The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-03-14
EDITORIAL ETcnINGS.
. Gold is quoted ct 135.

pg The mud is so deep in some places as
to go two feet.
rag They are talking of building town
hall and a market house in Altoona.
n9- A Fenian meeting was held in golli-
daysburg on Friday night last.
EB- Gen. Mcclellan is coming home from
Europe.
R MacShane's poems, if collected into 8
volume, would go for mere song.
B9- Mr.. Pirate semmes is editing news
paper in Memphis.
19- The mother of Hon. Geo. Taylor died
at her residence, near Shade Gap, Hunting
don county, on the 25th ult.
E5- The authorship of the Presidents
veto of the Reconstruction bill is attributed
to Hon. Jere. s. Black.
baE The Freeman thinks it unnecessary to
keep State Military Agent TT Washington.
SO think all the lawyers.
baT A young elephant passed over the
Pa. Railroad, per Adams express, one day
last week.
E1~ The nomination of G. A. Miller as
Postmaster at Huntingdon WAS rejected by
the Senate.
GS Maj. c. W. Wingard, formerly of Eb-
ensburg, has been confirmed by the Senate q
Paymaster in the regular army.
EsS- Artemus Ward, (Charles F. Browne, }
the American humorist, died in England on
the 9th instant
R5r Nothing in the columns of the Freeman
shall ever bring the blush to the cheek of
modesty. Vlde FTeenGns salatdtory.
Have you read MacShane's dream?
RE5" An Individual who is knocked down
at an election may be said to resemble the
globe, because is he not flattened at the
polls
RaF A cable dispatch brings the sad news
that DR.. Livingstone, the celebrated expIo-
rer, has been murdered by the Cafres in
Africa.
EH The design of the proposed soldiers
monument at Altoona is granite base with
ing twenty-six feet high.
BSr A couple OF fortune-telling gipsies
were in town on Monday. One was in rags,
the other was in tags-MacShane was in a
velvet gown.
Ia A late London publication argues
that Washington was born in England. Our
cousins across the sea will next be appropri-
ating Lincoln and Grant.
Bg- The Tyrone L Philipsburg railroad
is to be extended to Clearfeld. The con-
tract of the extension has been awarded to
the Messrs. Collins, of Ebensburg, who will
push the work to a speedy completion.
Ra- A bill has been presented to the State
Legislature providing for the publication of
local laws in Local papers where the laws are
to operate, and the publication of general
laws in one or more papers in each county.
1t ought to pass.
ba5- At the organization Of the new Con-
gress, John Morrissey is said to have been
the center of attraction, and when his name
was by the Clerk, hundreds arose in
their seats to catch glimpse of the battered
exponent of the Five Points Democracy.
Ea5- Col. Jacob N. Campbell, (of Johns
town, and at present Surveyor General of
the State, late Colonel of the 54th Pa. Vols,
hiss been brevetted a Brigadier General in
the United States army for gallant and meri-
torious services during the war.
EaE- The Altoona Tribune says that it is
in contemplation to open the base ball sea-
soA by grand game at that place between
the first nine of the Athletics of Philadelphia
and picked nine from the Huntingdon, Blair
and Cambria clubs. Cambria county will
take pleasure in furnishing her quota of
players for the purpose in view.
Rr "Dan Rice exhibits real live animals,
and appropriates the proceeds TO rearing a
monument to our fallen Union soldiers, " which b
is more than any of the radicals have done
yet. fireman.
At the beginning of the war, Daniel WAS
in the South and made secession speeches
Which is also more than any of the radicals
have done yet.
Ray~ "The gypsy told me nothing about
Congress, but about dogs she did tell me-
l would be in great danger from them t,pice,
she said-once from the big Barkers, and
once from Daniels whiffets and Iap-dogs." ;"
-KacShans.
Big bark ours !
By the way, were you living in Huntingdon
county at the time the gypsy cast your boro-
scope? And if so, did she say nothing about
some danger you were to be in from the
fangs of the dogs of the law? Failing in
this, she failed in everything, and her story
falls to the ground.
Bg The Johnstown Tribune, in giving q
reason for not discussing certain questions,
says:
'We have an opinion that country editors
only make asses of themselves by discussing
at length such questions OF State policy as
are always settled by those who never ask
and never care what country editors think or
print about them"
SO the Tribune, by its own showing, in
order to keep its readers from knowing it to