Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1852-01-30
Items of News

At the latest advices SHOW was two inches
deep in Tallahassee, Florida
AT Cincinnati, last week, wood was selling
at 81 and IS per cord.
Barley straw is the best for filling mattresses.
! and should be preferred to wheat, oat or other
straw.
Rev Walter Balfour, distinguished UniYer-
salIst clergyman, died at Charleston, Mass, on
| Saturday week, aged 50 years.
The cost of Kossuth and suite, at Browns
Hotel, Washington, was five hundred dollars
day.
The trunk Of Gov kossuth was lost in the
snow last week between Ehensburg and Blairs-
vile, Pa. II contained all his clothing.
A man is exhibited at New Albany who is
only l9 years old, and already feet high He
beats Jim Porter.
Mr. Daniel Bumgardner, one Of the York
volunteers, who marched TO the defence Of Bal
tlmore in 1914, died at York, Pa, on the Ist
inst.
The Cold in New Orleans, on the Goth inst.
was such Il at the thermometer RANGED at only
fifteen degrees above zero, the weather being
the coldest experienced there for twenty years
A writer in the Rural New Yorker saws that
potatoes, when frozen, if dropped one by one
INTO boiling water, and cooked, the taste or the
quality will be uninjured by the freezing.
1t is stated in letter from Naples. that the
king shot one of his guards, few DAYS ago.
while out hunting, nisaking the unfortunate
man for a wild boar
c. PeXuignet, the husband of the woman who
was frozen 10 death last month on the Central
Pennsylvania Railroad, has brought suit at Pitts
burgh against the company for damages.
cold Whitley" General Taylor's favorite
charger, instead Of being in the kossuth process
sion III New York, was at the time at the resi-
dence of Gen. Tay ylor's son, near New Orleans
John w. Mllson, of Philadelphia, who spent
fifteen years and large fortune in vain efforts
to discover perpetual motion, died at St. Louis,
few days ago.
The Turkish Government has introduced the
culture of cotton in the vicinity OF Damascus,
with seed procured from the United States.
1t succeeds well.
The Schuylkill Haven Miscellany states, that
after the bell vas toled for the death Of child
of Jacob DeibertS, Of that place some doubts
being entertained OF its death, the child was
placed IN warm water and restored to conscious
ness.
Henry Shearer, of Spring Run, Franklin
county, was found dead a few weeks ago. about
a mile from his residence. He had gone out on
Friday morning on a cunning excursion and is
supposed to have taken sick and froze to death.
New CoUNTERFEITs.-New So Harrisburg
Relief Notes-counterleits Of the new plate
have made their appearance in Philadelphia
The engraving Of the margin on the left end is
imPerfectly and coarseiy executed, but is we'll
calculated to deceive.
Wm. II. Graham, of Detroit, brother of the
publisher of Graham's Magazine, had his leg
broken by fall on the ice, a few days before
Christmas, and on the night of the latter day his
store was destroyed by fire, with his whole
stock Of books.
PENNSYLVANIA WHEAT CRoP l85O.-The wheat
crop of Pennsylvania, in 1850, was the greatest
in the Union. The returns were as follows 4:
Pennsylvania, l5482, ,49l bushels; Ohio, IA
95705G Virginia, l4,5l6 800; New York, l3
O13,OOO; Michigan, 4,9lS,000 Maryland, A.
1860.
The bills preferred against the Christiana
prisoners for murder and riot, at Lancaster,
were returned last Friday by the Grand jury,
"no bills" and all the prisoners were dis
charged by John L. Thompson, ESQ, District
Attorney.
f'J VI plPSsyS were ehcaHped IN the
WOODS near Westminster, Nd, on Saturday
ana Sunday week, Notwithstanding the severe
cold weather. They travel in wagons, and
never sleep IN houses. Trading in horses, for
tune telling, and doctorlng, appear to be their
vocation.
The GAINESVILLE, Ohio, papers announce the
completion OF that part of the Central Ohio
Railroad between that place and Newark.
GAINESVILLE is thus connected, by railroad, with
Pttsburgh, Cleveland, Sandusky, Columbus and