The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-05
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

lne OdllOt out OF the hanQS or Wnlte
men and putting it in the hands of
negroes, and keeping a standing army
to crush out complaint.
America is the only despotism of
of OfmOdern times where the bulk of tax
es is laid on industry. The very pau
pers Of America are taxed, while the
blOated Eastern nabob rolls about in
his magnificent exemption.
Six citizens of Hamburg, S. c.,
have been arrested for refusing to al
low freedmen to hold political meet
ing in the Union Church in that town.
They are to be tried before a military
commission at Aiken, by order of Gen.
Candy.
-Salnave is gaining ground against
the rebels in Hayti. He has recaptur-
ed fortress on the south side of Port
au Prince. The foreign cOnsuls hold
out against his demand for rendition of
refugees.
Joseph Brown was hanged on Sat
urday, at Hudson, New York, for the
Canaan child murder. He made a
written statement. He made a speech
on the scaffold, in which he denounced
the States attorney and the witnesses.
He declared his innocence, and said he
had nothing to do with the murder,
and did not know who had.
On Tuesday morning the Connecti-
cut Legislature elected Ex-Governor
William A. Buckingham, of Norwich,
United States Senator for six years
from the fourth of March next. The
vote stood: Senate--Buckingham, y;
Dixon, 8. buckingham, 124
Dixon 100. Absent, 3.
-Youatt, the well-known veterinary
surgeon, who has been bitten eight or
ten times by rabid animals, says that
crystal of the nitrate of silver rubbed
into the wound will positively prevent
hydrophObia in the bitten person or an
imal.
The Lynn Mass. Reporter says that
an aged lady who died in that city re-
Gently, in the eighty-fifth year of her
age, was watched the night previous to
her death, by her twin sister.
Captain John L. Worden, formerly
Of the Monitor, goes to Germany, in
June, for his health. He has never re-
covered from the wound he received
in the famous fight in Hampton Roads.
-Satrap Candy on Tuesday removed
thirteen of the eighteen aldermen of
Charleston, South Carolina. Under
the new organization there will be
seven negroes in the board. This is
Radical reconstruction, par excellence.
1t is said that both Grant and Col
fax consider their chances of election
entirely too slim to warrant their res
ignation, and they have concluded to
hold on to what they have.
Mayor Watkins, of Columbus, Ga,
and all the aldermen, have been reno
we'd from office by Gen Meade.
Capt Mills, U. S. A, has been appoin-
ted mayor.
The Missouri delegates to the
Fourth of July convention have been
chosen, but not instructed, though most
of them are said to favor Pendleton.
The citizens who were arrested in
Hamburg, S. c., for not allowing freed
men to hold a political meeting in IA
church have been released on promising
to give bail for their appearance when
their trial takes place.
yellow fever has killed two thous-
and people at Callao, Peru, and half
the people have left the city. Most of
those who died were foreigners.
The gallant white men of Paraguay
still hold at bay the superior numbers
of the Brazilian Emperor's mOngrel
army. Three cheers for gallant little
Paraguay.
Mr.. John Mansfield, residing on
Boston street, Lynn, now seventy
seven years of age, has worked sixty
three years on a shoemaker's seat, and
for the last thirty years in one shop.
Cattle from Texas, with horns so
long that they can scarcely pass the car
door, and hoofs corresponding, are at
Cairo awaiting shipment East.
John j. Clayton, an old merchant
of Augusta, Ga, has committed suicide
by firing the contents of a shotgun in
to his breast.
IN Russia, by a recent ukase, all per-
sons are required to salute the police
and to remain uncovered when address
ed by any member of the force. \ Sc
we're penalty is attached to violation
of these orders.
GATHER THESI IN.-The brightest
intellects of the opposition are falling
into rank with the party of the Union,
the Constitution and the. laws.
Since Stanton has found himself
unable to "stick" to his garrison,
where will the ads stick him now?
1t is said that Stanton expresses
himself entirely and intensely DISCUS
ted with the whole Radical party.
shocks of Earthquakes.
! SAN FRANCISCO, June 1.-Two heavy
shocks of earthquake were felt at Sac
ramento, at 9 o'clock last night, but