The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-11-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Broad street, alone numbers over five
thousand. Next in Importance is Eb-
enezer, on Leigh street. There are al
so 2large African Methodist churches in
Richmond, numbering some 4 900 COM
municants.
1t is reported that Prince Louis of
Hesse finds the temper of his wife too
much for him, and will apply for a di-
vorce. His spouse is the princess Alice,
Victoria's second daughter She has
lost the little beauty she had, and is OK
ceedingly irascible jealous.
The members of the New York fire
department are required to become fa-
miliar with the interiors Of the build
ings in their districts, SO that they can
work to greater advantage in case of
fire and it is intended to nave con-
slant patrol of firemen, similar To that
of the police department.
The Spanish navy consists of six
ironclad frigates with l94 guns; elev-
en- screw steamers Of 469 guns, three
side-wheeI steamers with u guns, and,
in all, l20 vessels, with total amount
of from one thousand to twelve hun
dred guns, manned by fifteen thousand
sailors.
Eleven ballots were cast in 1ndianop-
oils, Ind, on Tuesday, by Germans,
for the abolition of the presidential
Office, A memorial to Congress pray
ing for the same is being circulated
there, and has been signed by num-
Der of the more radical German citi-
zens.
The Democrats in Wintersent, Mad
ison county, Iowa, as a joke, put the
name ofa full-booded negro on their
ticket for justice of the peace, and he
was elected. Being now citizen, he
intends to hold office.
\ wealthy lady in Buffalo, who re-
Gently lost her pocket-book containing
large sum of money rewarded the
ragged little boy who followed her sew
eral squares and restored it to her by
giving him all apple.
\ letter from the city of Mexico says
| trade remains dull and all the cotton
factories have suspended work, leaving
thousands of work kmen withoutemploy-
ment, for whom public subscriptions
are solicited.
1t is calculated that since The estab-
lishment Of the decimal system in
France, gold and silver money has been
coined by the Paris mint to the amount
of no less than twenty-eight millions of
/ dollars.
/ \ queer case of combustion occurred
at Elk Grove, Grout county, Wis. A
farmer was thrashing wheat with a
machine, when the wheat ignited from
the machine, and stacks, machine and
| appliances were all consumed.
There are more than a thousand
stands iG Paris for the sale of roasted
chesnuts. The nuts come from North
ern Italy, and the vendors from Savoy.
The receipts average about twenty dol
lars month for each stand.
Lincoln, Nebraska, must be pleasant
place for State Legislature to meet.
1t is said that bands of Sioux and O.
toe Indians have encamped near the
city, and warn off all traders and bum
/ mers generally.
Some Of Mr.. Bright's constituents
have requested him to use his infu-
eace for "the expulsion of Jesuits from
England." Mr.. Bright declines.
In the Soldies' Home at Knights own,
Indiana, there are eighty soldiers, and
seventy-two orphan children in atten-
! Ounce at the school connected with
the Home.
The crowning statute for the Gettys-
burg national cemetery monument,
Ist arrived, is twelve-feet-high God
dess of Liberty, weighing 1900
pounds and cut by Randolph Rogers
| in Italy.
Mr.. John Quincy Adams was can
didate for representative from Quincy
as we'll as for Governor of Massachu-
sets, and was defeated in both in5tan-
ces.
The San Francisco Bulletin SAYS ::
"More farms have been cut up and
sold in this State during the present
! year, probably, than in any three pre-
| vious years,
Coal is now selling in Portsmouth,
| Va, at $40 per ton, and wood, hard and
pine, at 30 and s. per cord.
A man in Coventry, Vermont, recent
| ly presented bill of $50 against a
school district for water that the schol-
ars had drank from his we'll.
Owing to thenumerous fufloughs gran
ted lately, France has not more than
354, 900 men actually under arms.
1t is proposed that the Austrian, ar
my and navy shall be established or a
war footing of 100000 men.
Michigan has paid one-eighth of its
State debt within year, and now owes
less than three and half millions.
Knoxville, North Carolina, with
scarcely a hundred inhabitants, has
sent north this fail nearly $l00,0O
worth of dried fruit.
The silver mines recently discovered
in Eastern Nevada have yielded, dur
ing the past three months, about an
average of$l00,000 per month.
a voter sold himself in Albany for
| twenty dollar greenback. The next