The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-12-25
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ecu'eu 0y the AusIrlans, had the singular name
OF Ernest Kiss. He was wealthy proprietor
owning twenty-thTee villages, and was q man ~
excessive personal elegance as well as of cbival-
ric courage Hesregularly sent his linen all tho
! way from Hungary TO Paris to be washed .rd
| was, IN similar respects, a D'Orsav as well ss
bayard- His coolness in danger was rernarkabJo.
ana lV Is told OF him that one day, within reach
| OF an Austrian battery, making an observat;o,
Ae oEdefed his servant TO bring him n Gun NJ
chocolate. 4 shot took it from his hand and
| kliied ms horse. - Clumsy razeals :" said kiss
they have upset my breakfast" When taken
out with three others to be shot he was s,,,erl
dressed. The order was given "a fro nd -.
companions fell, while he stood untoncbed
- on have forgotten me- said Kiss in his ,,su.I
tone OF voice The corporal of the platoon stem
ped up and fred and, the ball striking him in
the forehead he fell dead without STRUGGLE
The Editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer recent
y saw man who had pocket knife upwards
Oh eighty years old. The blade was about four
Lh'iles long, and an inch wide, rounding ar the
point 1t was manufactured by an Indian in the
i2ckIna~ country. The blade had formed mart
OF sword taken from Frenchman in the Gel
, eorated French and Indian war. The bone On
one side Of the handle was from the tbipb of ,,
Indian, and that on the other from the thigh
bone Of an English soldier, killed On the Height.
OF Abraham, in Canada, where Gen Wolfe los.
his life
1hey seem to be lenient to roguery in the back
woods II the roguery is smartLy executed.
young woman lately dressed herself in male AZ
tire, stole her fathers horse, and went off to
seek her fortune. She was caught, however. and
brought home. The editor who tells the storv2
comments upon it thus '.She is a girl who viii
make her way in the world, and presents ri rbt
smart chance for soIne fellow who wants a wife
The passenger cars Of one Of the English rail-
way companies furnish eleven miles Of seat-roon
which would accommodate forty thousand per
sons. The surface OF the goods cars is eou.I
to eleven acres, sufficient for the stowage of fortv
one thousand tons. If all the wheels Of all tho
cars belonging to the company were made into
one great wheel, that great wheel would be sew
enty-two miles in circumference
farmer n Scotland, whose house was re-
Gently attacked at night by FIVE robbers. fought
them for an hour, with horse-pistol and revolver
his wife standing by loading the pistols, and ex-
horting him to = take steady aim The rascal.
at length, by burning damp straw at the bottom
Of the stairs, forced the heroic pair TO surreu
der; when the canny Scot piled them with whis
key to such degree, that three Of them yer.
found next morning in drunken sleep in = ditch
near the house, and probably all the stolen pro
perty viii be recovered
Gov. Young, of Utah, the Mormon TERRITORY.
has, 1t IS SAID, ninety wives. He drove along the
streets, a few days since with sixteen Of them
IN q long age-fourteen of them having each
an infant at her bosom. This statement is en-
dorsed by the returning Chief Justice and Sac-
retaTy. Itis very we'll we think. that President
Fillmore has decided upon removing this Amer
lean Turk; for man with such family 10 lool,
after, can have precious little time to attend TO
State affairs.
Aletter from Washington dated the 18th inst.
says that DR.. jackson of Philadelphia. who wa.
! sent for to attend Mr.. Clay, came down with his
friend Josiah Randall. The Doctor declared the
disease bronchitis of the right lung Mr.. Clav
requiring rePose, wil at his physician request
leave here Tomorrow or next day for Philadel-
phia, to stay either at DIR. Jackson's house or at
that Of his friends, Josiah Randall. It's thoupbt
that Mr.. Clay viii yet recover by skillful treat
4 ment
The American Cemetery, in Mexico, construc-
ted with funds supplied by Congress, has been
finished. 1t is near the city OF Mexico, and the
remains Of the Americans who died or were Kill
led during the Mexican war are to be removed
to it. II is laid out along side of the Enrli,
burial ground, oceupuying about two acres and
enclosed by q thick wall, fifteen feet in heiret
the entrance is through an archcd gateway. a.
bout twice the height Of the wall upon the arch
! IS a hgure OF a cross. The whole work is of an
appropriate and substantial order
The work on the Washington National Monu-
ment has been suspended for the season Ithas
now attained the height of one hundred and four
feet from the surface of the ground and if il
advances with the same rapidity as it has so far
done, 1t viii in few years reach its anex at an
elevation of five hundred and seventeen feet. for
ming the loftiest structure in the world.
Rs Dan Russell Union candidate for audi
tor in Mississippi, being called en- for q sneec,
began thus
"Feiiow citizens, you have called ON me for
lew remarks l have none to make. have ~
; prepared speech. Indeed am no speaker
an G'sSi.or." "'-' - :