Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1860-03-21
CLIPPINGS.

III ~ SCOlis
the Pennsylvania Railroad. has been appoin-
ted to the Vice Presidency of the Company.
Enoch Lewis. late Superintendent of the
Western Division. has received The appoint
ment to the place made vacant By the promo
tiOn of Mr.. Scott.
1t is now stated that Congress viii ad
journ. or practically do 10 business for an
entire month, beginning about the 10Th of
April. and ending about the 10Th of May
Corporal John Keefer. proprietor of the
Logan House, Holli1aysburg, died on Friday
morning last after brief illness. Corp K.
served gallantly as a. volunteer in the Mexican
war, aud was man of warm feeling and gen.
erous impulses His renains were inferred
with millita.y hOnors-
The Mormons now number one hundred
and twenty thousand. including good. bad
Indifferent. The number in Utah is put down
at thirty eight thousand. Of these, four
thousand six hundred and seventeen men have
sixteen thousand Eve hundred wives.
Andrew Jackson writes TO the Governor
of Tennessee to say that 1t was the dying re-
quest of his father. that his remains and those
of his wife should be permitted to rest in
peace at the Hermitage. Mr.. JackseD. there
fore, protests against the Ect Of the Legisia-
ture for their removal
The Pennsylvania Rai7road.-The stock
holders Of the Pennsylvania Railroad held
an election in Philadelphia, for directors on
Monday. The following gentleman were cio-
sen members of the board. j. Edgar Tbomp-
son, Washington Butcher. VIM. r. Thomp-
son, Josiah Bacon, Thomas Mellon. John
Hulme. G. D. Rosengarten, Wister Morris.
G. W. Cas-. Pittsburgh; ". Il. Smith, Pitts
burgh.
CLARK B Cochrane, NJ. c., from n. Y
is again in the State Lunatic Asylum of New
York.
The number of convictions under the
licence law, last week, in Philadelphia, was
sixty-nine, and the aggregate amount of fines
S4.962.
The Chicago Times CIr. Douglass or
gam of the morning after the election, has
the following ruefully comic notice:
Notice TO Befters-All persons who have
claims against persons in this Office for boots
hats, caps, coats, aud various other things
in the way of wearing apparel, lost by Us,
and Won by them; on the late election, are
notified to apply on Monday next, in the fore
noon, between the hours of 10 and IL o'clock.
To prevent confusion, our friends will ap-
proach the Office from Washington street,
and return by Madison street"
The Pembertoa NaLs--The proprietors an
nonuce that this ill-fated establishment will
be re built at once, aud viii manufacture the
same description OF goods as heretofore The
proprietOrs should adopt deaths head and
crossbones as trade Eark
4 Sharp Transact ION. An exchange pa
per states that fellow In Venango county.
proftted in the following manner by the oil
excitement now prevailing SO extensiv ely in
the western and no.th- western part OF this
State. He bored . hole in his land, poured
barrel OF oil in it, aud then called his neigh
bors to see the large yield. The result was
that he sold his land for two thousand in cash,
pocketed the money, oiled his boots, and
slid"
Crops an Tt.cas.-The planting of corn
and vegetables in Texas is rapidly progress
ing. and nearly finished. In the lower aud
western counties, corn Is already up. in Mid
de and Eastern Texas. the ground has been
in fine condition, and has been broken Up
more easily and deeply than usual
Mrs. Elizabeth Crockett, widow of Davy
| Crockett, member of Congress from Tennes-
see. and the hero of the Alamo, died on the
I'd inst, of apOplexy, in the 74th year of her
age Mrs Crockett had lived for several
years in johnson county, Texas, and a most
| estimable aud amiable woman
"A new effort is being made to place Jo-
/ seph Smith, Jr., at the head of the Mormon
/ church. \ delegation of Mormons from
| Salt Lake was recently at Nauyoo, to that
/ end
"A suit involving the title to the whole
city of San Francisco, is to be CONNER ced
in the Supreme Court at Washington on the
first Monday in April next The claim is
made under a Mexican grant to a Catholic
priest. and the case rests upon the question