Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-05-15

- LeWistown, Me, has not had a case
of drunk' in six months.
Eli Lewis, Esq, of York, died last
week, aged IS.
- Frank Pierce was lately on a visit
to his friend JEFF Davis
The first premium for Locomotives
has been awarded to an American engine
at the Paris exhibition.
Gen. Mcclellan is now somewhere
on the Mediterranean, where all is cIiet
as it used to be on the Potomac
ALI the disappointed office hunters
insist that the country is ruined We
suspect that's the reason wheat and flour
are high, and copperheads low.
y. J. Foose, late Lieutenant 9th p .
Cav, and son of Mr.. John s. Foose. O.,
Duncannon, was killed lately in VCnango
county, by the caving in of earth at a cut
on railroad.
Upon a hotel sign. in Richmond
the following words appear in painted,
solemn earnest:
Presidents Policy.
Whisky, Porter Ale and Cigars.
JEFF Davis was taken to Richmond
on Saturday by Gen. Burton, and instead
OF being confined in Libby prison, where
ne used TO put our Union soldiers. was
taken to the Spottswood House.
The MitfiinbuFg Telegraph saws
John Montgomery VanvaIzah. formerly
OF that place, and brother of VIM. Van
Nalzah of Lewisburg, was killed and
scaiped by the Indians near Fort phil
kcarney about the eth ult Mr.. Van Val
zah was mail messenger and on dutv
when killed.
-Geo. Dickinson, young man
about 30 years of age, formerly Of Lock
Haven, committed suicide on Friday ev-
enIng week, by drowning himself in
the Juniata river, at Tyrone. He had
been in Lock Haven for some 49, ai,'H
drinking rather freely
The Lancaster election has deveIoped
ne" coPPerhead dodge on the part of as
SCISSORS and collectors. 1t onnaars tLo
city charter requires taxes of the nracad-
ing year to be paid, and the collector cred
lted all democrats for 1866 and republican,
WorFIngmen for 1857, thus defraudinp 900
OF the latter out of their votes. No mat
ter how dirty the act, there is no troubla
70 find copperhead to do il.
- Cable dispatches from London in
form Us that last Saturday the Peace Con
ference agreed as follows: I,uxcmhnrr,
the bone OF contention, to remain in t6e
possession OF the King of Holland. WHO'S
as" - uuNc LtS naturalization to be pIar-
antced, and, finally, the fortress. as q nra-
cantonary measure, to be RACED and mt
out of the way entirely, on the same nrine
ciple that naughty children are deprived
OF a dangerous plaything. We hone now
that the bad boys Of Europe viii keen
quiet.
- The only true system for laborinp
meu to advocate and adopt is to work b9
the hour, and where practicable bv the
piece. To advocate eight hours a day is
nothing more or less than to advocate
reduction of wages. Besides, ii cannot
be generally introduced, and would there
fore be unequal. What, for instance
would farmer think of eight hours day
during complaining, haymaking, bar-
Yesting,, or blowing? How would it be
III IRON furnaces; in foundries: among con-
ductors, engineers and firemen on rail
roads; among hoatmen on canals. among
fattsmen; among millers; among clerks in
stores, and hundreds of other businesses
which must be driven while time sun-
shine, water, dc. are to he hadp All
these could make bargains by the hour
but certainly not by the day, when eight
hours are TO constitute ii.