Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-11-30
S U M M AIRY OF NE S.

shortly after.
0o-The Harrisburg Telegraph says that Gov.
Pollock has rendered the office of Secretary of the
Commonwealth to Col. a. G. Curtain, of Centre
county.
go-Henry Walters, Esq, formerly Cashier OF
the Harrisburg Bank, and a very estimable gen
tleman, died at Liverpool, Perry county, on
Wednesday, the 22d inst.
CTTwo brakemen the Erie Railroad, named
Richard Sperry and A. w. Parsons, were killed
last Friday,-the former having accidentally fallen
from the cars, and the latter being knocked off
while passing bridge.
o5-The Indianapolis papers state that wagon
load of the notes of the Stock Banks
turned one day last week upon the Auditor of
the State of Indiana.
ey-The Cincinnati Commercial says new batch
of counterfeit KS on the State Bank of Ohio is
getting into circulation. Look out for them; they
are exceedingly well done.
co-The Commercial Branch. Bank, of the State
of Ohio, closed its doors on the 9th inst.
eo-A man named VIM. Holseman, from Guern-
Wheeling and robbed of S., 500.
eS-lt is stated that efforts are making to induce
the Governor of Maryland to call an extra session
of the Legislature during the present winter.
OK DIT-Itis rmmored that Hon. d. B. Won
dersmith late Judge of the Lancaster county
Court, and recently detected in extensive pension
frauds and forgeries, is in Paris, living high,
apd apparently happy.
MINNEsoTA.-A new town is to be laid out on
the Minnesota river, the rapids. 1t is chris
tened San Francisco.
.-A man was arrested in Ohio recently for get
ting drunk. He pleaded that he had not been
guilty of violation of the new law, and claimed
the right of being tried by the old, the ground
that he got drunk under the old law, and hadn't
been sober since. The judge was puzzled, and
held the case over for advisement.
es-The ship Middlesex arrived at Arkansas,
Texas, on the 7th inst, in fifteen days from New
York, with government stores and three hundred
and fortyfive recruits for the United States army
Some thirty of them had deserted ON arriving at
Arkansas, and from four to eight of them were
drowned board lighter on their way to Cor
pus Christi.
o1-During the week which terminated on the
25th, the amount of public debt redeemed at
Washington, was $118,3O0.
oo-The Temperance Alliance, of Great Britain,
have resolved to raise fund of $5O, 900, to agi-
tate for the enactment of prohibitory liquor law.
CA young man, who some time since forged
check for SIC, 900 upon his employers, Messrs
Price, Frost & Co., New Orleans. and escaped with
the proceeds to Havana, has been arrested in
France, and will be returned to this country, un-
der the extradition treaty.
e5-It is stated that over seven thousand lives
have been lost by shipwreck, during the last eight
cen months.
G5-Col. Webb, of the New York Courier, char
ges that the London Times is endeavoring to get
up panic in relation to the war.
Oc-Eight hundred dollars have been subscribed
at Washington, for the erection of monument to
Stewart Holland, who was lost on board the Arc
tic.
Gg-It is reported that an attempted embezzle-
ment, to the amount of $4,000, by one of the
teers of the National Bank, has been discovered
No particulars have transpred
eo-The river at Pittsburg is in fine navigable
order, with nearly six feet water in the chanlel
and rising. The weather is favorable for further
rise.
ea-Philips, who was few days since convicted
of the murder of his wife in West Troy, New
York, was sentenced to be executed on the 10th
of January next.
e5-The workmen in the shops of the Mad Riv-
er Railroad Company, at Springfield, Ohio, have
got mad and struch for higher wages.
e5-The citizens of Louisville are raising meet
ings to cheaper coal. A better way would be to
raise the river.
0o-By the breaking of bridge, eleven miles
beyond Hamilton, on the Cincinnati and Chicago
Railroad, eleven cars laden with railroad iron,
were precipitated in the ravine below. Fortu-
nately not single person was injured.
0u-Ole Bull and Strakochs were arraigned before
the Police Court of Louisville, for breach of the
city ordinance. They had, it appears, from neg
lect the part of their agent, forgotten to pay
the required license, which being done, they were
permitted to depart in peace.
COLT is a singular fact that while for Governor.
CLARK, Wing, received 156,770 votes, and Sey-
mour, Dem, 156 ASS, the combined vote for Ull-
man and Bronson amounts to 156, 1885, thus show
ing curious division of the people into three
equal segments.
Collision in Boston Harbor.
The steamship Canada from Liverpool via
Halifax, came in collision on Friday evening
near the Lower Light. with the steamer
Ocean from Boston for Hallowell, Me-, stri-
king her near her midships 1t was not vet