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Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24

Joseph Broacer, !Steacard, IN account acith
Samuel Drake, o. p. Smith and Moses Nil
Ter, ESqrs., Directors of'he Poor and Of the
House Of Employment for tie county of
Nittin, from January |, 1863, to January |,
1864.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24
Lewistown Station.

BE- GalbraIths Omnibuses convey passengers to
and from all the trains, taking up or setting them
down at all points within the borough limits.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24


Stecard raised Fa1na-7O1 bushels wheat so BUSH
els rye $40 bushels oats bushels corn in ears Is
bushels cloverseed, and made "A loads of hay.
Steoard raised on Truck PatehioO bushels potatoes
600 heads cabbage, 30 bushels beans.
Ste,oard hiUed-l4 hogs, weighing 3l40 pounds and
beeves eighing 2123 pounds.
Stock on FdDt-5 horses Il horned cattle, SOW and
pigs, hogs and shoats.
Farming Uteasits-l four horse wagon and bed.
two horse wagon and bed, truck wagon, sets
hay ladders, pows, harTows, corn cultIvators,
wheeioarrow, shaking forks, dung forks pitch
forks moving scythes, sled double pillow gears
er, and grain drill.
Work done at Poor House for Paupers-35 shirts 35
dresses is aprons, "A chemise, Is haps quilted l3
sacks y low II pairs pants, sheets 10 tow
els PAIRS drawers under shirts flannel shirts, IS
pairs stockings knitted, and 10 barrels soap made.
PAUPERs.
Number in Poor House January l, 1868 81
Admitted through the year orders ~
Born IN the house
Whole number of inmates for 1868 81
Died IN the house 3
Bound out
Discharged Sc ~
Number in Poor House January l, 1864 80
Outdoor paupers through the year rs
do died
do discharged 10 IS
No outdoor paupers Jan. l, 1864, support
ed tn part by the county 81
Whole No. of paupers Jan. I, 1864 96
We have also three insane persons in the Penna Ll-
matte Hospital, Aida Sellers, Robert Starxs and
Lydia Adams, supported by the county.
In addition to the above there have been 90 tran
sient paupers, supported for short time (mosty
night without orders entry the register.
We, the undersigned Auditors of Mliin county. elec-
ted and sworn according to law, having examined the
accounts of Joseph Brewer, Steward of the Poor
House from January l. to January l. 1864 do GER
uty that we find balance due to the said Joseph
Brewer from the Directors of the Poor, the books
of one hundred and dollars and fty-ive cents
tSl07 55) Given under our hands, at Lewistown Jan
uary l3, 1864.
II. C. VANZANT,l ,r,,,;.
H. L. CLOSE, Auul'oiS'
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24

BE- Il don't feel in the best of SPIRITS
as the man said who had just taken a glass
of mean liquor?
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24

A FIRST Class Farmers Magazine for Penn,
1864. THE PENNSYLVANIA 1854
FARMER & GARDENER,
DEVOTED TO
AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE,
AND RURAL AFFAIRS.
EDITED AND LIsHED BY
VIM. S. YOUNG & CO.,
81 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia.
TERMS ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
The Sixth Volume commences with Jan
uary number.
Having obtained the services of eminent
and practical Agriculturalsts. Horticultural,
lists, Stock Breeders and Bee Keepers, we
confidently offer the Current Volume as one
of the best ever issued, for originality, prac-
teal thought and reliable Inform alton.
SEND FOR A SPECIMEN.
Philadelphia, JAN, 27, l864.-3t.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24

VIM Fields, -four for Mrs Davis Is
VIM Hardy, clothing for John Peris 977
George Blymyer, merchandise 90
Amt of orders paid for outdoor Poor 1875 II
BY the following orders paid for stock and
farming utensils, viz:
tor 27 90
John Davis horse gears 45 SO
John R. Weekes, bull plow and shares 3S
o. p Smith, one horse 13l 90
Amt paid for stock and farming utensils 212 81
Amt paid for the Poor brought forward $3.50 80
Balance due Treasurer at last settlement 246 IS
TreaSurers per centage 40 %
Total 4O69 so
Orders Unpaid.
Three orders for 1860 unpaid l24l 80
One order for 1861 do 19S AZ
do 1862 do 100 90
Nine orders for 1868 do SCI II
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24
Kishacoquillas Seminary
AND
N O R NJ AL INSTITUTE, E

