The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-01-27
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

ton, of Cairo is dead He was an unnretsr5;s
man, lived unostentatiously, and supplied as
people with fish. His last words were cbarso
teristic. 81 say, Pritchard, I'm going to sas,
right off,, I've firted my last fish; but bury rv,,
tackle with me-who knows but they bite :,
Jordan"
| n1g~ g~The New York Directory for this vs,r
contains more than four thousand names wb;ci
begin with me-" or 'Mac," whereas. of man,.
beginning with 60" there are only about FIVE
hundred and fifty.
B9g%Senator Cooper, who has been sicL =,
Pottsville for three weeks, has recovered spf5l
ciently to take his seat in the Senate at Wash,
ington.
RsA. .Lient. Bonaparte, of the u. s ARM
and cousin to the present Emperor of France
has been ordered to join the troops in Texas
! BaS~A Frenchman, who proposed to establish
n school in New Orleans, having heard that
high school would be most respectfully patropi.
{ zed, took room in the garret of four story
house.
! B1~A country contemporary undertook 70
cut splurge the other day, so he offered $lO
premium for ''prize tale" A farmer sent him
( in a tightly curled sandy pigs tail and deman.
ded the cash.
j GE@The Caloric engine, if applied success.
fully to locomotives, will be an important saving
in the cost of running the trains
WoMAN's RIGHTs.-The Cincinnati Nopparef
says, ''Not far from the Brighton House we saw
n woman in a smithshop, with leather apron
on, and hammer in hand, setting a wagon
tire.
SnA fsor
thentic source, bearing date Jan. 2, states that
the small pOx was still raging at Havana. t
was estimated that there was L, 200 cases.
BsyHA Yankee has invented Il new and cheap
plan for boarding. One Of the boarders mesmer-
ICES the rest, and then eats a hearty meal, the
mesmerized being satisfied from sympathy
One of the boarlers having recovered, mesmer-
zed the landlady on pay day, and endeavored to
settle for the whole company by paying for one
but it did mt work.
BeA Mrs. Martha Martin Douglass, the wife
Of the Hon Stephen \. Douglass, Senator from
Illinois, whose death we have already noticed
was the last surviving child of the late Col Rob.
ert Martin, of Rockingham county, North Caro-
lima She was married in April 1847, and died
at the residence of her husband in Washington,
in the 24th year of her age. An aged mother
and three infant children survive her. She is
said to have possessed a highly cultivated mind
and surprising sweetness of disposition.
Rag%Tbe Somerset Herald estimates that hut
ter is annually sold in that County to the amount
of thrco ilunSlTed1hou usand dollars. No county
in the State has better reputation for making
good Jutter than Somerset. We had no idea,
however, that its citizens went into the business
so heavily. They deserve great credit for their
enterprise in this particular, and We commend
their example to the consideration of our Cit.
zens.
aA-we give the following tough story foi
what it is worth
The Medina Democrat says there is an insars
man in that town named Smith, whose joints
are all double, and he can displace them from
their natural position without any inconvenience
or any great effort. He has two pair of lungs,
and by inhaling air sufficient to fill both
continue thirty eight minutes without breathing.
He served under Gen. Taylor in the late war
with Mexico.
BeA.I is said the seat of Mr.. Benjamin, Q.
s. Senator from Louisiana, elected by the Wings
in place of Downs, viii be contested. The new
Constitution of the State requires al officers to
be elected under it. TIE present Legislature
being largely Democratic, may elect two OF theit
own party to the United States Senate, and tha'
body will have the question to decide between
the present incumbents and the new ones, IL
elected Mr. Benjamin was born ON the island
of st. Thomas, and is charged with not having
been naturalized. This raises n very curious
question.
NAPOLEON IH.-The Paris correspondent Of
the Courier des Etats Unis says Napoleon gives
away large sums of money. He has committed
to be distributed among needy French refugees
there. He directed that they should not knoW
whence the money came, lest they should refuse
it. The iberality of the Emperor, it is added
is a matter of public notoriety.
ADVANTAGES OF PRISTING.-Mr B., wen
known metropolitan printer, once told US thS'
Oh one occasion old woman from the country
came into his Office with an old Bible in her
hand 81 want" said she, 'sthat you shouiu
print it over ag'in. 1t is gettin' leetle Siur-
red, sort of, and my eyes isn't wot they Wos.-
How much do you az % ''Fifty cents" IAN
you have it done in half an hour?-wish you
would want to be gettin' home; livegood way,
out of teown." Certainly" When the OiN
lady went out, he sent round to the office OF 'H'
American Bible Society, and purchased copy
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