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

Otller HlHCulutIy NSIt lOullu OH tAe
premises, together with quantity of
nickel in bars. Three persons are un-
der arrest, supposed to be the owners
of the establishment.
Miss Rettie Bisbee, who stumped
Kansas in behalf of women suffrage,
has come over TO the Democratic party
and is now Iecturing on "The Failure
and the Hope" meaning the failure OF
the Republicans to save the country,
and the hope that the Democrats will.
The Freedmen's Bureau reports
from North Carolina are unfavOrable.
Breaches of contract and non-payment
of wages are complained of, and the
system of working on shares has prov
ed failure. DestitutiOn is very gen
eral among the people.
The DoWningtOwn Journal says
the wife of Jacob Spots, of Springfield,
Chester county, Pa, recently gave
birth to four children, each weighing
eight pounds.
There are one thousand and forty
three cOnvicts in the Illinois State pen
itentiary. That institution is now
earning about two hundred dollars a
day over and above expenses.
Mrs. McGooty, the mother of four
| teen children, committed suicide AT
Newport, \. H., last week, by hack
ing herself with an axe and then cut
ting ller throat with a razor.
"A movement is on foot for con-
vention to represent the producing in-
terests Of the country, to assemble at
Cincinnati, under the auspices of THE
National Cheap Freight Railway
League"
An attempt was made recently to
| assassinate the King and Queen Of POr-
tugal. Their guards fired upon the as
sailants, killing several, while the roy
al party rode rapidly into town and es-
capped injury.
A negro woman in Mississippi has
confessed to killing her two children,
one aged seven years and the other
four, by literally cutting them up"
as butcher would a sheep.
The impeachment farce cost the
United States Government S23, BIB
| No matter, the people must pay it, and
| the wo"kingmen must contribute theil
share, though their families starve in
! the meantime.
The Georgia Convention has beer
in session over thirty days, at cost OF
not less than one hundred thousand
dollars, and has not yet begun to ap'
prOach the duty marked out for its per-
formance.
"A Negro Beareau agent-"trOOly
loil"-stationed at Lake Providence
Louisiana, has absconded with 5000
belonging to freedmen and others.
Real estate in Atlanta, GA, that
cost before the war 100000 in gold
sold the other day at United States
MarshaI's sale for 81, 900 in currency.
Charleston gives sad evidence OF
the misfortune caused in the South by
the war. In 1860 Charleston contained
forty thousand people, whilst now its
numbers barely reach fifteen thousand
The Pittsburg Gazette says that
destitution, arising from scarcity of
labor, prevails to an alarming extent
in the city and its neighborhood.
In New York and Pennsylvania
gold is sold at $1.42. In California le-
gal tenders are sold at 20 cents. Paper
is our currency-gold is theirs.
1t is said that w. r. Scribner, OF
No. 6S7 Broadway, New York, was the
holder of the number that drew the
$40, 900 prize in the Riverside Institute
! distribution.
Governor Pease, of eXas, affirm>
that more than one hundred homicides
have been committed in Texas during
the last twelve months.
A company has been incorporated
to build railroad from Stockton, CAL,
to Keen river, with capital of $15,-
1000.
Our troops in Arizona have had a
severe fight with the Wallopi Indians,
The savages repulsed the soldiers.
| Boston has lost over $4,000, 900
since 1861 by speculations in mining
stocks.
Upwards of five Thousand pupils,
eight per cent. of whom are females,
are daily receiving music lessons in
Boston.
Two hundred operatives have been
made idlers by the sudden 0ppage Of
the Belknap mills in Lake Village,
New Hampshire.
The postotfice at Columbus, Indi-
ana, was robbed on Wednesday night,
of all its letters and vauables.
"Windy Saturdays" are what Phil
adelphia paper calls congressional de-
batting days.
-Street-car robberies are becoming
alarmingly frequent in Chicago.
The next trial of John II. Surratt,
is to begin on the 24th inst.
Chilly in Wisconsin-fifty-seven
degrees below gro the other day.