Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-12

Sons OF TEMPERANCE.-O Thursday
last {" Fort Granville Division Of Sons OF
Temperance" was opened in the Odd Eel
lows Hall, Lewistown, by Grand Scribe
VIM Nicholson of Philadelphia, assisted
by members of the keystone Division Of
Newton Hamilton, Dr. Bower acting as d.
G. W. P, when the following officers were
installed:
P w P-D E. Robeson
". P-J NJ Cogley.
w. A.--W. II. Keller
Chap.-William Swartz
r. S.-A 7. Hamilton.
A. Sc. c. Hamilton.
7. S.-E. 7. Swartz
T.-Abner Thompson.
C.-Joseph Alter.
A C.-P. 2. Butts. y
|. S.--James Crutchley.
0. S.-P. F. Loop.
The division opens under favorable aus
pices, and we hope will soon embrace many
of those most susceptible to the baneful in
fuence of Intoxicating liquors, as well as
ptutIS WHO WISH NCu 10 lile CduSc--dtlu
who does not
In the evening a meeting was held in
the Town Hall, when Mr. Nicholson gave
an instructive and practical lecture on the
subject of temperance.
CAMERON CLUB.-A meeting was held
in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening for
the purpose of forming a Cameron Club,
when James McCord was appointed Prcsi-
dent; Col. Wm. Butler, G. ". Patton, and
T. T. Shull Vice Presidents, and I. Gun
ningham and J. G. Brought Secretaries.
After the transaction Of some other busi-
ness, a committee was appointed to report
resolutions at an adjourned meeting to be
held on Saturday evening next. Commit
tee-C. Hoover, DR.. T. a. Worrall, G. W
Soult, r. c. Smith. X
BagnCourt is still in session, engaged in
civil cases, notice of which we shall give
in our next. In addition to the two young
thieves noticed elsewhere, Joseph Brought
was sentenced to the penitentiary for six
months, for adultery Jude Gibbons (col-
ored) for the same time; and Mrs. Gloss
nine months to jail for keeping disorderly
house
psa- From the Auditor Generals Report,
for copies Of which we are indebted to
Messrs. Bates and Crawford, we take the
following local items:
Payments into the State Treasury.
Centre and Kishacoquiias Turnpike
Company, tax on cOrporat'n stocks SGj5 3S
Lewistown Gas Co. do do 100 SO
j. B. Selbeimer, Treasurer, tax on
real and personal estate, 1892 7S
VIM. Morrison, former Treas, do Is 90
J. B. Selheimer, Treas, tav. licenses, 400 90
do. do. do. retailers do. 68l %
do. do. do. distillery and
brewery licenses, 20 IS
j. B. Selheimer, Treas. eating house.
beer house and restaurant Licenses, 20 94
j. B. Selheimer. Treas, mllers' tax, l43 II
Ii. j. Walters, Prothonotary, tax on
wr;ts, &C., 40 90
j. ). Waream, Register, do. do. 14l Is
do. do. do. collateral in
heritance tax, 3I5 90
Mltflin County, interest on deficit in
assessment Of State tax, 10
Payments by the State.
j. B. Selheimcr, Treasurer, abatement
of State tax, 1858, 1920 60
j. B. Selheimcr, do. do. 1859. 487 Oh
\ & Wilson prec Ind ra tunnt;atb
jud. dist, tax on salary refunded
under act of March ., 1859, 4I5 90
The following exhibits the valuation of real
and personal estate, &c, in Mifflin county:
Real and Personal Estate taxable
for State purposes, $4,399. l5G 90
Assessment of tax in 1859, 1899 Sc
Population in 1850, 1880
Taxables in 1859, 1872
Among sundry balances due the Common
wealth by old officers are the following:
Daniel Eisenbise, former Supervisor, S435 10
John Ross, former Superintendent 9,303 80
Reported for the Gazette.
Lecture by John A. Wright, Esq,
A lecture was delivered by j ohm A Wright,
Esq, before the APPRENTICES Literary Society
and a large and intelligent audience of ladies
and gentlemen, on Saturday evening, Decem-
Der 3lst.
His text was "I will feed you with milk,
and not with meat" or, in other words, that
mankind should never be fed with food strong
er than they are able to bear. lie traced the
rise and progress of human society from the
creation of man to the giving of the law on
Mount Sinai, from that epoch to the coming
of Christ, and from thence to the present time
and onward. He adverted to the marked