Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-10-16
EiiDDings.

/ Clippings.
! Elias Howe, Jr.. the inventor ot the
Sewing Machine, died on the night Of
+ the 81 inst, in Brooklyn, y. \.
The frame barn on the farm OF Col. a.
( X. Mcclure, near ChamberSburg, was de
stroyed by fire last week. Itcaught from
a lantern.
James Cunningham, Of Huntingdon,
conductor OF the local freight, bad his
right hand badly injured in coupling cars
al Tyrone on Friday morning.
Col. Mcfarland has located the new
Soldiers' Orphans School at Mercer, Pa,
the citizens having purchased a fine un-
occupied building for that purpose. The
school Will be opened in November.
Col Josiah McAfee, son Of Mrs. McA-
fee of Juniata county, and nephew Of
Wilson McAfee, esq, Of Perry county,
has been appointed Adjutant General OF
Kansas, by the Governor Of that State.
Twenty thousand gallons of whisky
were distilled i'm Richmond, Va. during
September. Only five thousand gallons
We're distilled during July. At this rate
Virginia viii soon he reconstructed.
An Illinois chap, in describing a gale
OF wind, says: "A white dog, while at
tempting 10 weather the gale, was caught
with his mouth open and turned complete
IL inside out.
a New York paper wants the ladies to
play base ball, maintaining that it is
worth twice IS much as this inSipid.
Amanda-Arabelia game called Crow X, ,
which is nothing but a mighty poor kind
OF billiards on the grass"
\ party of thieves who have deprecated
for some months on the Pacific Railroad,
have been arrested at Omaha, Nebraska,
and some OF the stolen property recover
ed. The thieves We're connected with the
railroad.
EVERY VARIETY OF APPARATUS for
weighing according To all known stand
ards may he had from the mamuG,ct0ry
Of Fairbanks Standard Scales. They are
/ in use all over the world, and received
/ the highest premium at the great Paris
Exposition.
/ William, son of John Mccoy, aged
about ten years, had his left hand 80 terri
bly, mangled by having it caught in the
brick machine whilst i'm motion. ut the
river bank above MitllintOwn. Oh W ednes-
day last, as to require amputution AT the
wrist.
LIFE HAS FEW CHARMS for the Dys-
peptic, which Is not To be wondered at
when We take into accodnt the amount OF
bodily and mental suffering that this dis
trCssing malady generates. The Peruvian
Syrup a proloxide Of IRON has cured
thousands who were suffering from the
disease.
Broad street, Philadelphia, is eleven
miles and halflong, in one straight line.
and one hundred and fifteen feet W de
extending from League Island, on the
Delaware river, TO the northern boundary
Of tile present city limits. At the present
rate OF improvement, it will require only
a few years TO make it the most magnifi-
cent thoFoughfare in the world.
During the month Of September there
was shipped from Hilliamsport, by canal
II, ,446, so feet Of Iunber, and by railroad
9,l72, 500 feet, being a total of -. .6l9, ,3OU
feet During the same time there was
shipped from Lock Haven and other points
west of that place by both the above
modes of conveyance, 5, ,0S7 800 feet. The
total shipments from WiiliamspOrt east
ward, since the first of January TO this
date, amount to l34, ,974, 100 feet, and from
Lock Haven and vicinity 3S.33l 100 ieet,
making a grand total of lT3, ,3J5, so feet OF
lumber shipped from the places named in
nine months. 1t will be seen that Will
Transport enjoys about four-fifths of this
immense trade.
-
urday night, 5th October. 1t broke out
in the steam tannery of Reber d Bro,
which was entirely consumed with all its
contents, including over five hundred
cords of bark. The loss on the tannery
/ is so, ,OO0, on which there is an insurance
of only s. 900; in the IsycOming and York
companies, but one of the companies re-
/ fuses to pay its portion OF the insurance,
amounting 10 $1,000, on the ground that
a steam engine had been put into the
building subsequent to issuing the policy.
/ Two or three other buildings were also
/ destroyed, one of which belonged to Chas.
Stout. Mr.. Stout's loss is about 81 900,
with no insurance. The origin of the fire
/ IS unknown.
/ The Mitonian says that on Teusday a
week last "A sad accident occurred at the
! new Lutheran Church on Mahoning
street, in that place, whereby four men
were badly iDjured-onc of them fatally.
! The walls of the church are up and at the
! time of the accident Joseph w Welch, Chas.
! I\ramm, Jacob Follmer and William
! Waltman were on a scatfolding which
had been erected, running from the 1ear
wall of the church to girdt which crosses
the side walls about thirty feet from the
rear, and were preparing to raise roof
stool, when the scafiolding gave way and
precipitated all of them through to the
second story, where the joists had been
put in, but no floor was yet laid. Kramm,
Follmer and Waltman lodged on the floor,
but Welch, who was a very heavy man,
broke one Of the joists, and falling to the
first floor passed between two joists and
landed on the bottom of the cellar, dis
tance of about sixty feet below the spot
on which he was standing when the acci-
dent occurred. His injuries were so Sc
we're that he died in few hours after the
accident. The others were not danger
ously injured.
nA- A son of Scranton, the founder