Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-01-14
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.l
Principal Events of General and
Local Interest During the Year
1857.



burned at Mobile, Ala. /; loss $23, 800.
4th. James Buchanan inaugurated Presi-
dent of United States.
9th. Decision in Dred Scott case, by which
Missouri Compromise was declared unconsti-
tutienal, delivered in U. S. Supreme Court
by Chief Justice Taney.
7th. Justices Mclean and Curtis dissented
from decision in Dred Scott case.-Dr. VIM.
Yates, the introducer of vaccination into the
United States, died at Morris, n Y, aged 90.
llth: Emigrant train run into on Pennsyl.
vanIa Railroad, west Of Harrisburg; five Kill
led and six wounded.
18th. Funeral obsequies of Dr. E. K Kane
ut Ph!ladeiphia; participated in by military
nne civic uthorities.-Frightful railroad ac-
cide2t at Des Jardines river, in Canada eigh-
ty killed.
l2ta Great gale on Coast of Ireland
steamer Circassia forced to put back to Liv-
erpool.
I4th. Great snow storm South mails de-
layed.-Seund Dues Treaty signed by the
four Powers interested, at Copenhagen
Italian, named Mattraccia, guillotined in pres
ence of 10000 spectators, at Marseilles, for
series of terrible murders.-Escape of politi-
cal prisoners from italian Castle of Palliano;
six shot dead.
10Th. Gems. Walker end Henningsen defeat
allies at San Gorge; great slaughter of the
allied forces.
18th. Extensive rice factory at Savannah
burned loss S30, 900.
20th j. w. Geary resigned GoYernorship
of Kansas.
2lst DR.. Scoresby, veteran of Arstic en-
terpTioes, died at Torquay, England
22d. 100000 worth of property destroyed
by fire at Plymouth, Indiana.
25th. Two negro men and a woman hung
fer murder in Pitt county, n. c., in presence
OF 10000 people. e.-Steamer Eau Claire sunk,
on her first trip, by collision with the steamer
South America, below St. Louis.-Fire in
Jacksonport, Ark. loss $500, 900.
Goth. Fire and explosion at a distillery in |
Baltimore; four men killed and others woun
ded fire ragged many hours.
27th. John Cleary killed by G. Aublin, |
tellowprisOner in Moyamensing, while insane |
from drink.-Two stores blown up by gun !
powder in st. Louis two men killed.
18th. VIM. McGlensey killed by Laurence |
Riley, at Philadelphia; quarrel arose about |
RS wife.
Goth. Chancellor Kensey Johns, of Della
ware, died at New Castle, at 66.-Col. Lock- |
ridge forced to retreat from Castillo with |
heavy loss.
50th. S. F. White killed in Washington
county Pa, for $1,000 which was in his house |
Great scene in Richland county (Ohio) |
Court; eleven women acquitted of riot in de- |
stroying casks of liquor.
April.
lst. North Carolina pine woods burned !
10000 trees loss by single proprietor
Steamer j. n. Scott, with Leckridges COM !
mand on board, maliciously blown up, while |
aground in San Juan river; 90 killed and |
missing,
Cd Massacre Of several families by Sioux |
Indians under Ink-pa du-tah, at Spirit Lake, |
Northern Iowa; settlers in Minnesota and |
Iowa alarmed; troops called out.-Bad frost |
in Georgia severely damaging crops.
Sd. Fire in Pratt and Twenty-third streets, |
Philadelphia, burning out number of fami. |
lies; loss $4,000
9th. Wabash county, Indiana, Court House |
burned, with all the county records.
9th. Hon. Z. b. Penrose, State Senator, |
died at Harrisburg, aged 6l.-Col. II. A. |
Crabb and SO flibusters of the Sonora expe- |
dition. executed by Mexican authorities-J. |
NJ Winner, free sell, elected Mayor of ST. |
Louis, Mo-, by 1900 majority. City Councils |
also carried by free soilers-A butcher NAM
ed John Gibbons, at Liverpool, England, xii. |
led his wife and two children, and attempted
to Kill his three other children
Ith. Two feet snow fell at Elmira and Dun
kirk, N. Y.-William Campbell shot dead by
James Jones, at Pittsburg.- at Marietta,
Ga. /; loss $4,000.
9Th. Freshet in rivers of Maine bridges.
mills and dams carried away.
10th. Magee and Carter sentenced to death
tor assassination of warden and deputy war
den OF Charlestown Mass prison.
lZth: Slave schooner captured off Jamaica,
by Ii: b. NJ. brig Arab; 373 slaves on board.
l27 also having died during voyage.
I4th. Fire and loss of l3 lives in Baltimore:
loss S335, 900. Planning mill &c, burned at
South Plttsburg, Pa. loss 100000. Logan
county, tlll) Court House, with records,
burned. Another freshet in Maine rivers.
Englsh princess born at Buckingham Palace
10th. Last rail of Ohio and Miss r. r.
laid with ceremonies, making direct road from
Atlantic to Mississippi.
10th. Desperate revolt of Coolies on shin
Fernandez, from Macao for Cuba II killed
and many wounded before revolt auelled.-
SLAYER, Adams Gray, with SIS, 900 to purchase
human cargo, captured.
lfth. Santillan claim confirmed in favor of
Bolton by the Supreme Court of California
Flour mills at Norfolk, Va, burned loss
$4,000.
2Oth. Great storm in Pennsylvania and
New York.-Railroad depot at Reading fell
IN from weight of snow workmen injured
yale at sea and disasters on coast-Twenty-
hVe valuable horses in stable, at New York,
burned.-Louis Napoleon's 50th birthday
celebrated with splendor at Paris.
I'D. Contested election case settled by mas.
sage of bill making two District Attornies of
Philadelphia county.
23d. 245O bales of cotton burned at Apa-
lachicola, Fla.
Mth;; Jopn G. Montgomery, NJ. c., died
from Rational Hotel malady, at Danvills, Pa.
10Th. Propeller Fanny Garner blown to
pieces at Bound Brook, N. j.; 5 persons Kill
9Th; Fires in Philadelphia; factories
ana osaer property in lst, 4th, 9th and 18th
Wards destroyed !; loss $l0O, 600,
28th. Ship Tuscarora. cf Pb;lad.,,k;