Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-08-28

Oourt.-The August session commenced
yesterday morning with an unusual ful
attendance. 1t is doubtful whether more
than few civil causes will be disposed o1
on account of the large number of eases
in the quarter sessions, reported to be
about fifty. Major Elbow says that,
Judging from appearances, the Judges,
clerks, lawyers, grand and petit jurors,
&c. will feel dirty enough by the end
of the week to require pretty good scrub
bing.
Butehering. S. Henry has COM
menced butchering again and had fine
lot of meat at market on Tuesday morn
ing, which was offered at comparatively
reasonable rates. He will be in atten-
dance at market regularly hereafter, and
will be pleased to see his old customers
and any number of new ones.
pea- HOuseleepers will find the largest
variety of the best and safest Tin Fruit
Cans known, at the Big Coffee Pot Sign.
We have the best Glass Jar i'm the mar
ket; Stone Jars too, with tin lids, and the
whole stock offered at the lowest cash
price. J. IRWIN WALLIS. T2l.2t
bsS~ Lumbermen, Masons, Millers, Me-
chanics, and all men of business should
have Prof. Barnitz's POCKET ACCOUNT
ANT, price p cents, sent postpaid by ad-
dressing G. r. Frysinger, Lewistown, Pa
Chas. H. Henderson, in the ?. O., is the
agent for beautifully engraved Photo
graph Marriage Certificate, suitable for
framing, and arranged to hold the photo
graphs of the happy couple. Price 81 90.
The patent democracy assembled inthe
Town Hall on Monday evening, on which
occasion several speakers disgorged the
usual quantity of democratic bile incident
to the season.
Scenery on the Juniata.-Col Forney,
in one of his letters from Europe. saws
the scenery on the Rhine is not to be COM /
pared for moment with the Narrows be- |
low town:
The Rhine, like a great many other |.
things earthly, and especially like Il great
many things European, suffers from being
over-praised. The reality falls so very far .
short OF the eXtravagant authorization, that
you are little annoyed ut the deception.
Take away the history (the best part of il .
and the splendid efforts of
Art, aided by the munificence of princes
and capitalists, to adorn every village,
valley, peak, hamlet, island railroad sta
ton and tunnel, and | can name twenty
American streams, all of them surprising
1t in length and breath, and every one of
cqualllng 1t i'll natural beauty. The Juni-
alta with dozen such pictures as that
which fascinateS the traveller as he ap-
proacheS LeWistoWn on the Pennslvva-
MIA RallrOad-the SuSquehanna. with its
superb Wyoming scenery-the Delaware. !
with its Water Gap-the Hudson, with its
endless panorama OF lovclincss-Lakei
George and its isIandS-nOt to speak OF
the rivers of the South, from the Potomac
to the Pedee, and from Chesapeake Bay
10 the Gulf of MeNicO-are finer studies
for the painter and more perfect combina-
tIons Of unassisted nature"
In addition to this the scenery on the
Rhine, and indeed throughout Europe, is
now held for a show from which owners
derive Il considerable revenue, while ourI
)wn is almost in its natural wild state
md can be viewed without being dogged
" a guide or an itinerant peddler of no.
ions, both of whom make it a trade to
accompany or follow travellers.
A Woman in White-NoHce to Pussc77-
,ers on the Pennsylvania Railroad-We
ODV the fOll0Wiucr article from tho Roll