Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-09-11

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shture chosen is largely Republican,
Wilmington, Delaware, has just electeda
Republican Mayor.
There seems to be no doubt that the
Copperheads of California were allowed
to elect their candidates for Governor and
other State offices, by the pickering and
unreasonable differences which prevailed
in the Republican ranks of that State.
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NJ. H. Jolly, Esq, has commenced the
publication OF a new paper ut Tyrone, Pa.
called the Bulletin.
The Preston w. Va Journal, publish
ed by Levi Klauser, formerly of Perry
county, has been enlarged 20 seven col
umn paper, and presents a creditable APP
pearance.
The Juniata Republican appeared last
week with David Wilson, Esq, as its
editor. 1t has our ticket at its head, and
advocates republican principles.
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Eleven persons were fined ten dollars
each in New York on Tuesday, for cruelty
to animals.
Captain w. II. Hale, of the marine
NOl hiCtA at CAi@AtOAEa ORl LliG -)NL4 uAl'r
Of yellow fever.
A programme Of the dcdicatory ccre-
monies Of the Antietam National Gene
terry is nearly perfected.
Two hundred vessels will be employed
this season in shipping oysters from Nor
folk to Northern ports.
Duncan, the Andersonville COmmissa-
~, sentenced to fifteen years imprisou-
ment. has escaped from Fort Pulaski.
General Sickles has appointed Beverly
Nash, prominent negro Of Columbia, >.
c., to be a Police Magistrate. Nash Is a
copperhead.
Nine persons were drowned by the up
setting of boat OH Lake Ontaria, near
the town OF Ontario, on Tuesday after
noon of last week.
Il is reported that the Church property
in Austria is to be sold, and the proceeds
applied to the liquidation of the national
debt.
Ex-senator James A. McDougall of
California, died at Albany, y. y, on
Tuesday a week. Ex-Governor VIM. l..
Campbell of Tennessee also died recently.
+. c. Arms, Esq, OF Sunbury, has been
called to Missouri to take charge, as Chief
Engineer, OF new railroad now in pro-
greas between Louisiana and St. Louis.
For every three days of active service,
General Sheridan sent in two captured
rebel flags, and for every two days cap
tured cannon.
In Berkeley, Va, one day last week,
son of Mr.. Fielding took u notion tor
watermelon, and ate whole one, some
apples and candy, and on Sunday night
VAS corpse.
y little daughter Of VIM. Chaddback.
Of Phelps, Ontario county, y. Y, lately
got hold Of q bottle containing poison,
drank the contents, and was dead in Il
few minutes.
The planning mill of Lanox, Palmer &
Co., at Golden City, Colorado, was re-
Gently burned. II was one of the largest
establishments of the kind in the Terri
tory. Loss, SO, 900; no insurance.
The Republican State Convention OF
Wisconsin met at Madison on Wednes
day. Resolutions were unanimously
adopted complimenting Stanton and Sher-
idan, and favoring the impeachment Of
President Johnson.
One and half bushels OF Goodrich po-
tatoes were planted by John Van Tassal,
Of Fishkill Plains, last spring. They
have just been dug, and I26 bushels have
been produced, all large and free from
disease.
The London Review, after picturing the
social status of Ramsgate, Margate, and
other English watering places, thinks
that if God made the country, and man
the town, the devil must be responsible
for the seaside.
An excited horse race took place Mt If
fezhein, near Baden, OH Tuesday IA week.
Many of tine notabilitics of Europe were
on the ground. All the nations Of tho
Continent and Great Britain had equine
representatives. France carried OF the
prize.
What spectacle is presented before the
country to-day! General Sickles, a gal
liant and accomplished officer, is rakcd
over the legal Goals by lawyer who, dur
ing the rebellion, was removed from office
because he would not take the oath OF