Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-10-02


Singing school.-Prof. John Clarke, in
tenGs commencing Singing School in the
Town Hall, on Saturday evening next, at
o'clock. Those wishing to obtain q
knowledge of music are invited to oattend.
ggg~ The Rev. John Anderson, of the
NJ. Z. Church, well known and much re-
spect ID in this county, was stricken with
apoplexy at Snydertown on the evening
of the 18th September, and after lingering
until Tuesday following, was gathered to
his fathers. Mr.. Anderson was stationed
at Suubury, and on the day when prCstra-
ted had preached three times. He was a
kind and benevolent man, a plain-spoken
and deyout christian, an exemplary citi-
zen, and now after long and eventful
life, during which he served his Lord and
Master with fervent zeal from the day of
his remarkable conversion, he has entered
on that reward provided for those of whom
it can be said "IYell done, good and faith
ful servant In referring to his conver-
sion as remarkable, it may not be amiss
to relate the story as We heard it. 1t is
said he was what is called a bad man in
nearly every respect, and after pursuing
this course foryears heOne day approached
a house where mother was severely
Teprimanding a child, and among other
observations said, "If you will not alter
your life you'll be as bad as John Ander-
sonw Mr.. a. retired in confusion with
out being seen, but that simple barbed
arrow had entered his soul, and from that
hour John Anderson was changed man,
had awakened TO the reality that profane
vicious and wicked conduct was not mans
allotted sphere on earth, but that higher,
more noble, and loftier attributes only
needed culture to make him little lower
than the angels. He was aged 63 years.
Death Bed COnfesSion.-A woman named
Maria Bergman, aged probably 40 or 40
years, died at the Poor House Il few weeks
ago, concerning whom various eXaggera-
ted reports have been in circulation as to
the confession of murder she should have
made Common report stated that she
had admitted having poisoned daughter
of one Of our citizens several years ago,
but this is not so. We learn from an au-
thentic source that the confession she
made to young man and woman who
had been setting up and waiting upon her
the day before her death, was in sub
stance that she had poisoned little girl
about three years of age, an illegitimate
daughter of her own, whom she had at
tiouted to young man, but whom she
subsequently, at least in part, eXonerated,
and gave as her motive that she did not
want to be bothered with the child. She
also expressed much contrition for her
conduct TO her father, whom, to use her
own words, she had treated very badly
and also stated that on the following dav
She would tell them something more.
Ihe morning however passed away with
out any further communication, and to-
ward the middle of the day she became
senseless, and thus died-ending her life,
like thousands of others, with an ACQUIRED
knowledge, at too late an hour, that 1.-The
way of the transgressor is hard"
4 Snake Story. Harrisburg Tele-
graph tells the following whOpper about
a snake said to have been seen by q former
resident Of Lewistown. It says: "Mr.
Peter Admire, of our city, one day last
week, while cunning in the mountains
back Of Newport, came in contact with
snake over thirty feet in length. His
snakeship carried his head four or five
leet from the ground. Mr.. y. fired at
the monster while passing him, and the
sh"t Febounded as if j. had been an India
rubber ball. Other citizens were with Mr..
Admire, and vouch for the truth Of the
ABOVE. The snake after being shot at ran
Gown the side of the embankment, caus-
4ns a fearful crash of everything with
"AIch ne came in contact We have
Snakes Of various lengths up to ten feet
III thls region, but the above beats any
'uihS known here except one which, in
lNe carly settlement of the Juniata Val
~ was mistaken for a log, chain fas-
's"ed thereto, and two horses started TO
'Ia" it, but the snake ran up the noun
S tam with both horses, and neither snake
nor horses have been seen or heard of
since.
Aul2s Drowned Two valuable mules.
'ne property of VIM. i. Hoffman of this
I pace were drowned in the Schuylkill
j ''eF last week. 1t appears that the ca
MAJ boat was compelled to run out con-
8 s''efaoie distance, and there being no
guards to the towing path bridge, the en-
-. '' Ielm was thrown into the water.
~" succeeded in getting out. One of the
"'iias also came near losing his life. The
-i'"eS We're worth at least $500. and being
=. '''Se oi clear neglect on the part of the
''D'l company in not providing suitable
sU1Ius' We hope Mr.. II. VIII meet with
y NicUlty IN recovering their value.
me c0ld weather has come ut last, and
T" Tie opening of Johnny Swans
.'i saloon, and as nc keeps weil-flled
' r'oIe' and very large oysters, he may ex-