The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-06-22

Gus assortment o! timber and rubbish OF all
kinds. An eve witness says that the whirlwind
presented most singular appearance. He SAYS
the wind would rise in an immense whiri, draw
ing up rails limbs Of trees, boards, leaves, dirt,
&c., to great height, when suddenly it would
seem TO drop again To the earth and feed itself
with new supply Of such things as Were
movable and again rise, carrying up with it
substances OF great weight.
THE SBErIFF AND County, COMMISSIONERS.
Monday morning, surety OF the peace case
was called up in the Quarter Sessions, wherein
Miss Charlotte MagilI, daughter to the Sheriff;
| was prosecutrix, and Abijah Ferguson, consta-
BE at the Conrt HOUSE, was defendant. Mr..
Ferguson was appointed by the Commissioners
10 guard the premises belonging 10 the county,
and was especially directed to keep persons off
the grass plots on either side of the jail building.
Some len or twelve days ago notice was pos
ted around the yard, warning persons to keep
away from the grass A day or two after the
notices were put up, Miss Magil, delicate
young lady, was observed on The grass by Mr..
Cooper, one OF the Commissioners, who direct
ed the constable TO request her TO step Offer
guson did so, but she refused to comply, saying
that the family had always used tue property,
and that she had a perfect right there. The Of
fcer caught hold of her arm and forced her TO
leave, and il was alleged that he handled her so
roughly that she was indiSposed for several
days.
The question then arose as to who had the
right TO occupy the property. The Sheriff
claimed that il belonged 10 him so long as he
remained in Office, and the Commissioners he!d
that they were the rightlpl owners, in the name
of the county. The matter was argued byCoI-
onels Black and M'Candless for the prosecutrix,
and By Mr. Seweli for the defendant. Nearly
the eniire forenoon was occupied with it, and it
created considerable interest.
Judge M'Clure, in delivering his opinion, OBJ
served that the prosecution possessed more i'm
portance than ordinary surety of the peace ca
ses, as it embraced the Sheriff and County Com
missioners. The Commissioners, he said, have
a right to take cngnizance of all mischief done
10 county property, but 10 this case they We're
mistaken. The Sheriff of Allegheny County is
the highest officer in any county OF the State
The jail is his domci. and the grounds appur-
tenant thereto are part and parcel Of the curii-
lagr, on which be and his family can step at
any time. No one can make him a prisoner in
his own domicil, and no Mavor or County Com
missioner has any right 10 put him 10 state Of
siege ofbeleagurement in his own domicil. This
Young woman was no tFeSpaSser. Mr.. FeFgu-
son was appointed by the Commissioners to save
the property from waste, mischief and destruc-
ton. We have no blame for him. He did not
seize her of his own will One Of the County
Commissioners ordered him to do 50. Here was
a young, frail gri-daughtsr of the Sheriff
whose football would scarcely bend the grass
she trtads upon, caught by the arm and dragged
off the plot in manner altogether unnecessary.
She had perfect right there.
The defendant was sentenced 10 pay the costs,
and enter into recognizancr in $500 to keep
the peace for one year.-PiHs. Union.
MEMORIES or CHLnooD.-fh memories Of
the long far away days Of boyhood,
the mothers love and prayer, the ancient church
and school-house, IN all the green and hallow-
ed associations, come up in the dark hour of sin
and sorrow, as well as in the joyous time like
the passage of pleasantly remembered dream,
and cast ray of their own purity and sweetness
over it.
15-Lady Mary Duncan was rich heiress,
and Mr. William Duncan was her physician,
during severe illness. One day she told him
she had made up her mind TO get married. and
upon bis asking the name Of the unfortunate
chosen one. she babe him 90 home and open the
Bible. giving hlm the chapter and verse, and he
would find out. He did so and thus he read
''Nahan said TO David, thou art The man