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Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-04-03

| lott have gulped down moderate-sized
! farm-two or three canal boats-a drove
| of horses and mules, and harness enough
to fill a saddler's shop. And what do you
think | got for helping the whisky men
to all this? Why I'll tell you, several
times, when my money was all gone, L
was told, =" Get out ofthis, you id drunk
en- scoundrelv'
"Ohl butt says a fine gentleman who
has brandy bottles at home or barrel of
whisky in his cellar, "you had no busi-
ness to get drunk; I don't go to such pla-
ces." That's fine talk, my good fellow,
but | am not sure you always 90 to bed
sober And besides, your son goes tOsuch
places if you don't, aye, and gets drunk
too behind your back. Talk like this
won't pass any longer. Men like you put
temptation in our road in almost every
square. ourlegislatOrs do it, your courts
do it, your lawyers do it, your jurors do
it, and because we have our falling in not
being able to resist the evil you put in our
way, you turn round and curse us. Take
the saw logs out of your own eyes, you
self-impOrtant gentlemen, before you ask
us to remove our rafters.
We want willing hands to help us out
OF the mire. We have tried to keep out
of the way, but you will put it before us
where we can't help seeing it, and where
us to come in and take drink If we
cannot resist, that one drink is our ruin,
Tor every body knows that when q good
resolution is once broken, it don't take
much to break it ten times over | say
wipe out every tavern that is crop shop.
Let those who keep them go TO work as
we do, and they can make living with
out selling whisky. And wipe out all
them places called saloons and beer shops.
tnl NrnII Il H.
where hell delights in. / believe firmly
if hell was to hold council in order to
put down the temperancers some sIy
devils would be selected to creep about a
parcel of men in this town and now and
then whisper in their ears, Keep Il saloon
you needn't work half as hard as you do.
and it paysn Like suckers, these fellows
lrst nlbble at the bait, then take it and
are caught. When that is done. the
ueVll's work IS done, just as he knows
he's got us safe in his net if he gets us TO
take one drink. At first the chap goes to
work in his saloon honestly; he goes to
church, and says what pity it is fellows
Ike us spend all our money for drink!
But church-going don't last lOng-he
thinks the preacher hit him, and he's not
Il going to stand it. Temperance is poll
tics, and he's opposed to have it in poll
tics. So the little devil who has got to
ne MS Suarulan angel whispers to him.
Next the little devil insinuates that it is
no harm to keep little whisky and bran
dy-so many ask for it, and if they don't
get 1t from him they'll get it somewhere
else, and besides there's profit in it! At
ter that the little devil can leave-his
work is done-the sucker is hooked-and
from that time forward whisky selling is
a right and duty, and if men get drunk.
spend their money, and leave their wives
and children in nakedness and poverty,
what is it to him?
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FennsyIyania Eegislature.

Mr.. Hoffman from the committee on
Roads, Bridges and Ferries, reported as
committed, Senate bill No. 8l3. a supple
ment to an act to incorporate the Matta-
wanna bridge company, approved March
8, ISfS.
Mr.. Brown presented a peti;ion from
citizens OF Juniata county, praying for
the repeal Of an act appropriating one
hundred dollars annually out OF the pub
lie funds of Juniata county for the use of
the Agricultural society of said county
Referred to the Committee on Agricul-
ture
Mr.. Brown read III place an act for the
relief of the sureties OF. Games l.. Nell
vane, late register and recorder of Mitfiiu
county.
The above bill is not intended to re-
lease all the suretics of James l.. Nell
vaine, but only Mrs, Fear, poor widow
woman who besides a little property in
which she lives, has no means whatever.
The other three sureties are willing to pay
their share ON an act being passed releas-
ing the widow
Also, bill No 1907, an act to extend the
term of the county treasurer of Miffiin
county.
The bill appointing John c. SigIer of
LeWistoWn, Adolphus f. Gibboney of
Union, and John Atkinson of McVey-
town, Trustees to sell the Poor House
Farm at public sale, and purchase anoth-
ser suitable tract on which to erect build
ings for the accommodation of the poor
and infirm, has become a law. Our own
opinion has been decidedly in favor of
this measure, and We believe when the
change is made and matters got into
proper trim, taxpayers Of ali shades will
recognize its propriety.
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For the Gazette
FOT Il
Found PAPERS.