rNHE Summer Session of this Institution
Il will commence on
MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1863,
and continue twenty'one weeks.
Cost for Board, Furnished Rooms and Tu
ition in the English Branches, per session,
500
Day scholars. per session, Sl2.
Music. Languages and Incidentals extra.
IN order to secure rooms in the Institute
application should be made before the open :
ing of the school.
For further particulars, address,
S. L. SHARP, Prin.
janis Kishacoquillas, Pa.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24
Unlearning at Home.

1t was source of much trouble once to
some fish, to see a number of HOLSTERS
swimming backwards instead of forwards
They, therefore, called meeting, and it
was determined to open class for their
instruction, which was done, and a num-
Der Of young Holsters came; for the fish
gravely argued that if they commenced
with the young ones as they grew up they
would learn to swim Alright At first they
did very we'll, but afterwards, when they
returned home, and saw their fathers and
mothers swimming in the old way, they
soon forgot their lessons. So, many a
child, we'll taught at Sabbath school, is
drifted backwards by bad home inRu.
ence.-BibIe Class Magaz,ne.
Christians are like children at school,
learning to write, by haying copy set
before them. 1t is through much imper-
fection and failure, and by trial after trial,
that they begin to improve, till they are
able to write with ease and rapidity. They
may never be able to write with the same
exact perfection as the engraving yet if
they do the best they can and continue
daily to improve, the master is pleased ;
so we must be ever copying the Lord
Jesus, and the truest Scriptural perfection
is to be at'odys aiming at perfection.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24

By balance due at last settlement l.
By cash paid for bringing paupers to and
sending them from the Poor House
BIZ cash maid for oak nodes
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24
MIFFLlN COUNTY
POOR HOUSE STATEMENT

John " Ska,o, Treasurer, in account Nth
Samuel Drake, o. p. Smith and Noses
Miller, EsqrS., Directors Of the Poor, and
Of the House Of Employment for the county
Of N!f'in, from January /, 1868 to Janud.
r4 |, 1864
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24

To amt. of orders on Treasurer
Balance due
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24
$1,000 90

10 amt ol orders on county Treasurer $4,000 0l
To cash for 329 bushels As pounds corn at rs
cents, sold IN March. 1868 247 II
10 cash Tor bushels corn, at soc per bushel, o.
do 80 bu oats, at soc per bushel, 25 o.
do 3l5 bu. rs lbs. red wheat, at SIl5
- per bushel sold September 28 1868. 1868 L
To cash from Jacob Mickey. rent of Henry
Kenagys house, in Milr0y, for months
viz. from pril TO October l, 1863 90 OF
To cash from Jos. Brewer, money loaned $50 OK
DO tor ii bu "A lbs cloverseed, at s. 70 6.
DO Tor 80 bu corn at 65c per bushel 10 81
do for l31@ bu. oats at soc per bushel 4.
do for beef hides, weighing 30S lbs.
at cents per pound "a "a
Balance due Treasurer I3O II
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-24
Whole No. 2752.
LewistOWn Post Office.

Mails arrive and close at the Lewistown P.
n 40 fo1
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-11

hours heavy csnnonade was KEEP upon
the rebel position by several batteries and
SIX mortars. This morning finds our line
in much the same formation as it had yes
terday. The 9th corps, Wright's, holds the
right, then the End, Hancock's, the 5th,
Warren's, and then the 9th, Burnside's,
which holds our left. The only portion oi
our force thus far engaged to-day, is Han
cocks corps, from whose front have just
returned.
The divisions Of Birney on the right and
Barlow on the center, while remained on
the ground, advanced about six hundred
yards, carrying the enemy first line, which
was held by a strong skirmish force. Bir-
ney captured forty prisoners, who proved
to belongto Breckinridge's command.
There is hardly doubt however, that
the position now held by the rebels in our
front is but an advanced line, which they
will hold as long AS possible for the purpose
OF gaining time to perfect their defenses on
the ChickahOminy. On that historic line,
it is now fully expected that we shall, ere
long, deliver battle. Ineed not say that in
the relative positions Of the two opposing
forces this is the only field fight we are
likely to have outside Of Richmond, and
tbalits result must decide whether the re-
bel capital can be carried by a coup dc main,
or whether it is destined to become the OBJ
Jec: OF q summers siege.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-11

