The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-12-10
EDITORIAL ETCRIHGS.
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viii be contested.
RGy~ Fort Lafayette, in New York harbor,
was destroyed by fire one day last week.
p9g= A grand temperance convention will
be held in Harrisburg next February.
Hg~ Huntingdon is going to have furni-
tare mandatory and a stove mandatory.
Eay~ Fisk, of the Erie Road, is expected to
bring suit this week against fifteen or
twenty newspapers in New England and the
Western States,
n5@ Rev. T. Van Scoycc, of White town
ship, Cambria county, has accepted a call to
preach III the old school Baptist church of
JohnstowD.
pS5~ a row, resulting in the shooting of
one man and the stabbing of two others, oc-
CURED in Pittsburg Sunday night No
body killed.
Ia Gen. Custar is reported to have at
tackled and whipped large body of hostile
Indians on the plains, killing about loo of
them.
Ezy@ report was circulated on Saturday
to the effect that the Emperor Napoleon had
been assassinated the day before 1t was
devoid of truth.
r~ New York paper suggests as
means of paying the National debt that every
ofiice-seeker pay one dollar week towards
its liquidation till Grant makes his appoint
mcnts.
Ia A Mrs. Tucker, of Georgia, who has
written life of Brick Pomeroy, makes the
singular statement that s'bis ears are large
and indicate the Democratic element of char
acter."
nzy> Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins.
sailed in the steamer Java, SATURDAY., for
Glasgow, on theiI way to Paris, where the cord
which has so long united them is to be sew
cred
BaS The Odd Fellows of this State have
resolved to indulge in grand parade next
April, in commemoration Of the fftieth an
niversary of the intro duction of the order
into this country.
B2~ Some of the Democratic papers in
Pennsylvania propose division of the State
by running line through its geographical
center. They hope to be able to return a
Democratic majority in the Eastern half.
Gg- The Presidential electors OF PennsyI-
vauia, chosen November Sd, mel at Harris
burg On the Sd inst. and cast the twenty-six
votes of the State for Ulysses s. Grant for |
President and Schuyler Colfax for Vice Pres |
ident. -
EgB% Walter Brown, the cham pi0n oarsrnan |
of America, undertook 10 low fretn P1tGburg I
to Cincinnati, a distance of 500 miles. in |
eIght days, commencing on THURSDAY, but his |
boat collided with pier of the Parkersburc |
bridge on Saturday and was s mashed into
smithereens.
E4- Once, when JEFF. Davis was crossing
the Capitol Square in Richmond, drunken
North Carolina soldier stopped him and in
quired, "Say, mister. beent you jefferson
Davis Z" "Sir, that is my name," was the
reply. ~ thought so you look SO much
like Confederate postage stampl'
BG5@ The Kuklux Klan exists in Texas, says
General Reynolds in his official report
Their design IS to disarm, rob, and in many
cases mur'cr HAion' men and negroes Pu0-
lie speakers indicate by name those to be as
sassinated. This state of affairs in Texas and
other Southern States will be changed after
Andrew Johnson viii disappear together.
pg@ Gen. Geo. W. Cole has beer acquitted
of the charge of murder in killing L. II. His
cock for the seduction of his wife The Jury
stated shat they found the prisoner to be sane
at the moment before and the moment after
the killing, but were in doubts as to his SAN
ity on the instant of the homicide. The
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benefit of the doubt, and thus instructed they
rendered verdict of acquittal.
GSy~ The Pennsylvania Central Railroad
has effected the actual consolidation with it
Of its two main Western connecting routes.
The Pittoburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago. and
.he Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St Louis roads
hus become practically part of the Penn
'yIYanIa Central, and over one thousand
niles of railway, stretching from the seaboar6
o the great cities Of the Mississippi Valley,
,ass under the control of this corporation.
Ge5- The latest, and we think the best
opinion concerning the views of Gen. Grant,
5 the remark Of United States Senator, who ]
or long time has been aud is now in close
elations with him, ana stands good chance
f going into the Cabinet, to-wit: s'Ke viii
ot, if he knows it, have around him thief. :
T the friends of thief and all such, high c
+ low, viii early realize that however sue I
essful they may have been with other adj |
Illustrations, they have no standing or in :
uence with General Grant
rs When the railway across the CONT =
ent OF America is completed, there will be
onstant conveyance by means Of railways v
nd mail packets for passengers desiring to
ravel round the world. This grand tour