The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-02-28
NEWS AND OTHEHITEMs.

the military authorities 10 feed the
prisoners in the jais and penitentiaries
at the expense Of the Northern peo-
pie. At the same time two negro con-
ventiOns-s O-called-have been in ses-
sion in those States for months, each
member which draws from $40 to $50
day, exclusive of mileage. Half
million dollars will not suffice to cover
the expenses Of those conventions.
These are some of the beauties of ire
construction.
Saunders, the expelled negro mem
Der Of the Florida menagerie, and Rad
lcai candidate for Congress, denounced
SatFap Meade, in a speech, the other
day, as a ''scall wag'' and other ugly
things. The darkey is probably not
far ont of the way. He has gone to
Washington TO lay his grievances at
the foot of the throne.
When the Democracy ruled the
country s., 400 was sufficient pay for
member of Congress. Since Radical
ism came i'll the pay has been advanced
to $4,000. This makes all additional
annual expenditure of about 3, 40 900.
We hear no Radical talk of economic
ing in this direction.
The Springfield Mass. Republican,
the New York Etening Post, the Brook
lyn Union, the New York Times, and the
Buffalo Commercial AdceyTiSer refused
to support the proposed usurpation of
Congress. They raise the standard of
revolt against the Military Dictator
ship.
Alexander II. Stevens takes very
despondent view of affairs at the South.
He sees nothing in the future but gloom
and disaster, and. the result of the re-
construction policy will be the destrut-
tion ofeither the black or white race.
The mayor of ST. Louis has vetoed
q bill repeating the Sunday liquor law
passed by the councils of that city. He
avs he would sign a bill allowing the
billiard saloons to keep open on Sun
day.
One thousand seven hundred and
twenty-three infants, who had been
thrown away by their parents, were
picked up in the streets of New York
last year, of which number seven hun.
dred and fOrty-nine now fill the chill
dren'S n urseries on Randall's Island.
The Rhode Island Locom otive
Works, located at Providence, have re-
Gently received orders for twenty-four
locomotives, nineteen having been or
dered for the Union Pacific and Cen
tral Pacific railroad, and the remainder
for Western roads.
General Mcclellan has gone to
Florence from Vienna, with his wife,
whose health requires the change
The day before his departure he was
entertained at dinner by the Archduke
Albert.
Fifteen thousand three hundred and
fifty-one new buildings were erected
in Ohio last year, worth nearly 10000,
600.
Recently five ladies had their pOck-
cts picked while attending funeral in
II private house in Brooklyn, New
York.
$4,000 in counterfeit fractional
currency was seized by the police in
Chicago, last week, and four alleged
c0unjerfeiters were arrested.
The new postal treaty between the
United States and Great Britain has
been temporarily suspended. to enable
both governments to revise certain
points mutually overlooked.
Union County, hiO, boasts a gil
ant seven feet three inches in his stock
ings, sixty-nine inches about his chest,
and five hundred and thirty six pounds
in weight.
Rhode Island ladies go off alone on
sleigh-rides, and pay for their own
supper and call it a leap year affair.
The Norwich Adrertiser suggests
to the New Hampshire Radicals that
March is a bad month for cOnsump-
tives.
Mr.. Adams held the office of United
States minister to England longer than
any other person since 1925.
The property of Jacob Barker, late
New Orleans millionaire, was sold on
Tuesday at bankrupt sale.
Lands are given away along the
line of the Florida Railroad, in order
to induce immigration.
Judge Adams, at Chattanooga.
refuses to allow colored men to act as
jurors.
George B. Mcclellan WAS last week
nominated as Minister to England by
the President.
AT Scranton, Pa, last week man
named John Johnson, accidentally shot
and killed his wife.
Several of the prominent colored
delegates of the South Cariiina Con
vention have gone to Washington.
Nashville is afflicted with burglar
les ofnightly occurrence.
Prentice wants somebody to keep
tally of the reconstruction law.
An Ohio baby swallowed snake
and now hisSeS in its sleep,