The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-10-25
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

/ f ~ AtlIl, iIOI GNtIl a uCW, IhOlo-
tens 1t. 1t can be transported around
the globe without injury. In England
It's use is fast becoming a necessity
Mixed, half and half, with the damp
turgld wheat of the British Isles, it
furnishes bread greatly superior to
the heavy unpalatabIe Ioaves made of
purely English grain.
An affray occurred between four
boys, near Saltersville, n. j., on Satur-
day evening, in which one of them,
named James Spencer, eighteen years
OF age, shot at the others with a gun
loaded with duck shot, Wounding two
OF them seriously. Spencer acted very
cooily, and remained at his mothers
house until he was captured on Sun
day.
JEFF. Davis, who has been living
lately at the Rossin House, Toronto,
is now in Saint GATHERINGS, which is
nearer the Niagara than the other city.
Davis, therefore, appears to be APP
preaching the United States, and is
probably going slowly to stand his long
deferred trial from treason.
Lately the workmen employed in
excavating a court yard to the Lycee
Napoleon, in Paris, came upon hoard
of nearly one thousand Roman coins,
all gold, in perfect order and preserva-
ton, and belonging to the reigns of
Nero, Vitellius, Vespa3ian, Titus,
Trajan, and others, Emperors down to
200 A. ID.
The other day, Mrs. Carr, of Pitts
burgh, Pennsylvania, bought black
cat, from which she took three drops Of
blood to give to child sick of Group.
Her excited neighbors were about to
mob the old lady for withcraft, when
the authorities interfcred. Twenty
witnesses proved in court that the child
recovered instantly On taking the san
culinary dose of catnip.
1t would really seem that the an
clients did surpass their descendants in
the perfection of their arts. A fire and
burglar proof safe, which has been
subjected to a volcanic eruption, has
been discovered among the ruins Of
Pompeii, its contents uninjured. 1t
very much resembles modern safes.
The We5tchester Jeders0nian says
that on Thursday last, a negro was COM
mitted to Jail in that county, by Squire
Bambo, of Salisbury, for an attempt to
commit rape upon a white Woman-a
school teacher. He waylaid her on
her way to school.
-Thad Stevens thanks God for the
defeat of the Radical party in this
State. He is mad because his party
did not come out fat-fo0ted for negro
suffrage, SO as to be beaten fifty thous-
and, as in Ohio.
"A tipsy fellow in Dubuque escap-
ed from some friends who were anxious
to smash his head, and leaping into
the river with a roll of greenbacks
tightly grasped in his hand, swan
with one arm a distance of one mile-a
feat which would have been impossible
for temperate man.
The Green Bay, Wisconsin, Gazette
says William Mitchell, one of the old
settlers of the state, having come round
the lakes in canoe, and whose wife
was the first white clild born in Wis
consin, celebrated his silver wedding
the other day.
John Shively, f Nelson, Wiscon-
sin, went into his field last week and
opening a stack Of Wheat found it wet.
He said he would box at the other,
and if that was wet 90 he would hang
himself. 1t was wt, and he shot the
top of his head off.
In Newark, NJ, the other day,
yonng child at ply was So frighten-
ed by the mischievdS cry of her assOci-
ate, 'Look out for tie bull" that she
fell, in running witIso much force as
to cause her death.
Considerable mney has changed
hands in Wa5hingtc on the Ohio cleo
ton. An Ohioan, fOm the Far West, |
won forty thousanddoIlars on a pro-
position that the rgro amendment |
would be defeated.
The citizens ofFitchburg, Mass,
are greatly excited l. finding the body |
of Frederick PoWes, of that town,
buried in sand bak. Two French
men and an Amerin have been arreS-.
ted on suspicion.
The Universit of Cambridge,
England, has just iIitated some Of our
American colleges L a wholesale con-
ferral Of degrees. Ihas dubbed all the
American bishops ately in England,
LII. ID.
-Pittsburg is tdave a skating rink,
with a surface of 900 square feet
The association Is been organized,
funds ($4O,OOO) suicribed a lot secur-
ed and contract aarded for the build
ing.
The introductn of music into the
public schools of lowell, Mass, has
been so successful accomplished that
each of the gramm schools is now to
have a piano.
"A candid editoin New England