The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-08-09

try, and it is said he ate twenty-five
bushels of oats and five hundred pounds
of hay, and drank seven barrels Of wa
ter per day. He died ia 1865. He ewas
exhibited in Bedford the preceding day
and was IN the way to Cumberland
when death paralyzed his monster
limbs. His death is described as hav-
ing been intensely exciting to the spec
tators. The terrible struggle he made
in the throes of death were terrific be-
yond description. But he, the strong
est and mightiest of the animal king
dom, had to yield to the mandate from
on High, that all is "born to die"
His remains are buried here. | am
told it took eleven men one whole day
to dig his grave. 1T is rumored that
his grave has been opened and some Of
his ivory stolen.
Another incident is connected with
the history of this vicinity:
Several years ago as the coach came
numbering along from Cumberland and
below Centreville the horses became
suddenly frightened and made afearfnI
spring forward, and the coach bounded
as if it had run across large log The
driver on looking back, saw q very
large snake lying across the road Two
passengers were in the stage,-they
both got out and went back with the
driver and found a monster serpent,
supposed to have been a abOa-cOnStrictOr.
The driver picked upa large stone as
the snake was moving off and was a.
bout throwing it, when the head of the
snake, with diStended jaws and kissing
+nn in, Gn nf hn
more than ten feet above the highest
rail. This so frightened the party
that the stone was dropped and all
three made for the coach and went to
Centreville as fast as the horses could
take them. The snake is supposed to
have taken refuge close by in one of
the holes in Evitt's Mountain. Hehas
often been hunted, without success,
but his track has frequently been seen,
and in Whips meadow the shed-skin
of a monster snake has been found.
Cumberland Valley was for a .Ong
time the banner Democratic township
of the County but she has now to yield
the palm to the State of SOuthamItOn.'
Southampton gives larger Democrat
ic majority than any other township
in the County. The people of Cum.
berland Valley are very kind and in
telligent. The AnderSOns, the EairS,
the CessnaS, the Doors the Masons,
and others are noble democrats and up
right men. Samuel Whip, the Demo-
cratic candidate for County Auditor
lives in this township and he is one of
natures noblemen," He is honest
and Industrious, and will be elec;ed by
a large -Ote.
The Democracy of Bedford are alive
and will do a good work this fall. A
truer, nObler, or more energetic class
Of Democrats never lived upon the face
of the earth than the gallant and lion
hearted Democracy of Bedford county.
The FALL TRADE.-The Philadel-
phia North american of Saturday last
speaks thus encouragingly of the Fall
trade prospects,: Though at this mo-
ment wholesale business is extremely
dull, and the Commercial world is en-
joying its vacation, yet we find much
more cheerful feeling than we have OBJ
served formany monthsagone. So faras
our reporter can feel the commercial
pulse, there exists general gratitude for
the absence of apprehended pestilence,
great thanks for the plenteous crops
harvested and yet to be harvested and
a lively hope for and belief in the trans
action Of healthy and prosperous trade
in the coming season. Manufacturers
in all the various lines have all they can
doin preparation for the coming de-
mand. In stoves and hollow-ware, fur
niture, leather, the textiles and iron,
thele is no dullness whatever. The
summer holidays are likely this year
to be short. There are good many
southern and western buyers now at
the contiguous watering places, and we
hear in some cases in which statesmen
at watering PLACES have been recalled
in haste to attend to customers already
on the spot.