The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-04-28
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meut, whose duty it will be to drag the "ma-
chimes" to and fro from lres. The pay system
just adopted in that city goes into operation
soon In London horses are always kept hsr
messed and ready for an alarm. The engines
are so constructed that the men ride upon then
to where the fire may be raging. Thus they
arrive in excellent trim for their work, and
when it is over, and they tired with their
labors, enjoy comfortable ride to their hend
quarters.
A play called General Frank. Pierce, or the
Hero Of the 9th Regiment" is having 9 great
run at the New Bedford Theatre. e.-ErcAcnse.
If the piece runs as well as the President did.
it will make the fortune Of the management.
RELIos.-In the Library Of the Academy 1T
Germantown, Pa, is the telescope used by Gen.
Washington at ths battle Of Germantown, Oct
4, l777. There is in the same library eoPyof
the Bible, Geneva, edition, l64o
AParis letter in the New York Errras says:
Lady Montijo has left Paris for Spain. She wss
extremely desirous Of remaining and living In
the reflection Of her daughters grandeur, but
Louis Napoleon, who shares the general preju-
dice against step-mothers, gave her plainly to
understand that, because he had married Eugen-
ia, she must not suppose that he had married all
her family.
FISHING IL MIxyrsorA-The Dodge County
Gazette says that fishing in Horizon Lake, Min
nesota, has ceased TO be fun, and is now Uork-
They have taken from one 20 eight tons per day.
of pickerel, weighing from one to tweniy-three
pounds cach-from Fifty to sixty persons spear
ing and drawing away. Itis thought that over
1000 tons have been taken away.
LAST FROM JENNY LISp.-The Berlin CORES
pondent of the London Literary Gazette writes:
'The newspapers of different countries have re-
Gently teemed with accounts of Jenny Lind hav-
ing disbursed vast sums for establishing chari-
table institutions in Sweden. Jenny has dors
nothing of the kind Since her marriage she
has ceased to be profusely liberal"
POWDER MILL ExPLosIoN.-The powder mil
of Mr.. Garcsche, situated about ten miles from
Wilmington, Del blew up abou: 6 O'Clock on FRI
day evening with n tremendous noise. There
were two distinct and heavy explosions. Con
rad Riley the engineer, instantly killed. be-
ing literally torn TO atoms. The hands employ
ed in the mill had just quit work. The mill was
totally destroyed and burned.
The Spiritual Rappers seem TO be carrying er-
cry thing before them at Washington. Gen.
Jas. Hamilton and Gen. waddy Thompson, Of
South Carolina, have become proselytes.
There are said to be one hundred thousand
barrels of -four in the Detroit warehouses wait
ing shipment to the East
Al have been troubled with weak eyes for ten
years." said DR.. d., "snd am not able TO tell
the cause"
Cant you :" said Mas F II can"
''What is 90
Because they nre set in weak place." said
Miss F.
The business of manufacturing shirt collars is
prosecuted to an extraordinary extent at Troy,
n. Y. There q large number Of manufactu
rers, each Of whom employs from 500 to 1900
females in this works, and there are besides half
a dozen factoroes in which the article is made
by machines One of these has forty and anoth
er thirty machines constantly employed The
machine work is said 10 be as good as that done
by hand. The cost of manufacture per dozen by
machine, is twenty five cents.
teach you what is right and wrongs"
81 don't get teached, find 1t cut"
"And how do you find it out!'
"By observing that right works for shi.-
ling day, while wrong lives on it
| An exchange says that at recent duel, near
vicksburg, the parties fred once without effect.
whereupon one of the seconds iuterfered, and
proposed that the cembatants should shake
hands. To this the other second objected as un-
necessary, '.for their hands had been sbaking
| this half hour"
| Many of the editors are now debating whether
i0Je is a lazy When they have arrived at
satisfactory conclusion the point, VIC offer
them as a subject for their gigantic intellect s
whether a husband is a gentleman.
A person having the misfortune 70 admit into
his house an individual of very improper char
acter, named Bell, turned him out the other day,
with the remark
| THAT he would never keep a beH in his house
that wanted hanging"
J At Mameluke Hin, California, q
company of ten, who have been tuuneling. are
now taking out $15 900 per day. Other parties
on the came line of deposit are getting FROM
$4,000 to $1,000 per day.