Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-01-07
SUMMARY OF NEWS,

burden, were built in Maine in 1856
| Cranberries are grown in great abundance at
all the towns along the Upper Mississippi.
The Electors of Wisconsin failed to arrive in
Madison in time to cast the vote of that State for
President, owing to a snow-storm.
The crew of the wrecked packet New York,
who nearly killed tie captain, have been arrested
at Freehold y. j.
/ man for being told the truth, thanks you the
first time-votes you bore the secondhand
quarrels with You the thiId
The wheat crop III Tennessee is said to pre. ent
an unusually promising prospect. a much larger
amount of land is sown in wheat than heretofore.
The flour and meal inspected in Philadelphia.
on the week preceding Christmas, amounted to
nearly twenty thousand barrels
| A new conference Of European powers is soon
to be held in Paris. TO decide what the last treaty
| means.
| At Trenton, Friday of last week, twenty
thousand people assembled to witness a shan bat
| tie, which came off without accident
| Forrest has soil his Fonth country seat on
the Hudson, to the New York Sisters of Charity.
for hundred thousand dollars, about its cost
Capt. J. D. White. has been nominated by the
Democrats Of the city Of Pittsburg, FOX the ofics
of Mayor,
The Sheriff of Hudson county, n. Z, treated
| the prisoners in Jail Christmas day some fifty
in number. to dinner of turkeys, chickens, &c.
murder of his wife, Sarah Jane, on the 2lst Of
June, 1856, in Boston, last week
What is the difference between a confirmed sim
ner and beggar? One is o sendicant and the
other is a mend i-wont.
Tennessee paper says tha. Senator Bell will
lose about ten thousand dollars by tic insurrec-
ton panic.
At an anction sale at the fair Of St. Paul's
| church, Buffalo, q barrel of -four was sold f,r
a73 so. and tGen presented to the rector, Dr.
Shelton.
family Of eight persons IN Hardin county
KY, have been poisoned by negro cook. Six
of them died, and the others were Do. expected
to live.
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was snow the ground to the depth of three
feet, and the mercury in the thermometer incica-
ted thirty two degrees below zero
A suit in Cooperstown, N Y, by Martha Jane
Drake against William Waterman, for breach
of promise OF marriage, resulted in a verdict of
1000 in favor OF the fair plaintiff
eo- How is your husbanSnGis afternoon, Mrs.
he lives till mornin', he shall have some hopes of
him: but if he don't he must give him up.
Mr.. Dan Showalter, formerly of Iat.obe Pa
has been elected to the Assembly by the Demo
Gratis Of Merceed and Haraposa counties, Cal:tor
MIA.
John A, Galligan. an Englishman IN New York
denies having committed suicide This raises
question OF reracity between him and twelve |
sworn individuals. who composed recent coro. |
ner's jury in that city.
The new marriage laws which have Jus, been |
puo''shed IN Austria, recognize the marriage Of
boy Of fourteen with girl of twelve. as valid.v
but the parties are to te separated until they are
of age.
At the recent election In California, two women |
were elected to fill offices In Placer coun.v-one
rs Justice of the Peace. and the other as Cons,a.
bic Each received vote in the precinct. and |
there opposition
a Gcrn,an with whom Bavard Taylor formsl |
friendship has conveyed TO him as free gift, an
estate near the Thurinsian forest It contains a
beautiful residence huilt in 1850 BIZ one of the
IT
An unmarried lady on the vcintry side Of fiftv. |
hearing of the marriage Of young lady. her |
friend. observed with deep and sentimental sigh.
=" Well, suppose it is what We all must come |
to-"
life or Death-Which "A doctor advertises |
in country paper that =" whoever uses the Veg. |
etable Compound Universal Auti- -Purging Aroma !
tic Pills once will not have cause to use them |
again." We rather think they won't
Eleanor Hama. native of the county of Men |
Afghan, Ireland, for the past fifty years widow |
and resident of New York city, died two or three
days since at the age of one hundred and twelve |
years.
A bill before Congress proposes to depreciate |
Spanish coin twenty per cent, loss TO present |
holders of a million and half Of tlollars-unless. |
indeed, the coin is sold to slverfmiths at its real
value-when the loss would not average ten per |
cent.
Mrs. Thomas Noteworthy, whose death in !
Salem, at the age of nearly ninety mine years, I
has been mentioned, had been married ak