The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-03-19
Drepities

Daniel Hendricks near Queenstown DduPhth couh-
ty. The execution to take place on Friday, the
2lst Of May next.
The United States District Court has indicted
Brigham Young. Heber Kimbail, and other Mormon
digntaries for high treason.
Nine hundred persons left New York for Cali
fornia, on last Saturday afternoon, on board the
steamers Moses Taylor and st. Louis.
On Monday last, three hundred and twenty-one
families left Bangor, Maine, for Kansas.
"A sharp and wealthy farmer of Macoupin coun-
ty, H., not many miles from Brighton and Miles
Station, has on hand 800 bushels of choice wheat,
the crop of 1856. Last year he refused SI,75 per
bushel for it. He held on fer 50. He has now con-
tracted to deliver it to the railroad at 10 cents per
bushel
A letter from Constantnope, ofthe 18th Of Feb
ruary, 10 a mercantile house in Boston. states that
| the weather had been uncommonly cod in that
vicinity, and that 10000 sheep had been frozen to
death.
Mr.. Winlock, a farmer of Shelby county,
KY, was found dead in his bed few mornings
ago, at one of the hotels in Shelbyvie. He was
an old bachelor. and possessed of consda rabie pro-
perty.
| Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, has, il is
sad of the largest landed estates of the South,
his farm comprising over eleve thousand acres.
| Major James Porter, an old and esteemed cit-
zen of Henderson township Huntingdon county,
| died suddenly Saturday last
"A Boston paper notices that DR., Goldman of
that city has made, for young lady in that vici-
nifty, porcelain nose, to be with spectaces,
which is of the exact shape of the original organ,
and color like that of the natural skin.
The artesian well of the sutberlands, at Paris,
! Illinois, has been bored to depth ofover hun
dred feet, and as yetno water has been found.
The Dublin papers are teemlng with enthusas-
tic notice OF young American actor, named Le-
land Ravenswood, who has recently appeared in that
city
There are five hundred ard dfty-six light
houses on our Atlantic and lake coasts, each of
which consumes about thousand gallons of oil
per
The small State of Maryland contains greater
free negro population than the mighty Empire State
Of New York by over $4,000; aud exceeds Pennsyl-
vania by over p 600.
The Police Gazette publishes list of sixty mur-
ders which have been committed in the city ofNew
York since January lst, 1887.
--Hart's statue of Mr. Clay, ordered by the ladies
of Virginia about twelve years ago, viii be compile
ted in about twelve months.
During the past year twenty-six revolutionary
soldiers have died. have also twenty-five persons
of one hundred years ofage and over.
Nebraska is our largest Territory. 1t will make
eight States as large as New Hampshire. Nebraska
is about oue-sixth the size Of Europe.
The value of buildings erected in Chicago during
the past year, estimated at over four millions oil
dollars.
80 lh~..sr-.. .'-''~ s~ss,,s.s~s printed Y,sEpa
Rev. 1. s. KaIloch left Boston on Monday
for Kansas, whsre he has decided to locate as l.v
yer.
-Mohammed Pacha, the Turkish vice-Admiral
arrived at New York BY the steamer Europa
There is iron enough in the blood Of forty-two
men TO make pIoughshear weighing twenty-lont
pounds.
In communication TO the Legislature Of Cali
iornia, Gov. Weller stated that $4,000 dead letters
were destroyed every quarter at San Francisco.
The Governors brother is postmaster at that
/ place.
! The Brownsville, Ca.) Times has thrown
aside It's neutrality and Announces itself in its last
issue as committed te the advocacy of Democratic
/ principles.
The Farmers Bank at Elizabeth CITY, N. c..
( IS making arrangements to wind up. 1t has been
ascertained that all the liabilities of the bank will be
paid off, and the stockholders will receive seventy
cents on the dollar. The estimate is made lowing
a loss of $50, 900 for bad debts.
Judge Nash, Of the Boston Municipal Court. is
Justly severe on garroters He sentenced three the
other day to ten, thirteen, and fifteen years, mprs
onment, in the State prison. at hard labor.
The courthouse at Kittauaing, Pa, was entirely
destroyed by fire on Wednesday afternoon Loss
$35,ooo. Noinsu-ance,
The rolling mills of Pittsburgh and vicinity,
| with one or two exceptions, have resumed work.
and are now in full blast.
The annual salary of Queen Victoria is 50 ooo-
0oo Out of this she has to pay the salaries of the
state officers.
The last nuhber Of the Independent Demo
crat, a Republican paper of Concord, N H., pub
lished previous TO the election in that State con-
tains, in the way of documents for the campaign,
Mr.. Stanton's speech at Philadelphia, Governor
Wise's Philadelphia letter, and Judge Douglass
views on the Kansas question as member of the
Senate Committee Territories,
"A negro child has recently been born in the
neighborhooa If RinggOId, in Pittsylyania county,
Va, with twenty-six fingers and toes. 1t has six
toes on each foot, and seven fingers on each hand
There two full-sized thumbs on each hand and
two "ittle" fingers. All these limbs are said to be
perfect.
"A writer has eomnared WORLDLY fcendshins to