The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-06-15

GeAiN * THe WFSr-i letter from p.,..
County, Illinois, saws that all lh+ war.Io,,'
along thp Railroad are full of gain. and n,am
thousands OF bushels are piled up in bags alo,,.
The side ct the track. Long trains of cars oroa,
under The weight Of grain with which thry 49,,
loaded. The farmers plead with The buyers e.
more bags, and the buyers with the Railro.9.
for more cars. a. the farmers have pa,,.,
from one 10 thirty acres more than last wear ana
all now looks well for heavy crop.
A FElEGRAPH Across FBE OcesN.-I u.onls
appear, from the Nrw York Evangelist tba,
The practicabiIhy Of laying Submarine wirs
from one continent TO the other. is about to :,
tested. Two companies. ne'American and ths
other English, have united in the work. Tn.
directors Of the company are busily encae.d
and IN three months from the present lime. !, !,
contemplated that the old world and ,hp nes,
will br within a weeks hail of each other. b.
line being completed TO ST. Johns, Newfon,9
land, and within three years The two hemis.
Pherrs will BE- in communication, by wire py-
tending across the ocean.
Two LlTTlE BOYS KILLED BY LIeHrx,ye
A correspondent, olthe Toledo Republican. wri
ting from South Bend, Ind, May is, says T..
on arriving home this morning, nv ears wer.
grerted by the melancholy fact that about o.
clock last evening, as yrrv heavy thgnd.r
cloud passed over our beautiful town. two SIN
rv frame house in Water street, occuplfi r.,
Mr.. Leonard Haynes, an old and respected ciIi-
zen, was struck by lightning, SCATTERING fh-
building and scattering the materials in every
direction, thr fluid Passing into a lower room
where MIR. Haynes family were srated. ins.
family destroying bis son William, agrd eleven
years, and rendering insenSible his son Charles.
seven wears of age, who died in about an hours
timp. Mrs. Haynes was slightly injured, her
little daughter very seriously, though hopes are
entertained Of her recovery.
SlNcuLAE-The Paw Paw Mich.) Free
Press mentions singular occurrence which
took place in that village last "Wednesday
That evening a COW belonging to one ofthe cit
izens there, exhibited symptoms which led 10
the belief that she had been bitten BY massas-
Ggn, Ia small species Of rattleSnakej and IN or
der The. more readily to doctor her, she was put
into barn which was occupied Dor stabling
three horses. The next morning, on entering
the barn, the COW was found dead, and the hor-
ses had all hecome blind and stiff. They wer4
removed TO the open air, and after being moved
around and brd, recovered their sight. Iii
supposed the impure and poisoned atmosphere
generated by the COW must have occasionrd this
state of things. The hors es have since entirely
/ recovered.
CROPS IN WESTERN PgNNsyLvANIA.-The
Pitlsbnrsh journal, as regards the prospect for
ceriais, hears only cheering words from tie
farmers. In those portions of WesimorpIand
and Fayette counties, through which the editor
rode NV days since, be made ii .roint to
mark the appearance of grain 6rlds. Oats and
WHEAT waxing in ih, passing wind, and the fields
nf corn seemed fit for hoeing. The drought If
last year seems to have brought blessing aehnd
it, for many Of the most injurious insects and
gruhs appear to have been almost entirely exlpr-
minated, or, as We say, burnt out.
EAGLE killed ~ A WoMAN.-0n Friday
last. the wife of D. g. Champion, residing at
Valley Forge, Chester County, was the heroine
ofa feat that seldom falls to the lot Of woman
and was in killing, without powder or shot, an
eagle measuring five feet from the tips OF his
| wings. The eagle Was sitting IN post near h1
house, WHEN Mrs. Champion threw stone at
IT., striking it in the head and stunning it. She
then procured club, and after some difficulty
succe+ded in killing the king Of birds. The
, husband took II to Philadelphia for the purPOsa
OF having it property prepared, SO TO preserve il
as token Of his wies proWess.