The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-03-26
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

HEk1EE NEWS EMS
Omaha, March 18.-A telegram from
Helena, Montana, reports the Indians
again troublesome. Two mer, Frank
Leonard and J. Mcdonald, had some
of their cattle killed by Indians, near
Yellowstone, and the entire herds driv-
EN- OFF. Thirty soldiers were sent from
Fort Elies to pursue them and were at
tackled by about seventy-fve Indians.
Th e fight lasted one hour, and result
ted in the killing Of several Indians.
The troops returned to the fort during
the night. Seven hundred soldiers and
citizens expected to start against the
Indians.
Another railroad to the Pacific is now
proposed, starting from the southern
boundary of Kansas and terminating
on the Pacific ocean at San Diego,
with a branch to the Mexican frontier
in the direction Of Ell Paso. Senator
Pomeroy has just introduced bill in
cooperating company for the purpose,
which asks a grant of twenty alternate
sections of land per mile on each side
of the line to aid in the completion of
the enterprise.
Another disease of Asiatic origin
has reached our shores. 1t is called
jungle fever, and partakes of a typhoid
al type, and is very malignant and
rapid in its progress. The ship Bos-
worth, which arrived at New York
on the 18th from Java, lost six of her
crew on her passage, and left six others
at Table Bay sick with the disease.
John Sanford Young shot Richard
through the heart, at Henderson, Ken
tucky, Thursday of last week, killing
him instantly.
The clergymen attached to Trinity
Church, New York, have had their
salaries raised, and in one instance
there has been the very handsome adj
vance from $500 to $4,000.
The King Of Bavaria will present to
his young Russian bride upon her ar
rival at Munich a necklace of pearls
worth 100, 900 forms.
One banker in Paris, NJ. Thibaudeau,
holds 10000 worth of Confederate
bonds for which he paid fifty per cent.
of their face.
Very gloomy accounts are given of
the condition of the Lancashire cotton
manufacturing districts in England.
A large number of mills are idle, and
the operatives are reduced to distress.
An Iowa church has paid off
mortgage by making a general contri-
button of grain, stock, dry goods and
boots and shoes, and then selling the
lot at auction.
A laborer in Washington county,
Missouri, picked up an old shoe, and
found in it $500 in gold coin.
a big steamboat is to be anchored at
New York, on the Hudson, this sum-
mer and furnished as summer board
ing house."
Seventy-five dollars were recently
paid for dinner for four persons at
Delmonico's, New York, the wine
charges being extra.
The arrival of Rev. Paul Bagley is
announced in England, on his mission
TO procure the release of the Fenian
prisoners.
The son of a New Orleans Banker is
to marry the Princess Carolina Bona
parte, the one furnishing the title, the
other the cash.
Paris contains thirty-two Bourbon
princes and princesses anxious for
Hong Kong, with $4,000 inhabi-
tants, has trade of $2Oo,000,00O annu-
ally.
A bold thief succeeded in stealing a
81, 600 horse in New York last Sunday.
-Four ladies are candidates for school
in Maiden, Mass.
The sales of real estate in New York
city last week amounted to SIG, ,5S7 1896.
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