Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-01-22
Ola Podrida.
BOD exercise-Washing dishes.

/ street yarn ana wear thicker shoes.
| Waiting to be asked-A number of girls
to go sleighing.
RG-T. Martin has retired from the Clinton
| Democrat.
/ GlThe itch is said to prevail about Milf,
! fintown. A number here have the pocket
/ itch.
! bed. Stewart Elliott has commenced the
publication of Daily Journal at Mt. Pleas
ant, Iowa. Success doubtful, Col.
sa.The State Treasurer goes in for dis
continuing the abatement of per cent. for
taxes paid into the treasury.
! ErA stranger was found murdered last
week on the railroad a few miles above Al
| toona.
@a-In enc day last week there were Eve
tons of eels shipped to New York, by single
| town in Massachusetts,.
DAThey are now making candles cut of
coal-we suppose we shall next hear of bread
/ made out of the same article.
! Ba~John T. Hoover has hooyed out Hays
and become publisher of the Bellefonte
! Waichman.
HA-The recent storms, it is now believed,
were occasioned by the blowing of the de-
mocracy in consequence of Cameron's elec-
tiun
EducatiOn-Ringiug door bells, pounding
fences. and chalking houses. This is the fe-
male department. In the male it is about
the same, with throwing stones" added
Good paper-The Nation" published by
Crofut & Bigelow, Philadelphia. Single cop
les s. per annum-thrce copies S5-ten cop
les SIS.
sg-The Toledo (Ohio) Times says they are
sinking well in that city which will be $500
feet deep. and expresses hope that Truth
will be found at the bottom of it,
GeA-We have a copy Of the message Of
Governor Matteson Of Illinois, sent US by B.
+. Hopes, who is now located in Blooming
ton in that State The commonwealth ap-
pears to be in fourishins condition.
Eg~W. 0. IIickok has issued an illustrated
catalogue of Ruling Machines, Ruling Pens,
Saving Machines, Press Boards, Table Shears,
Standing Presses. &C., manufactured at the
Eagle Works, Harrisburg.
bg-The local tonnage on the Pennsylvania
Railroad during the past year WAS 288, ,829
tons-the through tonnage lG4, l63 tons
From this point the shipment Of clovcrseed
ted to G3 tons.
pAThe Beard Of Revenue Commissioners
was to have met at Harrisburg on Tuesday
last, but We're probably prevented from as
sembling by heavy snow storm in the east
ern part of the State. James Turner is the
Commissioner from this county.
Thirteen married gentlemen, who with
in the last week or so have been convicted Of
having smoked in their own dining rooms,
were seyerally fined q new bonnet, and in de-
fault, have been committed to the hard labor
Of taking out their wives for an afternoons
shopping.
BEAThe Democrat says the letter publish
ed in the Gazette last week over the signature
of Mr.. Buchanan, is a forgery. 1t being
certain fact that Mr.. L. wrote q letter in fa-
TOr Of FUrney-if that is a foGery, can the
Democrat produce what he did write? Come
now, toe the mark, or admit you are little
too fast.
B-Thc Harrisburg Herald Of Saturday
speaks Of new counterfeit SO note on the
Harrisburg Bank, which it says is very differ
ent from the counterfeit on the Bank of Mont
gomcry County tens. 1t has portraits of
Washington aud Rittenhouse in the centre
canal boat Oh one end, and male and female
on the otheI-witL train Of cars al the bot
tom of the note. The genuine ten has the
State Capitol in the centre, with tho Goddess
of Liberty in the foreground, seated. The
ygnettes on the ends are both alike-two fe-
males.
ESD~The forgemon to the north and west
are forming associations for procuring cash
payments for their labor. So far they are
! right, but 50 soon as they will lend themselves
to combination for regulating labor and
debating to employers, they will soon discov
er that the movement is one merely upholding
poor workmen 10 the detriment of the good,
and putting sober aud steady men down to
level with the drunken and lazy. This is our
experience Of most unions regulating labor,
prices, and who should be employed.
R1-We have received a copy of the Mil
lerstown Gazette, published by Levi klauser
in that burg, situate on the Juniata in Perry
county. This is decidedly fast age as re-
spects newspapers, and We shall not be much
surprised to chronicle. during the next ten
years, SHOULD we live and stick to the Ga.
zette,) the appearance of the Newton Hamil-
ton Steam Scrouger McYeytown SIedgeham-
mer-ReedsviIle Meat Axe-Milroy Sockdol-
agor-BelleYille Flail-AllenvilIe AnYil-the
Black Oak Ridge Corncracker, &C., all which