Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-07-23
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LOCAL AFFAIRS,

our citizens assembled IN the Town Hall
on Monday evening for the purpose Of
adopting measures to raise one or more
companies of volunteers, Judge Wilson in
the chair Messrs. McMurray and Guyer
made patriotic addresses, in which they
pointed out the evils likely to result in the
partisan feelings manifested by SO many
persons against the Government, who were
thus instrumental in producing the apathy
and Indifference so prevalent at a time
when the hearts of all ought to be engag.
ed to strengthen its efforts to put down
this infamous rebellion. Jno. A. Wright
and Geo. w. Elder, Esq. also addressed
the meeting, when subscription was
opened and about $500 subscribed for
the purpose of paying SO to each recruit.
The committee, consisting of Geo. w.
Elder, Chairman, d. w. Woods, Treasu-
rcr, II. j. Walters, Secretary, James Burns
and Samuel Comfort, appeal to all patriotic
citizens in the county to subscribe funds
for the purpose of paying at least $40 to
each volunteer who may enlist under r.
w. Patton or Jos. S. Waream, who are now
recruiting for the service.
sarConsidersble curiosity was excited
on Monday morning by Red, White and
Blue Signal put up through town. No
body seemed to know what it meant.
The wife of Henry Kemerling we learn
fell from cherry tree last week, injuring
herself considerably.
Mrs. Murray, of the Lewistown Hotel,
who had a severe fall few weeks ago by
the upsetting cf a chair on which she was
Standing, is recovering.
The clothes line of Lewis Wislcr was
robbed one night last week.
4 NEW ENEMY TO FARMERS. The
disappearance Of the grain wevil in this
section has been followed by a small brown.
sh red insect which is now visible on oats
by thousands, in some instances covering
the stalk below the grains for two or three
inches, and impartiug a strange appearance
to the fields. There is no doubt entire
crops are now being rapidly destroyed by
this successor to the late pest, and as we
perceive it has also appeared in York and
other counties, it will probably render the
cultivation of oats for some years risky
crop. We have often thought that farmers
ought to pay more attention to the appear
ance of destructive insects, and make ex.
periments to destroy them For instance, |
the use of few bushels of salt, sown
broakcast on an acre of ground, would do |
much towards relieving the soil of dcstruc
tive insects, as most Of them are no doubt !
hatched in it, and would besides do no |
harm to the land.
OUR SoLDIERs-Captain Maelay re-
turned to Milroy on Monday last, consider
ably debilitated in health. David Kenue-
dy of the Logan Guards, is reported very
i'll with typhoid fever. Daniel Blett, of
this place, member of the Bucktails, was
seen alive at the close of the G9ht ia which !
that regiment suffered SO ternbly, and is
probably a prisoner. Surgeon Woodruff,
Of New Jersey, who has been actively en-
gagged before Richmond, is Row ON visit
to his mother, (the widow of Wm. McCay,
Esq, deceased, y who has been quite i'll for
some weeks.
Among the sick and wounded recently
released on parole and sent north, are w. |
E. Lawber, comp. G, 49th Pa; j. Barlow,
comp. c, 10th Pa; Isaac L. Grey, comp.
e, 49th Pa debility Jos. Ewing, corpor
a, comp. K, 49th Pa, fever.
VIM. Beaver, 49th Pa, wounded in
hand VIM. Kennedy, 49th, hand John
A. Kestler, comp. I, 49th, rheumatism
5. Kennedy, comp. B, 49th, rheumatism
A. H. Whitfield, comp. E, 49th, fever
Il. W. Dix, comp. D, 49th, debility S.
Funk, comp. D, 10th, rheumatism, and
VIM. Shultz of Lewistown, 10th Pa regt.,
we're at last accounts in hospitals at Wash
angton, Alexandria, &c.
No SHINPLAsTERs-F0stage Stdnaps a
Legat Tender.-On Thursday Congress
passed bill prohibiting notes of less de-
nomination than one dollar, from whatever
source, from being circulated, under a pen
atty Of five hundred dollars fine or six