The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-04-19
NEWS ITEMS


1t is believed that $2,6OO,OOO coun-
terfeit money is circulating in this
country. aI
-Thereisa a general distrust in politi-
cal and financial matters all over Eu-
rope.
-Brookhaven, L. [, has elected a
Democratic city ticket by gain of 80
votes.
1t is estimated that Montana will
yield $36,OO0,OOO worth of precious
metals this season.
Minors can marry in Louisiana. The
legal age for the bridegroom is fourteen,
for the bride twelve.
Vera Cruz was closely besieged by
the Liberalists at last accounts, and was
being bombarded by the besiegers.
The State of Wisconsin appropri-
ates over two hundred thousand dollars
this year for charitable Institutions.
-One hundred and fifty steamers are
lying idle and decaying on the Red riv-
er, north of New Orleans.
The New Workers hope to retain
the Gret Eastern as permanent pass
enger-ship between their port and Liv-
erpool.
Within twenty-four hours after the
burning of the Lindell Hotel, the citi-
zens of st. Louis had pledged 81 ,00O
to rebuild it. ..... ....-.....
"A young lady of New York has
sued young man for kissing her while
she was asleep in the cars. H.u
5000 worth of jewelry was stolen
by burglars in New Orleans on Thurs
day morning The burglars were ta-
ken and the jewelry recovered.
The Wisconsin Legislature has adj
journed sine die. Among the bills pass
ed was one to amend the State Constitu-
ton by extending the franchise to wo-
men.
Texas letters say that the Indians
are assembling in large bodies on the
frontier, and numerous outrages are
committed daily.
"A fatal disease has broken out a.
mong the sheep in parts of Illinois.
4 post n1orten examination reveals the
presence of parasites in the stomach.
The colored Suffrage bill has been
passed by both Houses of the Ohio Leg
islature, and will be submitted to the
people next October. ..
Accounts from New Orleans repre-
sent the richest sugar and cotton reg
ions of the Lower Mississippi.
The Southern printers agree to set
q thousand ems each toward Artemns
Wards monument. They ask North
ern printers to do the same.
The town of De Soto, opposite
Vicksburg, on the Mississippi river
was suddenly inundated, few days
since, and from 50 to 100 negroes were
drowned. The population was exclu.
sively negro.
The lower House of the New Jersey
Legislature refused to strike the word
"white" from the State constitution
by vote of thirty-fve to twenty,
thereby cutting off negroes in the State
from the right of franchise.
Wendell Phillips has written a
letter to Muscatine, Iowa, paper, in
which he likens President Johnson to
a Tennessee mule, and opposes Grant
as candidate for the Presidency be-
cause he has no political ideas of his
own.
After promise to our Government
by the Captain General of Cuba, that
enlistments in Havana for MaXimilian
should be stopped, two hundred more
enlistments have been made, and the
Government has taken the matter up.
Ten boys, aged from eight to six
teen, were sentenced to thirty days
Imprisonment on Tuesday, at Jamaica
Long Island, for having stoned an
organ grinder while peacefully follow
ing his vocation. Yesterday the organ
grinder died in Brooklyn of his injuries
The Pittsburg Commercial, speak
ing of the backwardness of the season
in that section, says that there is still
promise Ofabundant fruit crops. Sim
liar reports come from many sections OF
Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Western New York
New Jersey, and Delaware.
"A lady, attacked with hydrOphobia
spasms, after being bitten by rabid
dog in Hamilton county, Indiana, is
reported to be in the way of recovering.
She was treated with bromide of potas-
sium by the physician who attended
her. ....
About 5000 Cinnamon are EN- ploy-
ed by the Central Pacific Railr DAD
Company ofCalifornia, at $50 (gold) per
month, .withoutboard. Johnny, besides
proving a good washerwoman, cook
and chambermaid, has proven very
effective man with the shovel and the
drill. f
BANKRUPT LAW.-COngress having
refused to change the time of putting