The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-06-21
NEWS ITEMS.

fyingly enthusiastic.
"A gentlemen in st. Louis has re-
covered $4,000 from the city for dam
ages caused by falling into a cellar.
During May 15, 46S acres of public
lands were disposed of at the offices in
Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The Chicago Common Council
have appropriated 1920, 900 for sewerage
purposes.
The Massachusetts Legislature has
abolished the usury laws in that State,
making free trade in money.
Some of the temperance men in
Connecticut are attacking the clergy
for using wine in the communion.
A number of puddlers have arrived
at Pittsburg, Pa, from Europe, and gone
to work in the rolling mills.
The people of some portions of
North Carolina ana Virginia are max
ing preparations, this season, to pick
and dry blackberries and huckleberries
for expectation.
Two lady compositors in the Port
land Advertiser Office were the first in
Maine to set a thousand ems toward the
fund to erect monument to Artemus
Ward.
The President and Cabinet are u
unanimous in the belief that a Satrap can
not either remove or appoint civil Off
Ger.
Farmers complain that nothing
comes up-it has been so wet and cold.
They forget that prices have come up.
They are likely to stay up, too.
Flanders who was appointed gov
erner of louisiana by Satrap Sheridan,
is a native of Bristol, New Hampshire.
Along the line of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad there are one thousand a
cres of strawberries.
The surplus of the wheat harvest
in Georgia, it is estimated, will reach
10000, 900 bushels.
-Pittsburg has been agreed upon as
theplace for holding the fair of the Penn
sylvania State Agricultural Society,"
The fair will commence on Tuesday,
September "A.
The Indians have taken almost en-
tire possession of Brown county, Texas,
driyinU ont tho settlers
1t is stated that 1S0,00 voters have
been registered in Alabama, and that
of this number one-half are negroes.
1t is said that the colored confden
tial clerk recently put in the Treasury
Department is under arrest for embez-
element and forgery.
A man named Robert Price was
murdl red near Augusta, Georgia, on
the night of the 18th, by negroes.
j. B. Foster, collector ofcustoms at
Wilmington, n. c., has been arraigned
for malieasance in office.
The Nashville darkies demand
their turn with the whites in the barber
shops. .
in Baltimore man was fined $40 for
cracking and eating peanuts in church,
during divine service.
The prospect of peace in Europe
has raised the price of white oak slaves
in West Virginia, where the Spanish
/; n French wine merchants get their
supply of wine casks.
"A natural cave has been discovered
in Duval County, Texas, which has
gushing streams, deep well, and walls
composed of sulphate of lime.
The Radicals are already complain
ing that whenever a negro gets little
education he leaves their party and be-
comes Conservative. They might have
known that without waiting to be
taught it by experience.
The Baltimore Episcopal Methodist
advises it's Southern friends to buy the
English edition of Lange's Commen-
tary upon the Bible. The American
edition contains-What no one could
guess in dozen trials-"a partisan ac-
count of Gen. Lees invasion of Penn
sylvania."
THE Davenport Democrat says
there is great mortality among the
lambs of Vermont. The Pittsburg Re
public adds that there is great immO-
rality among the shepherds of Massa-