The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-06
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

lllISSL WI were UITOWn
in an open box under the counter i'm his
store, and forgotten until Saturday
last, when, attention being called to
them, Mr.. Nixon found the eggs be-
ginning to open, during the day nine
copperhead snakes, about six inches in
length, came out of the eggs. True to
the instincts of nature, as sson as their
heads appeared outside the shell, they
stuck out their fangs and showed fight. |
"A man calling himself Crenshaw,
who has been at Roanoke, n. c., for |
nearly twenty months past teaching a
negro school, and the "Head Centre"
of the Union League in that country,
left for parts unknown on last Tuesday
night, forgetting to leave behind him
about $500 belonging to the League.
"A young woman was seriously
stabbed by a man in the street of Bos-
ton, on Saturday night, but she refused
to tell her own name or that of her as
sailant,an after necessary medical aid,
was taken away in a carriage by a
friend.
Strong efforts are being made to Sc
cure the removal of the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue at Washington,
on the grounds that he is incompetent
to suppress the whiskey frauds and has
too many relatives in office under
him.
There were tWenty-siX deaths from
yellow fever at New Orleans on Thurs
day. Thirty Of the crew of the iron
clad Mahasha and four of her officers,
all i'll Of the fever, were taken to the
hospital on Thursday. They had been
cOOped up on board until the vessel be-
came almost pest house.
The negroes in Richmond having
badly beaten one policeman at the cir
Gus on Wednesday night and stoned
others, company Of United States
troops was ordered out last night for
the purpose of preventing ariot, which
was supposed to be imminent.
Montreal, Canada, on Wednesday last.
The riot finally grew to such head
that the military were called out, and
the disturbance was not quelled until
some thirty persons were more or less
injured.
The Washington correspondent of
or hnf hnI
Government at Washington has taken
measures to secure from the Mexican
authorities lenient treatment Of Santa
Anna.
"A boy named Slate, residing at
WeStford, Conn.,, last week threw a
stone at his step-sister, eight years old,
and fractured her skull, causing death.
On Thursday, in Chicago, a man
fell into vat of boiling swill, six feet
in depth, and was scalded to death.
General Pope threatens to close
schools and universities where boys
speak pieces not agreeable to the Com
mander of the Third District
Mr.. James Young, of Great Falls,
n. H., learning that his wife was sick,
ran from Rochester home, six miles.
On reaching his house he fell dead.
"A Boston lady at the Mountains
having decided to return by the middle
of September, has begun to send her
luggage in instalments. She will ac-
company the last car load herself.
st Louis is looming up. 1t has $50
miles Of streets, 73 miles of sewers, so
miles of Water-pipes Sc miles of gas
main pipes, and 36 miles of street rail
road.
A Hartford author is engaged on
history of WOman's progress from the
earliest ages to be entitled "From the
Fig Leaf to the Crinoline." A comprc-
hensive subject sure.
One hundred and fifty tons Of but
ter were sent from Vermont to Boston
in the last two weeks. An exchange
calls that "greasing the hub"
-Colored detectives are now employ
ed in Richmond, by appointment of
the military, to aid the police.
james Stephens, the late Fenian
Head Centre, it is announced, is still
residing in Paris in seemingly distress
ed circumstances.
A man has been arrested in Belle
fonte, Pa, and bound over to answer
at court for stealing tombstones from
the Cemetery.
Last week a man calling himself
Burns, swindled the first National
Bank of Madison, Wis, out of 81 90, by
means of forged draft on the Tenth
National Bank of New York.
Colonel Bankhead's wife and tWen-
ty-five men Of the Fifth United States
Regular Army have died at Fort Wal
lace, Of cholera.
Arrangements have been made by
the Post Office Department to supply
postmasters with the self-sealing or
black-lined stamped envelopes.
Bridget Durgan was executed on
Friday last, at New Brunswick, n. j.,
for the murder of Mrs. Coriell, several
months since. She confessed the crime.
In st. Louis, on Wednesday night,