A short time ago bundle of papers was
found, no owner for which can be discov-
cred. Someextracts are furnished, which
may perhaps interest the readers of the
Gazette. The following was no doubt in
tended for temperance speech:
Feller Citizens and Ladies and Gentle
men-Hou all know me like an old book
and that l was sometimes called a hard
case. Well, l don't know but YOU were
about right, for the truth is | have some
times done hard things; and if only had
the gift of the CAB as well as my friend on
the right, could tell you string of facts
| that would reach from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg. Licker has cost me a good
deal, more than you'd guess. In the first
place, when I'd get drunk and come home
the old woman-whom by the by | can
never repay for her kindness and forbear-
ance-came in for a share of abuse, and
though | say it with shame, / more than
once cursed her, and for all | know per-
haps struck her. Next it cost me good
deal of money, more than | can tell, but
when / think that ten cents day spent
! for liquor is $36 SO a year-that two drinks
day cost S73 yeaT-that three drinks a
| day cost Sl09.50 a year-and that five
! drinks, which j am sure | have often ta-
ken year in and year out, cost $1S2,5 Il
! year, and that | have done this or worse
Tor more years than / care to tell, the fig
ures stare me in the face and tell me that
Tor half my working days | have been
toiling hard for the whisky makers and
! whisky sellers.
! Other bitter reflections come with these
lacts. have swallowed a good house and
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LEWISTOWN, PA.
Wednesday, April 8, 1867.
TERMS OF SUBSORTPTION,

The GAZETTE Is published every Wednesday
the old stand at S50 in advance 300 at the end
of months.
NJ. Persons receiving papers with a marked on
ii Wilt understand that subscription Is due which
a remittance ought to be made.
Cash Rates of Advertising.
Business Cards {. lines or lcss) year 600
Administration or Executors Notices . so
Auditors do 2 90
Estray Notice, four times . 90
Caution or other short Notices, ] so
Tavern Licenses. single, 90
If more than one, each so
Registers Notices OF Accounts each so
One inch constitutes square, aud all advertising
not otherwise contracted for. or enumerated above,
viii hereafter be charged 20 cents per square for each
insertion.
Joe Work.
Eighth sRcct bills, 81 30 for IS or less; fourth sheet
bills 3 for % 81 ic; aIi sheet bill 81 for % less
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More Patent DemOcracv,

The Selinsgrove Times of last week has
the following denunciations of revival
meetings generally and Methodists in
particular The editor of that intensely
democratic sheet can see no distinction
between weak-minded persons and those
OF stronger brain, or he would not iudis-
criminately condemn all who mightshout
for JOY, as even the sacred volumes record
many instances where the people shouted
and made other noisy demonstrations
from the same motive But for the ex-
tract:
by means Of q bowling revival meet
ing conducted by crazy preacher in the
Methodist church Of Selinsgrove the mast
winter, woman Wits deprived of her
reason aud brought TO nearly the same
fate a5 the one above mentioned. She
fortunately recoved. IF we had a family
and any man, fool or fanatic would come
within our doors with a system of religion
or a mode of worship that will thus de-
throne reason and make people crazy, we
would boot him ont ofdOors. We believe
rs strongly in religious liberty as any man.
ana no one can go farther than we do i'm
desiring TO see each one enjoy perfect lib
erty to worship according to the dictates
of his or her conscience; but making Deo-
pile crazy Is not religion nor religious wor
ship and he who does it deserves the
eXecration of all sensible men inst as
much as do such humbug quacks as DR..
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BsD To preserve your health, cleanse
your blood when it becomes vitiated and
foul. Many are the symptoms which
sound thenote of alarm. Fail not to heed
them. Indigestion, Nausea, Lassitude,
Headache, Wandering Pains, Bilious and
Eruptive Affections, are so many signals
to tell you of disease ia the blood. Re-
move 1t, and they disappear. How? Take
AYERS COMPOUND EXTRACT OF SARsA-
PARILLA. 1t is effectual for its purpose:
purifies the blood, expels disease and re-
stores the deranged functions of the BODY
to their healthy action.-C C0rydon (Ind0
ArguS.
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For The Grzcttt

