The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-01-11
NEWS HTE?gS.

is entitled 1.-Two Marriages"
-Braxton Bragg is in New Orleans,
for the first time since the "late un-
pleasantness.
The King of Prussia is the only
monarch in Europe that knows his
Bis.
The oldest living actor, according
to the Boston Post, is "Superfuous
Lags, the veteran on the stage"
General n. B. Forrest has the con-
tract to build forty-fve miles of the
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad.
For the first time in seven years,
snow fell in Galveston, Texas, on the
Sd inst.
Gen. Frank P. Blair has been ap-
pointed Government Commissioner of
the Union Pacific Railroad.
A ''colored citizen" is on trial in
Cleveland for attempting to commit a
rape upon German woman, ON Christ
mas day.
"A respectable white lady, of Green
county, North Carolina, was violated
last week by five negroesand one white
man. All are in jail.
The municipality of Antwerp has
ordered, on sanitary grounds, every
house in the town to be painted, inside
and out, at least once year.
1t is said the New Hampshire
Democrats will bring out military
man for Governor next time. Their
Convention will meet in January.
There are fifteen thousand work.
men idle in New York city-the vic
TINS of the Radical ''policy" of agita-
ton, high tariffs for Yankee manufac-
turers, and diSunion.
It's stated that the State Democrat
ic Committee of Illinois have conclud-
ed to establish a new Democratic paper
in Chicago, and that the company will
have capital of $250,000 to start on.
The following is the specie ship
ment for Europe from New York on
Saturday: st. Laurent takes out $3.50,
600; Deutschland takes out $4,000,
and the City of Boston takes out none.
There are forty firms in thelumber
trade in Chicago, Illinois, employing
1900 hands, making up q 100000 feet
per month into doors, surfacing, floor
ing, siding, blinds and boxes.
"A singular innovation was made
at a funeral in Paris the other day.
Instead of laudatory discourse in
honor of the individual inferred, one of
his friends read extracts from a news
paper article in his praise.
The receipts of cattle at the Union
Stock Yards in Chicago for the year 49,
66 were 392,604 head; shipments, 262,
159. Receipts of live hogs, 980,364;
shipments, 49,, 779. Receipts of sheep,
209, 1871; shipments, 75,447.
Hon. James I'll. Campbell, of Potts
vile, who four years ago, represented
the SchuyllliH district in Congress, and
has since been Minister to Stockholm,
was last week nominated as Minis
ter to Bogota by the President.
Gen. Pennypacker, ofChester coun-
ty, has received the appointment of
Colonel of the 37th u. S. Infantry, de-
clined some time since by Gen. John
F. Hartranft. An excellent appoint
ment.
We lately heard Of an old woman
who is collecting all the Radical papers
she can lay her hands on, to make soap
Of She says, "they are desperate
sight better than ashes-they are most
as good as clear He."
A Russian paper gives curiousit-
EN- of news from Wilma. The Russian
authorities have recently seized, con- |
fiscated and mutilated a bronze statue |
of the Goddess Flora, which stood in
the park of a Polish gentleman, near
the city just named. they were under
the impression that it was an image of !
some Roman Catholic saint!
F. Mention is made Of photograph
of Mr.. Lincoln reading the Bible to his
little boy Tad" who stands between
his knees. ''The "Bible" IS a large
album, which the operator
placed in Mr. Lincoin's hands, which
has been converted into better book
by those who are SO persistent in mis-
the martyr-President.-
Wash. Cores.
A Yankee is nothing if not practf-
cal and pretendedly pious. The par
ishioners of one Of the largest Boston
havingpurchased a mammoth
organ, and wishing to obviate the nee
essity of manual labor, have so arrang-
I'd it that stream OF Cochituate water
shall work the bellows. What is the
lse of attempting to escape our destiny
when such peopleare determined to
.ule and ruin us:-St. Louis Times. aIl