The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-08-23
NEWS ITEMS.

-beherdl olckleS has ordered the
South Carolina banks to refund the
monies advanced by the banks during
the war but not used.
The destitute negroes of Virginia
have been told by General Schofield to
look for assistance henceforth to the
commissioners of the poor.
"A jury inquest yesterday, at Will
mington, North Carolina, was COM
posed of an equal number of whites
and blacks.
Judge Wright Of theSupreme Court
of Iowa, has decided that as the legisla-
tion of that State now stands, national
bank shares cannot be taxed.
Hon. Jesse ID. Bright, formerly T.
nited States Senator from Indiana, has
been elected member ofthe Kentucky
Legislature. He is a resident of that
State.
1t is estimated that the peanut crop
in North Carolina will equal this year
the crop of last year. New Hanover
and Onslow, the principal peanut re-
gion, then realized 10000 bushels.
The expectations of petroleum this
year amounted to 81, ,3S4 gallons a.
gainst 29,159,711 last year.
A Maine paper estimates that the
marketed berry crop this season in that
State. from wild vines alone, will prob
ably be sold for at least 81, 100000.
An unsuccessful oil we'll in Indiana
spouts sulphur water of a quality which,
it is stated, surpa5ses the Virginia
Springs.
Mr.. Bonner paid $4,000 for his
horse Dexter instead of only $50, 200, as
at first reported.
Mrs. Blood, eighty years old, caught
the picIlpocket, while rifing her pock-
cts, at Ballston, New York, the other
day, and held him until he was taken
into custody.
General Pillow has at last been''in
the field" TO some purpose. He esti-
mates his corn crop this year at 100000
bushels.
"A Fenian national congress is to be
held in New York on the Dist instant
'to take into consideration the present
policy and position of the brother
hood"
Admiral Palmer's flagship, the
Susquehanna, sailed the other day from
Vera Cruz for parts unknown.
A corps of United States engineers
are now engaged in surveying route
fora Niagra ship canal, under the law
ofCOngress.
Franklin Smith, white man, con-
victed of rape, at Wilmington, n. c.,
has been sentenced to be hung on the
30th inst.
There is good reason why little
man should never marry bouncing
widow He might be called ''the wild
OW'S mite"
The wheat in Loudon county, Va,
is turning out from ten to fifteen BUSH
els to the acre. The white wheat is in
different, the red very fine.
Out West sensitive young mai
den last week poisoned herself because
her sweetheart went to the circus with
another female.
The talk about rebuilding the Lin
del Hotel in st. Louis, is reviving.-
The ''solid men" are now moving in
the matter.
A jaw, nese, a face and head
broken were part Of the results of a
base ball match in Iowa.
Cholera travels with the steerage
passengers on the Mississippi boats.
Senator Ben. Wade is to stump.O-
hio for the republicans.
In Jefferson City, Missouri, near
ly two hundred houses are being cree
ted this season.
-43, ,012 acres of public lands were dis
posed of in July, in Iowa, Michigan and
Missouri.
"A Wisconsin farmer complains
that he has not room on his farm this
year to stack his crops.
The drought is seriously affecting
the corn and potatoes in. Indiana.
Ten thousand persons were struck
by lightning in France in thirty years.
"A good cargo of coolies costs about
S325 900 in cold.