Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-03-21

ward College.
VIM. Bengham had leg broken and
was otherwise injured by being caught
in the tackling of steam saw-mih
near Ebensburg on Friday week.
Two negro children were sotd at
Staunton, Va, on the 9th Of April, 1860,
for 5000 cabbage plants. This was the
last sale of the peculiar institution IN
the valley of Virginia.
The United States consul at Bir-
mingham, England, has forwarded 10
General Howard three hundred dol
lars in gold, to be used for the benefit
of the freedmen.
a young girl named Alice Anderson.
employed in the wooden factory at
Johnstown, had the flesh torn from
one of her hands and arm a few days
ago, by being caught i'll cardlng ma
chine.
Charles Robinson, arrested in con-
nection with John Gore for the killing
of policeman Holmes, in Johnstown,
several months ago, was last week
tried and acquitted.
One Of our contemporaries did not is
sue a paper the other week, because
he had too many bills to print. We
last week issued our paper at the usu-
al time, and from Monday morning
to Saturday night finished Il jobs,
from half sheet bills down to cards.
Jacob Blackjack, who recently in
duced young girl to elope with him
from Johnstown, and whom he marri-
ed in Harrisburg, was convicted in the
same Court last week Of bigamy, and
was also found guilty OF breaking in
to barber shop in Johnstown, on the
24th December last.
The Cambria Company's rail mill at
Johnstown has been forced to suspend
operations for the present owing to a
strike among the "hoatcrs,' occasion
ed by the discharge of one of their
number; as they express their deter
mination to hold out so long as the
discharged man remains unemployed.
As a freight train on the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad was going west, and when
about one mile east Of Hillside Station,
Westmorland county; brakesman by
the name Of James Wilson, who was
running on the decks of the cars, miss
cd his footing, and falling to the track
was instantly killed by the cars pass
ing over him.
A man employed on the Tyrone and
Clearfeld railroad, was killed on Sun
day last, about a mile beyond Osceola
He was working on the track, and OBJ
serving all approaching train, stepped
aside, but having lett some tools on
the track, he attempted to remove
them, when the engine coming in full
speed struck him on the head and dash
ed his brains out.
A drunken man in Johnst0wn nam
ed Stearn, by some means fastened bis
neck in hoop skirt hanging upon a
fence on Saturday evening last, and
but for the interference Of policeman
McDole, who discovered him, would
doubtless have strangled himself to
death. The fool probably thought
there was a woman in it.
Seventy-fve Quakers arrived in
Washington last week from Randolph
county, North Carolina, en- route to
settle in Indiane. They state that they
were compelled to leave their old quar-.
ters on account of the continued per-
secution of them by the inhabitants of
North Carolina One hundred and fif
ty more are to start in few days
For several years past persons do,
ing business in Il store room in Johns
town owned by John Hornick, who
with his family occupied the upper
story Of the building, have from time
to time missed money from their tilIs
and goods from their shelves, but not
until Sunday last was the mystery
solved by the discovery Of HornicI
making his way through a neatly con
structed trap-door opening from the
cellar into the store, and hidden be.
meath the counter Hornick and his
wife and an adopted daughter were ia.
ken into custody and sent to Ebens.
burg to await trial for grand larceny.
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