Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-04-19
EVERYBODY'S COLUMN.

WE should like 70 know how the world
can 1cag without tail.
EARN money, save money, and you
will have money.
THE Democratic State Convention OF
Ohio, will meet at Columbus, on the 24th
of May.
e5- Iowa city, Iowa, has gone Demo-
cratic by about 100 majority-a large
gain. Omaha, Nebraska, ditto.
II is said that everything in nature has
its equivalent but we know of nothing
that is equal to woman's curiosity.
THE Democrats of Dayton, Ohio, cleo
ted their candidate for Mayor. Dayton
is the home of Hon G. l.. Valandigham.
ca Aurora, Ill, formerly ''Republi-
can" stronghold, has chosen a Democrat
ic Mayor. The issue was Johnson and
! Anti-Johnson.
ez-A young widow who edits a paper
in a neighboring State says: eve do not
look as well as usual to-day on account Of
| the non-arrival of the mails
| COUNTERFEIT currency, to the face val
ue of two hundred and ninety dollars,
were branded at the Treasury Department
| during last week.
! An editor in Iowa has become so hol
low from depending upon the printing
| business alone for bread, that he proposes
to sell himself for stove pipe at three
cents foot.
"THANK God that have got my nat
back from this congregation - said a dis
appointed clergyman, turning it upside
down, when it was returned empty to him
at the close of contribution.
THERE is a man in the West who has
moved so often, that whenever a covered
wagon comes near his house, his chickens
all march up and fall on their backs,
cross their legs, ready to be tied and car
ried to the next stopping place.
Ten years ago one barrel Of petroleum
week, or fifty barrels year would
overstock the market. Now, more than
two million barrels year are an insffi-
cient supply.
A machine for making ice has been
invented in London, which will produce
eleven pounds of ice in an hour, at a cost
of not more than half cent per pound
This is cheaper than the natural article
is furnished in most places.
Ok the 18th ult one hundred and fifty
negroes at Panama attempted to get up a
revolution, but were surrounded by troops
and ''shot down like sheep" Twenty-Five
or thirty were killed and one hundred
made prisoners.
MANY years ago DR.. Bradbury preach
ed the funeral sermon of lady, and after
summing up her virtues and good quail
ties, added-''she always sewed the but
tons on her husbands shirt, scittom gyuna-
Ji,ng."
WhatN lesson for wives
The BEAUTY OF HEAvEN-A little
Swedish girl was walking with her father
one night, under the starry sky, intently
meditating upon the glories of heaven.
AT last, looking up TO the sky, she said: :
T'Father, | have been thinking if the
wrong side of heaven is SO beautiful, what
viii the right side be?"
e. The President submitted graceful
ly TO the action Of the Senate in igno-
ring his veto. That is more meekness
than the radicals evinced when he veto
ed their Freedmen's Bureau Bill They
couldn't contain their wrath, but spurn-
ed him and denounced him as a traitor.
betrayer and a despot.
FORTUNE plays some queer pranks.
One occurred to a poor widow woman,
who did washing for a living in Pithole.
She owned small piece of ground, and
some friends got her consent to sink well
upon it, the result of which is a barrel Of
oil every ten minutes. She has had sew
eral offers of matrimonial engagement
from disinterested parties, since.
THE conservative Republicans propose
holding a State Convention at Pittsburgh. in
July, for the nomination of State ticket.
1t is believed by many that a movement
of this sort will be sustained by very
large portion of the voters who have CO.
operated with the Republican party dur
ing the last six years.
LET white voters remember, that when
the Presidents veto message was being /
read in the Senate, the white men cheered |
and the negroes Kissed. The white gal !
Ieries were Immediately cleared and the |
negro galleries were not disturbed. The |
whites were turned out and the negroes
were suffered to remain An Abolition
Senate thus showed that it considered a |
negro entitled te more respect than a white
man. !