The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-06-09
LOCAL AND EDITORIAL ITEMS.

| hGeALEX. G. MULLEN, ESQ.,, has our thanks
for the report of the Proceedings of Court, pub
iished this week.
@-Messrs. GLASS HUTCHINSON, Jr., ssbrokt
ground on the Northern Plank Road, on Mon
day near the property of E. Shoemaker, Esq.
and intend employing a sufficient number OF
hands to complete the work, by the lst of De-
cember.
nA-Our thanks are due JOHN OAKFoRD, Esq,
Chief Clerk of the P. o. Department, for Table
of Postages to Foreign countries.
nA-The death warrant of James Shirley, of
Blair county, was read to the prisoner on Friday
The time fixed is Friday, 18th of August
Col. Thomas C. NJ Dowell delivered an eloquent
address at Hollidaysburg, on Saturday, upon the
occasion of laying the corner stone of the new
Lutheran Church of that place.
Ba-TRAUGH, of the Standard, informs US that
he has had exceedingly bad luck in his fishing
arrangements this season. Tote yourself this
way and we will warrant you ''good time, %
and learn you how to catch the speckled beau
ties.
RGPF. B. Streeter, ESQ.,, of Susquehannah
county, has been appointed Solicitor of the
Treasury of the United States.
John S. M'Calmont, Esq, of Clarion county,
has been appointed by Gov. Bigler, President
Judge of the eighteenth judicial district, compo
sed of the counties of Mercer, Venango, Clarion
and Jefferson. He takes the place of Judge
KNOX, recently appointed to the Supreme
Bench.
E1~W. D. LATsHAw, Esq, who, we believe,
formerly resided in Johnstown, this county, is
now editing the Wabash Valley Republican, at
Paris, Illinois.
RG-Every Member of Congress from Virgin
la, recently elected, is Democrat. The Star of
the Old Dominion never sets. Does Scott still
lead that column
a6p Col. JAMES Ross SNowDEN, of Pittsburgh,
has been appointed to the Directorship of the
Philadelphia Mint, Uice Judge Petit, deceased.
Mr.. SNowDEN was connected with the Mint dur
ing the administration of Mr.. Polk, and is well
known to the citizens of Philadelphia.
HAs We perceive by our exchanges that the
fy is committing fearful ravages the wheat
in most of the great wheat growing counties of
the State. 1t is also stated that where guano
has been used there is no appearance of the fly :;
a fact worthy the attention of the agricultural
a6- "Ground Hog Glory" and .'Slumgulion
Bar are the names of two towns in Califor-
MIA.
RA- Fanny Fern delicately styles certain
from which children suffer in cherry
time, 'a pain under the apron"
nsAs Those alarming paptaloon patterns"
Of which we forewarned the public. few weeks
ago, have come out in all their hideousness. If
the human combinations were as long and as
thick pine trees of century's growth, the
present style would be quite appropriate and
highly ornamental But as things are, it can
not be commended. The observante eve of Punch
has discovered that it takes two men to display
one pattern.
H1- The outside pressure against Benjamin
Parke, recently appointed Postmaster at Harris
burg, Pa, was so great that he was removed on
Friday last, and MIR. Brandt appointed. The
charges against Mr.. Parke were altogether po-
itical. 1t was pretty clearly established that he
was in the habit of voting the whig ticket for
the last few yeats, practice, certainly, which
no sound Democrat would indulge in, especially
if he wished to aspire to places of honor and
profit in the gift of the administration.
nsA. Fetter is still engaged in picturing the
faces of the fairest portion of humanity, well
as those of the s'lords of creation at his rooms
in the Academy Building. He does take as per-
feet and life-like Daguerreotype any artist
lasting personation of your form and face divine,
call upon him at his studio and you can have il
taken by one who will please you to your salts
faction.
BS-If we recoll ect Alright, our contempora-
ries of the Standard, Echo, and Cdna6ridn, have
each been presented with cane during the last
cane was given, of which the editor speaks most
and to the latter hickory canes,
said to have been cut at the Hermitage, Tennes-
see, of the value and excellence of which our
J Johnstown friends are loud in praise. AS luck
would have it, friend from Philadelphia, j. H.
EGNER, Esq, squatted himself down in our
town on Saturday last, armed and equipped as
the law directs for fishing excursion. He was
provided with neat and well vanished cane
fishing rod, which "struck u.s. not on the pate,
but being admirably adapted for the use
or abuse of disciple Of that 's6sher as
was a fsher,' Izaak Walton. And he did insist
upon a trouting excursion with US, to which we