Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-02-18
SUMMARY OF NEWS

The speaker who " took the floor" has
been arrested for stealing lumber
There wers hundred deaths in New
Orleans for the week eLding on the 3D. inst.
Scarlet fever is still very fatal in Boston.
There were thirty deaths from it last week.
The correspondence between General
Scett and Secretary Davis occupies volume
of 254 pages
Scarlet fever is raging throughout Nor
thern Mississippi
-Luzerne county contains fifty lawyers,
thirty-six of whom reside in the town of
Wlkesbarre
A letter from Washington names the
Hon. r. P. Walker as the probable Secreta-
ry of State under Mr.. Buchanan.
The Committee on the Militia System,
OF the Legislature, have issued a call for
Military Convention, to be held in Harrisburg
on Thursday. the 26th inst
TIL n---l yt--:---- ~e Scntl.nd arc in .ho
| midst of an excited controversy on the cues
ton of the introduction of organs into their
churches.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Minnesota
has recently granted charters for ten new
lodges. A T. G. Picrson. of St. Paul. was
reelected NJ. W. G. NJ.
An exchange paper says that the girls
in some parts of Pennsylvania are so hard up
for husbands, that they sometimes take up
With printers, and lawyers.
An amendment to the Constitution of
Missouri has passed the popular branch of the
Legislature of that State, restricting the State
debt to $500
Cincinnati Catawba brandy, costing SIS
per gallon, has recently been purchased for
expectation to France, to be used, it is said,
for favoring foreign liquors.
-ScASrY WARDRoBEs-The Bombay, E
y Gazette says that the entire population of
Hindoostan does not average sixpencc each
per year for clothing.
The Utica Herald states that one of the
daughters of Mrs. Cunningham, who is i'm
plicated in the murder of Dr. Burdell, when
pupil at the Female Academy in that city,
was expelled for theft
New Counties are always asked for, in
our Legislature. On Tuesday, Senator Fra
zer read bills TO erect the new county Of Mo
nongahela, from parts of Washington. Fay
cite and Wcstmoreland; and - Redstone,"
from parts of Washington and Fayette.
gradually becoming re-peopled 1t now con-
tains about seven thousand inhabitants, and
Kamiesch contains two thousand. Three
hundred houses, partly destroyed during the
siege, have been rebuilt and eighty new ones
constructed
edward A Penniman, a well known
Democrat, of Philadelphia, died in that city
on Monday. in the 47th year of his age
He was elected member of the Legislature
in 1S40, and for the thirteen succeeding
years served either as a Senator or Reprcsen-
tatiyc at. Harrisburg.
&C. D. Murray, county treasurer, reports
the receipts of 1856 at $40, ALI SO, all of
which was expended, with balance due
treasurer 1886, 80. Fox scalp bounties du-
ring the year, $1s4.50 The receipts, of
the Poor House wee So, ,542, 81, all of which
was expended. with balance due treasurer
of S46.37.
BLAIR, Gown. S. H. Keys has been
fined three hundred dollars and sent to prison
three months, for assault and battery j ohu
l.. Pennock has been imprisoned on charge
of passing one hunnred and eighty dollars of
counterfeit money. IN purchasing horse.
The Delaware Legislature is considering
bill grading tavern Gcsnses, from $50 to
$1OO. according to the assessed value of the
premises. It also prohibits the sale of liquors
on Sunday and to minors.
The whole number of revolutionary SOL
diers on the pension rolls on the 18th of July
last, was only FIVE hundred and fourteen, and
seven deaths have since been registered
Henry Shaub, liquor dealer, was MUIR
dered in Detroit Tuesday of last week =
The tragedy occurred in his own bar-room.
and was undoubtedly pcrpetrated for the pur-
pose of robbery.
"A letter from Captain Carey, late Indi-
an agent. dated Tempa Bay, and written but
two days before his death, shows that he had
given up all hopes of peaceful removal of
the Se,ninoles.
e. B. Kelly, aged "A. IN " old SALT"
died at Norwich last week. He had visited