Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-07-26
News Items.


AFTER being bailed in half dozen
cases, G. Y. Culver, the Abolition Con-
gressman, swindler, &c, has finally been
placed in the Venango county Jail by
Thomas Hogue, of Franklin.
Mr.. p. T. BARNUM is said to be can
didate for a seat in Congress from Con-
necticut.
The grave of the gallant General Nc
Pherson is unmarked, even by a rude
headstone.
THE wife of Major General Jeff. G.
Davis fell overheard from a steamboat at
Louisville. Her husband jumped in and
saved her.
Mr.. BONNER, the proprietor of the New
York Ledger, has returned an income for
the past year of S165, ,6O9,65.
CANADIANs propose to erect monu-
ment in honor Of the volunteers who fell
at Limestone Ridge.
ONE DR.. Hale, of Rock county, Miss,
was compelled to pay S786 Sc damages.
last week, for kissing the wife of Dir.
Uavens, of the same county.
IN an old family Bible in Connecticut,
the record of birth is entered in this
wise ;-'sElizabeth Jones, born on the
Goth November, 1875, according to the
best of her recollection"
A PREPARATION of para0ine, devoid of
smell or taste, has been made, which 1t Is
said will preserve meat for an indefinite
time.
GENERAL SoLCUor has been elected Pres
ident of a New York Coal Company.
A MARBLE statute Of Washington II
wing Is to be erected in the vestibule of
the church erected as a memorial to him
in Sleepy Hollow.
n RATTLEsNAKE seven feet long was
killed on the line Of the Reno, Oil Greek
and pithole (Pa.) Railroad, few days
since.
A LIST of the prisoners confined in the
Richmond Penitentiary, by courts mar
tial, for crimes of lesser grade than muir
der, has been forwarded to President John
son at his request.
THE life-size oil paintings of General
Hancock, ordered by certain citizens of
Baltimore, is to be hung upon the walls of
the Baltimore Council Chamber.
ALEX. W. RANDALL, the new Post
master-General, was born in Montgomery
county, New \ Gork, in 1919, and is there
fore now forty-seven years of age.
TIE Newark (N. J. Courier says there
are about one thousand of the shoemakers
in that county thrown out of work by the
recent attempt of the employers TO reduce
their wages fifteen per cent.
SEVERAL New York cotton spectators
are already at Columbus, Ga, endeavor-
ing TO get hold on the forthcoming cotton
crop by offering advances freely, but plan
ters generally avoid this class of men.
GENERAL BENEDEK has informed his
subordinates that he is to be addressed in
/ all communications as "His Excellency
the Field Marshal Commander of the Ar
my" without any unnecessary titles or
high sounding phrases. His idea of sim
| p.icity is somewhat elaborate.
S. \. PIKE, of Cincinnati, has com
/ menced work upon his New York Opera
( House, which will be located in the fash
/ ionable quarter of the city. He is assist
/ cd by an Incorporated association, which
/ is pledged to aid him to the extent OF
/ S250,000.
! A NEVADA exchange states that peli-
/ can eggs, from islands in Pyramid Lake,
where they are abundant, are now in the
market at that place, at seventy-five cents
per dozen. They contain as much nutri-
mcnt as three hens eggs, and are quite as
palatable.
IL the Federal Court, recently held al
! Knoxvill, there was but one indictment
found during a session of six weeks. Al
the previous terms for the past two years
they were found by the hundred, and al
most exclusively for political offenses
TIE harvesting of the crops in the
West has caused the bottom of the grain
market in Chicago TO dorp out Mller
are grinding new wheat, and the delusior
of scacity has completely vanished
Spectators have suffered severely, as they
4 deserve to.
A SAvAN connected with the Garden o
Plants in Paris has carried three billiard
balls constantly in his bosom for the pas
seven months wrapped up in fame
walstcoat, supPosing that they were croc
odile eggs, and that they would hatch b,
that process.
THE FENIAN RAID.-The Canadian
Commission appointed to ascertain tn,
amount of injury committed during tn
late raids of the Fenians, report that il
the east it will amount to from Sl5. .OOt
to S25, 5000, and in the west from Sc, ,OOt
to $4,000.
DANGEROUS CURRENCY. is a noto
rious fact that fully nine-tenths of tn
fractional currency now in circulation ar
counterfeit. Some are artisticaIly finish
ed and we'll calculated to deceive, Will