The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-11-15

"A young lady living near Weston,
Va, saw a squirrel running through
the yard, and took down her fathers
rifle to shoot it. The gun had not
been used for a long time, and in order
to ascertain if it was loaded or not she
pushed back the hammer with her foot,
and applied her mouth to the muzzle,
when her foot slipped off, and the gun
was discharged, the ball entering her
mouth and killing her instantly.
The oldest widow pensioner whose
name is now upon the United States
pension rolls, is Mrs. WealthyWhipple,
widow OF Marmaduke Whipple, who
was revolutionary soldier. This ven
cradle lady is a resident of Union Viii
lage, Washington county, n. Y, where
she has resided the past eighty years.
Her age is 1O4.
The Conservative Convention of
white citizens, at Charleston, South Car
olina, representing twenty districts of
the State, adjourned yesterday after
session of two days. The result of its
labOrs was an address to the people of
the country representing in strong Ian
! guage the condition Of the South and
protesting against negro supremacy.
The way it is done in Utah: At a
late Tabernacle meeting one Of the
Mormon elders read off list Of young
! MOrmOns, of various trades and capaci-
ties, who had been selected to go into
the Southern part of the territory and
found new settlement. They were
ordered to find themselves plenty of
wives and start.
There is new magician in Lon
don, named Rubini, one Of whose
| tricks is to cut off the head of a young
lady and carry it to the back of the
stage, where he unveils it. and where,
at his bidding, it addresses to the
audience moral and didactic sentences.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says Gre
pudati0n of the war debt of the nation
is now settled as one of the Democrat
ic planks in the Presidential election"
If this were not a gross and stupid false
! hood, it would be a confession that the
Democracy will carry every State in
the Union in 1868.-Pat. e. Un.
SO far as heard from the Democracy
have this fall gained over three hundred
thousand votes, and are certain Of
Northern States enough to count 127 Of
the 227 members of the electoral college
from the North.
Wendell Phillips, in his Antj-.Sy0ce-
ry Nandard, lashes the RAIDS. fearfulIy
upon their defeat. This is ruthless and
unjust. Had it not been for the Repub-
lican party AboltiOnism would have
long since been rotten in its grave.
Lacrosse, Wisconsin, gives $50 Dem
ocratic majority-a gain Of 3l2 on last
year, and now takes its place among the
! Democratic cities. Milwaukee gives
the Democracy gain of :, ,39S over last
year.
Two South Carolina darkies were
lately drawn to serve on jury, where
upon they became terribly frightened;
took to the swamps, and have not been
heard of since.
Chief Justice Gilpin, of Delaware,
has decided that the "Civil Rights Bill" :"
as far as it assumes to regulate and con-
troll the rejection or admission of testi-
mony,is imperative and void in the
State of Delaware.
Glorious Sam Pike, of the Hilsboro'
o., Gazette, telegraphed to the Demo
cratic Committee at Columbus, the day
after the late election, 1--WE have
routed them, horse, foot and Quadr0OnS.
Logan Gazette.
If Pope can extend three-day
election to a five-day election, what is
to prevent him from lengthening it
out to the extent of three hundred and
siXtyfve days?
The Radical clerks at Washington
are laying their plans to induce the
; Rump to raise their salaries another
twenty percent. They are regular horse
leecheS.
If five days are required in Georgia
to take the negro vote, how many days
would be required if the whites were
voting? At least ten days.
Horace Greedy went peacefully tC
sleep on the stage of the Cooper Insti-
tute, the other evening, while Arnold
of Illinois, was telling stale stories a
bout President Lincoln.