The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-07-27
4 IIorribIe Nlnrder in AIgiers.

oi justice Ia case oil such peculiar attroCv
A Horrible Murder in Algiers.
Just before daylight on The morning Of ,hr
I'll, u horrible murder was committed 10 Algirrs.
near the Third District Ferry Landing. An
old man, named Francis Brrard, aged - years.
a native Of Switzerland, lived in small hous.
with ms wife: iii one end of the establishment
he kept small grocery. Just before daylight
the bouSe was broken into by robbers, the ar
NOR broken open, and the Old man, who
was lying IN bcd-with his wife, was strangled
TO death. His neck was completely crushed in.
and hs skull was fractured BY blow with
hammer. The vile says she was asleep wheB
they entered, and was awakened by gurgng
sound proceeding from her husband. Shp was
held down in her bed by some person for q con-
siderable time, but finally was released, got up
and ran out 10 get assistance, aud when she re-
turned She found her husband lying across the
store step dead, and the nurdrrers had hrd. The
cartilagrs OF the throat Were crushed and bro
ken. A heavy stick that the poor man had al
ways placed by has bedside, was found in anoth-
er part OF the house. The aFmor was broken
open, but nothing disturbed. The robbers had
no light with them, and Of course could not b.,
seen by The wife. Ii is supposed that, finding
the old man was about 10 awake, one OF th.
scoundrelS must have choked him almost to
drath, and when the vile fled to alarm the
nrighbors, hr probably got up, and was pursu-
ing them out through the grocery, when they
knocked him on The head with a hatchet.-.H.
D. DeHG.
TUE ADVENTURES OF a $1,000 BlLL.-A
IL Il H.
Cant. Moynan and Siated that she had been rot
bed of thousand dollar bank bill BY htlr
slave boy Of hers. She stated that she resided
in CuStoln-housr street, between Royal and
Bourbon, and that the slave boy had stolen the
bill and taken It ont into thu street, where t-
showed it 10 Young white lad and then went
into a house kept by negro woman. The
white lad, 10 whom he showed the bill, came
immediately and told her what be bad seen,
and on looking for the bill she discovered that ii
had been taken. She at once searched the boy;
he denird all knowledge OF it at first, but final
Iy said he had given bill 10 this coofrd NO
man. The woman who had lost the money at
once repaired TO the house the other, and III
qnircd for il the latter, with the greatest sang
troid, handed her Eve dollar bill, saving SHE
had taken il lrou the boy and intended return
ing if.
The Chief, after listening 10 her story, at once
DISPATCHED on of his specials, officer Horne, 10
search Of th, fugitive bill. Horne went to the
house Of the suspected colored woman, and found
a white man in company with her, who show
ed some disposition to turn The oiIicer out oi the
house, and was highly indignant that he should
have had the unbInshiug mpudence 10 come TO
the house of ''respectablr colored woman,
kept by white gemmen," to search fer stolen
money.
Officer Horne told them both, however, that
he was not 10 be done in that way, and that II
the money was not at once forthcoming hr
would arrest them both. The woman then cal
led Horne into the back yard, where another
woman was pretending 10 whip boy, and goln-
up to the boy, she put her hand into his pocket
and pulled out a slip of paper which proved 10
be the missing thousand dollar bill. The ON
Ger concluded the thing was cunnngy enough
come over, took the money and gladdencd the
heart Of the other poor woman, who had grown
nearly sick from despair OF never again Seela5
her monty.-,E 0. Delta, July 10.
To NExD BRoKex CHINA.-Take unsIacSfd
lime, made fine by pounding and grinding
which nix with the white of an egg. to Tue
consistency of starch or paint: thoroughly
cleanse aud dry the edges to be united, then ar
ply the mixture 10 the parts to be c1Henlr'
place them together firmly, and let them Dr.
come perfectly dry. Articles thus mended can
be handled or washed without injury.
C-~BEDFORD MINERAL SPRING AsSolIA-
TlON.-A meeting of the Commissioners named
the Act uf Assembly Incorporating ''Ibe bfejo4
Mineral Springs AysoriafioR'' will be held al 'n
Bedford Springs on Thursday 2d August next al ..
clock, p NJ. for the purpose of making arranS"g.
open books TO receive subscriptions 10 the cdt-'
stock OF said A association.
MA ESEED:
At Cenirevlle, Bedford Co., the 18th INST y
Rey.I. +. Whteside, Mr.. JOHN WEEI IL 70 -"<.