The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-11-19
EDIToRfAL ETcHIHGS.

banker, is dead -,.~~~------------
BaF Game is said to be plenty in this
neighborhood.
his European tour. aEFE
~ Rossini, the great composer, died in
Paris on Saturday. @7fa.
IA Letter, carriers in the large cities are
to be uniformed. aet Won
Eg The weather-wise predict a hard win
ter and plenty of it.
gy The Pennsylvania Railroad last year
Carried 1,68O,72 tons of bituminous coal.
w A flIibustering expedition to operate
against Cuba is said to be fitting out in New
York.
neg Since the new weigh scales went
down, coal in our market is said to have
gone up.
HG Altoona had torchlight proc ession,
and Tyrone barbecue, over the election of
Grant and Colfax.
R~ A railroad from Huntingdon to Johns
town, via Williamsburg and Newry, is talked
lof
B@ We had some glimpses of Indian
Summer the beginning of this week, but they
have fed.
BS~ Our coal merchants formerly sold coal
by the bushel, but now they sell It by the
weigh.
/ R6g man named John Dearr was shot
md instantly killed by William Groves, in
remperanceville, Allegheny county, on Sat
lrday.
BGE The newspapers busily engaged
| il constructing cabinet for General Grant.
The General will construct cabinet to suit
himself in his own good time.
RSP General Grants first order as Presi-
dent elect is that all begging letters sent him
| fom now till the 4th of March shall be de-
| sroyed.
| BagH A druggists clerk in Philadelphia
put atrophia belladona into prescription
Instead of assafetida, one day last week
RESULT: a woman poisoned to death.
Bsg% Hon. Edward Mcpherson has settled
up the estate of the late Hon. Thaddeus Ste
vfns, and finds that about 100000 Will re-
min after the payment of the debts.
ea@ Colonel Drake, who sank the first oil
well on Oil Creek, and gave the world the
beleft of his discovery, is living in extreme
| destitution in Titusville.
Bsy The National army, according to the
| last report of the Adjutant General, is COM
| posed of 43, TAI men, white and black, COM
| missioned and non-commissioned officers.
--Thz-fAmes of H. D. Strang, of Tioga,
George Wilson, of Allegheny, and A. ]. Herr,
| of Dsuph;n, are mentioned in connection with
| the Speakership of the next House of Repre-
sensatives.
R9~ s'The newspapers have you married,
| as well as chosen Vice President" said
| friend TO Mr.. Speaker Colfa1 the other day.
/. aElected, but not yet sworn in, in either
c.se," was the reply.
| RHp Where, oh where is Wallace 1t is
now some two weeks since the election, and
he hasn't yet issued an address to the De-
| nocracy claiming large gains throughout the
State. One blast upon his bugle horn might
be worth a thousand men.
BE- convention of Fenians is to be held
in Philadelphia on the oath inst. 1t is said
that every State in the Union, Canada, Aus
| tralia, Central and South America, France,
England, and Ireland will he represented
| thercat.
| Rag@ a New York Life Insuran ce Company
has offered Gen. Robert f. Lee situation as
! supervisor of Southern agencies, at salary
of $4,000. Jefferson Davis is now drum
mer for great London cotton house. To
what base uses may we come at last
nGge Hon. Charles Francis Adams made
lludicrous mistake at the polls at Quincy,
Mass, on the 81 inst. by voting receipted
bill instead of written ballot. Being al
lowed to correct, he voted the Republican
Electoral and the Democratic State tickets.
Bs~ A verdant youth, who desired to know
how to become rich, sent twenty-five cents
in answer to an advertisement, and received
this valuable advice: "Increase your re-
ceipts and decrease your expenses. Work
eighteen hours day, and live on herring and
/ oatmeal"
nAg A good example for American courts
and juries to follow has just been given in
the Papal States, where sentence of FIVE
years to the galleys has been passed on the
station master of a railway terminus for CIV
ing orders whereby two trains came in col
lisiou, causing the death of five persons.
Ra- Two weeks ago, the Freeman made
promises of reformation, and threatened to
metamorphose itself into not only pleasant
companion to mechanics, farmers, and labor
ers, but also and at the same time into fit-
ting instructor to their sons and daughters.
And here, only last week, its editor offered,
through the most conspicuous column of the
paper, to enter into a bet of $5Oo A pretty
| rinstructor," truly