The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1867-03-07

A9r Gold is quoted at 13s.
Ea@ New advertisements this week.
Ray Reading matter on every page.
16r Illinois has-abolished capital punish
ment.
pg@ DeBow, the rebel statistical Longbow,
is dead.
B@- The notes of the .blue-bird will fall
due soon.
B6~ R. G. Taylor has been appointed P.
NJ. for Indiana boro.
+ .Bsgr The impeachment investigation did
not amount to much.
Bss~ General Burnside has been nominated
for Governor of Rhode Island.
RG~ A fve-twenty bond is good, but a
fve-twenty blonde is better.
BG- Artemus Ward is sick nigh unto
death at Southampton, England.
bJ- The stormy March has come at last.
1t is hoped it has not come to last.
19~ 1t is an ice thing to see the ground
frozen over, as now, but i: is not nice
thing.
BH~ They are going to build market
house, an engine house and town hall in
Huntingdon.
pA~ The bridge across the Juniata river
at Hopewell, Bedford county, was swept away
by the late flood.
Bas~ u S. Senator Salisbury signed the
temperance pledge Saturday night, and broke
it early Sunday morning.
RG Professor Bache, for many years Su-
perintenden: of the Coast Survey, died at
Newport, R. l., on the 18th ult.
burg intend erecting a large nail factory at
that place the coming summer.
B9~ The Harris burg papers want another
penitentiary in Pennsylvania, and want it
built at Harrisburg. Of course.
Bar Horace Greeley, the negro, tried and
convicted of the murder of Rhett in Charles
ton, S. c., was hanged on the lst.
Da~ A contemporary says that Andy John.
SON has sacrificed "almost every tie" He
has sacrificed his political honesty.
BaT A tribe of the Improved Order of Red
Men and a division of Sons of Temperance
have been organized in huntingdon.
16r Some weeks ago, we thought the
Pittsburg Dispatch good paper. 1t has just
cut US off its exchange list, and we now know
it is nothing to brag of.
R9~ The temperance convention held at
Har risburg on Tuesday of last week was well
attended. Its proceedings were marked by
earnestness and harmony.
EJ At the election for Mayor of George
town, D. c., on Mo onday of last week, 93l
negroes and 1856 whites voted. The radical
candidate was successful.
RGP The attempt to pass the bill admit
ting Colorado into the Union over the Presi-
dents veto was defeated in the Senate on
Friday by a vote of % to ls.
R6- The tenure of Office bill was vetoed
by the President on Saturday, and the same
day it was passed over his veto by more than
two-thirds of both houses of Congress.
H9- A reward of $500 was red by the
Commissioners of Huntingdon county for
the arrest of Matthews, the barn-burner and
horse-shooter. The money has been paid
over to Messrs. Piper and Lutz.
Ea~ The dwelling house of Franz Manch-
er, in Hollidaysburg, was broken into and
robb ed of some money and some wearing ap-
parel and bed clothes few nights since. A
tobacco shop in the same place was also de-
spoiled of lot of cigars.
Rss~ The King of Belgium is reported to
have closed a recent conversation on Mexico
with distinguished English army off Ger by
this remark: SIN short, what can be done
with a country where the flowers are without
odor, the fruit without flavor, the women
without modesty, and the men without hon
or"
Ba5@ There was "Topsey" in the police
court in Detroit, last Friday, in the shape of
a colored girl who was called to take the
witness stand. She surveyed the witness box
few moments, and after mounting the high
est portion of it that she could find, directed
the court to "go ahead wild de sale," evil
IDENTIFY supposing that she was to be sold.
EEl51 "The AUeghdnian says the first nine
of the Enterprise Base Bail Club of Ebens-
burg intend signalling the opening of the
spring campaign by making extensive pro-
fessioRal tour westward .''-HoH. Stan.
The Enterprise Base Ball Club spoken of
is Pittsburg institution, and not an Ebens-
burg. The Standard has been somewhat
1mixed" of late.
B2- "Apropos of the rage for getting our
coal by weight: Many years ago, when near
ly the whole supply of our coal was brought
from the Blacklick region, where the coal is
purer but lighter than elsewhere, the tCity
Fathers adopted resolutions that all coal
should be weighed before delivery, on our
weigh scales. The Blacklick trade at once
ceased" &c.-Freendn.
Which is the heavier-a pound of lead or
a pound of feathers
Ba5" Governor Swami, lately elected q. s.
Sc nator from Maryland by very questionable
means, has resigned that Office. The cause
of his resignation is given as follows-if he