The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-12-21
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.


newspaper in existence. 1t is in its
236th year.
The dead duck thinks he won't be a
candidate for United States Senator.
Everybody else thought so long ago.
The United States government has
concluded to furnish the entire army
with breech- loading arms.
Jenny Lind's husband has been
made Vice-President of the London
Academy of Music.
The test oath excludes all but sixty
of the seven hundred lawyers of New
Orleans from practicing in the United
States Court.
The bakers of London are hereafter
to have a newspaper devoted to their
interests, and it is to be called by the
appropriate title of "The Staff of Life. :"
The Alabama Legislature has re-
jected the Rump Amendment to the
Constitution by a vote of y to 2 in the
Senate, and SO to S in the House. Good.
Birds feathers are now being used
to trim ladies dresses with. They will
be great to go on lark, or robin ex-
cursion.
Somebody wants to know why
-four was cheaper with gold at $50 than
it is with gold at 140. Let him ask the
Rump Congress how it is.
In Massachusetts, they whip wO-
men, but are shocked at the idea of
the slightest indignity offered to the
sacred hide of a negro.
A Lynchburg paper thinks that
if the Southern States shall be reduced
to a territorial condition, that their Ie-
gislatures will repudiate all State debts.
old Brownlow is represented as
"emaciated." No wonder; for several
years ne has vented nothing but corr0-
! sive SubIimate.-Pdt. and Union.
"A New Hampshire court lately
granted forty divorces in two days.
They seem to be opposed to every sort
of Union up there.
The gross receipts from premiums Of
the Hartford insurance companies for
the month of October, as returned to
the assessor, amount to $74l ,630-
The Southern States areconstantIy
insulting" the Radical Rump because
they refuse to put the halter of negro
suffrage around their necks and chop
their political heads off.
The Bermuda Gazette of the 9th
uIt. says Cholera is reported to pre-
vail at St. Thomas, and it is said that
from eighteen to twenty persons were
falling victims to it daily.
Last year the wheat rec eived at
Chicago amounted to 16, ,424, 491 bush
els. This year it amounts to 20, 600
bushels. The present high price OF
-four is thus traceable to the specula-
tors and not to a short crop.
The cigar ship Ross Winans, built
in England, had returned from a short
cruise. She encounted very stormy
weather, but made her way through the
heavy sea at the rate of sixteen knots
an hour.
An effort is to be made in Congress
to "get the channel of He'll Gate deep
ened." Ben. Butler should be on that
Committee, byal! means, as one not on
ly likely to be familiar with the sub
ject, but personally interested in its
approaches.
Cholera cases in a state of collapse
have recently been successful treated by
injecting cold water into the veins. The
blood is thus supplied with the watery
particles which it loses in cholera, the
coagulation is dissipated and heat and
circulation restored.
THE Cincinnati Commercial foOts up
the grand total of one hundred and
eight houses of i'll fame, and fifteen
gambling houses in that city and adds:
In each case, as to houses of this class,
the Chief of Police has recorded the
name of the managing woman, and the
r4,-aa+ Rp
The Metropolitan police force, or
ganized, under the laws of the New
York State Legislature, for the Govern
ment of the cities of New York and
Brooklyn, consists of2171 men, OfWhom
1903 are in New York city and 307 in
Brooklyn. During thepast year 70, ,638
arrests have been made by this force
in New York, and q ,696 in Brooklyn.
Bernard Sprunk, the Treasurer of
the Pennsylvania Building Association
of Philadelphia, has disappeared. Sew
eral sums have been named as the a.
mount of the defalcation. 1t will GER
tainIy reach fourteen thousand dollars.
The members, most of whom are men
of small means, have generally invest
edall their earnings in the concern, and
theirlo losses, for that reason, are the more
severely felt by them.
Governor Swami, Lieutenant Gov
ernor Cox and Superintendent of In
struction Van Bokkelen, who compose
the State BOARD of Education. of Md.