Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23
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The State Canals are to be opened on
t7c 9TH of March, if the weather should
prove favorable.
The tailors of London and the cooks
of Paris, held meetings for the purpose of
obtaining redress of grievances.
The largest subscription to the fund for
the construction of church in California,
was given by a gambling house, viz: $4,000.
The route through Greensburgh has
been determined on for the location of the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
The New York Herald gives the names
oftifty-eight lawyers in that city, supposed
10 be wo,th over 100000 each.
At New York the City Inspector re-
ports that out of 2S5 deaths last week, Is
were of cholera on Wards Island being
an increase OF ten over the previous week.
French newspaper publisher has
brought out Journal, in which he offers
gratuitous medical attendance and cheap
medicines TO subscribers
I,675.27O acres of mineral lands on
Lake Superior will be offered in market
this year, so soon as the Geologist finishes
his notes.
Andrew II. Brand, the kentucky In
fant, died few days ago, of pneumonia
He was in his 10th year, and weighed
over 500 lbs.
On Wednesday night, the store of Mr.
Reuben Keller. on the Isle of Que, Nor
cumberland county, with an extensive
and valuable stock of merchandise, was
totally consumed.
An Iron Jail was shipped from Louis
vile, lately, for some place down in Ar
kansas. 1t was manufactured out of bar
iron, and when put together it will have
the appearance of an enormous cage.
Mr.. White, Navy Agent at Baltimore,
and Mr.. Scott, Navy Agent at Washington,
are to be prosecuted, the newspapers say,
for Withholding government funds, under
claims for extra services, similar to those
Of Mr.. Wetmore.
The. late David Corr, for many wears
wholesale grocery merchant of Cincinnati,
has beqeuathed SIS, 200 for the purpose of
erecting an asylum for INDECENT and unfor-
tunate females. A worthy donation for
very worthy object.
For many years settlement of gipsies
has existed at Biloxi, and along the south
ern coast of the Mississippi, in Louisiana.
The have subsisted by catching fish and
oysters, and maintain, In all respects, their
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4 man named Ramsbottom was exc
cuted on Friday at Xenia, Ohio, for the
murder of his wife. He was arrayed in
grave clothes, and met his fate with calm
ness and courage, only calculating /" oh
my poor mother-my poor wife-Iny poor
children -
We are informed of a sale of twenty
pounds OF Calomel in California, for the
round some of S25, 900, This is anything
rather than throwing physic to dogs, un-
less the men who swallow these doses are
to be considered OF the canine species.-
" T. Erpress.
During the year lS49 there were H.
G55 tons of Iron imported into New York,
valued at S6,s87, ,529. In l84S the guam
tity imported into that city was l3l ,025
tons, valued at s5,5I6,5S5; showing an
increase in favor Of I849 of 46,630 tons,
valued at 81 ,370,944.
Immense numbers of wild ducks and
geese are shot, at this season of the year,
in the head waters of the Chesapeake, and
sent to Baltimore and Philadelphia. One
gunner killed, few days since, near
Hayre-de-Grace, 200 ducks, and over
900 were shot the same day. 1t is fair
70 presume they averaged IS cents a pair,
mounting to $3.50. A pretty good days
work
4 letter from California states that
young gentleman in gold spccs--a recent
graduate in Yale College-has commenced
the wood-sawing business, and IS doing
well. \ Philadelphia lawyer IS peddllng
peanuts at handsome profit through the
streets of San Francisco. A young gen
leman from Boston, after trying hard for
clerkship-commenced digging cellars
at San Francisco AID thereby accumu-
lated sufficient to start himself in less