Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-02-27

Es1aP DCLttuIc oiaJ ulSu Ste DSAASA"AA'N
last week.
Gsg- Major Gen. Burnside has been
unanimously renominated for Governor
of Rhode Island.
BSa. The county bridge over sherman 5
creek at Duncanuon was carried OH oy
the recent flood.
n2E Since the hegira of the dead heads,
it is said the railroad has dispensed with
Il car from several of the trains.
pSa. Cofiroth and Lloyd rs assessors,
and Swope and McCandiess as collectors
III this State, all appointed for political
purposes, have been rejected.
G.sy@ Among those members of Con-
grcss whom rumor named as bargaining or
compromising with the President, we no.
ticc the name of y. y. Barker.
les" Surratt has been handed over to the
civil authorities at Washington for trial
as an accomplice III the assassination of
President Lincoln. The copperheads are
already weeping.
BsAn Senator salisbury, Of Delaware, a
violent c)pperhead, Joined the congress
siOnu temperance society on Saturday
Iii gnt Il week, and next morning violated
tle pledge.
Ia" In trouble-the Johnson democra-
cy, because they fear he will make another
swing round the circle, dropping them in
thorny and barren wastes, where not an
office is to be had
Ezz3" The ,5elinsgrove Times says that
the Directors of the Middlecreek r.. II.
Go. have reduced the salaries of the Off
GERS. That paper also condemns the per
centage allowed for obtaining stock.
Hs2 The bill making the Superinten-
dent of Public Printing elective by the
Senate, has become law. The concern
was fast becoming a coppcrhcad loating
shop.
Mrs. Surratt was murdered by an lille
sal military comnission.-Scti
Times.
What's your opinion about President
Lineoln's murder?
HeA- The copperhead papers will never
forgive the Brave Boys in Bluen for
putting down the rebellion-almost every
sheet of that stamp we pick up containing
some article either libeling them or those
who gloried in their success.
pS9. At the funeral of Capt Joseph
Scovern, at Scranton, Pa, on the 18th
inst, one man was fatally and two seri-
ously Injured, by the premature discharge
OF Il piece of artillery used i'll firing the
salute.
BE- Gov. Gcary is putting stop to the
practice Of the Legislature of passing bills
which the constitution has placed in the
power of courts. He avows his belief that
all such acts passed by the legislature are
null and VOID.
k12y~ The Bounty Bill which passed the
House, gives each three year or during the
war soldier 1888 per month, so that many
will receive an addition to the Sl00 here
tofore voted them. We hope the Senate
will also pass it, whether the copperheads
like it or not.
H2A The Union Hotel, in Altoona,
krummecl'S store room, with its con-
,nts, and that portion of the Row contain
ing Ehringer's saloon, kunzs clothing
store. and Eckels tobacco and segar store,
Wee destroyed by fire on Tuesday morn
ing Of last week.
n.a- The Supreme Court for the Dis
trict of Columbia has decided that it is
not bound to admit rebels to practice there,
Notwithstanding the Supreme Court has
admitted them, but that district court
can make its own rules as to who should
be allowed to practice.
asa4 The tenure of Office bill, which
will prevent an otficeholder from being
kicked IN an out at the pleasure of politi-
cal mOuntebanks, has become IA law. Its
necessity may be inferred from the fact
that by the Official report more than 1900
removals We're made last fan for political
causes, or in other words no cause at all.
l@23~ The decision of the Supreme Court
OF the United States in the case of the
Mayor OF New York VS.. Sheffield. which
was lately decided, establishes the Iiabil-
ity of municipalities to pay damages for
injuries to citizens, which arise III conse-
qucnce OF negligence of the corporation to
keep streets in order or suffering obstruc-
tions OH them.
Es25 y Richmond paper thinks that if
the present generation OF New England
public men had been more sOundIy fiOr-
ged when they were school boys, they
would probably have been better men
The Springfield Republican happily re-
torts: " Ii the present race of Southern
leaders had been fiogged at all in their
boyh0od, instead of amusing themselves
by tlogging young darkies, we should not
have been under the painful necessity of
flogging them i'll their old age, and we
fear the job is not yet half done"
Terrible Accident-A terrible and prob
ably fatal accident occurred in G.. p. Mar
kle 4 Co.'S paper mill, at West Newton.
on Jan. 30th Mr.. Beamer, the foreman
OF the wood and straw department. was
accidentally caughtin the main shaft, and
his body twisted around it six times. So
great was the velocity of the shaft that the
boots and socks were hurled from the un-
fortunate mans feet, and his clothing
completely torn from his body, with the
exception Of Il small piece Of his shirt
sleeve. His recovery is extremely doubt
full
Flood at JOhaStOwn-Th ice in the
Stony creek and Conemaugh broke mn on
the night Of the l4th inst, and gorped be-
low Johnstown, holding the water back
and submerging the lower part of town
In some of the streets the water was sew
eral feet deep. Communication with the
railroad station was cut off, and for time
1t was feared that the whole town would
be drowned out" At midnight the
/ gorge gave way, and the only material