The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-02-24
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

FROM OUR EXCHANGES
A Drogheda paper says that the labor of re-
moving So ponderous column as Cleopatra 5
needle t. Old England. will the most costly
needie-1cork ever heard of.
At the first concert given by Kate Hayes. in
San Francisco the enormous sum of 81, 100
was paid for the first choice of seats. The name
of the gentleman who thus fcrked over was
GREEN.
INAuGURATIoN.-The Pennsylvania Railroad
Company with its usual literally. will issue ex-
cursion tickets to those persons who may wish
to witness the Inauguration Of President Pierce
on the 4th of March
Wm. W. Corcoran, the opulent Washington
banker has given to the metropolitan Nlechan
les Institute, recently organized ut Washington,
ON condition that Congress will incorporate it,
81 s. 900 for a building, and Sl0,0 900 for libra
lry
BACHELORS IN INDIANA.-A bill is pending in
the I.u--..a legislature to compel Old bachelors
of thirty years of age to marry or pay fifty dol
lars year into the county treasury. to go to the
first lady who shall marry after the lst of Janu-
airy. The provisions of the bill apply to wild
overs Of one years standing.
asg- There are at present thirty churches in
San Francisco. This is about one TO each thou
sand habitants, and which, Judging from other
cities is perhaps about fair average. The
Methodists have four the Episco alans. Pres
byterians and Baptists, two each the Congre-
gationalists, Roman Catholics, Swedenborgians
and WEIGH, one each.
THE VICE PRESIDENTS HEALTH.-A despatch
from Washington says Senator Clemens to-
day received u letter of recent date from Com
mander Murray of the steamer Fulton, AT lIa
vana, nouncing the improved health Of Col
King. He takes exercise foot daily. and
hopes to return to Washington BY the lst OF
April.
psa. California paper says:
~ have heard of towns in our State called
by such names One Dog Town, AluggiHsviile,
Mad Bull Town, rumpkinsville. Jackass Guich,
Shirt Tail Cannon, etc, but of all the execrabe
names that have yet come down to us from the
inter or. we back down to Ground Hog Glory.
1t is the sublime of the ridiculous"
The Legislature is engaged chiefly on special
legislation, opening judgments, and changing
the renue in sundry civil cases, altering places
of holding elections, authorizing bOruughs TO
dig wells, cities and corporations 10 subscribe to
railroads, altering nnmes, divorcing il-assorted
couples, SC, &c. We trust that King VEro will
give thema touch before they get through.
nag The first book ever printed in the New
World. in the city of Mexico. 1t was prn-
ted III the Spanish language i'll the year l5i4.
Indos. The first publications made i'll English,
in America, were the Freeman's Oath. and an
Almanac for lt39. nearly hundred years after
the work published in Mexico. In 1910 was
published the first book, entitled the Bay Psalm.
Book.
fg~A country editor is giving boots to
rival town ;,ul amodg other stucy things tys
that il takes several of their pigs to pull a
blade of grass; and they poor that the
foremost seizes the spear in his mouth, the bal
ance having taken each other hy the tail, when
they all give pull strong pull and pull to
gether. and If il breaks the whole tumble to the |
ground. for want of sufficient strength To sup
port them. 1t takes three or four of them to
make shadow.
Essyn President Fillmore and his Cabinet have
been unanimously invited by the Common Coun-
ell ut Buffalo to public reception on the Presl
dent sreturn from his southern tour, which it
is supposed will be about the mddie of April. |
The President viii return t, his o i ipn:c.le, a
neat unustentatious and quiet city home on his
return 10 his old residence. His son, the Presi-
dents Private Secretary, we understand, will
soon open a law office at Buffalo.
NORTH WESTERN RAIIEoAD.-The bill to incor-
porate the North Western railroad company I"
make ii railroad from Johnstown BtairSvilie
to the Ohio State Line, in Beaver or Lawrence
county, has finally passed, and the gentlemen
Interested assure US that this road will he made.
If it is. it will be an important feeder to the
works. and will aid in bringing
trade through the interior of Pennsyl lvanla that
las gone in different direction heretofore.
EEg~Ex- President Van Buren,, ii is sail, will
start for Europe next month. He will accom-
pany his SON. Martin Van Buren,. jr., whose i'm
paired health, it is thought. will he benetitte'l
~ the European Mr.. Van Buren. him.
,elf retains all his vigor of mind and body. and
lis constitutional checrfuness. The Ex Presi-
lent will be the only of the Chief Magis-
rates of the Republic. we believe that ever Wis
ted Europe after his retirem, nj from Office.
Ak INGENIOUS ARAB.-Mr. j. II. G!iddon re- .
ates, in bis lectures ON Egyptian Archaeology.
eported in the archaeological journal of the past
nd present month. that IAN Arab discovered ,
he northern r-channel of the Great L ramid
o be open from top To hottom- by placing cat
{ the outer oriice. AMI her kittens at the other !
hutting them in with stones. The mother soon
pund her way down through the pyramid TO her , !,
title family thus proving that this hitherto ,
mysterious passage communicated with the out
ide Previous to the Gearing of these passa-
es the air in the Pyramid WAS quite sutioca-
ing. :
Legislative Proceedings. hi
Senate the Speaker laid before the Senate II
, ,;c,t he nal