The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1868-12-17

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BI Read the new advertisements
Bg- In demand turkeys, and the like.
BG The days have begun to lengthen.
Bg- Helene Western, the actress, is dead.
R6g- The season for deer shooting expires
on the 1st of January.
RIr Hon. William T. Daugherty, of Bed
ford, died suddenly the 9Th instant.
BgF Ripe strawberries were gathered on
the James river, Va, as late as the 9th ult-
Eay- Conundrum What post was the
editor of the Freeman born to grace? None.
BaF Three hundred women, graduates of
medical colleges, are now practising in this
country.
nE- "Worse you cannot be."-Freeman.
Not worse than the Freeman. We admit
that.
B6@ Why don't the editoriof the Freeman
run for Congress again The third time is
the charm, you know.
Bag- Weston has fzzled out in his waIk of
| 5000 miles. He proposes to Try it again,
commencing on the 5th of January.
| ne steamer I1lOernla, OIIWdru OOuHu,
foundered about 700 miles off the Irish coast
on the 25th ult Several lives were lost
| RG~ The result of the vote of the Electoral
| College will not be officially announced till
the second Wednesday in February.
R9- 1t is singular fact that no President
of the United States, up to the present time,
has had a child born in the White House.
| Ba5- 1t is reported that E. A. Pollard, au-
| thor of the "Lost Cause" has been appointed
to a clerkship in the N. Y. custom house.
| Rg- The editor of the freeman has gone
into the business of abusing our poetry.
| Bett er, that, than himself writing bad verses.
pSg- new idea. The st. John Telegraph
| gives notice to delinquent subscribers that
hereafter it will sell their accounts at auc-
ton to the highest bidder.
~ The freeman calls the editors of The
| AHeghanian "nominals." But that does not
make them such. For instance, we might
call the editor of the Freeman gentleman
Egr The colored people of Washington
city have erected the first monument to
Thaddeus Stevens, in the shape of hand
some sch ool house.
kaE The freeman has the word "Editorial-
tiles" over its item column. Very good title,
but wouldn't "Editoria- lie-t ties" be more ap-
propr late
ESy@ We have discovered one Democratic
paper that refuses to accept the situation
1t is the Greensburg Argus. No later age
than last week it called Grant an E'inebriate
| loafer"
RG~ The rebel Democracy of Arkansas are
banding together to prevent the arrest by
the State militia of the assassins whose scores
of murders during the past month spread 6
reign of terror throughout-that State.
RGr Henry Miner, publisher, Pittsburg
has sent us a copy of his "Pittsburg Alma.
nae" for 1869. 1t contains exactly the kline
of information, meteorological and otherwise
sought after by the general public. Price II
t cents.
e EsS~ Tho freeman says that one of tn,
editors of The AUeghanian is "serpent.'
The serpent referred to takes pleasure in pre-
senting the editor of the freeman the advic
contained in Lawrence's famous motto 70
his battle flag: "Don't tread on me! J"
g Ba5~ The Freeman, judging from tho larg
o quantity of original matter which each wee
o appears in The AHeghaniGn, concludes tha
o We have at least four editors. Thank you
s A glance over the columns of the Ffeenaa
+ will readily satisfy any reasonable man ths
e that paper has barely one editor.
) B9 A vigilance committee from Seymour
, Indiana, on the 1ltb instant, went to Ne
d Albany, Indiana, and broke open the Jail an
It hanged four desperadoes, named Frank, job
s and Simon Reno, and Charles Anderson
They were charged with murder, burglar.
d and host of other crimes.
; pa7- We are under obligations to Mr..
10 Winch, publisher, sos Chestnut st., Phil,
ir 6elphia, for copy of the "Old franklin A
Or manao'' for 1869. In addition to the usu
# contents of good almanac, it contains
neurology for the current year, chronolog
cal table of important events, and other va
l. liable information. Price 20 cents.
g Bas@ The editor of the freeman went
lie school and studied grammar. He went but
c few weeks, and succeeded in mastering th
book only as far the adjective depar tine I
y Last week he gave specimen of his SIX
N in the use of adjectives by styling one of Il
editors of The 4Aeghanian "long, lean, Ian
- leather-sided, hungry Ebensburg Radical
- Which is not so bad considering his chance
sa Is the consumption of spurious
al quor beneficial to society," Sometimes. o
n day last week, conductor on the Farmland
it railroad stopped his train to put offa drum
O. en- passenger. When he attempted to sta
;h again, large rock was discovered on
lie track imme diately in front of the train.
Id no drunken passenger had been on the tra
es it would not have stopped and if it had L
n stopped, there must inevitably have been
1g disastrous collision.
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