Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-03-29
LOCAL AFFAIRS.

luStIuctlOHS W tlAe II 81 NOuStAHiSj AS1~'A'
to disorderly houses, published in our pa
per last week, fell like bombshell among
those who thought they had all the recent
prosecutions nicely arranged for settlement
about the time court would meet. We will
here add that it is an indictable offence
against prosecutors, magistrates, or others
to settle such transactions without the con-
sent of the court-a fact which may as well
be generally known now that the power of
the law is about to be tested.
byThe new Town Council held meet
ing on Friday evening and made the fol-
lowing appointments:
Treasurer-C. Hoover, Esq, with in
structions to redeem all orders hereafter is
sued ON demand.
Clerk-George Frysinger.
Messenger-Howard Holman.
Regulators-R. H. M'Clintic, c. Hooy-
er.
Proposals for lamplighting were read,
when John Berryhill was selected at $50
per annum.
We may here add that the new Council
have made no appointment of High Con-
stable, as may be inferred from the Demo-
crat. The Council of last year, at their
meeting ofter the late election, undertook
to make an appointment, but We have good
reasons for knowing that a majority of the
new council deny all right Of an outgoing
body to appoint officers for them. The
Democrat is also wrong in stating that
street commissioners were appointed, and
as for its lamentations over the decapitation
Of " Simon Pearl, democrat" they are de-
cidedly spoonish.
ScHOoLs-The directors We learn have
determined to reopen the schools for two
months from the 18th April. 1t appears
to us that the funds necessary to do this
would have been better appropriated to re-
building that old crows nest, the armory,
and converting it into aore suitable place
for teachers and children than it has been.
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B@~Tha mountains caught fire from
locomotive on Thursday last, and run over
large extent of ground in the neighbor-
hood of Bixler's gap. This is becoming
serious nuisance, and it seems to us the
Railroad Company ought to take, or be
made to take, some PRECAUTIONS against
such eoniagratiors.
naA- Some changes have been made in
two of our principal hotels this spring,
Moses \. Sample having taken the stand
long occupied by Thos. Mayes, and Sheriff
Williams the Lewistown Hotel in place of
James Murray, who goes to Jail.
a@-A negro, named George Gordon,
was arrested in Williamsport, on the 10Th
inst, and lodged in Jail, but subsequently
discharged, on charge of stealing silver
watch and s20 Lewistown Bank bill, in
Wayne township, in this county, in Deem
Der last, at the residence Of Samuel With
row, Esq.
BSF Mr.. Pratt of this place last week
either lost or was robbed of his pocket
book in Stone Valley, Huntingdon county.
1t contained a considerable amount of notes
and other papers with some money.
B@-An old man, supposed 80 be Jacob
Kuhn, has been gathering contributions in
Centre county on the pretext that he was
| lately burnt out near Lewistown. The pro-
ceeds were duly invested in tanglefoot
BSS-The weather was cold and buster
ing up to Tuesday, when it again modera-
ted
SMALL PoX.-As a number of persons
in this place are no doubt fearful of this
disease, the following given by medical
gentleman to a New York paper may be of
interest, He says that from all the inform
alton he can obtain from medical men now
having cases of Small Pox under treatment
that there is no house where gasis burned,
of the ordinary consumption, in which the
disease has yet found lodgment. 1t is a
powerful disinfectant, and hence there is
no contagion within the circle of its infu-
ence. He says that a person burning gas