The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-10-21

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| AnIndiana town boasts a giant who
! has by his great size vanquished the
ague. That embarrassing affiiction at
/ tackled him the other day and worked
four days to shake him all over,
but failed and left in disgust.
People sometimes talk about the bar
renness of our Rocky Mountain Terri
/ tory The entire wheat crop of Mon
tana this season will average not less
than thirty-three, and perhaps thirty
five bushels to an acre.
Some young ladies in Fond du Lee,
Wisconsin, are in the habit of blockad-
ing the sidewalks so as to c0mpell the
young men to go out into the muddy
streets, practice on the part Of the
females which local paper calls "boil-
ed cussedness with a scum on"
Forty-seven illicit stills, calculated
to produce over 5000 gallons per day,
have been destroyed in Virginia. The
officers visited seven counties in twen-
ty-three days, and Travelled 1000 miles.
Eight hundred gallons of apple bran
dy were cOniscated.
The assessment roll of taxable prop
erty of San Francisco for the fiscal
year l869-70 shows total valuation Of
500, ,344 ,595, consisting of s30,799,2 ,294,
personal property, and 500, ,295 ,50l of
land and fixed improvements. The
city pays now nearly half the State tax.
The picturesque way the ladies now
have of wearing their shawls is very
notable, says a New York letter writ
er. What was once commonly very
ugly garment, has by an adroit change
in the mode Of wearing it, become a.
striking in effect as the costumes of the
Orientals.
Three years ago Georgia planter
sold his plantation for $4,000. As the
purchaser was unable to make the pay
ments, he was compelled to take the
land back and cancel the bargain.
Since then he has made three crops of
Gotten on the land, and few days ago
he sold it for $l8,7 80.
x negro girl named Jennie Croir
hung herself on the place Of VIM.
Winchester, in Lancaster county, 3. g.,
recently, because her parents opposed
her marriage. This is about the first
instance on record when negro de-
str0yed herself for love, and as such is
worthy of passing notice.
A poor couple in London, taking
counsel with each other how TO reduce
their expenses, decided to drown their
dog, great pet, but costing seven
pence a week. The wife herself threw
the animal from the bridge, but his
loss preyed upon her mind till she
went crazy, and drowned herself also
in the Thames a week later.
Speaking of the Congressional Libra
ryat Washington, correspondent says:
'Not five per cent. of Congressman
are readers in the sense of ardent low
ers of full scholarship; not above twen-
ty per cent. read anything but novels
The library, so far as Congress is con-
cerned, is a repository of novels for
their wives and daughters"
General Tom Thumb and wife, ac-
companied by Commodore Mutt and
Minnie Warren, have commenced
their journey around the world. They
| are now in California, taking an aver
age of one thousand dollars per day
at their exhibitions. They next go to
Japan, China, India, and Australia, re-
turning two years hence, via Great
Britain.
Ayoung lady in Auburn, New York,
refused to marry her sweetheart, un-
less he stopped chewing tobacco. He
| agreed, and the wedding took place in
due season. Returning from the bri-
dal tour in the cars the other day, he
pulled roll of something from his
/ pocket She thought it was tobacco,
she clutched it and threw it out of the
window. Alas, it was roll of mon
| ey 81, 800 in all-and it has not been
recovered.
Dr. Livingstone, the great traveller,
/ in regard to whose fate year ago
there was so much anxious solicitude,
has again been heard from. A letter
received from Lake Banglew, reports
him in excellent health and spirits,
and states further that this indefatiga-
BILE explorer of the wilds of Africa has
at last discovered the long sought for
source of the river Nile. 1t is to be
hoped that he will be restored to his
friends and country, and that we shall
have another volume or two of his in
teresting travels and discoveries.
A reporter went to interview ex-
President Johnson on the Senatorial
question, and this is what he got for
his trouble :-"As general thing, all
men ought to marry while young.
You see when we grow old our tastes
and habits become fixed, and they are
hard to change to suit another. | be-
lieve like Franklin, that matrimony
ought to be encouraged. But at the
present day young man who has not
inherited a fortune, and who must rely
upon his efforts for every cent that he
gets, will find difficulties in the way.
The San Francisco Bulletin says the
mining stocks sold in the stock board
there are worth about $5,000,000 less
now than they sold for nine months
ago. Until the past six months min
ing stocks have been favorite and easi-