The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-04-01

Inc Dill VIII reduce their price by brippiraR aRa'
into market then
Bs5- One million and half o,,o,..
from California, was melted. on Tl,,,.5 VI god
between the hours of Z and ? o,ol.-, -ast
melting department of the mintin pbiIadai.,. d, 'le
This is the largest amount ever me,to5 'F-'a'
day since the establishment of the MI. Oae
BsA7 Mr.. Carman, of Bordentown a..
from the Register, is engaged in tho a'a
of Matching chickens by steam. The ma.,. ,Il'a
is placed ON table about two and L.,s
long by sixteen inches broad, and the 'e''
heated by an oil lamp The machine o.. 80 IS
about 100 eggs, and the chickens thus ~ ,,'-l'
appear to be as lively and healthy
produced by natural means. -9se
BsA- The Department of State At W..
ton, give notice that in consequence of Il
eral deficiency of the last croh of grain g
high price occasioned thereby, the States.,. '-'
sing the Zoll-Eerien Of Germany bavs ~,
Decree, that from the first of the presan. =,
to the first of September next, grains, Ierr.a-
can be imported into the Zoll-Vereip free -
ty. The import duty on grain previops F., i
said decree was about seven cents hush,
that on flour amounted to a prohibition Io;r.
two dollars and fifty cents per barrel.
B45@ On Saturday nighta week, in Loni.rfr.
thieves made an entrance into dwellin, hon,
by means Of outsiders, and finding their VA
the room where the family three persons wen.
sleeping, applied ehlorctor1 to their nostriI. mi.
til they were sufficiently stupifed to be past II.
possibility of waking by any noise that ni,s,
BE produced Thus secured. the raseals -
sacked the house, and made way with morar
jewelry, and other valuab bles at their leisure
There had been no clue to the detection ,f II.
rogues, when the mail boat left on Suudavu---
ing.
HSA Thomas Moore the Poet. was buried ,-
the village of Bromham, within a mile cf II.
cottage in which he breathed his last. He vs.
placed, in obedience to his own wish. in thesars
grave with one of his daughters. The yfrsr.
church was crowded with the poor of the pef-.-
borhood, and the rector of the adjacent village
came TO pay the last tribute to an old friend
But beyond this gentleman and Mr.. Lonrhar,
the publisher, there were none who had know,
the poet in life to offer him personal respect.
ia Some discriminating writer saws:
Webster, Clay, and Calhoun have been com
pared to physicians-called to a case Of a sre,-
led finger. Webster, with his big. absent ewes.
would discuss the constitution generally. with
the ability of professor, but RECOMMENDED
nothing. Clay, with his pleasant smile. wouli
notice the wife, kiss the baby. fatter the patient
and advise bread and milk pouItice. Calhoun
the purest and earnest man, would declare the
whole body in danger, and counsel Topping Of
the whole arm at the shoulder joint Compar
lsons are odious, because incapable of doing jus
tice yet the common ideas of those great mel
are tolerably well expressed in the above
gag@ The Cincinnati Enquirer. in noticing the
statement of Dr. Buckler, Of that city. tha.
smallpox is often communicated by means O..
small notes, says:
The teller of one of tho banks of Columbus.
an estimable young man, contracted the dis
ease by handling batch of bills which la been
transmitted from this city, where the smaII-poz
was then quite prevalent, and in malignant form
The young man died-and, by such seemn.lg
harmless channel of communication, was tha;
loathsome pestlence the cause of a family IOos-
ing their main stay in life"
The Louisville Courier mentions the arrest in
that city of a soldier who had deserted from tic
Newport Barracks. The soldier was once ,
member of the Kentucky Legislature He wau
ted to be elected again, but his constituents bal
failed, as constituents sometimes do, to appres-
ate the services of their worthy Representative
and they cruelty allowed him to be defeated
Determined to serve his country in some way
he got glOriously drunk, became fired with Is-
triotism, and enlisted as a soldier After awhile.
however, he came to the conclusion, that the
term had continued long enough and he took
his leave, but sergeant, more yigilant than tie
sergeant-at-arms in legislative hail. was sent Al
ter him and he was compelled to return.
A Frenchman, resident in London. recently
conceived an entirely new style of self-destrUc-
ton. He first bought egg in the market, ez-
tracted its contents (by suction, y and file
the she'll with about three ounces of gunpowie'-
Then going into very crowded thoroughfar1-
we presume, to give ecIat to his enterprise
placed the internal machine in his mouth and
touched it off, with a match Instead how
ever, of blowing his head to atoms, the powder,
when ignited, merely poured forth stream o.
fire and smoke from the aperture in the shell,
but without doing any serious harm to the maH
The astonishment of the passers-by at behodinS
a human mouth suddenly become the crater '
an active volcano, may be imagined. The DIS
appointed man was taken into custody by III