Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-06-14
News Items.

Last Sunday afternoon the treasury q.
Green Lake County, Wisconsin, was rCb-
bed of S60,000.
@r Seventy-fve clerks viii be d..
charged from the Quartermaster-Gep-
ais office this month in consequence g
the rapid decrease in business.
e. \ contract has been awarded fr
tri-weekly mail service from Virginia Civ
Nevada, to Boise City, Idaho, for fyr
years, at SO, 900 per annum.
eT A young lady named Busner, lfyfi1,
in Springfield, Illinois, was shot and XII,
ed on the Sth ult. by two boys, who were
carelessly handling loaded gun.
IN Durham, Maine, some scounIr,,
entered the barns of several citizens and
cut the throats of more than twenty borss
and oxen, leaving them dead in the stalls
GA warrant was issued on Welae-
day, by United States Commission Bot,
of New York, for the arrest of William
/ II. Roberts, the President Of the Eenial
Brotherhood.
The ship Syren, which arrived at New
York on Monday from Liverpool, repg-s
having been brought to by shot frUms
British war vessel off Bantry Bay, All
subjected to an examination as TO her b.
ligerent character.
81 General Santa Anna and lis sai.s
arrived in New York on Wednesday o.
last week and took up their residence IN
the mansion prepared for them in Wla
Twenty fifth street, near Fifth avenue.
Ok Monday, May %, whale was
captured in the bay at Somer's Pom.
The fish was twenty-siX feet long and tal
feet across, and it yielded about one hun
dred gallons of oil, of the finest quality
A LADY friend tells US that the hair
can be made TO ''crimp" much more read
lily by rolling it in strips of the New YoTk
Tribune. When one of Summers speeches
is used the hair curls like that Of negro
TIE military departments Of Tennessee
and Kentucky have been discontinued,
and the two States now constitute usw
department under the name of the Cum
berland. General George StOaeman IS
the new department commander.
LYCouuNG CoUNrY.-The WilliamspoH
Gazette says: The large brewery es,eb-
lishment known as ''Buehler's' located IN
the northeastern part of the city, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 10Th.
The inundation in Louisiana, and tie
loss and distress consequent thereon, do
not appear to be abated. The Ouachita,
Atchafalapa and Red Rivers form one
vast ocean. Crevasses are still breaking
in every part of the Mississippi leyees
| IN disinterring the Federal dead, near
Resaca, Tenn, recently, a body, exciting
attention from It's small feet, t,was found
to be n woman, shot through the head
The supposed name WAS Charles JONES
boro, company Z, Sixteenth Missouri yo-
unteers.
TIE ship Artesian, while loading
New Orleans, on Saturday last, with cot
ton, was struck by lightning, and her car9o
was partially destroyed, and the vessel
herself sunk. The estimated value Of Tie
cargo was S4OO, 900, which viii prove
nearly a total loss.
There is a great oil excitement 1t Both
well, Canada. The Rock River well Is
flowing at the rate of one hundred barrels
a day, and the Wentworth well twenty
five barrels Other companies have made
large strikes. During the week entn,
May 26, 1,21S barrels of oil were shipped
ey A decision has recently been render
ed in the Superior Court in Buffalo, Nes
York, by which the sum of St42, 80 was
recovered from party of gamblers IN IL
vor of a young man named Stevenson w-o
had been enticed into a farOden where lie
had lost heavily.
A DARKEY ''citizen' has brought SUI
under the ''civil rights" bill against ts
owner of a western steamer for refusing
to allow him state-room passage. l1s
injured cit lays his damages at several
thousand dollars. He deserves some dam
ages, but they ought to be given IN so1'
other form.
''SATAN WILL SOON APPEAR n YoIE
MIDST i"-Placards with this startling an
nouncement were posted on all the ''d'al
WALL in Charleston, one night last WeaS
The news created some uneasiness, 0l'
the editor Of the Courier seems to preserve
his equanimity. He says:
''The placard is behind the time a0l
behind the truth. Satan is already among
us, though it may be he has put on c-'''
ical costume, and is modestly preaching
to the freedmen on the question of way
and means
1t is proposed by the admirers Of VIZ
liam Lloyd Garrison to present him my
thousand dollars Chief Justice Chase
heads the list with large subscripi0a
Garrison is the known author of the sen,
timent ''The Constitution of the Und,1
States is a covenant with death ard a'
agreement with He'll" Mr.. Chase's SUD
scription may therefore be regarded as D.,
tokening his appreciation of the sacred, Sacred,
necs and vaIua of tho SfIDreme law. lie