| For the Gazette.
NEssRs. EDITORS: 1T was my privi-
| lege lately to spend few days in Kisha-
! coquillas Valley, where l attended the
| East Kishacoquillas Church, on Sabbath,
| 24th February, which is under the pastor
/ al care of Rev. George Elliott. After SER
| vice he announced that Rev. Mr.. Nc
! Clean of LewistOwn would lecture in that
| church on the following Thursday even
! ing, and urged in few but earnest re-
marks the importance of having a full at
| tendance of the congregation, and at the
same time gave notice that he had taken
the liberty of appointing several efficient
committees to distribute tickets, and re-
queSted an interview with the following
persons, chairmen of these committees.
viz: Messrs. John Hayes, Howard Nc
Farland, Williamson NcNitt, Robert NJ.
Taylor, Capt. II. J. McNitt and Gen. ].
p. Taylor.
1t struck me at once that with such en-
ergetic and worthy men, with the assis-
tance | understood they were to have from
some of the young Ladies of the conpre-
cation who have always been so efficient
and active in every effort to promote any
object suggested by their Pastor, success
seemed inevitable. Although they had
but Il few days for operation, several of the
committees disposed of all their tickets on
the first day.
The employees ofthe factories of Messrs.
Mann came almost in a body, as did also
the Montgomery lodge of Good Templars,
many of whom are from those works.
The excellent lecture, which was on the
Dignity of Labor, was especially apDro-
pirate 10 and seemed to be highly appre-
ciated by them. 1t would be doing good
service to the country if the excellent lee
ture of the Rev. Gentleman could be de-
livered to the laboring classes throughout
our entire land.
Professor Sharp and the pupils of his
prosperous Seminary, NOW in charge of
the County Superintendent, Prof Moh-
ler,) We're also present. Indeed such an
interest was manifested, that wagons had
to be procured to accommodate those who
had no means of conveyance. The roads
were in very bad condition, but with all
these disadvantages, there were from $50
to 800 people present. The proceeds
amounted to between $40 and S75, which
| understood was the largest amount re-
ceived by the Lecturer at any one place
The committee feel confident that had
the roads been good 500 would have been
realized. Dr. g. V. Mitchell presided on
the occasion and introduced the speaker
with few pertinent remarks.
John Hayes, esq, offered a resolution
rendering the thanks of the audience to
Mr.. MCLEAN, and was followed by a res
OlutiOn from Gen. Taylor,
That Notwithstanding we were charged
with old fogyism, we can appreciate such
q treat as we have just had"
The Tooth Psalm, to the tune of Old Hun
dred, was sung by the choir, the whole
congregation rising to their feet, which
contributed much to the interest of the
occasion, and the proceedings closed with
the benediction.
/ think l may add that all went home |
pleased with the lecture and impressed |
with the great Importance of the truths !
presented. A LABORER.
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nA. We axe often amused to see the war

BA- We are often amused to see the way
newspapers credit articles. Some months
ago paragraph originating we think up
the river, lay dormant for three or four
weeks, was reproduced by city paper,
and then copied by sundry country papers
and credited to the city press. 4 few
weeks ago the Fulton Republican trans
ferred an item about the Grove estate from
the Gazette into its local column, which
the Harrisburg Telegraph credited to that
paper; and the Mifflfnburg Telegraph
adopts a half-column editorial from the
Gazette and credits it En-. We don't com
plain of this, for our exchanges are wei
come to what they can find in our paper.
but don't put Ex. at the end, as that is
more annoying than to see it bodily ap-
propriated.
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KrSEASooU111AS
90 = MI TN q - "

IH1S institution, formerly the proper
\ " OF ,: q. Sharp, and lately purchas-
ed by NJ. Mohler Co. Supt of Miffiin co.,
mas been thoroughly renovated and refur-
nlsned; The water pipes have been relaid
10 the building, and other improvements
made, so as to make it one of the most
desirable Institutions i'll the country. A
teachers class will be formed at the open
ing or the session and will be continued
throughout.
Inc summer session opens on Wednes-
day, April 10th, 1867, and continues
twenty weeks.
TERMS Tuition, boarding, light and
FURNISHED rooms, per session, $4,000.
Ihose desiring admittance should apply
early. For further particulars, address
MARTIN MOHLER, Prin.,
- Lewlssown, Pa, until March 10Th,
10 after which at Kishacouuillas p. O.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-04-03

- GssT The Southern leaders, including
Governors Brown of Georgia and Parsons
'oI Alabama. Generals Lee, Chalmers
and many others, although tbemsaIvaS
dSiranchized, are advising the Soptharn
people TO fall into the support Of the laws
passed by Congress. AS rank and file he
GIN to understand these laws. ana that
they are not half as proscriptive as north
efh copperheads have told them, they are
beginning TO derounce the latter as the
meanest scum of earth. In about a vpo1.
JET Davis, Breckinridge and few other
TRAITORS, ana the democratic copperheads
north, VIII be the only rebels left in the
land. '-'e
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G0mmunit
For the Gazette.

