Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-02-24
NEWS AND MISCELLANY.

| 0- The total defalcation of Lambert S. Nor
wood, the late Clerk the Superior Court at Bal
timore, is S36, ,299, of which the sum of SIT 900
is due to the State, and S1S,457 to the city of
Baltimore. The City Council have passed a res
olution directing suit to be commenced against
his securities, accompanied with an appeal to the
Legislature to enact law to punish as felony all
| future peculations on the funds of the city
| ~ E. z. c. Judson, of New York, was at
Tamaqua, Schuylkill county, last week, and or
ganized company, numbering about one hun
| dred men, members of a secret military order
| called the Guard of Liberty"
GI-It is said that one of the most distinguish
| ed physicians of New England ascribes the fear
ful increase Of paralysis to the use of stoves in
close rooms, particularly in sleeping apartments.
OrA large establishment for the manufacture
of sewing silk, is about to be erected at Hartford
| 1t will give employment to three or four
| hundred operatives.
| OTTen thousand persons have visited the Pat
ent Office and the galleries of the National Insti-
| tute in Washington, since New Year.
| GThe man who 'sthrew up a bargain, came
near having his hat crushed when it came down.
| D-A lawyer named Thompson, was burnt to
death at Centre Harbor, n. H., on Friday last.
OrMany of the gambling ''hells" of San Fran
cisco, have been closed fer want of custom.
| C-Since the new divorce law went into oper-
alton in Ohio, marriages placed under the
head of ''limited partnerships"
| 0~Hon. David Wilmot, of ''proviso notorie-
ty, made a speech at Montrose, Pa, few days
ago, denouncing Douglass Nebraska bill.
| D~since the discovery of gold in California
six hundred vessels have gone round Cape Horn
and never returned. A few of them have been
lost, but the greater number have been employed
in the Pacific trade.
| DJ-A good locomotive engine costs from $4,000
to SIC, 800, and it would take nine whole
year to build one well, with all the machine pow
er Of the best machine shops to aid them in the
work.
| O-The Church of England, by its separate
centralized exertions, raises above f400 900 per
annum for religious objects, out of which $780,
| 900 Is applied to foreign missionary operations.
GCTA writer in the New York Courier proposes
that Congress tender grant of one hundred
thousand acres land to Gen. Scott, as substi-
tute for the promotion in rank, which they now
seem disposed to withhold.
DThe Persian government has decided that
it will not prosecute the war against Turkey for
the present The people of Persia are in favor of
the Turks.
| UDost Mohammed ruler of Afghanistan,
threatens to invade Persia, if the Shah of Persia
makes war ON Russia.
GThe Iowa Reporter says the emigratian in
to that State this year is immense. The addition
| to the population, from September 1st to Decem-
Der 1st, from emigration alone, is computed at
| $4,000.
GI-The 10th of May, 1854, is the day fixed on
by the Mllerites for the destruction of the world
That will knock the noise % out of the Eclipse
of the Sun, on the Goth of the same month
OTAn advertisement appears in New York
paper, offering $4,000 reward for the recovery of
daguerreotype lost on board the steamer San
Francisco.
OrFor every dollar that Boston spends upon
her city government, she spends dollar and
thirty cents upon her public schools.