The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-04-26
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gentleman who left the City of Mexico
on the 9Th instant, that Maximilian,
accompanied by about three thousand
troops, was at that time en- route from
Queretaro for the City of Mexico. He
was wounded in the right arm by a
spent ball in the fight at Queretaro and
narrowly escaped capture in one of the
mountain passes. The reported cap
ture of Puebla by Porfirio Diaz was dis
credited at Vera Cruz. Itwas regarded
by the Imperialists as a mere ralse on
the part of the Liberals besieging that
place.
The trial of Major General Wool,
at the of suit V. D. Evans and Thomas
Rich, for damages for arrest and i'm
prisonment in Fort Delaware during
the war, was comm enced in the United
States District Court in Baltimore,
Tuesday. Judge Giles overruled the
prayer of the counsel for General Wool,
to he exempt from trial under the
military law and martial law. He said
it was but just for the accused to show
before the proper tribunal good and
sufficient reasons why he caused the
arrest and imprisonment Of private
citizens. 1t goes to jury, and will
consume some days.
AT Junction City, Kansas, on the
9Th inst, a man named William Moore,
while seated at the breakfast table with
his wife and children, drew revolver
and shot his wife dead. An attempt was
made by his neighbors to arrest him,
buthis threatening demonstrations pre-
vented it. In about two hours after
shooting his wife he obtained pillow
laid his wife's head upon it, laid down
on the floor beside her, deliberately
shot himself through the head with the
revolver, and died in a few minutes.
Moore had for several years threatened
to enact this terrible tragedy.
"A great freshet is reported in Iowa,
owing to the thawing of heavy snow.
Three bridges have been carried away
on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad-one across the Raccoon, at
New Jefferson; and two others between
that and Des Moines. At Des Moines,
2 large number of houses are submerg-
ed, and but for the interference of a
levee made last year the entire city on
the east side of the Des Moines river
would be under water.
Since the revolution in Hayti,
which resulted in the flight of Geffrard,
no President has been selected. The
quarrel appears to be between the mu-
lattoes and blacks. The full blooded
negroes demand full-blooded negro
President and have agreed to recall
Soulouque, the former Emperor. He
was to leave Jamaica for Port au Prince
on the 21st instant.
Some three thousand negroes were
present at Radical meeting at Mobile
last week. Infiammatory speeches
were made by both black and white
speakers. Most of the negroes present
were armed, and great number of
shots were fired in the air after adjourn
ment
Further investigation concerning
the coin and bullion captured on the
downfall of the confederacy, shows
conclusively that it belonged to the
rebel government, Notwithstanding it
was claimed by the Richmond and
New Orleans banks.
Virginia papers announce the
death of G.. Paul Scherer, of Staunton.
a member of the Stonewall Brigade,
who served through the war, and who
received one of the prizes conferred
upon the five most gallant soldiers in
that brigade.
Forty miles of the Pacific Railroad
are said to be under water. The bridg
es over the North Platte and the South
Fork are so badly damaged by the over
flow as to be unsafe for crossing.
Rev. F. A. Muhlenberg, q professor
in Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg,
has resigned, to take charge of the AL
lentown Collegiate Institute, in August
next.
The stakes won by Tommy Chan
dler in his fight with Dooney Harris
at San Francisco, on Saturday last,
amounting to $4,000, were paid to
him this week.
Nathaniel Goodrich and Charles
Parsons, ofRocky Hill, are in the Hart
ford Conn Jail, charged with series
of barn burnings extending over a
period of five years. 1t is estimated
that they have destroyed over $4,000
worth of property.
There are every year in Russia $50
horse fairs held in 1872 localities. The
average number of those animals offered
there for sale every year is calcuated at
100000.
An order has just been received by
the publishers, from California, for five
hundred copies of partisan Life with
Mosby," by Major John Scott, of Vir-
ginia.
"A full vote of Maryland is in favor
of the State Constitutional Convention
by ten thousand majority. 1t will con-
vene on the Sth of May at Annapolis.