Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-05-24

Do YOU read the New Testament regularly?
What is your fighting weight
Do you use your own tobacco
How many cigars do you smoke IN day
Were you aud your wife worth anything
when married. and if not, what proportion
of her things were your'n and your things
were her'n?
Were you ever in the Penitentiary!
Are you troubled with biles?
How many empty bottles have you IN the
house?
How does your cider taste?
What do you think of the Milroy railroad
Are beans an article of regular diet in your
family, and if SO, how do they go?
State whether you are blind, deaf, or i'd
iotic, or have the heaves or bots?
How many chickens have you, and are
they on foot or in the shell? Also how many
ducks and geese?
Is there a black mark on your left arm
Which food do you prefer, whiskey, rum
or mixed drinks?
State how much Dutch cheese you make,
and what is the size of your wife's hooped skirt.
Are you democrat of the administration
stamp, or follower Of Douglas?
Who do you think ought to be nominated
for associate judge when the election again
comes off?
Persons liable to be censussed," will do
we'll to cut the above out and put it up in
conspicuous place.
IMPORTANT LEGIsLATION.-Ald
and Justices of the Peace, says the Har-
risburg Telegraph, who have not posted
themselves in the Revised Penal Code of
the laws of Pennsylvania, adopted at the
late session, have fact to learn. BY that
code their powers have been materially
circumscribed. In future, a list of crimi-
nal offences, hitherto bailable by them,
can only be bailable by the courts. The
list of offences whose adjudication is re-
moved from the power Of the Aldermen,
comprises arson, rape, mayhem, robbery
or burglary, and in all such cases bail
can only be received by the Supreme
Court, the Court of Common Pleas, or one
of its Judges, and the Mayor or Recorder
of city. As this is the letter of the
code, Section I, page 53, of the Penal
Laws of Pennsylvania, parties interested
should remember the fact
The new Penal Code has many other
good provisions and if the one relating to
loaning public money by officers is enforced,
it will prevent many defalcations in city,
borough and township Offices. Section
sixty-tw provides that, " if any officer of
this Commonwealth, or of any city, bor-
ough, county or township thereof, shall
loan out, with or without interest, or re-
turn therefor, any money Or valuable secu-
rity received by him or which may be in
his possession or under his control by viz
tue of his office, he shall be guilty of
misdemeanOr in sffice, and on conviction.
be sentenced to pay fine not exceeding
one thousand dollars, and undergo an i'm
prisonment by separate or solitary confne-
ment at labor not exceeding five years,
and if still in office, be adjudged thereafter
incapable of exercising the same, and the
said office shall be forthwith declared va
cant by the Court passing the sentence"
UNCALLED FOR LETTERs.-An act of
no lite Importance to business men recent |
ly passed Congress, authorizing the return
Of uncalled-for letters to the office from
which they were first sent, if the name of
the writer is endorsed on the letter We
publish the act for the information of our
readers -
"That when any person shall endorse on
any letter his or her name and place of resi-
dence, as writer thereof, the same. after re-
naming uncalled for at the Office to which it
was directed, for thirty days, on the time the
lcritey may direct, shall be returned by mail
to said writer, and no such letters shall be ad
vertised, nor shall the same be treated as
dead letters, until so returned to the post of
fee of the writer, and there remain uncalled
for for one quarter. Approved April 9th,
1860"