The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-06-21
All Sorts of Paragraphs.


Cupid does some fast work occasionally. |
n Cincinnati, lately, gentleman going |
Trough the market, saw lovely girl
He was Immediately victimised, proposed |
o the girl, was accepted, and married to |
Ter next day! That is the way to do bu-
'iness.
A subscription paper was being circula-l
ed in Cincinnati, for the temporary relief
of Mrs. Howard, who was recently tried
and acquitted of the murder of her hus-
bands mistress.
Fanny Lee Townsend is elected by the
National Reformers of n. York and Bal
timore, to represent them in the National
Reform Conve ntion, to be held in Cincin-
natl on the first Wednesday of next month.
Seventeen millions of passengers have
been carried over the Massachusetts rail-
roads within the past three years. Fifty
six killed, and sixty-fve injured.
The Legislature of Massachusetts has
passed law allowing married women,
divorced from their husbands, to resume
their maiden names.
0IF AN Irish gentleman in tavern, see
ing that the lights were SO dim as only to
render darkness visible, called out Justify
Here, waiter, let me have a couple of
dacent candles, just that may see how
these other burn
H. .Gentleman,' is name often be-
slowed on a well dressed black-guard, and
withheld from its right owner, who only
IL, ,,.h art
Why are parcel of idle children
like waters. Because you have to hck en-,
to make them stick to their letters.
u Wise men are instructed by reason:
men of less understanding by experiences;
the most ignorant by necessity; and the
beast by nature.
1.-THE mistakes of a laynaon are like
the errors of pocket watch, which only
affect an individual; but when clergyman
errs it is like town clock going wrong
a multitude is misled.
Sixty thousand dollars have been SUBJ
scribed i'll Philadelphia, to the Central
Rail Road, and 20 miles of the road at
Pittsburg are advertised for contracting.
Some misery chap objects to the gold
dollars, that on account of their small size,
they may be dropped, by mistake, into
the contribution box.
Two young ladies were arrested the
other night at Providence, r. l., for para.
ding the streets, dressed in male ATTIRE
One of them was discovered by the tone
of her voice in asking for punch at no.
tel. They were discharged the next NOR
ming under the promise that they would
never again wear breeches.
The funniest article yet, is patent iror
shirts with percussion collars. It never
wears out, and by touching aspiring, new
collar jumps up, until half dozen art
exhausted. A patent sheer-iron neckclotf
accompanies it.
Almost everp paper from the West re
cords the return of California adventures
with their accumulated grievances. Six
ty of these disappointed individuals arri
we'd at St. Louis on fhe 9TH ult.
The Queens Birth Day seems to hav,
been celebrated in Montreal with but mod
crate enthusiasm on the 10Th. The peo
pie did not generally join in the soldier
huzzas.
In the Western States the wheat crop
spoken of as looking uncommonly vigor
Gus and healthy.
a The cholera of this season has one str
king difference from that of the former Wis
, itation.-Spasms and cramps are noN
} rarely seen among the sick.
BANK FAILURE.-A slip from the offic
o Of Thompson's Bank n ote Reporter, say
that the Hamilton Bank of n orth Scituai
It (Rhode Island) has failed.
. So great is the dread of the cholera i
s the city of Cincinnati, that, on the l4t
ult., there were not three country peopl
= in market.
A paper is about to be started in Nor
E treal, for the advocacy of annexation 1
the United States.
; How long did Adam remain in Paradis
: before he sinned!' said an amiable spous
to her loving husband. Till he got
wife! answered the husband, calmly.
ST. LoUIs.-Building has already con
4 menced in the burnt district, in St. Loui,
n A meeting had been held to adopt me;
sures to have some of the streets widenet
: and new streets opened A resolutio
). was also adopted calling on the Governc
!, to convene the legislature for the purpos
f of lending the credit of the State to enabl
the city to recover from the effects of tn
/ terrible calamity.
D A FEMALE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT