate de .foie gros
with disgust and dined on red herring
We may soon expect to have these chops and
bowls" become the rage here, for the amuse-
ment, like the music, is likely to prove
CATCHING
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-02

The METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY for the
past month in New York city shows mean
barometric pressure Of 5000 inches, with a
minimum of 29.2l7 inches on the 2lst The
highest temperature, 63 deg, was ON the 18th,
and the lowest, deg, on the 10th, the
mean for the month being 80 deg. The wind
velocity reached its highest register on the
2Sth, at II: 20 p. NJ, during the storm. when
few minutes. There were in March nine
clear days, nine cloudy and thirteen fair !:
but on fourteen of these days rain or snow
fell, making the precipitation for the month
100 inches. The mean atmospheric humid
ity for the month is 6S per cent, the high
est degree being on the 25th, when it
reached the maximum 100, and the lowest
on the 18th, when the hygrometcr indicated
52.3 per cent. The prevailing wind during
the month has been northwesterly but the
occurrence Of FIVE distinct periods CT north
easterly wind, accompanied By rainfall,
shows that as many areas Of low barometer
passed eastward during the time. 4 COM
parison Of temperatures OF March for the
past six years shows that in 1871 the mean
temperature for the month was 45.T deg
1872, 800 deg. 1878, 35.7 deg. 1874, 1873
deg, and in 1875. 1915 deg. The compare
live precipitation for the same years shows n
March rain and snow fall in 1871 of G.Si
inches 1872, 500 inches 1873, 1.SS inches
1874, IS inches, and 1875, LIS inches. The
psst month has been, therefore, the wettest
xassh aimee ISL
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-02

BIsMARcK's BIRrHDAY.-We receive from
our special correspondent in Berlin nm in
tcresting despatch regarding the birthday
celebration of the German Chancellor.
Any special event in the life Of the great
terest at the present time Yesterday he
was sixty-two years of age. Of course there
was great time about it among the mag
mates of Fatherland. The LIST of April, as
the birthday of Bismarck, must for the fu-
ture lose most of its traditional reputation
for foolery.