Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1856-11-13
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daughter of General Twiggs, U. s. Army,
died at New Orleans, on the 25th ult., at the
age of "a.
Murder and Slicide.-Mrs. Thorn, of Palo
Alto, Mich, recently hung herself and child
because her husband refused to take her to a
ball at Jonesville.
KaIed-Rev. L. C. Thornton, presiding ell
der of the Parkersburg (Va.) district Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was kill
ed on the cars near Cleveland few days
since
ngApMr. Lind, of Chicago, Illinois, who re-
Gently gave 100000 towards the erection of
university, is a native of Scotland, and ar
rived in Chicago in 1887, with his entire cap
ital, about ten dollars, in his pocket
Bzg-A man in Rochester, N. Y, has sued
the Central Railroad Company for damages
resulting from the dripping of water from
some of the shop roofs upon land owned by
him. The jury awarded a verdict Of 5000.
Infectious Diseases. State Snperinten-
dens has decided that it is the duty of Direc-
tors TO rigidly exclude from school, all pupils
who are afflicted with any eruptivC, infectious
disease and to refuse to again receive them
until they are entirely cured
An american on the PupaL ThToHe.-A cor
respondent of the New York Post, writing
from Rome, 18th Oct, says This morning
Col. Hiram Pearson, of San Francisco was
fined one thousand piasters for seating himself
on the throne Of the Pope.
11n1usements Of Baitiaore-On Thursday,
a party of men engaged hackman to drive
them around the City Of Baltimore, and after
riding for several hours they beat the driver
badly and shot him with a pistol, wounding
him very severely.
"Cgcar as Nltd."-An exchange paper says
that transcendentalsm is the spiritual cog
noseence of psychological irrefragibiity, con
nected with concuitant ademption Of CONGO
lumnient spirituality and etherialized cOnten-
ton of subsultery concretion."
gsaaAn Irishman was arrested for fraudu-
lently voting at the 9th ward polls in Pitts
burgh on election day, and Immediately there
after about thirty other Irishmen who had
been hanging around waiting to do the same
thing vanished incontinently.
Bssy~The Underground Railroad appears to
be doing large business. a report of the
Albany, IN. " Vigilance Committee-col-
ored-states that between the 18th of Sep
tember 1855, and the 18th of July, 1856, 4
period Of 10 months, 257 fugitive slaves passed
through that city on their way to Canada.
4 Beautiful Lake DiSc0cacd,-The Hen
derson (Iowa) Democrat says that on the Sth
of last September, Edward Doulin and Mat
thew Wilson discovered n beautiful lake 81
miles in circumference, in Sibley county,
township IA. On Saturday, 4th inst, a num-
Der Of persons assembled at the place, and
gave it the name of Lake Washington.
Haa. Last week, John Mitchell, Of Chemung,
n. Y, vomited up lizard, which he suppos-
ed he had swallowed four years previously.
On this occasion he had drunk quantity Of
whiskey, and several large potations Of milk
and it is supposed the lizard got drunk on
milk punch, and was unable to resist the ejec-
tive process.
nSl.The election riots in Baltimore on
Tuesday a week were as serious as many a
regular battle. The Republican reports that
twenty five persons were either killed or NOR
tally wounded, twenty dangerously,
ffty-ono severely, and thirty-four slightly
wounded-making total of one hundred and
thirty-seven persons injured in the riots at
this election.
GsA-A young man named Youtzy met a ter
rble death in Allegheny township, Somerset
county, Pa, on Friday last. lie had been to
Berlin with a two horse wagon, and on his
return home his horses became frightened,
ran off, ierked him out, down in between the
front hounds with his head hanging down
ward His face and shead were horribly
bruised, his eyes torn out and the sockets fill
ed with dirt and sand, presenting a most hor-
rible app pearance.
Terrible Torna3o.-We learn from the Peo-
ria Transcript, that on Friday afternoon, the
24th ult., most destructive tornado passed
over the northern portion Of Schuyler county,
Illinois, andinits course completely prostrated
the hourishing village Of Littleton. The place
contained over a hundred houses, besides
barns and out-houses, all Of which were de.
stroyed, or so much damaged as to be useless
Strange as it may seem but four persons were
| seriously hurt, and no one killed.
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eficacious remedy in the Union for Asthmat.
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