The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-11-04
NEWS ITEMS.

Z AtilOs j W. WIZ tAC-btON ttt.
The one was occupied by ten insane
I persons, and when the fire was discov-
i cred it was too late to rescue them.
They were locked in their rooms, and
all pcrished. The fire originated from
! the furnace.
The people in the vicinity of Day
ton and Forest Station, Ohio, were
/ startled early, Wednesday morning OF
last week, by the appearance of an inn
mense meteor, which filled the air
with sulphurous odor, and was accom-
panied by booming sound, causing
/ the houses to shake and some Of the
windows to break.
Miss Pet Mckay, a young lady OF
Quincy, H., deliberately drowned her
/ self in that place, on Thursday of last
week. She left note stating that she
did not commit suicide for shame nor
love, but because sail her friends were
enemies and "this is a cold, dreary
world to live in."
The Negro National Labor Conven-
/ tionin Washington on the6th of Decem-
Der, is to consider the effect of Chinese
labor upon the country, and whether
it would not be better to prohibit the
importation of Asiatics.
/ The negroes are becoming very
troublesome at st. Michaels, Del. The
Comet says they congregate in large
numbers on Saturday nights, and be-
ing well piled with cheap whisky, en-
gage in all kinds of disgraceful scenes
to the terror of the whole community.
Two outrageous assaults upon white
ladies were recently madei in The neigh
borhood of Georgetown, Md, by ne
groes. In one case the rufian was sue
cessful, but in both they paid the pen
atty Of their crime, being caIght and
/ lynched.
There are great numbers of people
out Of employment in New York. 4
business house which advertised for a
I porter last week had two hundred and
forty-eightapplicants by eleven O'Clock
/ in the forenoon.
Fourteen murders have been com
/ mitted in Wyandotte county, Kansas,
in two years. The latest was that OF
Asa Ellis, who was called to his door
one night recently, and fatally shot by
Noah Holt.
The banks in Texas hold upwards OF
four hundred thousand dollars in coin,
while those Of all the other Southern
States together contain but two hun
/ dred and seventy thousand.
The amount of Mr. Peabody's bene-
factions TO different objects is now some
ten millions of dollars. OF this above
two millions are devoted to the cause
of education in the South
An incendiary fired the Louisiana
State Seminary at Alexandra on
Thursday night last, comprising its
complete destruction.
A good thing was done by Judge
Fisher at Washington the other day in
sentencing negro boy to thirty years
Imprisonment for nameIess offence
on little colored girl.
\ young girl living in Johnstown
who was subject to fits of insanity died
in the lookup in that place few
nights since, having been placed there
at the instance Of neighbor.
Two children, aged seven and six
years respectively, run over and killed
at Utica on Saturday, is the latest record
of the New York Central railroad.
A woman named Mary Callahan has
been arrested in Utica, n. y, charged
with numbering her child, an infant,
the body Of which was found in a
closet.
The Prussian executor will soon have
to behead, at Goerlitz, a young girl of
eighteen, who murdered her parents
/ because they would not allow her to
marry the man Of her heart.
\ man named Malachic, at Arcola,
! ILL.,, on Thursday, and a married wo-
man named Heubner, at Chicago, on
Monday, were both burned to death
by the explosion Of a kerosene lamp.
The body of Peter Stoken, resident
of Passaic, n, J., was recently found
near the depot at that place ubder cir
cumstances which indicate that the
man had been the victim of brutal
murder.
/ Twenty-Five seamen were drowned
| by recent laundering at sea of the
ship J. p. Whitney, of New Orleans.
Mrs. Julia White, an old lady of l03
died at Charlestown Mass, the other
day. Sunday previous she attended
| church.
Five men lost their lives by the CIV
ing way of a bridge now building a.
cross the Ohio river at Louisville, KY.
There are 207, 900 names upon the pen
sion roll at the Pension Bureau and over
10O,0O0 cases are still peuding for dec
sion.
The st. Paul Pioneer thinks that not
less than 10000 bushels of apples will
be gathered in Minnesota this year.
A telegram from Cincinnati reports
five steamboat accidents on Western
rivers this week. Three Of the boats
were sunk.
Pickpockets have been reaping rich
harvest at the various agricultural fairs
this fall.