The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-11-13
From Our Exchanges.

Sixteen clergymen belonging to tho fresDy'e-
rian Church have died within the last SIX months.
An exchange paper says, that when Dasio
slew Goliah with a sling, the latter fell sfone
dead, and of course quite astonished, as such o
thing had never entered has head before.
The Hon Howell Cobb, was inaugurated as
Governor of Georgia, at Augusta, on the 9th
inst. His address was strongly constitutional
and in favor of the Union Compromise platform.
At a recent meeting of the Presbytery of
White Water, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, there
were present the father, brother, four sons, one
son-in-law, and a nephew-eight in number
all preaching the gospel.
AGRICULTURAL FAIR-The Lancaster Union,
says it is in contemplation to hold county
meeting in Lancaster ON Wednesday, Nov. 18th,
for the purpose of making arrangements for
holding the next State Fair in that city.
recently enriched his musuem with lock of
hair from the head Of steamboat navigation,
also, a bush from the face of the earth, and ten
yards of the eqaino1ial line
A NEW PAPKR.-Thaddens Stevens, Esq, of
Lancaster, Pa, is engaged in collecting the
funds necessary to establish in that city Wing
(Abohtion) paper, to be called the LadepeRdent
Wing. The stockholders were to meet the 18th
of November.
1t is stated that, as the result Of a correspon-
dence of the Governor of Ohio with the Cover
nors Of the different States of the Union, rela-
tive to a uniform Observance of the annual
twenty-eight of the thirty-one
States have fixed npen November %.
WORSHIP OF WIvEs.-A man who has travelled
some, says, ia one of our exchanges, that there
is no country in the world where wives are more
worshipped than they are in France. He regrets
to say, however, that all the alteration comes
from somebody else's husband.
When Gen. Twiggs got married at Pensacola
the 9th her day, a few of the b'hoys of the place
saw fit to give him chdriUari for the benefit of
the poor Of the place. The General promptly
handed over the amount demanded, 500, which
sum was Immediately distributed to the needy.
The Quebec Chronicle says that the ground
is covered with snow to the depth of three inches
on level, and that the cattle are all housed. |
Many farmers were taken by surprise, and much
of the turnip crop, and many potatoes are still
in the ground.
We see :,,od story going the rounds of the
papers, ABOUT the Pennington canal. An e1-
change says that it is the most improbable pub
lie improvement ever heard of in this country
having yielded but one dividend, and that was
the summer the directors moved the towpath
and divided the hay!
Two old men, upwards of 30 years of age
each, amused crowd of spectators in Provi-
ienes the other day, by grand rough and tum-
BILE fight, and finally ended by rolling one an
other in the gutter until separated And all
this, not in consequence of liquor, but from
that "green-eyed monster" jealousy.
JAVA CoFFEE-we learn from the Milton,
IN. c. Chronicle-has been successfully grown
near that town. 1t was produced by shrub
only two years DID, which sprouted from a grain
IF coffee planted on the north side of house,
and the fruit is described as looking tn all res
like the imported article.
The Pensacola Gazette Informs US that an En-
glish countess, young, rich, and blooming has
taken up her residence at San Augustine, Flor
ida, for the present, while suit for divorce
from an antiquated husband is pending. Sew
eral of her distinguished friends of the Irish
families of Montreal and Quebec are expected
to visit her in yacht and spend Christmas
The Judges elect of the Supreme Court Of
are to meet at Harrisburg on the
l4th inst, (to-morrow,) to draw lots for their
respective terms. Certificates of the result are
20 b. furnished to the Secretary of the Com
nonwealth. WheI the new Judges will be COM
nissioned. The first session of the new bench,
in banc, will be held in Philadelphia, the hrst
Monday in December next.
very singular meteor was observed passing
over the west part of the city of Schenectady,
ON Sunday evening. 1t appeared to emit itself
from dark cloud, expand and
in size, and withdrew again in the
cloud The color was an intense blush white.
A young gentleman directly beneath it received
o sharp electric shock. No report of an eIplo-
sion was heard.
From Havana we learn that Mr.. Thrasher,
late editor Of the Faro Industrial, was, on the
2Sth ult., committed to the fortress of Punta,
and placed in dungeon in solitary confinement,
charged with receiving letters in cipher, and be-
ing connected with the late invasion. He denies
all knowledge Of the letters, and it is currently
reported at Havana that he had been tried, con-
demned and sentenced to the mines
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