The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-04-02
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

many OalfaStrr FoDDiAg ana plhhu@f-
ing inliscriminately- A Little Rock
dispatch says the negro Major Tatum
was hanged on Thursday last for the
murder Of Rev. Mr.. Morrell few
days since.
A recent dispatch from St. George,
Southern Utah, says there is nc doubt
Navajoes have taken possession of the
/ country south between there and The
Colorado river. Itfs also reported that
that they are trying to form an alli-
ance with other Indians to make gen.
eral raid on the stock of settlers. An
Omaha dispatch, from the Upper Mis-
souri, Reservation, reports that great
dissatisfaction exists among the Indi-
ans. 1t is said that even Spotted Tail
is complaining, and an early attack IS
feared.
The Chambersburg Valley Spirit
| gives full details of the late fiendish
outrage perpetrated upon three white
ladies, near tha: place-one of whom
was but 10 years Of age-by a negro.
/ His first victim he found alone in the
/ house of her father the second ne met
in by-road few minutes afterwards,
first knocking her insensible with
hammer, and the third one he met
coming through a field-and all be-
/ tween half past II a. m. and half past
4 pm.
A mysterious murder has taken place
in Philadelphia Wednesday evening
I of last week the body of Joseph W.
1 Smith, janitOr of Girard Hall, was
found in the building, tied hands and
feet and pistol bullet i'm the head. So
FAR there is no clue to the murderer,
I and the more the investigation is pur-
sued the deeper the mystery becomes.
Letters from merchants of Matanzas,
4 Cuba, state that the Spanish General
/ Lesca was defeated by Quesada and
/ driven back to Quanaja: that lie then
made detour and attacked a small
{ body of insurgents under General Lu-
cia, and after losing thirty Off
4 GERS and eight hundred men, he forced
his way through the deffle and reached
Puerto Principe. He is now in the
/ very heart of the region devoted to the
/ Cuban cause but it is said be cannot re-
main there and live, and his retreat
! will be as disastrous as the advance.
a commission has arrived at Havana
/ to prefer complaints against the Cover
nor of Trinidad. 1t is charged that he
+ has sold himself to the insurgents.
4 Similar complaints are preferred a.
4 gainst the Governor Of Villa Clara.
the advance guard of General Ledona
was defeated recently near Cienenfue-
! gos. Several expeditions from the u
nited States well supplied with arms
have landed on the Cuban coast recent
I ly.
Cuban adyices say that steamers are
fitting out on the Florida coast to run
I the blockade with arms and Supplies for
the insurgents.
The Cnban government is urged to
arm the blacks. 1t is still thought that
Santiago de Cuba has been captured by
the insurgents.
1t is rumored, say Buenos Ayres pa
pers, that Lopez desires to cede Para
/ quay to the United States.
In Boston, On Thursday night of last
week, young man named Pine shot
Miss Howard, inflicting what is feared
( to be fatal wound. He then shot him.
/ self dead. Rejected love is supposed to
have caused the tragedy.
/ The State Auditor Of Louisiana and
his chief clerk nave been indicted for
fraud. The Auditor vacated his Office,
and the Governor appointed a colored
man as acting Auditor.
Hon. Edward Bates, United States
Attorney General under President Lin
coin, died in St. Louis, Mo-, ON last
Thursday afternoon.
Only 30 miles of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific railroad remain to be
built to complete the road to the Mis-
souri, river, connecting with the Union
Pacific railroad.
a dispatch from Atlanta, Ga. saws
that the negro charged with murder
and rape, was taken from the Jail, in
Dooley county, last Thursday night, by
a disguised mob, and was burned TO
death.
Senor Lemus, the envoy for Cuban
provisional government, says that the
reyolutioniSts have twenty-five thou
sand men under arms, and would
have many more If able to provide
arms for them.
Sugar planting has been very success
in Louisiana this season, and the crop
estimated at from two hundred and fif-
ty to three hundred thousand hogs
heads.
Governor Geary of this State, has is
sued warrant for the execution OF
Lewis Lane, who murdered his wife
last April.
Ex-President johnson is ill at his
home in Greenville, Tennessee. A re-
cent despatch reports him to be in1pro-
wing.
Immense gold discoveries are report
ed on the mainland of Alaska. The
mines can only be worked FIVE months
in the year.
The rapidity with which Plantation
Bitters have become a household ne
. IL. D. Z