The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-12-25

for cutting corn fodder, the other day.
Baron Rothschild by his will left an
/ annuity Of $500 to every clerk who
had been ten years in his service.
The Sheriff of Coshocton county, O.
hio, abs conded ON Saturday with $l0,-
600 of the public funds.
Thieves and seoundrels are prowling
around the streets Of Titusville, says
the Morning Hefaid.
The Belfeld Presbyterian church,
Pittsburgh, was totally destroyed by
fire on Sunday. Loss $4,000; insur-
edfor 1900.
The telegraph wires last night were
burdened with the story, repeated from
every quarter of crime and Disaster
| Forney. Let reconstruction COM
mence in the North.
The tonnage Of the Lehigh Valley
railroad for the week ending Decem-
Der II, instant, is 22,36G tonsy and for
the current fi.cal year, G6,618 tons a
gainst 50, SIC tons in same time in 1867.
Three men were buried by the cav
ing in Of bank on the Jefferson rail
road, ut Honesdale, few days since.
( One Of them was instantly killed, and
the others are supposed to be fatally in
jured.
Sarah Boyd, an old Irish woman,
whose husband left her a short time
since, was found dead in her bed in
Nashville, on Saturday. She died of
/ starvation.
J.. T. Goena, Swiss gardner, COM
nitted suicide on Saturday night, i'll
Nashville, by shooting himself through
the head. His wife's jealousy is sup
posed to be the cause.
SERVICES will be held in the Ger
man Reformed church, on Christmas
day, at 10! O'Clock On Sunday the
Lords supper will be administered
/ Services begin at log O'Clock.
Burglaries are becoming quite fire.
quent in Louisville. The police are
/ unusually vigilant. Arrests are made
of every suspicious character and their
business inquired into
/ Charles O'Connor, Esq, the distin-
/ guished lawyer of New York, has been
engaged to aid in the prosecution of
James Grant for the murder Of II.
/ Rivea Pollard.
/ DR.. Usher Pa:sons, surgeon of the
flagship Lawrence, at the battle of
Lake Erie, and the last surviving
/ officer of Perry's fleet, died at Provi-
/ dence, Rhode Island, OH Saturday.
On Friday last a dispute arose in the
/ Mayors office at Charlotte, between a
negro and James A. Gleason, a prom
inent merchant, when the negro drew
a pistol and shot and killed Mr.. GIea-
son. The affair created intense excite
ment.
The bridge at Elmore, Ohio, on the
Cleveland and Toledo railroad, WAS
burned on the 20th. Connection will
be broken until Tuesday.
Counterfeit postal currency is circu-
lating extensively, and some of it is
calculated to deceive the most scruti-
nizing eye. 1t should be closely
watched.
y Boston paper says the teetotallers
are laying in large stocks of whisky,
in anticipation of the prohibitory re-
vivaI.
There will be four eclipses during
1869, two Of the sun and two of the
moon. OIn of the latter will be Wis
able here, on the 9th of January.
Young men who 90 to balls will do
well to remember that 6aH should
never close with a reel.
There is still living, according to the
pension report, one of those aged in
dividuals whom Scion Shingle says,
"ft in our Revolutionary war;
Ali persons holding claims for boun-
ty and back pay under the act of 1858,
are advised to forward the necessary
receipts at once to the pay department
in Washington.
Springs supplied gone-corn-
husks are three-ply-muskrats have
built high therefore 4 hard and heav Y
winter is predicted.
Itisnoticeable-tha while our young
ladies are not engaged in practicing
the Grecian bend, many of our fast
young men often practice the Ameri-
can bender.
Boys should be allowed to amuse
! themselves, but when it comes to run
ming down ladies and old men on the
pavement with sleds, it is rather too
much of the good thing.
Parents should not permit their chill
dren to run the streets at night. These
night schools are one of the frightful
avenues to perdition.
Look out for falls and bruises this
wintry weather-avoid them if posi-
ble-but if go down you must, do it
when nobody is looking at you.
Can the grief of mulatto be con-
sidered yellow pine?
John Oil has beaten his wife and
! gone to Jail therefor in Cincinnati.
He is an Oil brute.
The Louisville Journal says Greeley
! is white all over except his diekey.