The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-03-21
i0cal AND PERSONAL.

comins-gentle Spring.
Tho oil fever is raging violently in In
diana county.
JohnstoWn'
NH Tbo coolest thing of the season-the
weather. just now.
Rbev's furnace, Johnstown, is to be put
:, aperation in short time.
Who has tour volume entitled "Old
usnsey ?v The person in whose posses
:,a f now is will confer Il favor by re-
.,-uiug it to this Office.
Owen Cunningham, son of John Gun
.;ogbam, of Susquehanna township, had
Ii. leo fractured on Monday by being run
cer By wagon
What has become of our Johnstown
respondent? We hope you are not go
;rr TO sesesh, Yoder. Let US hear from
ru soon, and oblige, &c.
We have received the April number Of
r,lav's Ladys Book. 1t is filed to over
sowing with the choicest literary matter,
md the engravings are uuapproachable.
Subscribe for it,
George Talbot, convicted Of burglary at
CIR recent Quarter Sessions, and sentenced
| to four years Imprisonment in the West
sp Penitentiary, was removed thither on
Monday by Deputy Sheriff VIM. Linton.
Peterson's Magazine for April is on our
table. The chief engraving-"The Lion
| in Love"-is magnjfquc, and the reading
matter is as usual intensely interesting
Every lady should subscribe for it.
The annual contest between the Mathe-
t,on and Ereuneteon Literary Societies Of
ElIersrdge Academy, Indiana county,
vii be held at that place on Thursday
evening, 18th inst. These performances
are always of superior character, and
| are well attended by visitors,
The celebrated trotting horse, Tacony,
hrnerlv owned il JohnstoTn, was recent
II sold in Cincinnati for one thousand
blars. He has beaten Flora Temple
tree times, and was once sold for the
aadsome sum of seventy-seven hundred
dollars.
In the case of the Commonwealth VS..
Peter Rager and Elizabeth Gray, convie-
ted of adultery, a motion in arrest Of
rigment was argued before Judge Tay-
hr last week The case has been contin-
usd until the Argument Court, 3D. April,
at which time his Honor will announce
bis decision
Mr. Evan e. Evans, the energetic pro-
pTetor Of the news depot down town, in
6rms US that he is prepared to accommo-
hte the reading public with the Pittsburg
Daily Dispatch at the low price of six
Gat per week. Those who wish to be
Fsted on the great questions of the day
aould leave their names at his establish
nent.
Aparty of young men and ladies, re-
aiing il the neighborhood of Livermore,
hetmoreland county, recently tarred and
iathered young man Of that town for
sans offensive language concerning them.
justice to the ladies, we would state
an the tar and feathers were applied to
le coat, weskit and netherloons Of the
Tatm.
Au estimable woman, named Mrs.
4Urey, wife Of HIr. Charles r. Mercy,
Altoona, died suddenly at that place on
Sunday evening. While in attendance
public worship, she was attacked with
severe fit OF coughing, and leaving the
aFeh, she proceeded to a house near by.
leIe she expired in about ten minutes.
aF disease was chronic affection of the
TART
Dr. Peter Flanagan, respected citizen
VarFoil township, died at his residence
Friday, at the advanced age of SO
as Mr.. Joseph Tierney died at his
@aence in Cambria township the same
y at the good old age of 76 years.
's'e men both belonged to the class of
.aeers who pitched their tents in Cam
ID county when it was a bowling will
+uess, and, Notwithstanding difficulties
hangers, hewed out homes for them
"'s and families. Our first settlers are
sng away.
AZ oil spring, not unlike in appearance