The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-19

| State debt of Ohio amounts to S3l 900.
of 600 students in Oberlin College,
/ Ohio, 36 are said to be cOlored.
Intelligence regarding the crops in
the South are very encouraging.
The personal property of San Fran
cisco is assessed at $60,000,0 900.
There have been 1923 bankrupts in
Chicago during the past year.
-Chas. w. Woolley has been dis
charged from custody.
Over forty thousand miles of rail
ways are now in use in the United
States.
"A little girl, it is stated, was stung
to death by a locust, near st. Louis,
few days ago.
"A bride in New York, last week,
received $500, 900 as wedding present
from her father.
During the last twelve months
81, ,781 immigrants from Europe have
arrived at New York.
The President of a negro Union
League, at ElytOn, Ala, is in Jail for
stealing bacon. He was caught in the
act
"A great execution will take place
next Novem ber-Hiram U. S. Grant
will be politically annihilated.
Three thousand acres Of land in
Angeline county, TeXes, lately sold at
Sheriff's sale for $50.
AT the land Offices in Kansas
a, ,410 acres Of public land were dispo-
sed of last month.
Illinois, having got rid Of the cat
tie disease, is complaining of the po-
tatO bug.
General Stoneman has declined a
public dinner rendered him by the lead
ing citizens of Petersburg, Va.
The democrats elected the whole
city ticket in Goshen, Indiana, last
week, by seventy majority.
The number of convicts in Illinois
penitentiary continues to Increase
On Monday of last week it was ll42.
-Four hundred and tifty-nine di-
vources were granted i'll Connecticut,
the land Of steady habits, last year.
There are one hundred and eighty
nine lecturers on Spiritualism in this
country who get their living thereby.
A meeting composed of Virginia
negroes, has petitioned Gen. Schofield
to stop the naturalization Of foreign
ers.
The expenses Of President john
sons defense comes out of private
pockets, but the Rump bill is saddled
upon the Government.
-Kentuckey, Tennessee, Arkansas
and other States of the South are har-
vesting their wheat, of good quality
and satisfactory in quantity.
The weather has been so hot in Par
is within the last few weeks that sew
eral persons have died in conse-
quer,es.
The Legislature of Massachusetts, has
passed a law forbidding the lighting of
passenger cars by Illuminating fluids
that will explode.
Mr.. Samuel NJ iller the millionaire
of Lychburg, Va, is about to found
there a magnificent charity for the ben
eft Of destitute girls.
Colonel Jerome Patterson Bona
parte, aid to the French Emperor, is
at West Point. He is described as a
tall, fine looking man, and attracts
much attention.
The name of President Johnson
has been stricken from the roll of hon
orary members of the Union League
Club of New York. 1t don't hurt him
much.
"A girl in Chicago died, on Wednes-
day, from swallowing the point of a
needle, which broke off while she was
picking her teeth with it.
The municipal election of Scran-
ton, the other day, resulted in large
ly increased Democratic majority. The
same Dry everywhere.
-! he Georgia Legislature will have
in it twenty-eight negroes-three in
the Senate and twenty-five in the
House of Representatives
The Democrats Of Indiana claim
they will defeat the Grant and COlfaX
ticket, in November, by $4,000 majOri
ity. The Radicals admit that the
State is doubtful.
Chief Justice Chase says that the
pardoning power is certainly consti-
tutional prerogative of the President,
an Congress has no power to abridge
it.
South Carolina peach orchards are
now loaded with this delicious fruit.
1t is estimated that the export ofpeach
es from Charleston will not be less than
$4,000 bushels this year.
The grasshoppers are destroying
the growing garden and farm crops
in central Iowa. The pests swarm
over the fields and leave devastation
behind.
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