Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-01-20

III 1lentOn, N. j., last tuesday,
Adam Seeger and his wife had violent
quarrel, and he was heard to threaten
to hang her before night. Sure enough,
before night she was found hanging in
the cellar, quite dead.
The New Orleans Picayune ac-
knowledges the receipt of a potato
weighing t,oenty-sic pounds from Mata-
moras. The donors remark that they
would have sent a bigger one, only
freights are so high =!
The new King of Greece has gain
ed the favor of his subjects. He goes
to church regularly, frequents the
markets and bazaars, talks with com
mon folks, and seems inclined to be
amiable and just.
Nathan Wodell disappeared very
suddenly from Westport, Mass, in
1916, and has now returned after an
absence Of forty-seven and a half years.
During that time he has travelled the
wide world over
Out of the twenty-one men for
merly in school district No 13 in Iras
burg, Vermont, fifteen have enlisted,
leaving not single military subject at
home, the youngest man being forty
six years of age.
Rev Mr.. Van Allen of Iowa, and his
wife, killed on board steamer Brazil.
near Donaldsonville, Mississippi river,
Dec. IL, by shot from rebel battery
on the shore, were going South as
teachers of freedom.
Edwin H. Ewing, one of the ablest
Of the rebel lawyers in Tennessee, has
declared his purpose to accept the
Presidents proffer Of pardon, and re-
turn to his allegiance Many others
are doing so, and their numbers will
constantly increase.
The Huntingdon Globe saws that
on Sunday night of last week, the
mansion house of Peter Ripple. in
Cromwell township, occupied by Elihu
Brown, was destroyed by fire, commu-
nicated from the chimney. The loss
to Mr.. Ripple is $500, and to Mr.. Brown
about $50.
"A letter from Pesth, of the goth
OF November says that there has been
no rain in Hungary for nearly two
years. As a consequence, the crops
have come to nothing, and the t1ocks
and herds are dying, disease having
followed the drouth The writer esti-
mates the loss at sixty million dollars.
The steamer America, from New York
tlptnhnr 4
January lst She brought news from
Valparaiso that the cathedral in Santiago,
Chill, caught fire on the 14th ult., when
densely crowed with human beings. The
doors were closed by the pressure of the
crowd. The interior Of the building being
ornamented with light drapery and other
lntiammable material, was soon in blaze,
and the flames spread rapidly throughout
the whole building, aud most of the peo-
pie IN 1t were either burned or crushed to
death Some one thousand nine hundred
and titty dead bodies, mostly of women and
children, had been recovered from the
ruins.
Mrs. Partington's Ike goes a sol.
dier Mrs. Partington makes fare
well address: Ike my son, stand up
while l address you-hold my bonnet
and specks. Fellow soldiers-It is the
abandoned duty for all to be patriarch
lai In these times, and to hand down,
nnlmpaired, the glorious flag of succeed
ing generations. (Here Ike commenced
counting off the new fashioned cheer.
swinging the old bonnet up and down
as he went in one, two, three-tiger.) J
March hesitatingly into the contented
held, and if a rebel demands your
quarters, tell him you had but three
and the last one is spent; then, if he
won't quit and leave, quit yourselflike
man, and may yon have a glorious
campaign of it,