The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-04-10
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wards the heavens" There is no doubt
Of the lifting part, but some doubt as to
the point to which we are said to have
been lifted They have lifted the Con-
stitution from lis base-lifted every
thing in the shape Of mOvables- lifted
everything like honesty and fair deal
ing from the minds Of men, and lifted
gold so high that it is entirely beyond
the reach of most men and it is TO be
hoped that the next thing they lift Will
be themselves from power.-Erenihg
Her0id.
The bridge now in process of cree
ton over the Miss issippi at ST. Louis
involves an. experiment hitherto un-
tried. The central span is to he 5lo
feet between the abutments, and the
other two 497 feet respectively. No
span of 800 feet now exists in the
world Steel is to be largely used in
the structure.
of the growth of the AstOr estate
some idea may be formed by the fact
that few years ago Mr.. Astor paid a
tax of $4,000. This year his tax is
$24O,G00 a sum equal to 500 per day,
while Commodore Vanderbilt only
pays $40, 900. which is little more than
800 per day.
One of the most determined sui
cides on record is that of Charles Bill
let, of New Orleans. A few days ago
he prepared something like bomb
shell, locked himself in his room. and
waited for the explosion. His body
was shockingly mutilated.
"A disastrous fire occurred at Frank
lin, Tennessee, at ii o'clock, Saturday
night. Some twelve houses on and adj
joining the public square were burned.
The loss is estimated AT $6O,O00, with
no insurance. The fire was still burn
ing when the train passed ct 3 O'Clock
Saturday morning.
-Four notorious Radical inebriates
are members Of the "high court of inn
peachment"-tWo of whom are con-
stantly On the borders of deliriun tre-
mems.
Ulysses papa says that lovely
youth once worked farm given him
by his wife's father, and at the end
of three years was poorer than when he
began.
1t is said that A. r. Stewart has
dropped Grant a. candidate for the
Presidency, because he has not the
requisite integrity or the gentlemaniy
heaiing necessary in a President.
Reports have reached Kansas Ci-
ty, of further depredatiOns committed
by bands of Cheyenne Indians on the
Plains. Two trains were recently rob
bed by them on the Arkansas side.
1t is said that sham diamonds are
now made to deceive even experienced
jewelers., who trust to the eye alone.
The only means of detecting the spur
ious gem, is by weighing it and ascer-
tanning its temperature.
-Br0wnlow pardOned two thieves
who have since been detected digging
up the treasure which they were SEN
fenced for stealing.
Sixteen Of the most prominent
citizens of johnson county, Ind, have
been indicted for murder, they having
helped to lynch two other murderers
several months since.
The Indian peace commission have
left Omaha for the North Platte, to
meet Spotted Tail and other chiefs,
and go to Fort Laramie, where a grand
council will be held at full moon.
Linton Stevens and Gen. John B.
G. ordon have been speaking in opposi-
ton to the new Georgia constitution.
The contest for the Governorship OF
Georgia is getting excited.
Weston, the Pedestrian, is again on
the track, and proposes to walk from
Erie, Pa, to Buffalo, one hundred miles,
in tWenty-iOur hours.
Charles l.. Stewart, of White Plains,
New York, dropped dead on the street.
He was recently married, and leaves
his wife one million dollars.
The Democrats of Mount Hope,
New York, elected their whole ticket
last week by 81 majority-a gain of 93.
The Philadelphia station-hOuse
accommodated over four thousand
dodgers last month.
The manufacture of cot ton has be-
gun in Utah. Brigham Young has
cotton factory at Salt Lake City called
the Desert Mills.
The trial of Jefferson Davis has
been again postponed until the md OF
May.
Internal revenue receipts from the
first district of Louisiana for March, a
mount 10 Si52 900.
Vim. Donovan was hanged at York,
Pa, on Tuesday of last week, for the
murder of the Squibb family.
Gen. Cary, prominent and infiu-
ential Ohio Radical, has left the con
spirators and joined the Democracy.
"A Judge in Cincinnati declares that
lhe Indiana Divorce Laws are dis
grace to any State claiming civiiiza-