GLOOMY CONDITION OF RICHMOND
Grand, gloomy, peculiar and unrufYied as
the bosom Of Jehovah, after q simoom. the
city continued on yesterday to demonstrate
its placidity under the difficulties inflicted
on its patience by the powers that be. The
stores remain shut up. Male and female
bear muskets, remained closed. The fam
lilies of poor militiamen continued to min
gle anathemas and tears with their borrow
ed crusts. The markets present a miser-
able array Of something to eat - and the
extorti0ners, one of the service, continued
TO swell their profits and bless the wisdom
Of those in authority. vicksburg, bonn
barded in front and rear, cut of from all
the world, and languishing under her Sc
verest trials, presented No such sepulchral
picture ~ Richmond does today. The
people have grown sick Of the wrongs in
hicted upon them within the brief space OF
. few weeks, and be sure that they will
treasure them up.-Richmond Examiner,
1ay q;
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-11
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The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-11

Tne sixty citizens who were arrestetl In
Fredericksburg, to be held a. hostages to
insure the return Of an equal number Of
hands Of the rebels, have arrived in - PhiIs.
delphia under guard. It ID certain that =
monument ought to be erected 20 the dourh-
ty Mayor Slaughter, Of Fredericksbnrr.
VINO accomplished this bold capture 81
wounded men, and the best place to put
TINS monument would undoubtedly bo
ter in remote corner Of some quiet ceme-
terry.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-11

n~HnU
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Htw-ssanuty
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-11

threw the genius Of Mark Tapley into the
shade. This man was terribly wounded,
utterly helpless, yet the face which show
ed above the coverlet, was as radiant as if
never convulsed with pang. could only
say, has the world ever seen anything so
morally grand as the manhood which this
war has developed in American men,
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-11

Official copy: p. q. BIER, A. A. G.
This circular was sent out and distribn.
ted. Yesterday the seed which was sown
brought forth fruit, for this morning a den
utation Of the F. F. VS. Of secession pro-
clivlties, waited on General Hunter, and
offered their assistance and co-onerat;or
in detecting and catching these bushwhacf-
ers, volunteering at the same time some
valuable information, which. for the ORE.
ent, would be improper to make public.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
A HAPPY REVERSE,

Not many days since, information
reached the President that a young
man belonging to the Army Of The Po-
tomac had been sentenced BY court
martial to be shot for descrtion. Tho
boy was doomed to die in few hours
when the despatch was received. A
telegram was sent to General Meade
suspending the execution. An exami-
nation Of the case was ordered by the
President, when it was ascertaiped
that the voting man ought to have
been promoted long ago for gallant
and meritorious service, instead of be-
ing shot 1t appeared that upon the
march of the Army Of the Potomac
towards Maryland, on the occasion Of
Lees first raid northward, the young
man alluded to became exhausted and
fell out of the ranks, and, as soon as
he recovered, he proceeded on after
his regiment, but not finding it, and
there being no time TO lose, he fell in
to the ranks of another regiment. and
fought gallantly at South Mountain
and Antietam, and was wounded in the
last named battle. He was sent to
the hospital. which fact, owing to the
absence OF proper system in such
cases, did not reach the officers of his
regiment. At last he was arrested as
a deserter, tried, condemned, and was
about to be shot, when, by the inter-
ference of the Executive, his life
was saved, and a young man, hastily
condemned to an ignominious death,
was suddenly restored to honor.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
NUMBER 2.
MistsIIanp.
YOgR EVENINGS. BOYS.