I OF tNe JaZette.
MEssRs. EDITORs.-It is rumored that
the democracy of McVeytown, Oliver
and Bratton, intend holding a grand mass
meeting to discuss the propriety of ANAL
gamation. There is great revolution on
the nigger question here since the South
ern darkeys have votes, and YOU need not
be surprised to hear that nigger babies are
worth almost as much now as they used
to be in the glorious days of ten cent
Jimmy. 2OOt, TOoT, TOOT.
Coon Hollow, March 30. 1867.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-04-03

BsS0 Congress adjourned Oh Saturday
last.
re- The coal regions in SchuyIlzili
county continue to be scenes of murder
riot and incendiarism.
Es3@ The Lindall House, st. Louis. the
largest hotel in the world was DESTROYED
by fire on Saturday night. Loss s., SOC. 900,
BsG" One of the most effective arguments
in favor of abstinence from intoxicatinn
drinks Is their universal and horribj9
ndulteration. Never before has what is
called " doctoring" of liquors and wines
been practiced to the same dangerous ex-
tent That 1t Is now. There is no doubt
that the worst liquor sold by city dealers
twenty years ago was better than tho Wiz
compound of ether, vitriol, coculus indi-
Gus, strychnine, &C., now sold as the best
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-04-03

Adjourned Railroad mceting-Quarter-
iy statement OF Aiiiiiin County Nat. Bank
First class Bar Fixtures at public sale
Proposals for building School House
Dissolution-Sewing Misunderstanding
off at Cost-Parkes''s King of OiI-H.
Frysingcr, Democrat Office, is Agent for
the Worl6's REAPER and Mower--AIl
kinds of New Stock at Selheimer's-Jot
OF New Goods at Brisbin's. &c. &c,
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JOE Work,
Notices of New Advertisements.

Eighth sRcct bils, 81 30 for IS or less fourth sheet
bills S2 for % e i:al sheet bin, 81 for % less
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-04-03

EEDS I'm Recorders Office
- A large number of Deeds which have
peen recorded are and have been for some
years accumulating in the Recorders
Once; SsiI owners are requested to call and
@ diIe mem as soon as convenient as they
ble. AT UITIHt - ISSti"
mh27.4t Reg. q Recorder of 4Iifilin co
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10
ASSETS lilly lsse.
LIABILITIES.
Loss by Portland Fire. July 4th.
THE total amount covered BY tho Rtna Poll

L clos on property destroyed or damaged is
500, ,S54. on which salvage will be about Eve
por cent. Our total loss will not vary much
from s200,00O, and was promptly adjusted and
paid. This sum is FIVE per cent, upon the Conn
pany's assets. figure but slightly exceeding
our Government and State taxes paid last year.
or proportion equal to 5000 loss for a COM
pany Of $l00.00e assets.
Tho necessity for insurance and the value OF
wealthy, strong corporations Is forciby il
lustrated by this fire. Several weak insurance
companies are destroyed. Portland has a
population of 35.00O-was handsomely built,
mostly fine brick or stone stfuctures-protected
and screened with UPWARD of 900 shade trees
bounded on three sides By water-indeed,
literally, almost rising from the ocean--and
with steam fire department-yet it has $l0,-
900 Of property consumed in few hours
upon holiday when its people are least oocu-
pied-from the very Insignificant cause Of a
contemplate firecraclrer.
Remembor the tri1ing origin Of fires that
sweep away in few hours the earnings ot
years. Consider your best interest and give the
Htna Agent call if you need proper insur-
ance security. Pay fair rate Of premium for
a good and genuine article, and with these
lights and experiences before you, procure
your Insurance with shrewd judgment.
Applications for insurance promptly attended
TO by III. A. LITTLETON * CO., Ag'S.
vols No % Madison street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

ray President johnson, it is under.
stood, denies most emphatically that
the recommendation for mercy, in the
case of Mrs, Surratt was ever presented
to him. Whether it was or was not, is a
matter of comparative unimportance.
Had 1t been placed before him, it would
have been more than his life was worth
to have disregarded the Radical cry for
blood which went up all over the land.
Mrs. Surratt was hanged, not because
she was innocent or guilty, not because
the President did or did not see the
recommendation for mercy, but because
Radicalism wanted blood and would
have it. 'f
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

