The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-04-15
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responded the ungallant man, 'that would PEI
no change at all; you go shopping every day
BeA1S 1Snsi6le.-A Kentucky paper says it is
getting to be very fashionable in that quarter to
enclose a gold dollar with marriage notices,
when sending them to the printer.
BsAThe Liverpool Journal says, that snow to
the depth of forty feet, recently fell in the Uni
ted States. How little some of the English edi-
tors know about America. Many of them think
the cockneys can shoot bear and deer in the
streets of New York.
EUROPEAN .uGRATIoN.-Emigration to this
country from Europe never was brisker than at
present. On the first of the present month p
SIS passengers arrived by different vessels at
New York, some of which accomplished the
quickest passage on record. The arrivals from
Europe during the month of March were &c.
922, whilst those for the present month promise
to be much greater, no less than twenty-one first
class packet ships having arrived at New York
during the last four days.
THE CoBBLER's LAST woRDs.-sI feel that l
aca1 weaker each succeeding day, and that am
fast approaching my end "a few more stitches
and all viii be oyer-in heaven there is rest for
the weary sole-earth hath no sorrow that hea-
ven cannot heel" Having said aagl he wished
he calmly breathed his last.
THE Liquor BILL.-The division of parties on
this bill was as follows In the House, for the
bill, Wing and Native, %, Democrats, 10
Against the bill, Democrats, SO, Wing and Ma
tive, a. In the Senate, for the BILL Wings, 9,
Democrats, 7. Against the bill, Democrats, 6,
Whigs,7.
GSg@Neal Dow, the author of the Maine Ii
quOr law, was candidate for Mayor of Port
land, and the Maine question was made the is
sue in the contest; the effect Of which was that
Albion K. Paris was triumphantly elected and
the Maine law defeated. This certainly looks
as if the Maine law was failure at the fount-
ain head where it first obtained an existence.
Bzg=The title esq" is hereafter to be re-
stricted to married men. This suggestion was
made at Bloomer meeting, composed of old
maids, and carried without . dissenting voice
We are not in.
| l2ECapt. McKenny, of the New York Police,
made report to the Chief, of house in Hicks
street, on Friday, which is occupied by about
thirty fire ytlmjliss, among which are many cas-
es of small pox, spotted fever, ship fever, and
other contag gious diseases. There were, at the
time of the report, two dead bodies lying in the
house.
! pSS@In the Virginia House of Delegates on
Monday, member announced the fact that the
tStatA Treasury Aral tet +lso r4Fa;-,
Of the State could not probably be carried on
ten days longer \ bill was according offered
and passed, authorizing the Board of Public
Works to lend to the Commonwealth, for a linn
tied time, any money now in their possession, tc
be returned from the income of the State in Ju-
" or December.
H4B@ The Boston Times says an acquaintance
of the editor few weeks since, purchased box
of cigars warranted ''irst quality After smo-
king half dozen he became convinced that the
filing was composed of some other material than
tobacco. Taking small quantity of rich earth
he filled flower pot, and planted one, and then
patiently awaited, for few days, the result
Half dozen buds appeared, and, at the end OF
two weeks, as fine head of cabbage was grown
as ever appeared.
E9g@In the course of Mr.. Webster's speech al
Trenton on the India Rubber case, he said =
''IlOok to the time when ships shall traverse
the ocean propelled with India rubber sails!
look to the time when the ships that sail over
the world shall have India rubber sheathing
look to the time when this substance shall be
applied to thousands of different uses! SO that
what he has now patented is but as dust in the
balance compared with the uses not yet develo-
ped, and which should be developed"
HSy~T The works of the railway from st. Pc
tersburg to Warsaw are being carried on with
extraordinary activity. The number of work
men at present exceeds 10000, aud they work
during part of the night.
ESE= =Kossuth, in the course of a speech in
Cincinnati, called the ladies of that place the
'.queens of the Queen City" The n. Orleans
Pscayans says: ''We hope he viii not call our
ladies the excrescences of the Crescent city,
/ CINCINNATI, April Z.
/ The river continues to rise an inch hour
The water is now within two feet of Water street
A number of houses in the lower part of the CT
ty inundated. y large amount of property
has been lost along the Ohio and tributaries by
the sudden rise.
! RsA=The herdsman of a farm in Scotland haC
occasion, lately, to send his daughter for the cat
tie under his charge. There We're about eight,
of them, and among them two bulls one of whicl