The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-05-03
NEWS ITEMS.

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The Democrats gained four towns
in the recent elections in Erie Co., n. Y.
Two hundred new buildings will
be erected in Allentown this summer.
Hon. William Strong, of the Su-
,preme Court of Pennsylvania, sailed
for Europe on Thursday of last week.
Five mad dogs were killed in
Chicago one day last week, and on the
same day four persons were bitten.
The international racket match,
played at New York, was ended in fa-
vor of the English player. .
The once famous Coquette Well on
the Egbert Farm, Oil Creek, continues
to yield two hundred barrels per day.
1t is said that Prussia disapproved
of the compromise proposed by the
other great powers.
Applications for the position of
registers in bankruptcy arrive inWash-
ington at the rate of three hundred per
day.
Two hundred liquor dealers were ar
rested in New York, for having their
places of business open on election
day. ...
Thomas Doherty is under arrest at
Gloucester, Mass, for numbering his
own child. The victim was but three
years of age.
The Boston Post discovers that the
Radical newspapers have not written
obituaries upon the Democratic party
for several weeks.
-COnfscation of Southern property,
says the Springfield Republican, would
be the most monstrous of political
crimes.
The Independent has discovered
that "the States that now need recon-
structiOn are the Northern" That's
what's cOming.-BOStOp Post.
At a recent election for Mayor in
Huntsville, Ala, the negro vote helped
to defeat Freedmen's Bureau agent,
who was candidate.
The Boston Post dicovers that the
Radical newspapers have not written
obituaries upon the Democratic party
for several weeks.
Wendell Phillips says he was
welded to truth and philanthropy
when boy. The Boston Post thinks
Wendell must have become a widower
when quite young.
The soil of Camp Curtin, at Harris
burg, memorable as the field of warlike
preparations during the rebellion, is
now being turned up by the plow and
the peaceful farmer.
"A government train was recently
attacked by Indians near Fort Mitchell,
Dakota. One hundred and twenty
mules were stolen.
The election of members to the
New York State Constitutional Con-
vention passed off very quietly. But
little interest was manifested in the
matter.
1t is estimated that the United
States will lose $10,OO0,O00 of internal
revenue in Louisiana this year, by the
destruction of the cotton and sugar
crops by inundations.
Peace between France and Prussia
is despaired of; both parties are actively
preparing for war. Napoleon is desir-
Gus of purchasing arms in the United
States.
Pollard, of fRichmond, said recontly
to a Northern gentleman: Negro
suffrage is a dirty weapon, but you
have put it into our hands, and we
mean to beat your brains out with it"
The Democrats carry the city of
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, by majority of
the Common Council. The Radicals"
have had the city government for the
last eight years. Was that thunder?
The spring fashions, for 1867, are
very attractive-particularly the cleo
tions. The Radical party is like the
female bonnet-"g growing small by
degrees and beautifully less"
During his speech in Petersburg,
Mr.. Wilson said to the negro meeting,
81 am one of you;" but whether he
meant that he was negro or white
man, or both, is left to conjecture
Boston Post.
Under radical rule it takes $50 cents
to make one dollar, and seventeen
dollars to purchase one barrel of -four
In Democraticti times, all the States were
represented in Congress, 100 cents made
dollar, and five edollars would purchase
a barrel of -four.
An Iowa woman, becoming jealous
of her husband, came behind him and
bent his head back, kissed him, and
Immediately afterwards emptied a
bottle of vitriol in his face, intending
to put out his eyes. She failed in this,
but succeeded in burning his forehead
and a portion of the scalp in shocking
manner.
The Richmond Wing says: 1--WE
have before us extracts culled from nu-
merous papers published in all quar-
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