The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-01-24
EDIT0RlAL ETCHINGS.


Snow ten feet deep. Dye see the drift ?
k-Johnstown is talking of erecting water
wrks
r-All the railroads in the country were
cleed by the late storm.
President Johnson's faYorite ejaculation:
"Mg Ts."
What is the weight of fool? A simple
ton.N
4 good paper, and good time to read
good paper--Saturday Night
-Doesticks (Mortimer Thompson) is a
reporter on the New York Tribune.
Governor Geary's official majority was
17,178.
They have got an Equal Rights League
in Johnstown.
ed and improved.
-Gowan, the renegade, has been appoin-
ted Minister to Austria by A. ].
Preacher Beecher is writing novelet for
the New York Ledger.
Somebody calls Mrs. E. D. E. N. South
worth Mrs. Alphabet Southworth.
n The business done in the article of lum-
ber has been larger in Ebensburg this winter
than during any preceding one.
For stew of the freshest and fattest of
fresh, fat oysters-go to Bob. Thomas, on
High street.
Broad street in Philadelphia is ten miles
long, with uniform width of 113 feet, and
is straight as an arrow.
JEFF. Davis was presented with cane the
other day. He ought to have been presen-
sented with the mark of Cain.
The Wisconsin Legislature has passed
resolution requesting Senator Doolittle to
resign.
The salary of Rev. B. L. Agnew, pastor
of the Presbyterian church in Johnstown,
has been raised from 81, 200 to $1,000 per
year.
-'New occasions teach new duties" TIE
new occasion of the re-establishInent of The
AUeghaniaH teaches the new duty of subscri-
bing thereto.
-Surratt, one of the assassination con-
spirators, who was arrested ir Egypt three or
four weeks ago, is expected to arrive in New
York shortly.
Since the late destructive fire in Johns
town, the people down there demand a steam
fire engine. That's always the way the fire
first, and the engine afterward.
"A new educational monthly, to be-called
the Teachers AdUocate, is to be started in
Johnstown shortly, with Messrs. J. F. Condor
and I. j. Chapman as editors.
"A young man named Chauncey F. Page,
residing near Valparaiso, Ind, killed his
wife, her mother, and another WON an, few
days ago.
We would like to have local CORES
pondent in every town and township in the
county. Who wants to achieve an enviable
reputation at small expense?
In the reelection of Hon. Jas W. Nye
to the U. S. Senate, the people of Nevada
have shown that they have Nye to their
own interests
Honesty is the best policy, but a fire
insurance policy isn't a bad thing to have
about the house. Insure in the Protection
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Cambria
county.
John II. Bowman, Esq, formerly Assis-
tant Assessor of Internal Revenue for Johns
town and vicinity, who was displaced by
Douglas B. Wright in November last, has been
re-appointed to tLst position.
Two former Ebensburgers are members
of the lower branch of the present State
Legislature-Hon Samuel c. Wingard, from
the Lycoming district, and Hon. Peter f.
Collins, from the Schuylkill district.
The Blairsville Nev Era ''bursted'' some
time ago, was sold at Sherif's sale to r. NJ
Birkman, and is now published by that gen
tleman under the name, style and tile of the
Blairsville Press.
The meanest man on record is supposed
to have been him who, on being invited to
''im bibe," said he didn't feel like drinking,
but if it made no difference he'd take the
price of the fluid in postage stamps
-;'Love letters How to write them"-is
the title of an edictive sketch going the
rounds of he newspapers. Our advice would
be to write them with lead pencil-that
they may rub out.
james Stephens, the c. 0. 1. R., ICON
temptible odious Irish renegade,) who was
to, but didn't, inaugurate rebellion in Ire
land before the beginning of the present
year, 10 ealu 70 oe yeI PROVING AROUND tne
purlieus of New York.
Horace Greeley is now being tried for
murder in Charleston, S. G. In this in
stance, h. G. is not the white-coated phi
losopher of the N Y. Tribune, but negro
charged with the murder of the notorious
Barnwall Rhett.
-Apropos of the contested election case
Of Glass Linton: