Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-01-19
Items of News.

An official census shows the population
of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, to be 1902.
A store was recently set on FIRE at ST..
Louis, by rats gnawing luciter matches.
Miss Bremen, who is still in Boston, has
a new novel in the hands Of Mary Hewitt.
Ripe strawberries, grown in the open
air, were exhibited at New Orleans on the
29th ult.
Chickering, Of Boston, the famous piano
forte maker, completed his ten thousandth
instrument on New Years day.
A large number of counterfeit ten dollar
bills of the city bank of Columbus, Ohio,
are in circulation in the west
The people of Madison county have
presented Gov. Crittenden fat OK, weigh
ing 1000 lbs.
1t is reported that the treasurer Of the
Cherokee nation, Mr.. David Nann, is a
delaulter to the amount of $1,000.
The small pox is raging to an alarming
extent in some of the small towns III Ken
lucky.
A national christian anti-slayery conyen-
ton is announced to be held in Cincinnati,
on the 9Th of April next.
Mrs. Thomas Elliott was burned to
death at Harsimus, \. Y, on Tuesday
night, by leaving lighted candle beside
her bed.
The dwelling of Mr.. David A. Dickin-
son, in Carroll county, Md, was totally
destroyed by fire on Saturday last. The
loss is estimated at about $4,000.
The Senate has confirmed the appoint
ment of Alexander Irwin, as United States
Marshal for the Western District of Penn
sylyanla.
A german girl named Mary Smalrz,
committed suicide at Frankfort, Ky, on
the Sd INST, by drowning herself in the
river.
The st. Louis papers of the 5th instant
state that during the previous week sever
al cases of cholera had occurred in that
city, some of which terminated fatally.
The Cincinnati Gazette says that the
value of chewing tobacco sold in that mar
ket amounts TO one and hall million of
dollars annually.
The extensive soap and candle manu-
factory of Messrs. Sawyer & Co., at Ale
gheny, Pa, was wholly destroyed by fire
on Tuesday nightlast. Loss $4,000, which
is covered by insurance.
The London papers Of December l4th
announce the death Of Sir NJ. Brunei. the
celebrated engineer and constructor Of the
Thames tunnel. He was 4 native Of
France.
A young German druggist, Frederick
HimmeIl, at Hoboken, hung himself near
the Elysian Fields last week-as is sup
posed, in a fit of dependency, having
neither relatives nor means.
There are now building for the Ameri-
lean navy four steamers: Powhattan,
Susquehanna, Saranac, and San Jacinto.
The first at Norfolk. the second at Phia-
delphia, the third at Portsmouth, \. H.,
and the last al New York.
Millions of Pigeons have been filing the
woods for miles around Franklin, Tennes-
see, for several weeks past. They have
a roost several miles in extent in HEX
man county. and with torch and club
the people sally forth at night, and bring
home their game by meal bags full.
FREE the recent election
in Wisconsin, the question of free suffrage
was voted upon, and decided in the affirm
alive, the vote showing 1890 for, 1903
against it. This establishes the right of
every male citizen, of whatever color, over
the age of twenty-one Years, to vote at all
elections in the State.
The first sale of precious stones, in New
York, for five years past, consisting of
diamonds, turquoises, topazes, garnets,
rubies, chrysalites, pearls, sapphires, aqua
marines, Oriental garnets, opals, amethysts,
emeralds, Panama pearls. and rough dia-
mond opals, took place on Friday morn
ing. The proceeds amounted 10 about
$4,000.
The old Brewery, a den of infamy in
the " Five Points" New York, was
burned on Friday last, and although not
entirely destroyed, was sufficiently dam
aged to render lis miserable inmates more
miserable for time at least, during this
wintry weather. About twenty families,
numbering about hundred persons, were
driven out of doors by the flames.