The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-05-14
News Etenls.
The barber OF Pictou, n. 5. IS open, having
been ice-bound for FIVE months.

cataract and International have begun opera
ions.
The present number ofsloresin New Hamp-
shire is :, 700, or one to every twenty iamiIies
of half dozen persons each.
MIR. Reid, U. S. Senator from North Caroll-
ma. is still living i'll at home, with but little pros
pect of recovery.
Col. Benton, in speaking of Congressional
matters, said that he never SPARED OH nut once
in his life, and that was with young woman
The night he got married.
AT The late term ofthe Huntingdon coun-
tv tPa. J court, William Williams was sentenced
for burglary, to five years IN the western penn,
,en,iary, and John Keillesher, assault ana
battery, with intent to rape, two years
The Work at the Capital Buildings, Wash
;,.,,oo have been suspended for want OF appfo-
nr7a,i,n. Having got rid of Kansas, Congress
can now turn their attention to the raising oil
means 10 keep the government IN lundS'
The lumber trade at Wheeling, this Spring,
i nnprecedentrd. Prices range from 20 TO %
per cent, lower than last year. Lumperme'i'
pushed for money, are crowding the market 70
such degree that there is pFooaolihy of d
gIut
Mr.. VIM. I Ingraham, OF Augusta, Ca,
committed suicide in that city on Sunday last, oy
shooting himself through the heart with pistol.
! pacnni3ry matters is thought TO be the cause 81
! this act. He was about - years Old. Hr ha.
I.fi an aged mother, and other relatives N CON
neclicut.
"A few days since man, residing near De'
lana Illinois, took load OF potatoes to that toWi
10 sell. but not being able to get higher Ole
than ten cents per bushr, be declined selling
and threw the load into Fever river. lie wa
arrested thereupon, taken before the authorizes
and fined SI4 for obstructinS the navigation
"A lady fled in the county clerks office.
Cincinnati, the other day, her declaration oi N
! tention 10 become citizen Of the United o's'eS
She does not intend, however, 10 ciaiin hTf i"a
, naturalization papers, bat has taken TINS St7'
secure her claim to certain property
Germany.
r The sentence Of Tuckerman (2l years
hard labor) is, III fact, four sentences imposed 'l
oether. The offences charged were coTml't
: on four occasions. For the first, he Is sentence
to ten wears Imprisonment for the second
n fonr wears lor the third, 10 four years Tor u
d fourth, 10 three years.
T The Canadians are projecting the es'aolls
Is inc of an astronomical observatory Tor the es'd
lsbing ofan astronomical observatory tor I
II British Provinces. The city OF Quebec Il
heen selected as the best site for the PurPos
"a The subject will doubtless be pressed upon l
d. present session of the Provincial Parliament
y Mr.. Arambois, citizen of Mrtamoros, :
u inst obtained the exclusive privilege OF Tuhh'
= line of Stages between Monterey and Matan
ed in SeeorfhsTn Mexico, and an important
81 stance Of the growing enterprise Of its inha
he tants.
An old settler near Bloomington, H.,
M seen the toughest times of any man we q
oI heard of He saws the winter OF 1890 y
ey remar kable for the scarcity OF money so mt
of so, that one man who as elected justice OF
peace, couldn't raise enough TO pay an oth
ms for swraring him in 50 he stood up beior
looking glass and qualified himself.
,g- The difficulties al the Cambria, Pa, 1
IN. Works have been quieted, and the mill is n
.ed running with full complement Of men, exc
al few the puddIing furnaces. They
Ter now turning out from eighty TO one hund
yer tons of railroad iron per day. This lo
for manufactured on a contract with the Nc
Pennsylvania Railroad.
der Several hundred boxes Of rifles, from l
,r- mans rife works, at Lancaster, Pa, have
forwarded to Fort Latamie Bent's Bort, Ark
on sas, Chippewas of the Mississippi, Lower SIC
-, Upper Missouri, Blackfeet Pillagers, and L
,tes Winnepegorhish Indians. These rifles are
,nd wardpd in pursuance of treaties with those tr
for lands purchased on the part OF the Cn
States.
w We see II stated that Elias Baker, (
proprietor of Allegheny furnace, in Blair CO
90 tv, Pa, and reputed TO DC one OF the wealth
oo' men in the State, has failed to n large amo
5iaS His liabilities, it is said, exceed two hunl
ahu thousand dollars. 1t is thought, however,
try his extensive property will cover all hiS d'
det and still leave hm handsome competence.
A Band of fourteen Mississippi pirates y
-, caught frw days since by the vigilance c
"s' mittee of Prairie du CHEN, and stolen goot
the amount of s. 900 recovered. With b.
a around the necks of some of them, with d
one staring them in the face, they made pr
IN free confession, duplicating a number OF pei
VIII who have hitherto stood high in that comm
ty.
'iest -GoLp IN IowA.-Thcre is great excited
ear in certain parts OF Iowa about the late
Tor discoveries on South and Middle river
and Union, Madison, Warren, Clark, and A
'un- counties which lie in the southern part of Il
II is reported that hundreds have gone 10
has diggings, and are making from two totem do
noe per day, each man, besides occasionally pic
sion up Jumps OF from one to two hundred do
t he Values
,me. They are getting sharp down at Lafay
and Ia. under the Influence of their great mi,
tion water facilities. A hotticuIturists adver
ad- that he would supply all sorts OF trees and p