The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-12-03
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS.

e EES SlVO, 600 fee was lately given a
! New York lawyer.
Ra- Hon. Harry White, of Indiana, is a
candidate for the nomination of Governor
BS~ Velocipedes have made their appear
ance on the streets of New York.
Bs2s@ The "Grant hat" has already appeared
on the Promenade in New York
BSs~ On dit, that Ledger Bonner is going
to give Dexter to Gen. Grant
Bag~"The -4Heghanian-it envies us-;t
scoffs at our years--it plagiarises upon us =
justice to the poet."-Erceman.
Bf35~ The Freeman-it maligns us-it dis
gusts its readers-it commits an unwarranta-
BILE assault on us-justice to everybody.
RE~The freeman says it would not willful-
ly publish a falsehood. 1t wouldn't willfdily
publish anything else.
BaF The pedestrian Payne last week, at
Buffalo, walked leo miles in 80 hours, 30
min utes, and 81 seconds.
BSs~ Dan Rice has retired from the saw
dust arena, and intends entering the field of
rural journalism.
RS5n The Pittsburgh Commercial will issue
seventy-two column holiday number in a
few days.
By@ letter addressed to the 'sPrettiest
lady in Altoona" is awaiting claimant in
the post office of that place
ES@ The editor of the Freeman, by his own |
aYowal, was at one time Jog-ant He got |
over it, though,
Bely~ After the first of January, 1869, appli-
cants must pay fifty per cent. of their indebt-
ednesE to receive discharge under the
Bankrupt law
BE- Autographed likenesses of all the
officers ofthe Pennsylvania railroad, grouped
on single sheet, have been issued by Phil
adelphia firm.
HGs~ J. Edgar Thompson, President of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has been
brought out as a candidate fo- United States
Senator.
b. Somebody in Vernon, Conn, voted
the following ticket: "For President of the
United ,5tates-the Lord Jesus Christ, King
of Kings and Lord of Lords"
GsF- Felix Larkn, noted sporting man,
and the hacker of the prize-fghter OBald-
win, was killed in a bar-room row in New !
1
B97@ 1t is said that Gen Grant is likely.
IN his first message, to advocate such an
amendment of the Constitution as shall make
the President ineligible to reelection
BaS~ The daughters of the late Chief Jus T
tice Taney, it is said, earn their living in
Washington by copying reports and papers
for the Secretary of the Interior. I
B3s~ The fossil remains of monster ante
diluvian lizard, discovered in New Jersey, Z
have been set up in the Philadelphia Acade
my of Sciences. They are thirty feet long,
and attract great attention.
BsE@ There is an old woman in PittsfeId,
Me-, 90 years old, who sews, knits, and reads Y
readily, without the aid of spectacles. and
milks COW twice Il day. She says the "gals
nowadays amt worth much"
BSsS- Mr. Ellis, proprietor of saloon in
Cincinnati, has the first greenback issued bv
the Government. 1t is No. l, A series, sign b
ed in Chase's own handwriting, and in good G.
preservation. lie received it at his bar. and II
has refused $50 for it. c.
BG~The editor of the freeman saws TINT u
The -4Heghanidn has ''backed down from its
u.
Haviers." We never made a charge against
St. Aavier-our readers will bear US out in ;,
he assertion. i
BsS~T The editor of the freeman says that u
vc have sneered ut his ''reigious convictions" f
This is simply false. We have nothing to do IL
With his ''religious convictions"--dout know n
What they are-don't care what they are d
ion't believe he's got any, a
Be3S- Gen Grant owns $50, ,ooo house in
Washington, and farm of thirty eight acres, ;,
worth $4,000 per acre, within the city Ii m ;;
is. His real estate at st. Louis, Galena, :,
nd Philadelphia is worth 500, 900 more, f,
I'D $3OG,OO0 is said to be fair estimate of b
lis "total valuation" c]
E4g- venerable Democrat in Madison. \
indiana, is grieyed soreIy at having given n
is son an education. 81 have ten sons II
rown,p says he, ''and all of 'em vote the o.
Gmocratic ticket but one.i | spilled him by q
giving him an education, and so he is Re- 10
ublican and votes aginst the Dimocrats.~ "
EG9~ The Feeeman says that it offered to bet o,
> $500 a couple of weeks ago, because it .,
new, OF thought it knew, we couldn't raise su
nough money IL accept the wager. No it
fered to bet from purely ymercenary motives S;
"a desire to array certain religious class b;
gainst US and make them its own exclusive ey
lends. &c
fo
say~ II. Rives Pollard, editor of the ~
outhern Opinion newspaper in Richmond, on
a., was shot and killed near his Office on in
tuesday, of last week by James Grant. The | or
huse of the shooting was the publication by as
olard of article rejecting on a member tn