Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-05-01
asr The post office at Lock Haven was

Ia The post office at Lock Haven was
robbed on the night of the 26th April.
nea- Forty-four COWS were burnt in a
shed at st. Louis a few weeks ago.
BSF A number of shad were caught at
Newport on the 22d April.
nagM Mt. Union has been incorporated
into Borough.
sEAThe store of Cunningham and Car
mon, Huntingdon, was burglariously en-
tered on Friday week and robbed OF SO.
EGETwo boys jumped from a coal train
at Huntingdon last week. One was bad
ly scared and a little bruised, and the 9TH
er had a thumb badly injured.
ESPThe act abolishing the State tax on
personal property and substituting a spe-
cial assessment on each county dId not
become law.
E@s- George Weaver, the incendiary,
plead guilty to the charge at Harrisburg.
While on the way to prison he attempted
an escape, but was recaptured.
Elg~ A law has passed the Virginia leg
isIature levying a tax of 50 cents on the
S1O0 to pay the four per cent. annual in
terest of the public debt.
ESg~ The Mobile Advertiser chronicles
it as remarkable fact that a political
meeting was recently held there, without
row or the firing OF gun or pistol.
Eszg@ AT a fashionable wedding in Bal
timore, short time since, a lady appeared
in a dress wholly of tin foil gOred and
trimmed, with ear rings and bracelets
also of tin.
EGg@ A daughter of Mr.. Bower, aged
years, was severely injured near Centre
vile, few weeks ago, by log rolling
over her VIM. Weirick cut himself
severely in the knee.
hEa- Solomon Brooks, indicted by the
postmaster at Harrisburg for stealing a
key-a most ridiculous charge-has been
acquitted of all blame by the grand jury
ignoring the bill.
By~ Senator Wilson addressed some six
thousand people, OH Monday evening
week, from the Capitol steps in Rich
mond, the majority OF his hearers being
colored.
nca- A heavy shock of an earthquake
was felt at Kansas City on Wednesday
afternoon, but no serious damage was
done. A similar shock was felt at June
tion City, Kansas.
nea- An old lady, named Mungold, re-
siding near the Penna. II. r. Warehouse,
was caught between two freight trains,
in the yard in Altoona and instantly
killed.
asasp John Coder, a carpenter of Hun
tingdon, had the ends of his four fingers
and thumb, on his left hand, taken off by
the machinery at Burchinel's planning
mill.
psas Major Elbow suggests that the
Russian Possessions recently purchased
might be protitably colonized by draft
skedadlers, bounty jumpers, and die-in-
the-last-ditch rebels.
Eaz@ 4 despatch from Denver, C0lora-
do, says that Lookout Station, on the
Smoky Hill route, was destroyed by the
Cheyenne Indians. Three men were
murdered and scalped. General Hancock
is supposed to be on the war path.
Ee- The Dayton, Ohio Journal of
Wednesday says y Yesterday was the fifty
fourth day since Mr.. Brown, of this city,
tasted food This is the united testimony
of Mr.. Brown and his family, who are
worthy people.
neA- The Philadelphia Daily News,
which has furnished various dishes for
democratic consumption during the past
year, has come to the conclusion that de-
mocracy was the cause of the war, that as
a party it was debauched and corrupt, and
that its most favored men are those who
have fattened on its destruction.
Ez2y~ A proposition has been made that
telegraph operators should telegraph the
storms and the direction they are taking
to all the leading stations, and that can
non be then fired at each county seat an
nouncing the approach of these storms,
so that farmers and others could be on
their guard.
Es2A. General Siclxles has shown that he
is emphatcally the right manin the right
place, by teaching the eX-rebels that their
determination to ignore, on all possible
occasions, and in every manner, the cx-
istence of a Federal Government, must
come to an end. We are told that when
the annual parade of the fire department
took place in Charleston, on the 18th inst,
it had been arranged that there should be
no American flag in the procession-a bit
of negative treason which was promptly
corrected by on order from Gen. Sickles
that there should be no further advance
without the stars and stripes.