The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-11-22
Local and miscellaneous.


cos: about one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars.
49,. To telegraph to California, for ten
words 0: under, Sc So is charged, and 50 cents
for each additional word.
-. As an important improvement upon fhe
barbarous word ''telagram," the more expressive
one OF ''tel-a-whopPer" has been suggested.
-. Why do women like stays? Because
they feel so-laced by them Boston Post.
Also, perhaps, because stays make less soaisf
(waste) in the family.-[Pror. Post.
-. Court Is in session during the present
week and our town wasa pretty full of people
for a few days A number OF important trials
came of:
-. The Allegheny mountain has been COW
cred with snow for some days past. The con-
sequences are cold nights and an increased de-
mand for ned-covera and wood -rhnnnara-
-. The Kimmel supper a! the Bedford Ho-
tel, on Wednesday evening last, was gotten up
IN Col. Hafer's best style. Hafer is /" a host IN
himself"
-. Lieut. Gen. Scott sailed for Europe on
Saturday week in the Arago. He was accom-
panied by Col. H. L. Scott, his sop-n-law, aud
family. ThurIow Weed, Col John Winthrop,
w. Fl. Appleton and other noted persons.
-. Our subscribers at Rays Hill, St.
ClairsvilIe, Dry Ridge and Schellsburg, com
plain that they do not receive the Gazette
We mail the packages regularly. Who is
blamable?
IA little child OF David Dibert, OF Bed
ford township, was burned to death few days
ago, by its clothes taking fire, it is supposed,
from some matches with which the little
unfortunate was playing.
... Orr TO TIE WARs.-A fne-looking
band of men, under Capt. D. w. Mullln, left
this place for Camp Curtin, on Tuesday last.
They hail principally from the Western end Of
the county. Success TO cur gallant young
Captain and his brave soldiers
-. 1T WILL WELL PAY any one who has a
taste for the beautiful in ART, or the useful in
S SCIENCE, to send 25 cents in stamps TO the
IRON CITY COLLEGE of PIttsburg, Pa, now
the most distinguished Commercial School in
the Union, for specimens of their magnificent
Penmanship, the beautiful Engraving O: the
College Buildings, and :heir large Catalogue.
Try it, and see ifit does not pay.
80. "A queer state of afairs-thlngs IN Ms
souri,. The Federal troops, having taken
Springfield after a fierce and bloody struggle,
are no" on the retreat from that place toward
St. Louis. The strangest part Of this business,
Is, that the enemy are not within fifty miles Of
Springfield. and they will only return to that
| place when our troops have evacuated it.
-. We learn from the Harrisburg Patriot
and Union that Col. Powers Zouaves, 10 which
Capt. Ryce's company, OF this place, is attached
and Col.White's Regiment, in which are Capt
Lyons and Capt. Filters Companies, both from
this county, have left for South Carolina.
May they be soon successful in bruising the
head of that old snake that coils so defantly
about he Palmetto Tree on the flag of South
Carolina.
80. Our subscribers in the country COM
PLAN very much in regard TO the non-recelpt
of their papers. We can assure them that we
mail the Gazette regularly to their address, and
we believe that the Postmaster at this place
forwards our packages pu2cually. But there
must be ''screw loose" somewhere among the
P. Ms, and we are determined to find out
where il is. We shall not hesitate moment
10 report 10 the Department any wilful mis-
conduct or careless negligence,