Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-08-02
News Items.

diana, that stands lire Ike real splrlt.
a GIRL of fourteen has been abducted
from Lafayette. Indiana, by a scissor grim
der
MORE than 1,5OO,O 900 human beings
derive their sole support from the culture
and manufacture of the fibres spun by the
silkworm.
A LAD in Jersey City, died Thursday
while under the influence Of chloroform,
administered by surgeon.
SEVEN cases and four deaths by chol-
era were reported in New York city, Ju-
ly 9th, and five deaths in Brooklyn.
NEARLY 15, 900 have been added to
the population of Galveston since the war
New YORK is to have a great billiard
tournament in September.
FIVE only of thirty-fve safes in the
Portland ruins have proved safe.
The Atlantic Telegraph hopes to tax
the press to the tune of $4,000 per an
mum.
AT Grand Junction, Miss a woman
wing interfered in a bar-room quarrel, was
shot through the heart.
w. II. Fulmer was drowned in the Ju-
niata, near Watsontown, on the 18th inst.
THE barn belonging to Mrs. Blame, in
Montour county, was struck by lightning
on Sunday last and burned, together with
its contents.
THERE are now five persons in Jail at
York charged with the murder of the
Squibb family, near that place, in Jnne
last
GEORGE SIGLER, an old and respectable
citizen of Juniata county, died suddenly
on the 17th instant.
THE store of p. +. Loop, in Lewisburg,
was robbed on the DIST
Hon THOMAS WHITE, of Indiana,
died at his residence in that place on the
22d
OrTo WEsrFALL and John FahncstOck
were killed on the 23d, near Greensbu~g,
by the explosion of the boiler Of loco
motive engine.
Ok Sunday morning week last. the barn
Of Mir. Simon UncapheT, in Green coun-
ty, was totally destroyed by fire, together
with all his farming utensils, and a large
quantity of hay and grain.
a FEARFUL accident occurred at Bid
wells pIow factory, Pittsburgh, on Mon
day afternoon. A man named James
Dunning, was adjusting a belt over q pull
", when his arm became entangled in the
machinery, and he was drawn TO the cell
ing with fearful velocity, and then dashed
to the floor. Both arms and his back
were broken and one leg so severely crush
ed as to render amputation necessary.
The injured man died soon after the am
putation was performed.
A MAN in Jersey City, while asleep in
a chair near an open window, tumbied
out ard was killed.
THERE are 7,449 Odd Fellows in Cali
fornia They own thirty halls, valued at
$500, 900, and other property valued at
S5OO,O0O.
The store of Hunsicker & Mullen, at
Forreston, Illinois, was struck by light
ming last week, and Mr.. Mullen was IN
stantly killed.
4 GENTLEMAN of Ohio has an eve on
" six years old, which has yielded him
sixteen lambs, all of which were raised.
Mir HORACE b CLAFIIN, the New
York merchant, returns the comfortable
income for the year 1865 of one million
two hundred and ninety thousand dollars
(ccnts not counted), or $4,000 per day.
THE Atlanta, Ga, Era says, 'thc
South most earnestly desires peace.
Whatever she can do to restore harmony
and promote the well being of the people
that she will do"
DURING one of the late hot days bug
gy was set on fire in Baldwinsville, New
| York, by bottle which was lying in th'
! bottom of it, and which acted like bur
ming glass.
THERE is a postoffice in McDonougl
County, Illinois, through which only tw
letters passed each quarter for the las
two quarters They consisted of the cor
respondence between the postmaster an
the Department
a MAN painting the cornice of hous
in Hartford, few days since, fell fror
the ladder and it was supposed that h
was badly hurt. Immediately after til
fall a young man ran to the store to inforr
the painter of the misfortune that ha
overtaken his workman. The ''boss" lis
tened to the telling description Of the fal
and with the ruling passion strcng in hin
asked anxiously, ''Dfd he spill his paint =?
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