Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-05-02
MARY OF NE w S

cS-There is an abundance OF stone coal IN all
parts of the Territory Of Nebraska. Fine spe-
cmens have been found at the mouth Of the Platte
river.
D-Since theopening of navigation on the Lakes,
sc, 900 barrels of Flour have arrived at Oswego
N. Y, from Canadian ports. This is the result
of the reciprocity treaty.
e5-A few days since young man named An
derson, in Henry county, Va, accidentally shot
and killed his brothers. wife, He was preparing
his gun to go hunting when the accident occur
red.
eo-It is reported that Messrs Corcoran and
Riggs, of Washington, have paid over to the gov
ernment about $780, 900, attached in their hands
as being part the money fraudulently obtained
under the Gardiner claim
eo-CoI. Benton has written letter to the Ma
tional Intelgencer, in which he states that there
is no Indian war oD the Upper Missouri and North
Platte-that he has received ample proofto sustain
this assertion.
eo-A train of 40 cars, containing live stock, was
brought in to Albany, ON the 14th inst, on the
Central railway. The train was nearly quarter
of mile in length.
Gz-The State Auditor Of Illinois has given notice
that he prepared to redeem the circulating notes
Of the banks of that State that are in liquidation at
par. Those banks are the Farmers, Phoenix,
Union, and the City Bank of Chicago, and the Me
chanic's aud Farmers Bank at Springfield.
A-The three Judges of the Court of Claims are
now in Washington, Judge Lumpkin, of Georgia,
having finally concluded to accept the position ten
dered to him by the President. They are expect
GI-One young man in the vicinity Of Boston
shot himself last week, because he could not get
wife, and another because he could not get di-
yorce.
e5-A petition is in circulation in Cincinnati ask
mig the Governor of Ohio to commute the sentence
of Arrison, the torpedo man, who destroyed the
lives of Allison and his wife, to imprisonment for
life. Arrison was sentenced to be hung on the
1lth of May.
DrPersons applying for Bounty Lands should
address the Commissioner of Pensions, and not the
Secretary of the Interior.
Os-The Harrisburg Union takes ground in favor
of the repeal of the Liquor Law just passed by our
Legislature It predicts .' a reaction in public
sentiment which will sweep from end of the
State to the other. and not cease until this law
shall be wiped from the statute books"
CO. Opium eating is said by the papers to pre-
vail to fearful extent in New York The users of
the base drug are chiefly females.
Bc- The census of the Philadelphia AlInsho use
shows it to contain 2l9S persons being an increase
of 82I over the number at the same time last year.
Number of persons receiving out door relief, 2l9S
of whom S62 are Americans, 81 Irish, 20S Ger
mans The Board of Guardians have adopted
resolution excluding liquors from the banquetng
rooms of the institution.
ea-The House of Representatives of Wisconsin,
by vote of AZ to 81, have restored the death pen
atty in that state. The Senate have yet to act
upon the matter.
0IWhat has become Of ofBrigham Young's grass
widows, who were to lecture in Boston on mormon
ism
eo-On the 18th inst. Mrs. Edward Thomson, of
Lottesville Loudon county, Va, feldead while sit
ting in her chair Her husbands brother Nimrod,
ran to her assistance, and before reaching her. fell
on the floor a corpse. Their deaths were not two
minutes apart.
eo-The Maine Law in Illinois is to be voted on
by the people the first Monday in June.
e5-A new fort is to be constructed Immediately
by the United States Government, at Proctor's
Landing on Lake Borgne, Louisiana
gd-Louis Napoleon has been Investing large
sums in California in the names of other parties.
So says the Washington Star.
eo-Work has been resumed on the Steubenville
Railroad, opposite Pittsburgh.
Bo-Two natives of Baden are about to commence
the grape culture in New Hampshire
eS-Gen. Wright, Democrat, Tusday
last, elected Mayor Of Hudson, N. j., by Sc ma
jority, over F. B. Carpenter, Know Nothing
@5-The corner stone Of Jewish Synagogue
was laid at St. Louis on t's 10th inst 1t is the
first structure for Israelitish worship ever COM
menced west of the Mississippi
| O-Four thuosana bushels of potatoes arrived
in Boston on Thursday from Nova Scotia. A
large number of vessels with potatoes ON the
way to the same port.
| UA dovetailing machine has been invented
and is in use in Boston, which enables single
workman to dovetail with ease from eight hun
dred to one thousand bureau drawers day.
| oo-The Massachusetts, Liquor Law has been
signed by the Governor and will go into effect in
thirty days.
GrIt is said that about sixty-five thousand
bales Of cotton, valued at over three millions OF
dollars, have been destroyed by fire in this coun-
| try during the last three months
e5-No more paupers or convicts from Switzer-
land. The Federal Council there has given Mr..
Fay. our Minister Resident there, assurance to
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