The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-05-24
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BE- Makes good promenaue-the plank
! road.
Be- Makes a good serenade-the Cali
thumpian" band.
! EGy~ Indiana is infested with housebreakers
and cellar thieves.
| eEAs The famous comet of Charles V, of
1858, is announced for August next.
neA. Slightly antediluvianish-the weather
! for some time past.
nsa- Come down-the price of butter, to
l23 cents per pound.
| Hsa- Townsend Harris, the American Con-
| sui General to Japan, is dead.
| g1g- Light, the aronaut, is to make an as
cension in his balloon from Bellefonte to-day.
| Gz3g- Seely, of the Bellefonte Watchman, has
been appointed Census Marshal for Centre
county.
| nSA4 The Standard states that it is current
ly reported and generally believed that the
! Tyrone Star has set to rise no more.
| BsE~ George Black, the oldest resident of
Huntingdon, died on the 18th inst. He was
almost 90 years old.
Hea- The sugar-scoop bonnets are already
going out of fashion in the east. Cause why
| they make the wearers look too old.
rsn- D. Burton Williams, formerly one of
the editors of the Hollidaysburg Register,
recently died at Little Rock, Arkansas.
gsy~ Go yourself, and take your lady with
you, to Blains if you wish to enjoy saucer
Of delicious ice-cream.
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Fettinger, in Altoona, was recently robbed of
articles TO the value of about $50.
eca. \ pike weighing s pounds, aud near
ly three feet in length, was caught il the dam
at Bla:rsyillc, last week
GEy~ The Connecticut Legislature has re-
elected Hon. Lafayette s Foster as United
States Senator.
GSEy" The population of London, at the
present time is estimated at about two and
half millions of souls, and that of Paris at
one and quarter million.
GEa. James P. Barr. editor of the Pittsburg
Post, tried last weck in the Westmoreland
county court charge of libelling James
NJ. Carpenter, and found guilty.
| la A rattlcsnake having twenty-five rat
ties and measuring nine feet was killed in
close vicinity to Youngstown, Westmoreland
county, on Monday of last week.
| nsa. 1t is stated, and we have no valid rea-
son for doubling the truth of the statement
that Irish potatoes make the very best vege-
table pills at present known.
| BG7g" The accounts furnished bv newspapers
in the various sections of the State with re-
| gard to the growing wheat crop are exceed
ingly favorable.
BsA- In consequence of the heavy rains
several slides have occurred on the line of
the Pennsylvania Railroad recently, and our
mail arrangements were materially deranged
thereby.
| Begap Isaac V. Fowler, the postmaster of New
| York city, is dcfauIter to the Government
in plain terms. stealer of the people mon
| ey-to the tune of SIZE, 900. He has fed the
country to avoid arrest.
Res5~ y prize-fght for 5000 came of near
Manchester, y. H.. the other day between
| Harry Finncgass, of Boston, and Mike Leav-
lit, of Lowell On the twenty fourth round.
| Leavitt cavcd
BE8- James ". Moorhead, Esq, for short
time past the editor of the Indiana Indepcn-
dent, has vacated the tripod. He states in
his valedictory that it is probable the publca-
ton of the epaper will be resumed in BlairsyiIlc
BEy" Mr. Jacob Closer. of Pittsburc. has in
his possession fine collection of two thous-
and rare coins, including a complete set of
American copper coinage from 1893 to 1860
and specimens of Chinese, japanese Bolivian
French, Italian and English coins
| Say@ y young poet out West, in describing
heaven, says lit is a world of bliss fenced in
with pretty girls"
| If the above he true, and we should ever be
so fortunate as to get there, we intend to ask
for permission to sleep in the fence corners.
fs:2- New and dangerous counterfeit fves
on the Commonwealth Bank of PHILADELPHIA
are eXtant. 1t is the most perfectly executed
counterfeit ever issued. The only safety for
the public is to refuse all notes of this denom
nation until new plate is issued by the bank.
| BGE~ y man named Brant, living in Shanks-
| vile, Somerset county, died week before last
from the effects of eating a large number of
hard-boiled eggs The number slowed away
IN his stomach was some fifteen or sixteen
! quite enough to defy the digestive organs of
an ostrich.
| Bsgs y man who had made a fortune by in
! dustry and close economy in n retail business
| at length retired from trade and used ia loan
has money on interest One day in midsum-
mer' friend happened to say to him: GLOW