Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-03-14
The Legislature requested Cowan TO resicn.

The Legislature requested Cewan to resign.
An Elephant was sold at Daubury Conn, few
days since for $4,000.
The bill the better security Of cattle against the
rinderpe>t has become a law.
man named Peter Bota, was arrested in Lycom-
ing county last week for killing ms wife with hstchet
She was formerly Phebe Real Of Harrisburg
The cop convention at Harrisburg wanted n r,,n
Cen Meade as their candidate for Governor, bQt he
wouldn't bite at the bait.
girl. hound to q family al Litchfei. Montgomery
county Ill., recently hung little boy retaliation
Tor whipping his mother had given her.
oA1tSg AaGg- NJ e. sj@Phens - ReP5fan w wa las, week
Republican gain Of 3ll since last year
SKY gold watches and a quantity of ievgeIry vy.r.
/ recently.
A house and store room in PETERSBURG, Huntingdon
county, owned and pied by Wn. Moore & Sans
WAS destroyed by nre on the 9th inst.
-Dn the following day house and barn. owned and
occupied hy games Waters in West towns i, I,Iir
half mile Of Petersburg caught fire and rLIti -,
( loss OF some $1UJJ.
The evidence in the trial of Major Gee late com
mander OF Salisbury Prison. shows that of 10 GMp
months.
Colonel Bowers OF General Grants IF was crush
cd 70 death between tws cars on the Hudson Rivar
Railroad week he was tyIagJo yet on >, ran
winch had Just started.
Three robbers we're found dead in :. drug store. in
Charleston, :. G. Ou the I'd nit. They had saran
poisoned food which HAD been p..ce,i m n con-
Yeuent position il the store.
The fremen OF New Orleans had a ,ragd parade
last sunday. a brass band i'll the I..e-.iIn I1yI
the Bonnie HIue Flag ana u.itr f.t-f III. -.
which it was placed uuaer arrest.
g.r. aged ami . 10y aged ;. children gf john
SAeHr.ler ui lower AauIsor tgsn-!p Igg, t..,,.f '
"e!" .eaty ki~ - t.-e explosion oi l-se! she'll.
with which icy wee paying.
Generals Iaora"-. emerson. and many other OIL
ccr- have testified lei,le i.ie Ee.cuS,r..t,u Com
South Tny testimony taken ey tile committee IN re-
gard 10 AIAHi.-1s Is more ta5u!-a.c.
1t has been agreed ugon ty the Committee Of
Ways and Means 10 make a considerable rrduc-
ton IL the Internal revenue taxation and ESPECIALLY
freight.
over deficit OF <Ssoe0 u-t discovered the account
of the County Treasurer Ihai official insists that
the lnpney has been stolen from is sale, ans, that A,.
has not uIssPproPrated auy Of it.
The atmosphere Of Cincinnati was disturbed on
thursday, by The flight prod Ous ioe!> of geons.
the whIr q whose u,nUneraDie wings al times was
heard like the rush -! the wind through = lesfy val
dcrAess
4 lev weeks ago James McQuiIlan. a boy Of about
eight Years, nad Ills fractured al TWO different
places and severely confused from a loaded cart
wilcn passed over it the Howard ore mines,
centre county.
A message was received from Governor Curtin on
Monday, Fetong the act allowing the PLIiairi pima
and Enc roroad to construct branches lie approves
the general features UUr riIuLs II w. ~ 6i.,,.
100 much power IN the selection CI routes
Dunng the operation of cleaning well No &c, T.
Ho!mden farm, Pllhole, they struck large cTevice
IN the rock, aud using the sand pump they brought
10 the surface 1--we hsh having eyes. Of a brown
color and some four inches long! The ish was
brought from depth OF six hundred and sixteen feet.
A message was received in Congress from the Pres
laent on tuesday week, transmitting copies o. his
correspondence with provisional governors of States
lately IN rebellion All Of the governors were rcqur-
Cd 10 take the oath prescribed by Congress, except
Mr. Holden o. North Carolina, and the omission ii
that ease was accidental.
We learn from the Altoona Tribune taat a man was
Instantly killed on tie PENNSYLVANIA Railr1aJ near
SVmmerhlii. on Thursday afternoon Of last week. He
vas walking westward Oh the north track, and was
struck by the engine of the thrUught freight gong
west When discovered BY the engineer. IL was Iul-
possible {" check up III time TO prevent the accident.
Ihe unfortunate man carried oicloln bag IN
which set Of carpenters tools, and shirts.
1xyslX cents were found upon his person. bat moth
ing ty winch his name residence could be sscer-
tanned. lie about % years uI age.