Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-01-04
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are said to have gone to decay.
s G.A Hebrew Divorce Casa very unusual
thing-is now before the New York Courts
eo-In the Upited States there is one church to
every e4e Of the population.
ou-In one Ward in Cincinnati there are five
hundred families in suffering condition.
EBreeders of Shanghais are beginning to find
out that it is poor speculation.
0c-A German woman in New York recently
gave birth to child with two heads.
oo-Abraham Quady, the last Indian of the tribe
that formerly inhabited Nantucket, is dead
aD-It is estimated that 100000 souls viii be
added to the population of Iowa this year.
D-The shaft. of the Washington National Mon
ument has risen to height of one hundred and
seventy feet.
oo-It is said the Russian government has offered
Mr.. Collins 100000 apiece for his steamers.
95-Col John J. Patterson is an applicant for
the Office of Adjutant General under Governor
Pollock.
0e-Dr. Thompson, acquitted of the murder OF
Miss Pharr, has been hung and burnt IN etfigy in
Richmond and Petersburg, Va.
Do-At the latest accounts from Iowa, there had
been no election for United States Senator Both
parties we're nearly tied.
JusT So-It is remarked that a parting scene
between two fashionable ladies, after formal
call. reminds one of the play of 50 Much Adieu
About Nothing
go-Alcohol was first invented and used to stain
the cheeks of the ladies of Arabia nine hundred
and fifty years ago. Nowadays it performs the
same Office for gentlemen's noses.
GA, &C fusion is in progress in the Iowa Leg
islature between the National Wings and the De
mocracy, by which it is proposed to return Cook.
National Wing, to the United States Senate, and
elect Democrats to all the State offices.
WEsrERs BANKs.-Banks in Arkansas manage
business in rather primitive manner. A friend
of ours writes us, that before he could get fifty
dollar note discounted he had to deposit &c col
laterals," two cook stoves and cross-cut saw.
AN EXCESS OF HAPPINEss.-An old lady, while
in "reminiscences of her girlhood, when
she had lots of beaux, exclaimed. .Why, the truth
fairly uncomfortable
O5-The first floor of Jaynes mammoth building
Chestnut street, has been rented for three years.
by Postmaster Miller, of Philadelphia, for postal
accommodations, until the new United States
building is erected, which, it is understood, will
not be before 1857.
o. Michael Prouse, an old revolutionary soldier,
died in Chippewa township, Wayne county, Ohio,
about the 9th ult., at the advanced age of one
hundred and four years.
states its debts at $23O,0O0, assets 500, ,0O0-so
that after all, there is something of a margin for
the creditors and stockholders, if we may believe
SO confessed charletan-
o5- The valedictory of Fl. C. Connolly is pub
lshed in the last issue of the Beaver Star. Il. G..
McGregor, formerly partner, is now sole propri-
etor.
go-Robert Burton, an estimable citizen and no
ted shipping merchant of Philadelphia, died in
that city on Friday last. He was engaged for
many years in the Liverpool trade.
9J-Minesota is four times as large as the State
Of Ohio, comprising an area of about 166 900
square miles, or los ,ooO, 900 acres of land.
0u-The Governor General of Cuba has refused
request of the planters to disband the black sol
ders.
g5-The Greytown people have appointed an
agent to go to Washington and prosecute their
claims for indemnity.
0o-Orders have been received at the Gosport
(va.) Navy-yard, to fit out Immediately the brigs
Dolphin and Perry. They will probably be sent
to the coast of Africa.
ou-It is said to be an indsputable fact that ta-
king the whole United States together, much
more money is expended for the single article of
cigars than for all the common schools in the
Union.
g5-Capt. Robert w. Glenn, one of the Baltimore
defenders, died in that city on Thursday last
05-The Postmaster of Wilkesbarre has resigned
because at the end of this year he found himself
seventy dollars out of pocket,
erTwo steamers, the Grand Prairie and Sallie
West, were lost in the Mississippi river a few days
lgo.
0o-A fire at Warren, Pa, on the 9th ult.,
destroyed the county buildings of Warren county.
The records were mostly saved.
a1-Ephraim Littlefeld, somewhat notorious as
he chief witness in the trial for the murder of Dr.
'arkman, has, in consequence of painful disease
# the ear, become insane.
0o-Bacon, the philosopher, compares money to
manure. If gathered in heaps, it docs no good
nut on the contrary becomes offensive Spread it
so thinly over the surface of the EARTH and it
nriches the whole country.
GA man was eloping with glrl near AM