Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-12-03
Summary CF NEWS.
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
december Sessions 1856.


n,u,onvoa,th VS. Isabella O'Neill ct al
Indictment for assault and battery-A True
Bill. Deft's plead not Guilty Jdry calleu
and sworn, who find def's guilty.
Commonwealth VS. Jacob Hartzell--Assann
and battery. Jury called and sworn, who
find deft guilty. Sentenced to pay fine OF
$50 and costs.
Patterson for use VS. Jas & JOHN Dough-
erty-Jury called aud sworn who find s52iV
"a for Pl'f
Commonwealth VS. Jacob Mack 81 Mack,
Jr. Indictment assault and battery detts
plead not guilty Jury called and sworn who
find deft's guilty.
Commonwealth VS. Robt Hamilton d John
Litz-Indiotment assault and battery detts
plead not guilty. Jury called and sworn who
find dfts guilty.
There has been but one suit tried in the
Common Pleas /. @ Patterson against Dough
ertv. There were many indictments for 1lp-
ling houses in most of which defendants plead
guilty and submitted to the sentence OF tho
Court.
oOtA-S'N'''A'
tom was lighted with gas this week.
50 There is thee feet water in tie Ohio river
and still rising.
Go- Mjor Wilson Knott, Postmaster at Biairs-
Vile, Pa. died on Thursday the 9th ut, aged
sixty-sevcn years.
&C. The President has officially recognized
William Pinkney as vice consul of the Kingdom
Of the Two SiciHcs at Key West, Frorida,
pgy- Benjamin Ashley, the man tlat built the
first steamboat the Connecticut river, died the
other day at Springfield, Mass, aged 81.
C. We learn from the Wheeling Argus, that
counterfeit slOO bills are in circulation in that
State. The note IS badly executed.
r. The number Ct blind persons in Japan is
reid to be enormous, In Jeddo, the capital,
alone, SO, 900 is tho Computation.
* The Canal Commissioners viii close the
State Canals In the 1Cth Of December, unless
sooner closed by ice.
O. The sloop of war Falmouth vii be put in
commission on the first Of January, to relieve tie
Germantown. in the Brazil squadron
~ On Saturday last sub-contractor on the
Delaware Division, na:asd Schenwslt, abscon'led
sftsr drawing an estimate Of $1,000. without pay
Ing his hands.
&C. Tie citizens Of HarrisburE, among other
improvcmcnts, have new Masonic Hail,
theatre. aud raca coursc. They also dedicated,
few days ago, a new Baptist church
E~ John r. Smith, Esq of Fayctte
county, Is named By the Waynesburg Mes
.enger for the position of sorgeant-at Arms
OF the House of Representatives.
ay The Waynesburg Messenger, of the
2Gth inst. recommends p. T. Gibbons. of
Cambria county, as the Democratic candidate
for Canal Commissioner.
The Journal Of Commerce makes up tables Of
tho popular vote, giving Buchanan over Ere
mont thus far AIS, ,014, which will be in
creased by the returns yet to come in.
APloxRER GoxE-Mr Solomon Juneau, the
drstwhite inhabitant of Milwaukee, aud its first
Mayor, died recently on the Indian pay ground
on Wolf River.
se-The candidates for the Legislature in
county of Wisconsin were j VI, Root, Demo
cratic; Robert Hogg, Free Soil; T. Il. Dye,
Know Nothing. Soft was Root, Hogg, or Dye,
with the voters, sure enough.
The Democratic Convention of Washington
county met on Tuesday last, and elected dele
gates to the Democratic State Convention to be
held at Harrisburg on the 4th of March next,
and unanimously Instructed for Col VIM Hop
kins, of that county, for Governor.
REpoBucAN ADDREss.-The Republican
Association of Washington city have publish
ed address reviewing the Presidential cam
paign, and attributing the defeat of the party
to the hlunGers Of its leaders in New Jersey
aud Pennsylvania.
sA- Wm. Smith. brother of the Mormon
prophet, writes to the Erie Dispatch, dcclar-
pg that his brother is not responsible for poly
gamY, as practiced in Utah, but that Brigham
Young and his 90 administration are. He,
however, defends polygamy on patriarchal and
scriptural grounds, although he believes the
my and ruin.
EH Margaret Terrence, the " hay and
grain girl, who escaped from Amherst jail
about two years ago, and stole horse and
wagon, escaped from prison at Concord N. II.
on Tuesday night. 1t was not more than two
minutes before her escape was discovered aud
the watchmcn scattered in all directions, but
she was nowhere to be found