The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-01-04
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.
Mount Hood is in eruption.
Butler is in Washington.

Tea raised IN Georgia Is pfOnounc-
ed equal to the best Japan.
Government detectives are in Mon
treal looking up evidence against Sur
ratt.
There are now seventy-eight man
ufactories of cotton, calico and woollen
goods in Georgia.
General Grant is convalescent from
his recent illness, a severe cold, and is
again at duty.
Wilson is visiting the Richmond
battIe-feldS. He never went there
with his regiment.
Miss Susan Denim, the actress, has
just been married to Mr.. Coyle, who
is her fourth masculine venture.
A financial crisis prevails at Ha-
vana, and several banks have suspend
ed.
The tobacco crop in Missouri this
year is estimated at from twelve to fif-
teen thousand hogsheads.
Judge McCunn, at New York, has
decided substantially that a person To-
sing money in gaming is not entitled
to recover by law.
Gen. Grant has ordered the with
drawal of the United States forces from
Lexington, Missouri.
The receipts of cotton at New Or
leans, since the 1st of September, have
been 800, 600 bales.
-MaXimilian has divided Mexico in
to four military districts, appointing
commanders for them.
A rich lead mine has been discOv-
cred in East Tennessee. Gen. Thomas
will be president of company to work
it,
"A Boston minister has been preach
ing against fitting hoops. He says he
can't shut his eye to the abomination
any longer.
"A ten days widow in Petersburg
bought new wedding trousseau for
herself and tombstone for her scarce
Iy cold liege at the same time.
Bishop Hopkins thinks that there
are neither men nor means enough in
the South. He says that Jackson, Mis-
sissippi, is yet mass of ruins.
"A rich lead mine has been discov-
cred in East Tennessee. General Thorn
as will be president ola company to
work it.
One hundred and sixteen members
of Congress have their wives, daugh-
ters or other ladies with them at Wash
ingtOn this winter.
The submarine cable between Flor
ida and Cuba will be ready for the pub
lie in March. The maximum sound
ings give 845 fathOms.
The temperance movement is ma
king great headWay in st. Louis. a
new hall, to cost $4,000, is about to be
commenced.
Frequent arthquake shocks in Sa-
cramento and other points along the
Pacific coast, remind the inhabitants
that many things are passing away.
New York city polled almost as
many votes at the late State election as
the entire State of Massachusetts-only
| four thousand less.
Negotiations are pending for the
introduction from China by the new
mail steamship line, Of large force of
! laborers for the Central Pacific railroad.
The hog cholera is prevailing in
various sections of Indiana. In War
rack county most of the farmers have
lost their entire stock by this disease.
An Idaho letter says the business
of fcounterfeiting gold dust is carried on
to a serious extent, and the authorities
of the Territory have been called on to
suppress it.
THUS far this season the packers of
Indianapolis, Ind, have packed 27,-
904 hogs on commission for farmers and
drovers, and $3.50 on purchase. Pack
ers are Offering $5.5005 $50, and sellers
ask So.
The Pittsburg Republic places, at
the head of It's editorial column, the
name of Andrew johnson, Of Tenness-
ee. as a candidate for the Presidency in
1868, and devotes a column Of editorial
to the assignment of reasons for so do
ing.
A Western editor says: We learn
from South America that there is ''War
on the Plate" and Prentice adds:
When General Butler was in New Or
leans there was a terrible war on the
plate-the gold and silver plate.
The owner of the farm known, as
Dutch Gap, finding that the island
made by the cutting of Buffers canal
could not be conveniently put to use
without some means of communication
with the mainland, has gone to work
filling up one end OF the canal, in order
to create causeway; and the great ca
nal will soon be among the things that
were.