Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-06-19
CEiDDinES.

Es953 Ile GfeekS are reinforcing the
Christian army i'll Gambia.
BS~ Niagara Falls is infested with bur-
glars, pickpockets and gamblers.
Bay= General Grant will visit Gettys
burg, on the Goth instant.
gSg~ $500 900 arrived at st. Joseph, Mo-,
on Friday, from Fort Benton.
Gs7y~ The Evangelical Lutheran Synod
of Pennsylvania and adjacent States, met
at Lebanon, Pa, last week.
ESa. One hundred clerks are about to be
discharged from the TreaSuary and Quar-
termaster's Department, at Washington.
BFa7 4 brutal prize fight took place AT
Aqua creek, Va, on the 18th, between
Aaron and COllyer. Aaron was the vic
tor.
g@y~ Corydon, the informer, who caused
the capture of the fenians at Dungarvon,
Ireland, was attacked by mob at Water
ford, Ireland, and barely escaped death.
Es7y~ A brute in human form was ar
rested in Jersey City on Friday, for throw
ing his wife out doors, and then jumping
and dancing on the PROSTATE woman's
body.
nEn. \ Washington paper has authori-
ty to state that our military commanders
have no right to remove civil officers, and
this, it intimates, is the decision arrived
at by majority of the Cabinet.
pa Difficulties with the Indians are
being experienced at Fort Randall. On
the Sd inst, the Fort was attacked 10y
hostile savageS one white man was killed.
and thirty-seven horses stolen.
pEar Henry Bundy determined to Kill
his wife, and then himself, at New York
on Thursday night He failed in the for
mer effort, but succeeded in the latter
Mrs. Bundy was not seriously injured.
gzg~ On Sunday morning last an at
tempt was made by a rObber or robbers to
steal the melodeon from the Sabbath
School room of the Cumberland street
(Dr. Hume's) Baptist church, in Norfolk
pen- The proposed substitution of petro-
lcum for coal as fuel. under steam boilers.
was practically tested in Boston harbor
on Friday, on board the United States
steamer Palos. The experiment was en-
ineutly successful.
Be5~ \ freedman lately tished up tor
pedO below Charleston, =. c., and trying
to break it open with hatchet, it eXplo-
dcd, blowing him TO atoms. Two other
negroes were blown into the river and
killed, and two more mortally wounded.
gs9yp \ gentleman in Charlestown, Va.
fastened up hen in a beehive to prevent
her Matching, and then forgot all about
it. This was some six weeks agO and the
other day some use being found for the
beehive, twas opened, and the hen found
alive, but considerably 'reduced in flesh''
Beag The Harrisonburg Register an
nounccs the death, at his residence, near
Cross Keys, Rockingham county, Nir-
ginia, on Friday, the 24th of May, after
an illness of ten weeks, of Rev. John J.
Harshberger, a minister Of the Tunkcr
Church, aged 81 years, months ANA IS
days.
gsap The most unhappy person in the
world Is the Dyspeptic. Everything looks
dark and gloomy; he feels out of sorts
with himself and everybody else. Life Is
II burden to him. This can all be chang
cd 10y taking Peruvian Syrup "a prOtoXidc
of from. Cases Of y years standing have
been cured by it.
HeEas \ jumpingmatch Cortwo thousand
dollars took place at Allegheny city, on
Tuesday, between Robert Way, of Pitts
burgh, and y. i. BortIes, of New York.
Each man jumped with iron weights,
twenty pounds, in each hand. The dis
tancCs made were as follows: Robert
Way, L feet 81 inches; y. p. BortIes, l.
feet y inches.
B.37~ Charles O'Conner, Jcf Davis lead
ing counsel, has written a letter to a mem
Der OF the bogus Constitutional Couven-
ton now sitting in Maryland, that the
amendment to the L. ;. Constitution
abOishing slavery is invalid and of no
effect, and, Of course. slavery is still legal
~ in existence in all the Southern States.
We have no doubt that this j. the real
Democratic" doctrine.
FSy" \ Radical candidate for the Louis
lana State Convention has just been muir
4 L. T. =.
under circumstances Of peculiar atrucitv,
which disclose the terrible social and po-
litical condition of that section of The
country. The murderers were nephews
of Governor Wells, just removed, and one
of them was on the Supreme bench of the
State under his uncle's pucrilc admins
tratiOu.
"a" The fearful cattle disease has bro
ken out again in England and with
renewed virulence. Our stock dealer,
cannot be too careful in refusing all inn
ported live stock from any quarter. 4
wholesale slaughter of animals alone sup
pressed this terrible plague last year, but
it seems has not eradicated it,
pee Mr.. Greeley in the Tribune a few
days since said that there were in the
Southern States not less than ttrO millions
OF ''implacabie rc0cis''-wh0 are lust as
J -,
who are Just as ready to burn negro school
houses, insult female teachers, and perse-
cute loyal men rs they ever We're, and who
"must be suppressed ordriveu out" before
the country can have any solid peace, in
aslnuch rs they cannot possibly be won
over to loyalty" 4 writer in the Nation
very naturally inquiries what effect Mr.
Greeley's pet project of a universal am
nesty is to have upon this irrcdecmablc
mass of persistent rebels, and how he
reconciles his advocacy of it with his
opinion of the real character and influence
Of these two millions. The question
seems to be something of puzzle Per
haps Mr. Greeley will find time, now that
all the doorkeepers Of the Constitutional
Convention have been appointed, to give
it little of his attention.-N y Times,
JlHc 10.
Trial Of Sarratt.