The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-10-18
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The papers chronicle the death, in
Brooklyn, of Mrs. Mary Arnold, aged
one hundred and ten years. She used
to visit General Washington when he
lived in Pearl Street square, and dur
ing the war Of 1912 assisted a noble band
of women in throwing up the earth
works at Fort Greene. She has five
children living, Of whom the oldest is
seventy years ofage, and her descen-
dants reach to the fifth generation.
Mr.. Charles \. Lane, of New York,
proposes that the Loyal Leagues
throughout the country shall contrib
ute toward a purse of $3.50, 600 for Mrs.
Lincoln, mot as gift, but as a slight
acknowledgment of the debt which the
loyal people owe to the memory of the
Great Emancipator."
Governor Fenton, of New York, re-
fuses to pay over the appropriation
made by the Legislature Of that State
in aid Of the Antietam Cemetery until
a commission presents a satisfactory re-
port upon its past and present manage
ment. Governor Geary, of Pennsylva-
mia, has also appointed special COM
mission for like purpose.
The next National Republican Con-
vention, for the nomination of d Presi-
dent and Vice-President, will be held
at Chicago. The members Of the ma
tiOnal executive committee have been
corresponding on the subject, and ma
jority have expressed themselves in ia
vor of Chicago.
There was an extraordinary dis
play Of Northern lights" at st. Paul,
Minnesota, last Wednesday night
The electrical illumination was quite
brilliant, and so powerful was the mag
netic effect that the telegraphic wires
were rendered imperative.
The decrease Of thirty-two millions
in the import trade, and eleven and
half millions in the export trade Of
New York, since the 1st of January,
indicates how far the wholesale bust
ness is behind this year.
"A Texas paper says that there are
now several thousand beeVes in Will
Jamestown County, in that State, full.
fat, and fine and that the same may be
said of almost any county.
"A little daughter of Mr. Buckle,
near Bristol, Virginia, aged seven
years, met horrible death on Thurs
day. She was assisting in grinding su-
gar cane, when her head was caught in
the machinery and so terribly crushed
as to cause her death almost instant
ly.
The New York Times speaks Of the
Democratic party as ga united and
powerful enemy" to the Radicals. A
little while ago the Times was ridicul-
ing the Democratic party as defunct.
"A train on the Northwestern Rail
road in the western part Of Iowa, was a
few days since delayed one hour and a
quarter by grasshoppers, which cover
ed the track 50 thick that the engine dri-
ver5 slipped on the rails.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnson has resign
ed the presidency of the Alabama and
Tennessee River railroad, from Selma
to Dalton, and his place has been filled
by the election Of Franklin II. Deland,
of New York.
The temperance movement, it is
announced, has, during the past twenty
five years, enrolled 100000 members,
and its societies now have 100000
active members in North America.
The thirteenth section of thirty
miles of the Union Pacific railroad has
been accepted. This section completes
the road 100 miles west from Omaha,
Nebraska.
Nearly If, 900 acres of public lands
were disposed of at the land Offices at
San Francisco and Stockton, CAL, dur
ing August.
1t is said that one-eighth of the
iron and steel now made in the United
States is from the iron ores of Lake Su-
perior.
The reciprocity treaty with the
United States has passed the Sandwich
Islands Legislature, and received the
Kings approval.
The cultivation Of sorghum, which
was quite extensive in Wisconsin in
1865, has nearly ceased, the season
proving too short for ripening it.
A Women's Christian Association
is to be established in Chicago.
General Lee has 600 students at his
college, against 400 last year.
General Schenck is Wade's compe-
titor for the Ohio SenatOrship.
There were several shocks of earth
quakes in East Tennessee last week.
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