Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-07-31
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Miramon have been embalmed.
Dog oil is administered to consumptives
in Germany.
Colored Sons of Temperance are organ
izing in Alabama.
The Atlanta GA Era hoists the Grant
flag for President.
Carlotta has left Miramar and gone TO
Belgium.
The British House of Commons has
abolished the Church rates.
On the 18th inst, lightning struck the
Commercial Bank building at Havana,
and killed the cashier.
The issuing of rations to the destitute is
70 be discontinued at Richmond, Va, af-
Ter the lst prox.
Large deposits of tin have been dfscov-
cred in Missouri, not far from Pilot Knob
aud Iron Mountain.
The public debt statement for the pres
ent month will show a decrease Of be
tween two and three millions.
About one-half OF Table Rock. Niagara,
was blown of 10y means of blast of two
hundred pounds of powder.
From twenty TO thirty thousand peas
ants from the Italian provinces went 10
Rome on foot for st. Peters Day.
Keily's Island, in Lake Erie, is expect
I'd this year to produce grapes enough for
30, 900 gallons of wine
Numerous farmers Of Niagara county.
New York, have contracted to deliver
wheat to the millers of Lock port AT - per
bushel.
1t is authoritativelya announced that the
Headquarters Of the Republican State
Central Committee will be AT Harrisburg
until otherwise ordered.
In selecting officers for the Indian Peace
Commission, the President will appoint
such Is have not been in any way engag-
ed in the pending Indian war.
There i, this season, an extraordinary
abundance of cereal crops in Egypt. Pri-
eeS of grain have fallen nearly two-thirts
since harvest commenced.
Most of the gold now going 10 Europe
: to pay the expenses of persons now
travelling there, and il is estimated that
they viii spend $40, 900, 600 this season.
The citizens of West Chester have had
executed a bust of Gen. Anthony Wayne,
/ of revolutionary fame, which they intend
placing in the court house of that place.
The coffin factory of Crane, Reed & Co..
n Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire on
Tuesday night. Loss from SO, coo to
>lDO0JJ. Insurance about two-thir Is the
mount of the loss.
1t is confidently predicted 10y til Tex
al cotton factors that the growing cotton
"rop will be equal to that of last year. The
yield is estimated at from lS0, 900 tc 2IO,-
ND bales.
y corps Of typographical engineers, un-
Ter the direction Of General WeitzeI, com
nenced the preliminary work for surveys
IN Tie canal around the Ohio Falls, near
Louisville, Ky.
Two " bruisers," named Phil. ATcCon-
nell and Stephen DonnelIy, INDUCED in q
prize fight on the Hackensack road, near
New York. Donnelly came off victor af-
Ter a struggle of twenty-five rounds.
Strengthened circumstances have com
PEELED Stonewall Jackson's 5 widow to sell
the Generals war horse to a citizen of Ma
con, GA. Where are our Northern cop
perheads?
The Mobile Advertiser endorses the
nomination of a colored man for an i'm
portant office, with the remark, "A de-
cent negro in preference to a white seal
iawag.'
Wet your wrists before drinking cold
water, if you are at all heated. The effect j.
immediate and grateful, and the danger
Of fatal results may be warded off by this
simple precaution.
Three hundreda and twenty-nine French
political convicts We're sent to Guavana !.
lj7 returned to France under an anne sty:
"A went to foreign countries - remained
in Guayana, and I33 died. Horrible cli-
mate.
The Oxford Me Democrat saws that
man in that vicinity has built summer
house in the top of huge willow tree,
and connected it with the second story OF
his house by a lattice bridge about fifteen
feet in length.
The st. Louis Democrat thinks we do
not want Mexico. "Who, - it asks, "would
buy a volcano for a quiet country resi-
dence? Mexico is a rebellious South. n
Utah, and an Indian war, rolled into one
chronic nuisance. What do we want if
for ?"
Some time since a gentleman died in
the town Of X, who, during life, refused
to believe in another world. Two or three
weeks after his demise his wife received
through medium communication
which read as follows -" Dear wife. I
now do believe Please send me my thin
Clothes"
A small party of ladies and gentlemen
were recently bclated on a mountain near
Paterson, n. J., lost their way, and wan
dered about for hours in the pitchy dark
ness. At one time a flash of lightning re-
vealed to them their situation, about two
feet from the edge of a stone quarry, one
hundred feet deep, into which, in another
second, the whole four would have been
precipitated.
During the last Congressional campaign
in Orange county, New York, Gen. Van
Wyck, who was running for Congress in
that district, and who was elected, lost
pair of valuable gold spectacles during a
temporary stoppage of train of cars at
Otterhill station, in that county, near
bridge over a stream. A few days ago
the identical "specs" were found in the
abdomen of huge pickerel caught at that