Hn- The visit Of the cholera to the
Plains has caused much desertion from
regiments of troops on duty at infected
points, Many, however, who have left
without leave, viii, it is thought, return
when the scourge disappears.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

nACKER. II. b., DEALER TX PITTS
h1,rq coal. No. 1907 Main ST.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

sg. Mr.. Beach, City Treasurer of Mo-
bile, has been arrested for refusing to
deliver the keys of his Office to Mr..
Bramberg, the appointee of Gen. Pope.
His reason for noncompliance with
Pope's order was based upon Bramberg s
refusal to give bonds.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

BG- A horse committed suicide by
drowning in Mobile the other day. The
Adrertiser says "no reason is known
for the rash act" He may have con-
tracted the mania from the human
species, among whom it has been raging
of late to SO alarming an extent
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

BeA- A collision occurred on the North
ern railroad of New Jersey, Thursday
evening. A fireman was killed and a
brakeman seriously injured. The pas
sengers escaped harm, though an engine
and some freight cars were smashed to
,,innnn
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

nay A man near Phillipsburg, Pa,
few days since, threw his pitchfork
from stack of hay and jumped upon it,
Both tines of the fork entered his abdo-
men, and he died from the effects Of the
wounds in few hours.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

Dea- 1t is reported that the control of
the Stephens branch of the Fenian
Brotherhood is to be rendered to John
Savage. The fifth Of next month has
been set for holding the Roberts conven-
ton at Cleveland
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

s6- A seri.humorous dispatch from
New York says: "The Browns intend
holding convention here soon, to look
after the immense estate left by one of
the family in England. The object of
the meeting is to determine who are the
legal heirs" At what hotel will the
Browns stop2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

E6~ In Wisconsin, recently, a large
meteor was seen, which, after traversing
an arc Of 40 degrees, burst into three
glowing balls, exhibiting red, white, and
blue colors @
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

p@C Chief Justice Chase now pays an
income tax on 100000. 1t may be re-
membered that a few years ago he was a
poor mau. Radiealism has this recon-
mendation al least. il generally pays.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

nen- An exchange notices a birth on a
railroad train and heads il; Born at
,hirty-nine miles an hour" The same
paper adds that If that youih isn't fast
il wont be because be hadn't good
start.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

eS~ A wholesale house in a down
East city advertises: Wanted, women
to sell on commission" We would sug
gest as an addenda: None but the
best looking need apply"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

B4- The Nashville Banner says: 'Hen-
derson Lucas, colored man, reached
town yesterday from Pulaski, whence he
was driven by the Leaguers, who threat
ened to kill him for voting for Etheridge."
The Radicals may well prate of proscrip.
ton at the dismissal Of few negroes
from service by Conservatives in Mem
nhis and elsewhere.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

S6r The latest novelty in connection
with the Paris Exposition is a series Of
dog races The CANNES entered in the
contests are from various countries, and
much national feeling has been enlisted.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

E3- The laying Of the cable between
Cuba and this country has been COM
pleted, and the first dispatch will proba-
bly, be transmitted during the coming
week.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

rg- England is troubled about her
river fisheries The pollution Of the wa
ters by factories, mills and mines has
driven the fnny tribe from the streams.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10

rea-. A clock, with illuminated dials
twelve feet in diameter and bell weigh
ing $500 pounds, is to be put up at Rock
Island Ills) Arsenal. s.z1
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-08-10
MERCHANTS AND CLERKS,
MOTHERS AND FATHERS

who have pale, swarthy, puny, and sickly
children, having little or no appetite, imperfect
digestion, inactive liver, indisposition to play,
but are cross. peevish and dropping about, with
effectually restored to the hloom Of health, by
giving small doses of the King of Chills fsur or
ave times day. Do not forget the name,
Si 90. eSold BY all Druggists. ]. p. DROM-
GooLE Il Co.. Proprietors. 39r Main street,
MemDhis. ..