The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1868-06-12
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

recently been highly excited about the
the important question which one of
them is to be the wet nurse of the eX-
pected baby of the Queen of Hungary,
as the empress of Austria is called in
the land of the Magyars. 1t has been
given out that the handsomest and
strongest young married woman was
to suckle the royal and imperial baby,
and over hundred photographs were
sent to the doctor who was to choose the
nurse. This modern Paris decided in
favor of beautiful young woman from
Seresgas, who has already arrived at
Pesth, where she is the observed of all
observers. She is to receive five thou
sand forins for her trouble, and lib
eral pension for her whole life.
"A trance story comes from Cleve-
land, Ohio, where nice young woman
died in the usual orthodox manner of
typhoid fever and was 'straiked' for
the coffin. Her mother, however, OBJ
served that the body still retained its
warmth, which we must confess was a
singular circumstance for corpse, and
although the physicians seem to have
found nothing out of the way in that,
she delayed the funeral until, a door
violently slamming, the sleeper was
awakened and is now getting well.
According to her account, she rather
enjoyed the trance state, except for
the disagreeable uncertainty whether
she would be buried alive.
Governor Crawford, of Kansas,
received dispatches on Saturday last,
stating that several hundred Cheyen-
nes were fighting the Kaws on the Re
servation of the latter. The authori-
ties of Fort Riley refused to send
troops to the scene Of action. 1t is also
reported that a large number of In
dians from the plains are committing
depredatiOns in the vicinity of Cotton
wood Falls. Five hundred of them
passed Marion Centre, killing and
stealing all the stock they could find.
Settlers brought their families to Cot
tOnwood Falls for protection.
-Four years ofwar and a national debt
as huge as England rolled up in hun
dred years Of war, that is the record
of the first Republican administration.
Four years Of peace with utterly unfet-
tered party power, with a majority in
Congress able to override vetoes at
will, but the Union not yet restored,
industry not yet revived, government
not yet established, the tariff not yet
reduced, taxes not yet cut down, socie-
ty not yet composed, commerce still
paralyzed ;.that is the record of the sec
Ond Republican administration.
Some persons who were hunting
in the woods near Meriden, Miss,
recently, made a shocking discovery.
There lay dead negro and there lay a
dead hog. The strangest part of it is,
the hog had the man by the throat,
the tusks deep buried in the flesh, hold
ing on like grim death to dead mig
0nr - This deere-,-t~ eItC, which un-
doubtedly killed the negro, is supposed
to have been given in last struggle
on the part of the hog to revenge a
personal injury which resulted in the
hogs death-the hog was halfskinned.
"A case of libel was recently dispo-
sed of at NOrristown, resulting in con-
VictiOn. The sentence was ten dollars
fine and one year at hard labor in the
county prison! The libel consisted in
the utterance of defamatOry words
written on the shutters Of a school
house relative to a young girl. Per
sons disposed to defame the characters
of others can learn a lesson from the re-
suit Of this case.
The letter from the Emperor of Chi
Ma to the President was contained in Il
Walnut box some two feet in length.
1t is veritable work of art, different,
indeed, from ordinary epistles in style,
size and chirOgraphy. 1t measures
twenty-five feet in length, is written in
Chinese from beginning to end and
contains enough of parchment to furn-
ish dozen drums.
A large number of mounted pO-
licemen were put Oh duty in the Fed
eral Capital on Wednesday and Thurs
day nights to prevent repetition OF
Tuesday nights bloody scenes. Gangs
of armed negroes were dispersed in va
rious quarters, and many arrests were
made of suspiciously-acting blacks,
who were invariably found to be arm
ed with knives, razors and pistols.
After the vote on impeachment il
is said that Fessenden and Nye met in
one of the Washington city cars. The
conversation was short, sharp and
decisive. Nye made some remarks
about the vote, which Fessenden
answered in an angry tone by saying
eyes sir, you had not the pluck to do
as you thought right"
-"Ah, num-" said a beggar to a
lady who had just given him dollar,
''If it hadn't been for this I'd been
driven to something desp'rit-some-
thing Pve long feared I'd come to at
last" "What is that, poor man ?''
''To work, num-" responded the un-
happy man, with a melancholy shake
! of the head