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

Coming-Santa Claus.
A golden rule--the bondholder8'
sway.
All the go-Grecian bends and Al
pine hats.
Go to Irvine's and see his new Kero-
sene Lamps.
These December days are provoking
ly short at both ends.
Gay-the windows of our confection-
cries with Holiday knick- knacks.
A merry Christmas and happy
New Year to all our readers.
Another fierce onslaught will be
made on Turkey in a few days.
"I'd offer thee this hand of mine''-
has been sued for breach Of promise.
Ware crowded this week, and can
not give our usual variety of matter.
The new furnace at Riddlesburg
promises to be one Of the best in the
State.
Teeter's school house, in S. Wood
bury tp., was entirely destroyed by
fire on the 10th instant.
Notwithstanding the bad weather
the work on the new Catholic church
Is being pushed as rapidly as possible.
McConnelIsburg boasts Of sausage
IS feet, long. That would certainly
make very respectable breakfast.
Some Of the best ice we ever saw
has been housed during the late cold
snap.
Hon. w. p. Schell has opened real
estate Office at No. 40 Walnut Street,
Phila.
The people of MorrisOn's Cove are
again agitating the Railroad question.
HOPE that a Railroad in that section
may soon become a reality.
Captain Parker had ''muss" with
two belligerent youths on Pitt street
few nights ago. The Captain, as usual,
came out first best.
Don't fail to call at G.. r. Oster & Co.'S
spacious New Store, and see the i'm
mense stock Of beautiful new winter
goods, which they are now offering at
greatly reduced prices.
On Thursday, the 3lst inst, the
Commissioners meet to settle with the
Justices of the Peace, to whom were
given the schedules of unpaid taxes.
Saur-krout, sausage and serappIe are
now the trump articles in home mar
ket-our citizens composedly consum-
ing them without asking any ques-
tions.
Count not your Christmas chickens
before you are sure Of your birds re-
member rough roost robbers ramble
round rural regions, sIyly snatching fat
fowls from farmers.
\ disease has broken out among
turl1ies and chickens in this place, and
whole coops have been emptied by it in
a few nights. This is no fancied fiction
but a fixed fact.
Ye' local" imagined himself feasting
on a magnificent gobIeron Christmas,
but the other day he took the dis
ease" and ''pegged out" So we go
The best laid schemes o mice an men,
Gang aft aglcy,"
For Ladies, Gents, Misses, Boys
and Childrens' superior custommade
boots and shoes, 60 to q. r. Oster &.
Co. They have decidedly the best
assortment in Bedford.
There is now living in our town man
who AYERS that he can remember how
silver half dollar looked and has
faint idea of seeing gold coin. Aged
individual, he.
The Carrier will be around as u
sual with a New Years Address
Treat him gently, and give him the
"quarters" he merits.
The barn Of John S. Sproat, of Boyd5-
town, was partially destroyed by the
storm last week. The roof was de-
molished ard the Notwithstanding
torn off 20 below the mows.
Broke out in new place-Barnhart
and McMullen have opehed a restau-
rant in elegant style in the Colonade
building. They know how to cater ITO
the wants Of an epicurean and deserve
success wherever they locate.
Irvine has just received, at the Reg
ulator store, a large assortment of glass
ware, the finest ever brought to this
market-suitable for Christmas pres
ents.
Chauncey Brallier, a typoin the SOM
crset Herdtd office, died the other day
from acute peritonitis, ,superinduced by
injuries sustained in jumping from a
horizontal beam.
The finest, the best the cheapest,
the neatest fitting ready-made clothing
is always to be found at the edford
Clothing Emporium, one door west Of
the Washington hotel.
Buy your hats and caps of G. r. Os-
ter & Co. They keep a large assort-
ment Of the latest styles which they are
now offering at unusually low prices.
Coming events cast their shadows
before" Just now the shadows are
the hideous false faces, dolls, Kris
Kringles, demons in boxes, delicious
candies, &c, in the shop windows; the
events are Christmas and New Year,
but few days distant.
Now that the Holidays are at hand,
nothino cOuId hp more uSafIJl or more