The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-09-11
From Our EXCHANGES.

- DiOoHieI IohI'e are giving Concerts New
| York.
Father Matthew is doing much for the cause
! of Temperance, among his countrymen in Buffalo
He has administered The pledge to nearly 5000.
Complaint is justly made in regard to the new
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stick
The London Literary Gazette says. The
handsomest and most popular carriages in Paris
are now founded on American models. and called
Americaneee."
Since the adoption of the Tomboy costume by
the ladies, the tails of gentlemen's coats are
growing smaller and beautifully less By and
| by We presume the men will be left without anv
tails at all
Ladies should remember that a small piece of
linen, just moistened with turpentine, and put
into the wardrobe or drawers for a single dav.
two or three times year, is sufficient prcscr-
| walton against moths.
What moro precious offering can be laid upon
the altar Of mans heart than the first love o.
pure, earnest and afectionate girl, with an
undivided interest in eight cornor lots, and
fourteen three story buildings
young man, who wished to inform lady
that decayed eggs had once been thrown at him
by the boys, said that ''shower of eggs which
had disappointed the hopes of a fruitful ineuba-
ton fell in fearful proximity to his person -
Eggs actly!
We regret to learn, says the Bedford (Va)
Sentinel, that little boy by the name of Luster
in attempting, the other day, to cut his name on
the Natural Bridge higher than any other, lost
his footing and fell distance of so feet lie
was almost instantly killed
ORIGIN OF THE BLooNER CosTuME-A country
editor whose paper did not receive a sufficient
amount of patronage to enable him-to ego the
whole figure told his wife that a half dress
was much prettier than n whole one She,
poor simple soul believed him. Hence their
adoption.
Women have a much nicer sense of the beau
tiful than men. They are by far the safer UNI
pires in the matters of propriety and grace
a mere school girl viii be thinking or writing
about the beauty of birds and flowers while her
brother is robbing the nest and destroying the
flowers.
We believe, (says the Germantown Telcgraph)
that it is the concurrent opinion of all farmers
who have given it fair trial, that the system of
drilling in wheat, instead of sowing it as has
heretofore been done, is a saving of seed and
labor, and produces at least five bushels per acre
more.
The deceasc of the celebrated poet Thomas
Moore, may be daily expected. The last &c
counts state "there is no improvement in his
health, and, as in the case of Southey, his mind
is beyond the repair of medicine or of time =
He has for many years resided at Sloperton Cot
tage, near Chippenham, in Wiltshire.
The Capitol City Fact states that Mr.. G. A.
D. Lazell, printer in that office, at Columbus.
Ohio, has, by the recent discovery of a win made
some forty years ago, become entitled to the fec.
after life estate, in landed estates in Ohio and
| Massachusetts, worth equal to S75, 600 to
| $780, 900.
! There arc ten newspapers in Austria, fourteen
| in Africa, twenty-four in Spain, twenty in Por
tugal, thirty in Asia, sixty-ive in Belgium.
! eighty-fve in Denmark, ninety in Russia and
Poland three hundred in Prussia, three hundred
and twenty in other Germanic States, five hun
dred in Great Britain and Ireland, and one thou
sand eight hundred in the United States.
A RELIc.-Mr. Joan Young, of Cincinnati has
in his possession a silver watch, which is said TO
have been the property Of General Washington.
1t is of German manufacture, heavy and coarse
in workmanship-very thick and durable cases
and on the inner case is engraved sc. W.
1888" 1t is stated that the watch was given
by Washington to a Mr.. Clayton, as Testimonial
of regard.
EXECUTION OF PHARoAH.-On Friday the 29ti
ult, George Pharoah, convicted of the murder OF
Miss Sharpless, was executed in the prison yard
at West Chester. He was about 10 years of age
and was attended TO the gallows by the Rev.
Messrs. Moore and Patten. The criminal did
J not deny his guilt but blamed his parents +, /
having neglected to educate him properly. He
could neither read nor write.
THE CARRIER's DoG.-The Albany KRicker-
booker gives an account of wonderful dog be.
longing to one of its carriers. The carrier fal
ling sick sent out a boy to deliver the papers
who, being unacquainted with the round. wa,
followed by the dog, who stopped at the door 0
each subscriber and wagged his tail, never mis-
sing one in list of six hundred. At the doo
of all subscribers who had not paid for their "a
per for a length of time, the deg was heard /
howl