Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1853-10-21
NEWS AND MISCELLANY,

been sick with typhoid fever and a visit to the
mountain to recruit. He speaks flatteringly of
the g Summit Hotel q Mountain House, and
Hollidaysburg.
DLrMr. GwIN, the member elect from Blair,
was thrown from buggy few days previous to
the election, and so injured as to prevent his at
attendance at the polls.
1.-THE work on the Pan Handle section ofthe
Pittsburg and Steubcnyille railroad, is said to be
progressing rapidly.
0CTA boy of Salem, Mass, was last week fined
So, for mutilatng handbill posted up in pub
lie place in that city.
1.-THE Mayor of Toronto is charged with an
unlawful use of the municipal funds, and his tri-
al is now going The amount involved is
G10,000.
GJTLand is increasing in value in Upper Mis-
souri,. There have been recent sales in Clay
county, at $50 to $25 per acre.
10 Several large iron furnaces and rolling mills
are about to be put in operation at Portsmouth,
Dauphin county, Pa.
u The receipts of the State Agricultural So
C1cCy eXnIDITIon I'lttsburg, amounted 10
$4,000.
u 1t was remarked by an intelligent old far
mer, g would rather be taxed for the education
of the boy than the ignorance of the man fo1 the
one or the other | am compelled TO be.
u Out of every hundred men who were mar
| ricd in England m 1850, -thirty-three signed the
marriage register with their marks, and out of
| every hundred women forty-six.
~ Kozta, who was arrested at Smyrna held
81, u g -. II
was under the immediate command of Gen. Benz
and has been in more than twenty-five battles.
GDT The Boston Courier thinks that Macaulcy,
in his History of England at the present rate viii
not reach George III before 1873. If 50, lie can t
reach Victoria before 1850
| ia young girl was burned to death. in Brook
lyn few days since, by the explosion of can
of camphene. Accidents from this fluid are of
frequent occurrence, and it should be used with
the greatest caution.
"a Mr.. Lewis, of New York, it appears is
the best rifle shot in the State In arecent match
he fired twenty times, at distance of six hundred
and sixty feet, and his balls averaged only annch
and half from the center of the target.
II During the present season, 1t is said, II :
| 900 persons have crossed the bridge leading to
Goat Island, Niagara Falls and paid their tribute
of 25 cents each The number is about 20 600
larger than last year.
u The water in the Schuyfkii, it is said, j
now lower than it has been for many years, ald
for some miles on each side of Reading the water
presents a blue appearance, owing it is said, to
the Schuylkil county coal siftings which have
found ther way to the river
" We see it stated that a tract of 600 acres
of land in Iowa, has been purchased and settled
by n colony of Ng, -I~ s-.--s-.e5 UtIIcr peculj-
arities of character, never mngle with the world,
and when they put on a new suit of clothes, con-
tnue to wear it, sleeping waking, until it falls
off or becomes utterly unfit to wear.
GT A man named Jean Deddidier, formerlya
postiliOn in the service of the Duchess of Ango,-
leme, has been sentenced to one years imprisdA-
mcnt and fine of 500 francs, for speaking disr-
spectfully of a portrait of the Empress of tk-I
French.
" you want to know whether man )
really piOus not, ask his cook. Nothing sits
up the evil genius in him so soon as sour brca.
oyerdone beef and bad coffee. He may snie
sweetly and talk smoothly, but he is very apt
growl if not pleased with his food
u Ole Bulls colony in Potter county. PEN
sylvania, it is stated, has turned most unfortt-
nately. Not more than forty emigrants reman
upon the lands. Mr.. Bull has spent large suns
of money in improvements, but owing to a defec
tive title, the whole property is now in litigation
% Some idea of the liberal support extended
to the schools of Wisconsin may be gathered from
the fact that the amount of the school fund of tho
State and the estimated value ofthe public approl
priations for schools and colleges is near ten mil
lions of dollars the interest of which is to be for
ever appropriated for educational purposes.
u We learn from Boston that great excite
ment prevailed in that city, on Monday morning.
in consequence of the disclosure of forgeres to the
amount of over 100000, perpetrated on some of
the most prominent merchants in that CITY,
II The books for subscription to the Pacific
Railroad stock, already show over S34 OOO, 900.
of which $50, $50, 900 were subscribed in New
York in one day. The whole amount required
for the undertaking is only 500, ,0O0,0OO Won
der how much of the subscription is genuine?
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