The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-07-02

BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.
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horribly beaten-her throat partly cut,
and her body thrown intoa mud-hole !;
the negro thought she was dead, no
doubt, but she has partially recovered.
A letter from Chief Justice Chase,
received in Washington, gives fiat
tering account Of the improved condi-
ton of South Carolina. He says the
| people are fast recuperating from the
effects of the war, and if permitted,
would soon be thriving and prosperous.
He and his daughter have been treat
ed everywhere with the greatest re-
spect and kindness.
A plot was recently discovered in the
| South TO burn town and massacre the
inhabitants. The plot was started by
gang of negroes. In attempting to
arrest the gang, the ringleader was
shot and killed. This is but another
sample of radical rule in the South.
"Let us have peace"
Myriads of grasshoppers are feasting
along the Union Pacific Railroad
track, near Green river. On Monday
of last week they stopped train of
cars in that vicinity, and the passen-
gers were compelled to dismount and
throw sand on the track before they
could proceed.
On the Sth instant, a young man of 20
years, residing in Cedar county, Mo-,
named Willis Z. Gillespie, deliberately
shot himself because IA girl of 10, to
whom he had been engaged in mar
riage, refused to fulfill her engagement.
He lived some thirty six hours, at
times expressing his satisfaction at his
act, and at others regrets.
A few days ago while Mrs Rogers,
of Phelps county, Mo-, was in the gar;
den, with an infant IA months old seat
ed near her, an eagle swooped down
and attempted to carry off the child,
but was prevented by dog, which
came to its assistance and fought vali-
antly in its defense.
All differences between the Union
Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad
Companies regarding through rates
have now been settled, and tickets to
Sacramento and San Francisco have
been placed on sale at all offices of the
Erie railway. Time by this route,
eight days.
Colonel Whitby, Chief of the Treas
ury department Detectives. has arres-
ted large numbers of forgers lately, and
in one case, captured 100000 in coun-
terfeit twenty-five cent notes. Strange
disclosures are promised.
In Allegan county, Michigan, the
heavy and long-eontinued drifts of
snow on wheat during the past winter
have in many places materially injur-
ed the prospect of even an ordinary
yield, especially in heavy soils.
Elections for the adoption or repeal
of the Fifteenth Amendment to the
Constitution are to be held in Missis-
sippi on September 18th, proqtmo, and
in Texas on October 1st, prox.
A youngster in Quebec tried to crawl
down the chimney and surprise the
family by emerging from the fireplace,
but got wedged in at the bend of the
fue, and had to be dug out with picks.
Saturday morning two negroes in
West Baton Rouge, La, assaulted an
other negro with rail and beat him to
death. Two men accused of the mur-
der were arrested and committed to
Jail,
William Collins, boy adopted by
Mr.. Ezekiel Fols, farmer near New
castle, DEL, hung himself on the 18th
instant, in barn. No cause can be
assigned for the rash act.
On Friday evening last man, name
unknown, committed suicide at Pitts
burg by jumping from one of the ferry
boats plying between that city and
Temperanceville,
Joseph Rabinson, somnambulist, fell
out of third-story window, at Will
Transport, on Tuesday, and sustained
injuries likely to result in death.
An exploring expedition is now sur
veying the mountains of Chanchamyo,
in Peru, with the view of discovering
a route for railroad to connect the
waters of the Amazon with the Pacific
Ocean.
The reports from Cuba appear favor
able to the insurgents. The same news
has already been viewed from another
standpoint through Spanish spectacles.
About six hundred fillibusters are
said to have landed recently at Puerto
Arenas, Cuba, and safely joined the
insurgent army in the interior,
Santa Anna, now residing at Puerto
Plata, st. Domingo, is said to contem-
plate removing to Staten Island to
spend the remainder of his days.
DR.. Amand, New York doctor, has
been arrested charged with prescribing
dose fora young man named Strappe,
which resulted in his death.
AT Alexandria, Mimi, there is live
ly trading in horses. Red river po-
nies are coming down in considerable
numbers.
Three thousand invitations to wit
l. Nef H., ~,