Great boys and little boys, here is
2 question which concerns you all.
How do you spend your evenings? If
your parents or guardians allow you
to go from home in the evening, where
do you go, and how is this time spent
by you? Read this little account, and
think of the lesson it teaches.
Joseph Clark was as fne.looking
and healthy lad as ever left the
country to go into city store. Ills
cheek was red with health, his arm
strong and his step quick. His mas
ter liked his looks, and said, THAT
boy will make something" He had
been clerk about six months. when
MIR. Abbott observed change in Js,-
seph. His check grew pale, his eyo
hollow, and he always seemed sleepy.
Mr.. Abbott said nothing for a while.
At length, finding Joseph alone in the
counting-room one day, he asked him
if he was we'll.
Pretty well, sir" answered Jo-
seph.
You look sick of late,' said Mr..
Abbott. ......-..
al have the headache sometimes"
the young man said.
What gives you the headache 2"
asked the merchant.
" | don't know as / know sir"
do you 60 to bed in good sea-
SOM"
Joseph blushed.
" As early as most of the boarders.n
he said.
And how do you spend your eve
nings, Joseph 2"
"Oh, sir, not as my pious mother
would approve" answered the young
man, tears standing in his eyes.
Joseph" said the old merchant,
your character and all your future
usefulness and prosperity depend up
on the way you pass your evenings.
Take my word for it, it is a young
mans evenings that make or break
him"
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
The Western Man.

The following is correct picture
of the Western Man, except so far as
it portrays him as stranger to CON-
Portable dwellings,, clothed in rags,
without any regard to his personal
appearance and forever having the
Shakes" There are as elegant man.
sions and neat, attractive cottages
scattered over our broad, beautiful
prairies. as are found nesting amid
the hills of New England, or Old Eng
land either, the writer evidently being
an Englishman. and their occupants
are as cleanly and neatly attired:
The Western Man has his romance,
his highly poetic feelings, and above
all, his manly dignity. Visit him and
you will find him without coat or vest,
unshorn, in ragged blue trowsers and
old flannel shirt, too often bearing on
his lantern jaws the signs of ague
and sickness, but he will stand before
yon and converse with all the ease OF
q lettered gentleman in his own libra.
ry. All the odious incivility of the
republican servant has been banished
He is his own master, standing on his
own Threshold, and finds no need to
assert his equality by rudeness. He
is delighted to see you, and bids you
sit down on his battered bench with
out dreaming of any snch apology as
an English cotter offers to o Lady
Bountiful when she calls. He hal
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
ddsst6arS tbs Gonrse Of empire takes its aalap."
CHARLES CITY, FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA. THURSDAY.

worked out his indcpe ndence, and he
shows it i'm every movement of his
body. He tells you of it unconscious
ly in every tone of his voice. You
will always find in his cabin some
newspaper, some book, some token of
advice in education. When he aues-
tions you about the old country, he
astonishes you by the extent of his
knowledge. | defy You not to feel
that he is superior to the race from
whence he sprung in England or Ire-
land. To me, confess the manliness
of such a man is charming. He is
dirty and perhaps squallid. His chill.
dren are sick, and he is without com
forts. His wife is pale. and you think
you see shortness of life written in
the faces of all his family. But over
and about it there is an independence
which sits gracefully rron their shoul-
ders, and teaches you at first glance
that man has a right to assume HIM
self to be your equal.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14

A LITTLE GIRLS GIFr.-Little Annie's
heart was full, and the tears filed her
sweet little blue eyes as she listened
to the poor soldiers snfferings, when
sick and wounded, SO far from all the
dear friends that would watch over
and comfort them.
"How | wish l could do something
for them," said little Annie.
"Well, daughter" said her mother,
/" the orchard is overladen this year,
and it is busy time oil around. If
you choose to 60 about the task of
helping to gather apples. you shall
have every tenth basket you fill for
the soldiers. Father will barrel them
up and send them on to the Society
for you as soon as they are ready"
1t was not long before little Annie's
feet were tripping over the orchard
grass. and her little fingers were az
busy as bees among the rosy and gold
en-cheeked apples. Her zeal did not
die out after tho iirst half-hour's work,
but kept mp bright until the harvest
was gathered. How many poor suf-
fering fellows, away in the camp hos
pitals, blessed the dear little girl who
sent them such timely, refreshing
luxury.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
HORRIBLE DEATH.

