The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-10-14

ReiSS, OF baltimore, on a Visit 10 Alr.
William Robinson, of Hartford, near
Whitehall, and made his escape into
Pennsylvania. He was pursued and
caught at Glenrock, York county, Pa.
He was carried to New Market, and
from there to Freeland's Tank, when
he was put ON the train last week for
Towsontown. When the train arrived
at Whitehall, Nd, the citizens board
ed the cars, took the negro out, and
carried him to the place of his crime,
six miles off, and hung him to a tree.
The Mormons have at length arrived
at settlement with the Union Pacific
Railroad, and have taken a part of
their pay in track iron and rolling
stock for the Utah Central. The iron
has begun to arrive at Salt Lake City,
the grading is half done, and is being
pushed, the tiers are being delivered
and laid, and before cold weather the
stage route thence to Uintah-the dus-
tiest and roughest in the world-will
be among the things that were.
Henry Placide, the veteran actor,
now lives in retirement at Babylon, Il.
l., aged 76. He says that the happiest
time of life was the period he spent in
a debtors prison, in Halifax, when he
was but 19 years old. He has been on
the stage from his ninth year, and is
the son ofa French pantomimist.
A man arrived in Portland, Me-, last
week, from Halifax, with family of
six children, bound for Toronto Cana
da. Upon reaching the wharf this
man, whose only funds consisted of
bill of exchange for f100, accosted a
stranger, asking him if he could cash
the draft for him. The draft was TAX
en-, but the money was not paid.
A huge chimney has been completed
at the Earl of Dudley's estate at Con-
neygre Works, near Dudley, England.
! Special arrangements for the consump-
! ton OF fuel necessitated the carrying
of the stack to a hight of 1870 feet. 1t
is strengthened by iron work for dis
tance of 100 feet above the ground.
William Penn's old family carriage
has come into the possession of the
Michigan Central Railroad. The relic
is over one hundred and sixty years
old. A gentleman of jackson Michi-
gan, either purchased or fell heir to it,
but failed to pay express charges, and
so the company took possession in de
default.
Fifty thousand pounds of brass are
annually consumed for shOe-string tips
in the United States, all of which is
manufactured in Waterbury, Conn,
and the most of it consumed in Rhode
Island. The brass and german silver
parts of all or nearly all the watches,
manufactured in the United States are
also made at Waterbury.
A cable despatch states that Re-
publican force eleven hundred strong
was attacked and dispersed at Espera
Guerra, in Spain, by General PaIacios
a few days ago, losing 143 in killed.,
wounded and missing, and infiicting q
loss on Government troops of IS in
killed and wounded. The Republi-
cans have met with disaster also in
Merced and at Reus, aud the authority
of the Government has been restored
| of tba ottar pIapn
Several persons charged with being
parties to the assassination of Revenue
Officer Brooks in Philadelphia, and
two boys charged with the murder o
John Hughes on Saturday last in the
same city, have been arrested.
The remains of three emigrant wag
ons, destroyed by Indians, and the
skeletons af a woman, and children
murdered a year ago, have been dis
covered between Fort Benton and th'
British mines.
Application from New Orleans anC
other Southern merchants has beer
made to Commissioner Delano to ALLOW
the shipment of tobacco, purchased il
Virginia, in bond, and it is stated tina
the course of the Commissioner prom
ises relief not only to such merchants
but to Southern manufacturers.
A Mississippi Radical Judge has jus
decided that the intermarriage o
whites and negroes sis lawful in tn,
State of Mississippi, the law of th
State to the contrary notwithstand
ing"
A woman in Boston recently threw
vitrioI over man who had wronget
her and burnt his eyes out. The vitri
oil splashed over the woman and she
too, was shockingly burned.
Several of the mechanics at Colt
armory, in Hartford, CT, have con
tracted to go to Russia and make gun
for that government. They get NOR
pay than here, and can live cheaper.
General Sherman is said to have tol'
a member of the house Committee OIL
Military Affairs that it willnot be de
sirable to reduce the army so long a
the Indians continue as troublesome "a
at present.
The Six Nation Indians and tn,
Ontario Clubs got up a La Cross
match at Toronto, last week, for tn
special amusement of Prince Arthur
Iowa plants every three years for
est of five million trees, and within
considerably less than half dozel
years, twenty-five millions forest tree
bava baan pIantal and ore now prOU