The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-08-30
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

From eighty to one hundred car
loads of peaches pass over the Philadel-
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore rail-
road every evening, having been load
ed along the line Of the Delaware rail-
road. Each car holds 800 baskets or
100 boxes, thus making an average Of
$1,000 baskets daily, which reach New
York and this city by this route alone
On Monday evening 10 cars, in three
trains passed over the road, so of which
went direct to New York. PhiL0. Ledg-
6r.
-TheSierra Nevada mountains have
been tuDnelled, and in few days we
may have the cars running under that
magnificent range Of mountains. The
Pacific railroad is advancing with a
rapidity that we do not really conceive.
How long will it be before we see under
our advertising columns, "From San
Francisco to New York in ten days !"
"Through line to China, by rail and
steam, with no change of cars! :"
The Black Hills of Dakota, which
are an outlying group ofhills belonging
to the Rocky Mountain range, are be-
lieved to abound in gold, silver, copper,
coal and other minerals. Unlike the
mining region of Colorado, these hills
are said to yield fine, large timber,
while they are watered by two branches
of the Big Cheyenne, a tributary of the
Upper Missouri.
"A Youth of nineteen summers, re-
sidingnear Tionesta, eloped, last week,
with a lady of some fifty winters, who
lived near by. They were desperately
in love, but as the friends of both par
ties objected to their union, they pro-
ceeded to settle the affairafter the long
ingS Of their own hearts, and ran away
in the middle of the night.
A man advertised for a wife, and
requested each candidate to inclose her
carte de Uisite. a spirited young lady
wrote to the advertiser in the following
terms: "Sir, do not inclose my carte,
for though there is some authority for
putting a cart before horse, [ know
Of none for putting one before an ass"
A new Fenian Congress, under the
auspices of the Stephens and O'Maho-
ney branch of the organization, COM
menced its session in New York, on
Wednesday, Mr.. O'ConnNr, of Boston,
in the chair, and about two hundred
delegates from the different circles in
attendance.
Nearly 4OOOOO,OOO pounds of beet
sugar are annually made in France,
Germany, Austria, Russia and Bclgi-
um. One factory in Germany employs
5000 operatives, occupies twelve acres
ofbuiIdings, and has a capital of $l6,-
0,O0O
AT Buffalo, on "Wednesday, the fast
trotter Dexter made his mile in 2.16l,
which is the best time ever trOtted in
harness by II seconds. After the trot
Dexter was sold to Robert Bonner, of
New York, for over $4,000.
When the Presidents aid waited
upon Gen. Grant with the order as
signing that chieftain to the War Office,
he was at his headq uarters, smoking.
He read the order, looked at the officer,
and made speech. He said, every
we'll"
"A few days ago wagon containing
a picnic party from Baltimore was fired
into by gang of armed negroes, near
Canton, and three Of the party severely
wounded. No provocation had been
given.
The number of deaths from yellow I
fever in New Orleans in three days was
thirty-seyen. Some of General Sheri- /
dams staff officers are down with it. 1t |
prevails in a very virulent type at Cor
pus Christi, and its ravages are fearful .
a Galveston.
The cholera is reported to be raging
at Shawneetown, Illinois,
on the Ohio river. Twenty deaths had
already occurred. Disease had also bro
ken out among the Seminole Indians
in Kansas.
There have been thirty-siX thousand
deaths by cholera in Italy, within six