The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-07-30

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The terminus of the line from St.
Pierre is fixed ut Rouse's Hammock.
near the Gurnet Light, at the entrance
of Plymouth harb0r Duxhury is a.
blaze with excitement, and telegraph
men are constructing two land routes
| OF wire, one from Duxbury to Boston,
and q second by the Frenee cable COM
pany, along the Old Colony and South
Shore Railroad. The citizens and cor
porati0n Of Boston have decided to en-
joy grand cable celebration after the
fashion Of the display made By New
York over the Atlantic cable at New
foundIand, and preparations are max
ing for theeveut. Ia few days the line
viii be in perfect working order, and
its facilities offered TO the public.
New York, July ., 1863 The arri-
val here, yesterday. Of PulIman's pal
ace car, though from Sacramento, in
six days and a half, was an event of
even metropolitan interest. The de-
pot where the car was to arrive was
crowded by an eager set Of spectators,
several hours before the train was due,
and when, finally. the car came on a.
mong the remainder Of the Hudson
River ears, placarded Sacramento to
New York, !" there arose cheers that
would have done Grant good, had he
been received in that style last week,
on arrival here. The passengers, when
shey came out, looked somewhat jaded
and dusty, but all we're in good health,
even the women and children. 1t IS
regarded as one Of the great events of
our modern civilization, the arrival Of
this car in time to permit the passen.
gers to take the steamer for France, at
noon.
Most encouraging reports come from
Loud0un and adjoining counties Of
Virginia, where harvest is greater than
it has been for many years. \ much
larger area has been sown in wheat,
and the c<op is very fine, being entire
" free from rust. Harvesting COM
menced week ago ia these counties.
I4aborers are scarce an very much
needed to save the crop. Good wages
are offered, which should attract much
Of the negro labor with which the cit
les are overstOcked.
Ben. Butler says ne is tired Of cal
ling drunk sick" 1t happened in this
wise: When General Grant was in
Boston to attend the jubilee, it was an
nouBced that he would review the mil
itary on the Common, under the com
mand Of Ben. Butler, at a certain hour.
They waited tour hours for him,
bat he came not, and then it was
apoIogized for by the statement that
Grant was ''aick," hence Buffers re-
mark.
A NEGRO attempted to outraged Wild
Ow lady, near Goodman, Miss, one
night last week bat was frightened a.
way by the cries Of a little white girl
IN the house. The wretch was shortly
afterward captured and confessed his
guilt, and his captors started with
him TO Jail, but some disguised men
took charge Of him, and he has not
been heard Of since. It is thought he
committed suicide.
The petrIfed thigh bone of a human
being was found fifty-two feet below
the surface in railroad cut, about six
ty miles west Of Des Moines, recently.
Thieves steal r-plates and bell
knobs, in New York, with as much b
ease and boldness a. if those articles
were locked up in a bank vault.
4 great blast was lately made at the
lime quarries in Clithero, England. 4
tunnel twenty-eight yards in length
was bored, and sixty-hundred weight
Of powder walled into it. The mass
Of stone, sixty feet in height, was
thrown upward in very nearly verti-
cal direction, and at least $1,000 tons
Of limestone were displaced.
The shore end Of the French cable
was landed and hauled into the TeIe-
graph House on R0use's Hammock.
The entire cable is said 10 be in good
working condition. The wires from
Kingston station to Duxbury are near
ly up, but as yet no communication
has been received from Rouse's Ham
mock, and will not be probably for some
time The steamers Chiltern and
Scanderea take their departure this af-
ternOOn.
There is a Chinese murder trial in l.
daho Territory, in which the oath is
administered to the Celestial witness
Is by cutting OFF the head Of a chicken,
breaking asaucer and burning piece
ofyellow paper. In long law suit the
bill for fowls is quite an item.
An old farmer in Ohio, having read
that the State Penitentiary cleared sew
en thousand dollars by the labor of the
convicts, sat some time in deep
thought, and then exclaimed: 81 think
we'd better turn our Legislature into
penitentiary, by jingo !"
a little girl, aged about ten years,
was burned to death a few days ago in
Waynesburg, by her clothes taking
fire while attempting to hurry up the
fre, which she was kindling by pour
ing carbon oil upon it. Her name was
LOuden.
Louis Holtzuer stabbed and almost
instantly killed Phillip Phaion, at
Frys' mill, in Susqaehanna township,
Cambria county, on the 20th inst.
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