A few days since boy about four.
teen years of age, named Jacob We'll,
who was engaged in threshing i'm
Franklin township, Lee county, was
sent distance of three miles on an
errand to his employer, named Adam
Schimbeno. He did not return, but
his absence was accounted for by the
supposition that he was safely engag-
ed or detained, and not until Thurs
day was any remark occasioned, when
the matter was enquired into. 1t was
found that he had reached his employ
er and had started to return. A fur
-ther search resulted in the finding of
the horse he rode with one stirrup
torn from the saddle, and the bones
and boots and coat of the lad, totally
robbed of the flesh, as is supposed by
hogs, and who had found him shortly
after his death. The horse he rode
was somewhat wild, and it is believ-
ed he was thrown, and dragged to
death by the horse, who finally got
rid of the corpse by its coming in con.
tact with some obstructions. The re.
mains was first discovered by seeing
hog running with one of the boys
boots in his mouth. The lads father
resides in Franklin Township.-Hark.
cue
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
4ostrp.
GOD BLESS LITTLE CHILDREN.

God bless the little children,
We meet them everywhere
We hear their voices round our hearth,
Their footsteps on our stair,
Their kindly hearts are swelling o'er
With mirthfulness and glee
God bless the little children
Wherever they may be.
We meet them meath the gipsy tent,
With visage swarth and dun,
And eyes that sparkle as they glance
With roguery and fun;
We find them fishing i'm the brook
For minnows, with pin,
Or creeping through the hazel bush
The linnet's nest to win.
We meet them in the lordly hall,
Their stately fathers pride,
We meet them in the poor mans cot
He hath no wealth beside,
Along the city's crowded street
They hurl the hoop or ball
We find them meath the pauper's roof
The saddest sight of all.
For there they win no fathers love,
No mothers tender care;
Their only friend the God above,
Who hears the orphans prayer.
But dressed in silk or draped in rags,
In childish grief or glee,
God bless the little children
Wherever they may be.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-14
Moral TaIe.
LUCY LAWTON,
AND HER NEW HOME.


CHATTER l.
"Then you are determined, Lucy
Will nothing induce you to recall your
promise to that Edward Lawton 2"
Nothing, aunt. If my heart
prompted (which it does not-I
would never risk my happiness with
the curse of a broken promise pursu-
ing me, as it most assuredly would
do.n
But think, Lucy The one who
now offers himself, is so well suited
to You? Handsome, intelligent, and
in business that would give yeu a
luxurious home and that home, close
by me, who loves you so dearly
should be proud, Lucy, to point to
you as my niece, and the wife of DR..
Burton. While the other and she
hesitated.
"Well, what Of the other, aunt "
and look half defiant came into the
young girls eyes.
Nothing but his poverty. How
can you, reared as you have been, be
content with home in those horrid
woods? A log cabin, perhaps, with
backwoodsmen and their families for
associates Do not do this foolish
thing, Lucy! Ii not for my sake,
think of your dead mother, and my
sister, and recall your promise Ask
to be released, and no one but saw.
age would refuse you.'
my mothers early home was in as
wild place, as the one to which l
expect to 60. Your father, and hers,
was a pioneer in the wilderness, as
have often heard her say"
Mrs. Lindsey WINGED little, but
quickly replied
"True, and good reason why her
child should never be subjected to the
privations that her grandparents en-
dured."
am sorry to displease you, aunt,
but l engaged myself to Edward
Lawton with your consent, and you
must not blame me if now refuse to
break the engagement"
But that was before his father
died insolvent--or nearly so,--and |
expected to see you move in circle
suited to the manner in which you
had been reared" Aud tears of vexa
tion sprang to the lady's eyes.
Lucy came softly TO the chair, and
kissing her cheek, said:
Forgive me, aunt 1t must be
SO. Edward comes in two weeks, and
expects me to return with him to his
Western home and have no wish
that it should be otherwise"
$50 soon? And must give your
answer to Dr. Burton, and tell him you
are TO be married in two weeks |? You
might have done so much better, Lu
cy |"
In due time the wedding came
and the proud little woman, by il,
splendor, tried to hide from her friend.
what she considered the sacrifice o
her beautiful niece. DR.. Burton wa.
among the guests, and took no pains
to conceal his disappointment.