The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-08-30
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1A TOURNAMENT is to take place at
Shannondale Springs, Va, on the 2sth
inst.
Nobility IN Prussia.-A Prussian Ju-
dicial journal has lately decided that the
Prussian constitution abolishes nobility in
that country.
Many of the Roman liberals, it is
said, as well as others from various parts
of Europe, are about to proceed to the
United States.
The latest way to pop the question is TO
ask the fair lady ''if you shall have the
pleasure of seeing her to the minister's"
.4damites.-There is said to be new
association of maniacs, we must suppose
formed in Bohemia under the title of
.Adamites,' all the male members of which
assume the name of Adam, while the fe-
males take that of Eve. They deny the
Immortality of the soul, and are practical
socialists.
r. An article in Black woods Magazine
says that at least $50, 900 persons perished
by famine in Ireland in lS47, in conse-
quence of the loss of The potato crop,
notwithstanding the British Government
expended fifty millions.of dollars in pur-
chasing food for the population, and ex-
tensive donations were received from
abroad.
u Five of the capitals of Europe are
under martial law at present, viz-Paris,
Vienna, Berlin, Rome and Naples. This
fact speaks volumes.
Jules Fabre, in debate in the
French Assembly on restricting the free
dom of the press, said forcibly that the
cause of frances unquiet was because
its republican heart was still enclosed in
monarchial mould
The Sultan of Turkey, Queen of
Great Britain, and the President of the
United States, have each given Count
Wass, the Hungarian Envoy, a favorable
and satisfactory reception. But Louis
Napoleon, the President Of France, gave
him 'cold shoulder
wA Yankee writer from San Francis
CO to New Haven paper:-A Spanish
girl is the best grammar in the world; and
since my arrival in town, | have been
studying grammar We suppose he'll
coyugate soon, if the girl don't decline.
Father 1Iathe1o's SeaI.-The private
seal of the Rev. Theobald Matthew repre-
sents a fountain bursting from a rock, with
the following motto:
Drink from the bubbling fountain-drink it
Twas good for Sampson and tits good for thee.
Father MatheW.-About 10000 per-
sons have taken the pledge at Father Mat
thew's hands, since his arrival in Boston.
He has also administered it to many at
Watertown and other neighboring places.
DA gentleman having married lady
of the name of Lamb, who had very little
beauty, but a very great fortune, was told
by an acquaintance that he would not have
taken the Lamb, had it not been for the
fleece.
gThe New York San says that sew.
eral heartless physicians in that city have
until their own bills for medical attendance
was settled.
4 y Harmless mirth is the best cordial
against the consumption of the spirits
wherefore jesting is not unlawful if it tres.
passeth not in quantity, quality, or season
VSome minds are proportioned te
that watch may be despatched at once, OF
, within short return of time; others te
that which begins afar off, and is to be
won by length and pursuit.
Lawyers and Mechanics.-The New
ork Mirror, in a late number saws
"The bar is no longer the resort of the
ambitious youths of our country. The
mechanical departments are beginning to
be preferred. There are now twenty -si,
young gentlemen in this city, that have
received liberal educations, who are ser
wing their times as shipwrights, carpen
. tiers, &c. In few years the United
States will have the most accomplished
mechanics in the world. The union of
{. substantial education with mechanica
a skill will effect this. -