The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-02-14
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.
Queen Victoria has ordered the
Governor of jamaica to fill all the re-
Sp0nsib!e offices hereafter only with
white men from England. The negro
has etfectuIly played himself out with
the British Government by his fantastic
tricks and murderons plots and massa-
cres. That Government took the lead
in the attempt to emancipate and ele-
vate the black race. 1t is now the first
to perceive that the negro is unfit for
self-government or to live harmOni-
0usly on an equality with white peo-
pie upon the same soil. This country,
following in England's wake, will pass
through the same experience.
The RAIDS of the Legislature, the
School Department, JnO. Cessna, Geary,
! and the heads of some of the Colleges
of the State, are connecting some So
| called educational scheme that needs
looking after. Where there is SO much
Political rascality, there can be no hon
esty, i'm an educational or any other
matter. We know that the Radical
| leaders never lose an opportunity to
engraft their negro suffrage and other
ahominabIe dogmas upon the plant
minds of the rising generation, hence
| it is incumbent upon the people to keep
"a close watch upon the plOtters. AL
ready, under Radical management, the
measure, political institution. Lei
| the people see to it that no more Yam
kee virus shall be poured into the
fountain of knowledge.-I'dt. G Cni0n.
In Frankfort KY, last week, a ne
gro committed rape on an Irish girl
fifteen years old, and afterwards threw
her over an embankment at the rail
road tunnel, breaking her shoulder
blade and otherwise injuring her.
The negro was subsequently arrested
and lodged in Jail. a crowd ofinfuri
ated citizens assembled and forced the
jail open, taking the negro out and
| hanging him to tree on the top OF
the precipice where the young Irish
girl was thrown over.
A negro riot occurred at Savannah,
Georgia, last week, which tasked all
the efforts of the police to quell. The
negroes drew pistols on the police, and
i'm the struggle that ensued, one of the
Lieutenants was shot in two places,
another knocked off his horse with a
brick-bat. Several policemen, and
four or five negroes were wounded
slightly, but no person was killed.
The ring. leaders were captured, but
there was much excitement among the
blacks last evening.
The discoveries Of gold, silver and
galena, in Polk and Sewer counties,
Arkansas, are causing much excite
ment, and in spite of the inclement
weather, people are tiocking to the
district in great numbers. a branch
Government land Office has been es-
tablished in the neighborh0Od of the
diggings to facilitate the location of
claims.
Eighteen months ago, the wife of
Thomas Gable, residing near this city,
gave birth to three children. whose IL
nted weight was twenty-five pounds.
On the 18th inst, she gave birth to ftcO
more fine, healthy children, making
five in all, within eighteen months.
In the way Of multiplying and replen
i5hing the earth, this is a very fair
business. Crawford Journal.
A bill has been introduced in the
New York Legislature providing that
it shall be unlawful for first cousin to
engage or agree to marry another first
cousin of the same cOnsanguinity.-I
Any person violating the proposed
law may be punished by a fine of not
more than $1,000, or imprisonment for
not longer than one year, or both fine
and imprisonment.
A Presbyterian clergyman, Writing
from Mississippi, says: "Hundreds of
negroes are begging for homes and
employment. The greatest pity is uni |
varsally felt for them but they would |
not work to make the crop" And al |
though they are now starving, no
doubt they will refuse to work next |
year just as they have the last.
Two thousand Fenians were in
council on Monday evening, at Cieve-
land. Speeches were made by several
gentlemen, and much enthusiasm Was
manifested,