The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-30
NEWS ITEMS.

All EXTRAORDINARY divorce SulJ Is re-
corded by the Weston NO. Land
mark of the 10th. An old gentleman,
aged ninety-four years, and his wife,
aged eighty-seven, residents of Pettis
township, and living together seventy
years, concluded the other day to dis
solve their marriage relation. They
made an equal division of 5heir prop
erty and went their separate ways.
A more remarkable divorce case is sell
dom heard of.
A thief attempted to get into a
house in Milwaukee the other night,
when the woman thereof heard the
fellow and, getting up, saw what he
was at, and, instead of fainting away
as many would have done, she cody
looked about, and, finding hammer,
she crept up and gave the hand heavy
blow. There was a groan outside,
and the hand was hastily Withdrawn,
and retreating footsteps plainly told
that the thief had no further business.
A carpet-bagger is a Northern Radi-
cal who took up his abode in the South
"when the Union came in," made pol
itics his trade and lives in office, or
out of it, by defaIning and plundering
the Southern people. This is the car
pet bagger. This is the man who robs
and ISLANDERS all men, with excellent
mpartiality; who is as little the
friend of the negro as the friend of the
white race; who has no religion but
love of self, and no God but his pock-
et.- Charleston Meas.
The Red Land (La.) Beacon says a
meteor exploded near that place few
days ago. AS it flew along it produ
ced noise like cold water pouring in
to hot grease. and then bursted with
a loud report, like heavy artillery, fol-
lowed by several smaller reports. -
A huge stone struck the earth fifty
yards from man.
A murderouS negro fired in the o.
pen door of the house of Mr.. John w.
Youman's on the government street
road, near Mobile, on Saturday, woun-
ding several children and a white SER
want girl. The attack was quite un-
provoked and unascountable except on
the plea Of mere wantonness. The ne
gro was arrested.
A correspondent in Japan says that
there is, a few miles from Yokohama
an enormous bronze, statute forty feet
high, ofa noted japanese warrior nam
ed Diaboots. 1t was erected in the e.
leventh century. 1t is formed of large
plates of bronze, skillfully joined to-
gether, and the storms of eight centu-
ries have made but little impression
upon it.
The rice crop of South Carolina is
being rapidly harvested and generally
promises well. Planters over much
of the State expect to plant freely of
small grain, in order to lessen the in
jury arising from the partial failure of
the corn crop.
Henry Mcdaniel, colored preach
er, published card of thanks in the
Iuka (Mississippi) Gazette to the white
citizens of that place for having sub
scribed a sufficient amount of money
to pay the church out of debt. He
states that not dollar was subscribed
by the Radicals.
There are now over eight thousand
Indians, of different tribes, on the
reservations in the Department of
Lower Arkansas.
The earnings of the Union Pacific
Railroad the first five days of Septem-
Der were 1858, ,724 the same time in
August, $26S,885; indicating an in
crease per month of S1S5,000, notwith-
standing the great reduction in the
rates of freight and fare.
Earthquakes are becoming fright
fully frequent in Chilli. There were
forty shocks, more or less strong, in
one day at africa, last Sunday. The
people are taking refuge inland, dread
ing another tidal wave.
The largest crop of cotton ever pro-
duced in the South was in 1860. 1T
stood q. fbo ,,aa~I~aE ~ G1nn ann ann -