The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-09-23
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The EDoca of Madrid has informed
the Spanish people of the true condi-
tion of affairs In Cuba, and general
demand for troops to crush out the re-
bellion is the consequence. The re-
ported position of Misister Sickles has
created considerable excitement. 1t is
stated that fleet of iron-clads will
leave Spain for Cuba in November.
MS. in bottle, in six commercial
languages, presumed to be relic of
the Franklin Polar Expedition, was
picked up the other day at San Buena
Ventura, on the Pacific coast, contain
ing some account of the desertion of the
ships Erebus and Terror, and other
matter connected with the voyage.
An organized band of colored horse
thieves in Campbell, Va, and the adj
acent counties, has been broken up.
1t is ascertained that stolen horses
were generally carried to Richmond
and sold there.
A negro, while employed at the bot
tom of a well at Jamaica, l.. l., was
buried by its caving in. A large
number of men set to work to dig him
out, and after thirty hours work he
was found alive.
An "old miner" at Avondale propos-
es that hereafter all the miners give
one days pay every year toward the
fund for the benefit of the widows and
orphans. By this means, he says, they
can raise $4,000, and for himself he
counts the first days work that he has
done since the catastrophe sacred for
this purpose.
A business firm in Fair Haven,
Conn.,, have posted the following mo
tice" on the front of their iron safe:
GAIL gentlemanly burglars are hereby
notified that owing to the insecurity of
this box no valuables are deposited
therein, so please not disturb it.
The fire in the Avondale mine, it is
believed, was the result of the careless
ness of a miner who descended the
shaft with bundle of hay, which be-
came ignited from the lamp in his hat.
Philadelphia scores another murder.
A man named Samuel Shuester, was
knocked on the head and killed the
other day by James McGauhlin, in a
political dispute.
Large parties of miners are leaving
White Pine and going to the Hassay-
ampor district, on the Pacific coast,
where new and very rich gold diggings
are reported.
In New Orleans is a large oak tree,
around which has been built a dwell
ing, so that the trunk of the tree is
nicely housed, while its top complete
ly covers the work of the eccentric
builder.
The opening of the Pacific Railroad
has greatly injured business on the
Isthmus of Panama. The rejection Of
the treaty with the United States, for
a ship canal across the Isthmus, has al
so had bad effect.
Persons who have explored into the
remote corners of New England the
past summer think there is much
work for the Home Missionary Socie-
ty.
Minnesota has completed its wheat
harvest, and estimates the quantity
at twenty-five million bushels, of
which only six million bushels will
be retained in the State.
Upward of one million pounds of
wool were shipped East from Colorado,
via the Kansas Pacific Railway, der
ing the past season.
Some one has taken big load off
the nations heart by telegraphing that
Morton and Sherman are not at enmi-
ty.
The wheel of fortune has obliged
man who once edited an influential
paper in Ireland to WELD pick in
the excavation of the New York post
Office.
There are now engag d in the Mis-
sissippi trade 90 steamers, with ca
pacity of 29z, ,174 tons, and an estima-
ted value of S24 ,556,0 900.
Iowa has been visited this year hy
numerous destructive storms. Nearly
every section of the State had been Sc
riously damaged in this way.
Kansas is a State of railway CEN
tres" having one hundred and sixty
towns claiming to be such.
The st. Paul Pioneer thinks that not
less than 100, 900 bushels of apples will
be gathered in Minnesota this year.
The Pacific Railway recently dischar-
ed over twenty-five hundred Chinese
laborers.
Two young ladies in Albany are
matched to chew wax against time,
best two in three to corsets.
The population of Iowa is 1880, ITS
an increase of 100, 600 since 1867.
Words of Wisdom for Young men,