The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-26
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

| hOItiOii DClNtcu OdlIIOEUd, anu NcNd-
da was closed last week by completing
the track for the space of six miles, de-
layed by the snow last winter. The
! Central Pacific Railroad is now in oper-
alton from Sacramento to Reno, near
| Virginia City, $50 miles, and about Ju-
ly |, the cars will run to Big Bend, on
the Truckee river, Nevada, 1877 miles
east of Sacramento. The grading is
rapidly progressing across the desert
of Big Bend to Humboldt Lake. The
whole force of laborers will be at on ce
moved upon the line of Salt Lake.
This portion of the road can be built as
rapidly as that East of the Rocky
Mountains. The company is putting
forth every eXertion to reach Salt Lake
before the Union Pacific expects to be
there, on the 4th Of July 1860.
An Atlantic Cable dispatch an
nounces the assassination of Prince
Michael, the ruling sovereign of Ser
via, in Europe. The act was commit
ted while the Prince and some of his
family were out walking in the streets
Of Belgrade. He was attacked sudden
ly by three or four persons, who fired
shots at him with a revolver, one of
which took effect, killing him instantly.
One Of the 'assassins was captured.
The Roanoke Times says a white
female Of that county gave birth to
child as black as the ace Of spades, one
day last week. The father of the girl
was a member of the League" who
held meetings at his house. 1t also
speaks of another case in which the
wife of a white man was driven off
with her black paramOur, and thinks
there is a Radical defect somewhere.
"A wonderfully formed child, born
near Pulaski, Tenn, is now on exihi-
bitiOn in Nashville. Nature has furn-
ished it with four legs, four feet, tWen-
ty-one toes, and but one body, being
one child, healthy and symmetrical,
down to the hips, thence down it is two
distinct, well-develOped children, with
every organ, bone and muscle that be-
long to two persons.
Near Lafayette, Indiana, "A few
days since, during violent storm of
rain and wind, Mrs. May and her two
daughters were passing through a piece
of woodland, when a tree was blown
down on them, killing the mother and
younger child Immediately, and seri-
Ously injuring the other one.
The freshet on the James River in
Virginia has greatly injured the crops
on the loWlands. The army worm
has made its appearance in the cotton
plants on both sides of the Mississippi,
in Louisiana. At Madison, Wis, ia
vOrable reports of the growing crops
have been received from all parts of
the State.
The young lady boarders at con-
vent in Bordeaux got hold of some of
the naughty songs Of the famous Their
esa, and when the Mother Superior
cOnfiscated them, raised a mutiny and
tried to suffocate one of the teachers be-
tween two mattresses.
"A gamblers telegraph has been
captured in a Montreal den. It is an
apparatus on the bell-pull system, by
which a confederate looking through
a hole in the ceiling, can inform the
"scalper" what card the visitor has
in his hand.
The Prussian infantry are being
trained to attack railway cars while in
motion, to the surprise of travellers,
who find their train suddenly boarded
bya dozen or more, who go through
the manual Ofarms in the passage and
then jump off.
On the California end Of the Pacific
railroad they have already cut fifteen
tunnels in a distance of 137 miles.
These tunnels range from 81 feet in
length to ,652 feet, and the aggregate
length Of the fifteen is 6,262 feet
In Rome, on the Sd inst, the Hon,
! OuCIldL6lII ANSe'N SoNS a SIttllb CllICA-
tainment to the Hon. Charles Francis
Adams and a large party of American
residents and visitors.
Secretary McCulloch has not re-
signed, nor does he purpose so to do,
his relations with the President being
represented as of a most amicable and
satisfactory character.
-Ex- United States Senator Guthrie,
of Kentucky, has resigned the presi-
dency Of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, on account of continued i'll
health.
Ira Sherman, of Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, picked from his strawberry
bed, on Monday, (0th,l a berry of the
DR.. Nycane (English) variety, full
ripe, which measured four inches
around. 1t was raised in the open
air.
California promises to become one
Of the chief producing countries
in the world. The best grape for the
purpose is one of the Malaga variety.
Last year a single farm raised $4,000
pounds.
The Empress Carlotta, in her in
sane moments, imagines that the royal