The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-12-24
EDITORIAL ETCHIHGS.
@~ Merry Christmas !
I- Happy New Year !

the sleighing excellent.
RG~ Harrisburg claims to have doubled its
| population in the last five years.
E6g- The New York Tribune sets down
Grants popular majority at 304,79
| RS5@ The new insane asylum in Pennsylva-
MIA is to be built at Danville, and is to accom-
nodate FIVE hundred patients
E9s~ The managing editor of the New York
Tribune, John Russell Young, quite a young
man, is about to resign his position.
re- An unknown woman was found
drowned in the canal near Huntingdon on
| Wednesday of last week. She had been in
the water several days.
Eeg- Holiday excursion tickets will be is
sued the Pennsylvania Railroad on the
23d, 24tb, 25th, and Goth inst, good for re-
turn on the lst and I'd of January.
Ba5- Women in the employ of the Govern
same amount of pay men for similar work,
an enactment 10 that effect having jnst been
passed by Congress.
BSs- a little machine has been invented in
New York, termed the "adding machine
1t is claimed for it that it can add up n
column OF figures with greater dispatch than
even the "lightning calculator" and that it
cannot make mistake
b- a western farmer stopped in at
newspaper office, and seeing the immense
piles of books and newspapers around the ed
itor, said: "I am glad 1 don't have al these
to read; 1 would rather work" The editor
made no reply to this wise observation.
Gas- Senator Morrow B. Lowry has writ
ten letter in which he declares that he will
not vote dollar of the States money to ed
ucational institutions which refuse to admit
without any distinction, students of all sexes,
race or color.
Ia The grave of John Harris, the found
er of Harrisburg, is at the foot of the tree to
which he was once tied by the Indians and
fire kiEdled about him to burn him alive.
simple iron fence surrounds the grave, but
no stone or other mark is there to designate
whose remains lie beneath.
Bay A convention of the editors of Cen
| trail Pennsylvania W i'll be held the 8tk of
January next at Bellcfonte, for the purpose,
mainly of agreeing on scale of prices for
advertising and job work. The movement is
a good one, and for the general interests of
the State, an important one.
B~ a. J. Brint is a Southern poet-a
Southern Patriotic poet. He has written an
eulcgy on Stonewall Jackson; which closes
with the following touching lines
s'Not by the foeman's hand he fell,
His life they could not take;
Thank God the historic muse must tell,
He died 6y mistake"
BSg~ Gen. Grants father, Mr. Jesse Root
Grant, was brought up by the mother of the
late Gov. Tod. She wanted the two boys
both to learn trades. Grant complied with
her wishes, and learned the trade of a tam
FER She desired her son to become black
smith This fact was playfully alluded to by
him in a speech short time before his
death--but he added that he was too lazy to
acquire the trade.
ESsT" All persons awaiting themselves of the
privilege afforded by the bankrupt law of
March 2. 1867, will, if they file their petit
tons after the 31st of December, 1S68, have
to make oath that they can pay fifty per cent
of their Indebtedness, and will have to pay
that amount before they can be finally dis
charged. Those who file their petite pre-
| vious to that time will not be subject to this
restriction.
| gsE@ IT is a curious fact that appears from
n report of the Secretary of the Interior that
while there is but one Revolutionary soldier
now living, (he lives in New York; and draw
ing a pension, there at the present time
on the rolls the names of 888 widows of Rev
oIutionary soldiers. The mothers of the Rev
olution evidently Younger than the
fathers, or else they 1--we longer.
| ES5@ Mr.. Dickey, Mr.. Stevens successor
in the House of Representatives,, attracts
considerable attention Distinguished men
! generally have peculiar way of being sue
ceeded by very small ones, but the new
| representative of Lancaster has made ia
vorable Impression, where favorable impress
sion was hard to make. He is II thin,
nervous looking man, with hair and beard
that show him to be no longer young, and
very intelligent face.
gSlg~ The Freeman says it wouldn't make q
pun in our presence, for we couldn't "see"
it. Possibly, and very probably, we couldn't
"see" it in the light in which it would be
viewed by its author. Yet would we be
obliged to 0see" it in some light or other !;
for punches in the ribs and the energetic
performance of the exercise of
"Washing the hands with invisible soap
! In imperceptible water
would so talicize it upon our senses that we
would be obliged TO recognize it at least as
an ATTEMPTED pun.
nSs~ Jeserh s. Martin, aged sixty, master
builder of Brooklyn, n Y, committed sui
eide at the State Capitol Hotel, Harrisburg
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