The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-09-06
EDITORIAL h0TlHGS.
esa- See new aayertisements.


misplaced confidence in ''tanglefoot."
sg> The pew rents in Henry Ward Beeeher's
church, amount to sac, 900 this year.
ssg~ The population of Somerset county is
&c. sd4; in 1850 it was 2+,4lG.
ssa- In town-the man who sells the razor
powder. Great is CANNON!
G%g- The tonnage of the Broad Top Noun
tain coal mines is estimated at 300, 600 tons
RsS~ There is to lie Typographical map
of Centre County published by Mr.. l.. D. Til
ben.
gJ y correspondent of the Ho!lidnysburg
Register recommends coal tar q remedy for
the peach borer.
psA. ''The ocean speaks eloquently and for
ever says Beecher. ''Yes," retorts Prentice,
"and there is no use telling it to dry up"
BG5~ The latest invention of which we read
is machine for milking COWS! It is capable
of being worked by steam.
psa- 1t is stated that the Chicago Zouaves
realized by their late tour the sum of 81, 600
above all expenses.
ncA. About one hundred and twenty new
patents, it is said, areissued cveryw eek from
the Patent Office in Washington.
ns. 1t is asserted that Heenan and Morris
sey will fight again probably in January and
certainly not later than the 5th of March, for
$4,000 a side
gsA Dunham of the Lock Haven Watchmdn
advertises his office for sale. An excellent
chance is thus afforded some practical printer
to procure a good office.
Ezg- The huntington County Fair Will take
place this year at Huntingdon, on the old
ground, commencing September, (W Wednesday,
26th, to continue three days.
nsa-Dobbs thinks that instead of giving
credit to whom credit is due, the cash had
better be paid. Dobbs should not be imper-
tiDent
BEa- Prentice advises the Breckinridge
of kentucky to hold modification meeting.
He thinks that although the meeting might
be small, the feeling would be very sincere.
IGg~ Miss Harriet Uosmer, the sculptoress,
has returned from her artistic labors in Eu-
rope to comfort sick and aged father She
is spoken of as Il fine, dashing, black-eyed
girl of twenty-nine.
Bea- 1t is estimated that the reception of
the Prince of Wales, will cost the provisional
government of the Canadas bless u sum than
Sl,OOO,00o, Independent of the vast amounts
spent by the different towns.
Heg@ There are only four Douglas papers in
Connecticut; only three in Alabama; only
two in Georgia; and not one in South Caro-
lima, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas
and Florida.
Ezg~ Professor Tischendorf, the dscoycrer
Of the oldest known manuscript of the Bible,
found in the convent of Mount Sina, has re-
turned to st. Petersburg, to superintend the
publication of this important work.
GS73~ Brigham Young, with hundred fol-
lowers, has been tour through Cache
county, Utah, sermonizing, ''to instruct the
people in the discharge of their several duties
as saints and pioneers
Gs1n John B. Cough, the celebrated tenn
perance lecturer, has arrived at Boston after
a three years residence in England. He has
been rendered public reception at Fremont
Temple by 43o clergyman of Massachusetts.
ny Willamsport, formerly one of the
stand-stilI towns of Pennsylvania, shows a
wonderful increase in population. In 1850,
it had only 2.O02, while now, in 1860, it has
1851, an increase in the last ten years of
5,559.
B6Az 1t is rumored that Alfred ". Hicks,
who was ostcnsibly executed for piracy on
Bedloes Island on the 18th of last July, is
still living, though ir dangerous state, hav-
ing been resuscitated and brought back to
life by means of the electro-chemical bath.
nEnsA \ correspondent of the New York
Tribune, who processes to have the best OPP
portunities of knowing what Mr.. w B. Astor
is actually worth, states that his property
cannot fall dollar short of $40, 900 900, and
that its annual increase is about So 900 900.
Ia The following may be found in one of
the church yards of Pennsylvania:
''Weep. stranger, for father spilled
Fro III a stage-coach and thereby killed:
Hisname was John Sykes, a maker of sasseu-
gers,
Slain with three other outside passengers"
ncA.T There is a woman in Paris, Kentucky.
who has not been church for forty years,
and the reason she gives is, that people now
a-days go to church to look at each Others
fine clothes and show their own. whereas,
when she was young, they went there to pray
and hear preaching
mSEA- Mr.. Joel Belyiew, Georgia planter,
who some weeks since offered to bet $40 900
that one of his negroes could make Heenan,
the HIttite, cry Peccdrj in twenty-four feet
ring, has come ont with Same omount