The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-07-12
NEWS ITEMS.

An Omaha despatch reports great
alarm among the settlers between Forts
Yankton and Randall, on account of
hostile Indians. The Indians are
likewise frightened, and declare that
the savages threaten indiscriminate
attacks on all the settlements above
Yankton. General Sherman expects to
meet General Hancock at Fort Harker
to-day.
The spectators in breadstuffs have
commenced to croak, and false reports
of crop failures are afioat. Several re-
ports of the kind have been telegraph
ed from different points in the West,
but they have been promptly corrected.
A writer who has travelled through II
linOis, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio, says
crops never looked better corn included.
He says he heard man offer to deliver
in Richmond, Indiana, before January,
1868, at the option of the buyer, 200, 900
bushels of wheat at $3.50 bushel.
United States Marshal Murray, Col.
Wood, chief of the secret service di-
vision of the Treasury Department,
and several deputy marshals and sub
ordinate detectives, have been indicted
by the grand jury of Queens county, N.
Y, for the alleged abduction and ille-
gal arrest of Philip Stanley.
The Daily Ne1cs says that intoxica-
ting liquors con be had on Sunday, in
Philadelphia, at any place where they
were obtainable before the Mayor gave
instructions 10 his police to arrest all
Sunday sellers.
Galloway, the Radical candidate
for Lieutenant Governor, of Ohio, has
declined the nomination. He is a man
of brains and education, and no doubt
did not feel like playing second fiddle
to and becoming martyr for a mill
tary humbug like Hayes
1t stated that Satrap Poperecent-
ly declared that unless the Southern
States should accept the reconstruction
bills, they would be reduced to the con-
dition ofTennesSee and Missouri. The
people need not be alarmed; Pope's
bulls are harmless, these days.
Captain Buchanan and his wife,
and Mr.. Sweet, all of New London,
Connecticut, who were supposed to
have been lost at sea several years ago,
are reported to be in captivity on the
Feejee Islands. Efforts are being made
to send a U. S. vessel to rescue them.
"A circus performer, named White,
was set upon by lions which he was eX-
hibiting at Rochester, on Thursday
night. With the assistance of his COM
rades the beasts were driven off, and
White escaped with severe wounds.
A regular line of steamships is to
be established between Liverpool and
Galveston, Texas, beginning the trips
| in October next. These vessels are eX-
pected to do large trade in cotton
carrying.
The Pittsburgers are discussing the
best methods of relieving their ice from
| its strong taste Of petroleum, an undesi-
rable ingredient in cooling drinks just
| now.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has decided that whetstones
are not included in the exemption Of
burrstones and grindstOnes.
The Mexican Minister at Wash
ington does not believe that Escobedo
expressed desire to see split the blood
of every foreigner that resides in Mex
! leo.
The new Brazilian Minister was
yesterday introduced to the President
This new envoy bears the name ofDon
DOmingos Jose Gonzales de MagOthaes.
A man, named Rigney, has been
arrested at Boston for the murder of
Thomas Clay. The deceased was killed
while endeavOring to protect his sisters
| from insults.
The Union Pacific Railroad is now
open for business as far as Julesburg.-
The eleventh section Of the road has
been examined by the government
commissioners.
A man named John McCarty, on
Wednesday, shot through the heart a
young woman, on the outskirts of Bal
! timore.
The Red river levee, in front of AL
eXandria, La, has given way, and un-
| less the river falls the town will be in
undated.
Congressman POmeroy and Judd
were arrested and fined in Washington
on the Fourth, for shooting" fire
crackers in the street.
A Salt Lake paper announces the re-
cent withdrawal of a number of fami-
lies from the pleasing mysteries of Nor
monism.
The small poX panic in Danville,
Pa, has subsidized. The Danville pa
pers say that but two deaths took place
there from small poX.
Notwithstanding the prohibitOry
law in Connecticut, Hartford has 253
places where one can "takesomething.
AT Danville, Va, the registry list
shows but one white voter to every