The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-08-19
nRIEr NEWS ITEMS

Quesada have been eminently success
ful, giving them possession of 4 large
field of resources with several points
on the coast. Valmaseda's move
ments oflate have, on the contrary.
resulted disastrously. The recognition
of the insurgents, as belligerents, it is
claimed would result in greatly expe-
diting the achievement of Cuba's inde-
/ pendence.
Early Wednesday morning of last
week gang of robbers entered the car
OF the Pacific Express Company on the
New York Central Railroad between
Albany and Fonda, overpowered the
express messenger and baggageman,
broke open the safes, appropriated the
contents, and escaped with the booty
unnoticed. The amount stolen is un-
known, but it is believed to be very
heavy. The messenger and baggage
man were seriously injured, having
been beaten with clubs and chIoroform-
ed. When released they were half
/ dead.
Political curruption is again the hue
/ and cry in San Francisco, and the state
1 of affairs is compared to that of the
days when reform was resorted to
through the Vigilance Committee.
| Added to this infelictious situation of
municipal matters, is the unpleasant
fact that the money market is Just
now extremely stringent, and mining
stock is completely demoralized.
The Government has concluded with
Great Britain an arrangement
for postal communication between
this country and Honduras, to go into
OBJECT on the lst of October. The
| charge for half ounce letters will be
twelve cents, and for newspapers two
| cents without regard TO weight; other
packages six cents per four ounces
or fractions thereof
! Governor Mitchell, OF New Mexico,
has outlawed all Navajo and Gla-
/ pache Indians wherever found outside
of their reservation limits, and author
ICES the summary killing of every snch
| transgressOr.
The outrages of the so-called 'tRegu-
lators," in C"ntral Kentucky continue,
and two companies of Louisville citi-
zen-soidiers have been ordered to be
kept in readiness to take the field at
! a moments notice.
Nineteen thousand one hundred and
| fifteen acres Of land were sold at Kirk
wood, Georgia, on Friday, at prices
ranging from thirty-nine to seventy
nine dollars per acre.
A Madrid letter to the London
| Times describes the condition of pub
lie affairs in Spain as desperate. The
treasury is empty, no taxes can be COL
lected, and there is popular discomfort
/ everywhere.
Five hundred Carlists, headed by
Estartus, have entered Spain from
France at Puigcerda. Other bands are
| expected to enter from various points,
| A republican movement at Malaga
has created considerable excitement
there.
1t is reported in Madrid that twen-
ty thousand Spanish troops are to be
sent to Cubain September. The Cortes
will assemble in October and proceed
at once to the election of King. Sew
eral Carlist agents have been arrested
in that city.
An anti-coal monopoly association
has been organized at Buffalo, New
York. A cooperative company is to
be formed, and Congress memorialized
to take the tax off coal.
A number of Federal ofiice-hoIders
in Texas want General B. f. Butler to
/ cooperate with them in their efforts to
/ defeat the Conservatives Hamilton tick
eft in that state.
Reports from the Indian country are
all favorable to peace. The annuity
| goods are now distributed on the res
ervations instead of in frontier towns
as formerly, aud traders are not allow
ed to be present.
The hostility of the japanese to for
eigners is increasing to an extent that
the English men-of- war in Chinese
waters have been ordered so Yokoha-
ma.
A new English company propose to
connect South America with Europe
and the United States by means of a
| cable from Cuba to Central America.
Cuban rebels are accused of plotting
to poison the good people of Sant0 Es-
| piritu, and several arrests have been
made to calm their fears and scare the
| rebels.
In 1860 there were but 402 miles of
horse railroad in the United States.
1t is estimated that there are at least
| 1000 miles to-day.
| The product of one grain of rye,
| sowed as an experiment in Logan
county, Kentucky, was seventy-five
| heads.
The river Nile has fallen lower than
it has been known to be for a hundred
and fifty years.
ASA PACKER Democratic