The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-04-10
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

The Chicago JOlT8W has received
reports from Southwest and Central
Illinois, which are, almost without eX-
cepti0n, that the winter wheat has
passed through the cold weather sue
cessfullyand, promises an unprecedent-
ed harvest. The farmers all over the
West are taking advantage Of the unu-
sually early opening of the season TO
sow their grain. If the summer will
be anything like as favorable for the
farmers as the spring, the Southwest
will astonish the world with the eX-
tent of its crop this year.
Thomas HanlOn, one of the Han
Ion brothers, gymnasts, was arrested
at Harrisburg, yesterday morning, for
drunkenness, but was found to be in
sane, and discharged. Shortly after
wards he was again arrested for at
tempting to murder three boys accom-
panying him, and was placed in the
county prison, where in the afternoon
he attempted to commit suicide by
striking his head violently and repeat
edIy against an iron pipe in his cell.
Six men were required to secure him,
when he was bonnd down and his
wounds dressed.
There were thirty-One American
mercantile sea-going craft and nine
teen foreigners (bound to or from Uni
ted States ports reported during the
past month as either totally lost or
missing. They comprise two steam
erS, ten ships, six barks, ten brigS and
twenty-five schooners-total fifty. Of
these tWenty-nine were wrecked, sew
en- abandoned, five fOundered, two
burned, one capsized, and six missing.
The Queen of the Belgians wants
to succeed Eugenie as Empress of FASH
ion. Al recent ball at the Belgian
Court she appears to have delighted
the eyes of behOlders by dress Of
white gauze, covered with small puf1s,
with an ornament of green velvet in
each hollow the bottom of the skirt,
and the cOrSdge trimmed with wreaths
of green velvet, worked with gold !;
st0lnacher, necklace and crown, of dia-
mondS.
"A society has been organized in
Boston under the name of RumiOrd
Food Laboratory, to encourage the
science and art of cookery. This asso-
citation propose to meet the evil of hil h
prices and adulteration Of materials for
food by direct purchase of supplies from
producers and to attempt solution
OF the question of social domestic grie-
vances by enabling families to become
independent Of unskiilful cooks, in
supplying them with articles of food
prepared from best materials by
skilliul experts.
In the Red River settlement OF
British North America, some -four
hundred Of the inhabitants have met
in convention and fOrme cd a govern
ment of their own, for the reason that
they were too far away to enjoy any at
tile hands of the British authorities.
They have elected Il President, adopted
laws. defined their boundaries, and
put in motion all the machinery oil
government.
"A number of wealthy females in
Boston and vicinity are contributing
money for the purpose of building "A
clubhouse, one of the rules of which
will be, that no gentlemen shall enter
except by the unanimous consent of
the members.
The editor ofa Western cotemporary
remarks that he IL glad to receive maj
riage notices, but requests that they b,
sent soon after the ceremony and be-
fore the divorce is applied for. He
has had several notices spoiled in thi.
way.
The Rocky Mountain Herdid ad-
vertises for single women. a thous-
and girls, it says, could get husbands
and homes in Colorado, before the
spring.