The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-07-26
NEWS ITEMS.


of life are now within the reach of ALL
although the poorer classes of the pop
ulation have experienced severe hard
ships in the last few months. The
Southern newspapers are much cheer
ed at the prospects, and at the same
time make grateful Acknowledgements
of the valuable assistance given their
section from the North, without which,
they say, many persons must have per-
ished.
The Springfield Republican tells
the following snake story: A child at
South Dorset, nineteen months old,
caught green snake nearly two feet
long, the other day. ate about three
inches of its tail, bit it through the
head, and came into the house with the
reptile wound about its arm, and the
blood oOzing from its mouth. The
child's mouth was badly poisoned, but
it received no other injury.
An exchange says that over forty
thousand Republican voters of Phia-
delphia supported Judge Sharswood
when candidate on the Democratic
ticket for his present position, and that
hewas then considered sound on all con-
stitutional questions. Judge Sharswood
has not changed since that time, and
those who relied then upon his ability,
integrity and patriotism, do so yet.
While Robert H. Barton, of Som
erville, was being shaved in barber's
shop in Boston on Tuesday, he sudden
ly jumped from the chair to secure his
horse, which was moving, when the
razor completely severed his nose from
his face.
-Jo. Smith, an amorous youth of19,
was rebuffed on Sunday night by a
miss of 16, in Charlestown, Va, to
whom he had proposed marriage. He
Immediately sought consolation Gin a
bullet lodged in his head from a pis-
tOl.
AAiN w Sti INV
costs one million per week, and Gen.
Grant says it will cost five millions, or
the small sum of two hundred and six
ty millions per annum. Uncle Sam is
rich and don't mind expenses
"A druggist in Washington, Massa-
chusetts, was lately arrested for keeping
his store open on Sunday and selling
soda water. How very sanity they are
growing "down east"
"A party of the employees of the
Chicago and Great Eastern Railroad
seized train bound east, on Wednes-
day, at L1gansport, Indiana, for the
purpose Of securing their arrearages of
wages.
"A Rose County (Ohio) farmer, from
a hill near his house was able before
harvest to see more than $500 acres of
wheat; and better and plumper grain
has never been "put in shock"
DR.. Robinson, Of Bennington, Mich
igan, died on Sunday night of last
week, in consequence of sprinkling
chlnrnfnrn nnon his pillow TO produce
sleep.
Gold mining in Virginia is rapidly
increasing. By the 1st of November,
seventeen mines will have been opened
in Spottsylvania, Culpepper, Orange
ap6 OuiCo noup+ioc
Lawrence Harle, the child murder
er Of Warsaw, Indiana, has just been
sentenced to q years imprisonment in
the penitentiary. He acknowledged
his crime and said he did it purposely.
u. P. Suvoong, a native Chinese
student in the Kenyon (Ohio) College,
has carried off the prize for the great
est proficiency among the Seniors in
the Greek Testament.
-Wisconsin's eigh t-hOur law went
into effect July 4, but most of the work
ingmen in that State keep on at the
old rate of time and wages.
Things have black look in Vir-
ginia. The negroes have put several
thousand more names on the registry
than the whites have.-Boston Post.
The late DR.. Lamballe, of Paris,
went to Paris poor boy, and left $780,
900 francs (112,000) to each of his five
heirs.
"A pretty little one month old baby
was found in the ladies' room of the
Erie Railroad depot at EImira, on Sat
urday. The mother is unknown.
A mani in New Hampshire attempt
ed to enforce his argument on religion
with hoe-handle, and nearly beat out
the brains of his antagonist.
-Garibaldi tells the Italians that the
hour has come for the liberation of
Rome, and her restoration to her an
cient glory and freedom.
Washington circles, fashionable and
diplomatic, are on the qHi viUe for the
Turkish Minister, who, it is reported,
will live in style magnificent to see.
-Salomon & DeFreece's whalebone
and rattan factory in New York, was
burned on Thursday. The loss is about
$150,0OO.
A building in Cincinnati, occupied
as paper warehouse and printing Off