The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-11-18
NEWS ITEMS.

the most singular and notable phe-
nomenon of the period was observed a
few days since at Corinth, Mississippi,
when that city was favored with a gem
uine African mirage. About sunset,
after chilly, foggy day, last week,
the sun peeped out from behind the
thick clouds which had obscured it for
hours, and the mirage or F|atd 1Idr-
CANA was visible, and was witnessed
/ bya great many persons. The trees,
underbush, railway cars, and foun-
dry in the outskirts of the city seemed
hung upside down'on the clouds even
persons who were walking along the
railroad track had their images reflec-
ted apparently in mid air, with heads
to the earth and feet to the sky, and
this with startling vividness.
1t has been determined to lay cable
from some point in Belgium to the
/ United States, and a concession for this
| purpose has been granted to an Amer
lean Company by the first-named pow
/ er. The tariffof rates for messages viii
be much lower than those charged by
either the English or French Transat-
lantic Telegraph Companies. The
American directors of the new cable
corporation, Messrs. w. C. Barney, G..
Z. Paulding and ]. S. Bartlett, an
nOunce that the probable rate for a
message of ten words from Portland to
Paris will be about one dollar in gold.
The Legislature of Iowa will meet
in few weeks and elect two members
of the United States Senate, one for
the full term beginning March 4, 1871,
and one to succeed Mr.. Grimes, who
will tender his resignation. AS the
unexpired time is short it is said that
no prominent citizen of the State will
consent to be a candidate.
Many of the Indians of the Whet-
stone Agency, in Dakotah Territory,
having of late been getting drunk, by
some mysterious means unknown to
the agent, great disorder prevails, and
as one Of the results, Spotted Tail,
chief of the Brules, few days ago
shot and killed Big Mouth, chief of the
Ogallallahs.
Traces of ancient cities, arranged in
streets running at right angles to each
other, but covered several feet deep
with sand, have been discovered in
Nevada. The stones had evidently
been cut with hard tools, although
their forms were nearly destroyed by
the lapse of centuries.
Two brothers, Hamlet and John
Van Norce, the one aged eleven and
the other fourteen years, in Williams
port, were handling their fathers
navy revolver on the morning of the
9th inst, when the weapon was acci-
dentally discharged, the ball pass
ing entirely through the body of the
younger boy, causing immediate
death.
A cargo of coolies on board the Tahi-
ii Cotton Company's bark, Margaret
Condor, mutinied about six months
ago, and killed the captain and two Of
ficers. The mate escaping to the hold,
placed keg of powder under the
main hatch, whittier he caused the
coolies to cOngregate, aud then blew
them up, killing nearly all of them.
The rest jumped overheard or were
put to death by the mate, and the
vessel was taken safely in to Tahiti.
The great Western scandal, arising
out of the suit of Lucy J. against Ben
jamin c. SandfOrd for divorce, on the
ground that he had committed biga-
my, is somewhat Obscured by the dis
missal of the suit at the instance of the
plaintiff, who, it is now alleged, has
been pretending to be defendants
wife and only brought the suit when
he refused any longer to submit to
black mail.
a little boy, years of age, and
his two sisters, . and years old, res
pectively, children of Mrs. Lewis, of
New Orleans, wandered into IA swamp
in the Second district, few days ago,
and lost their way. When night came
on the heroic little fellow stripped
himself of his clothing and wrapped it
around his sisters, and they laid down
on the ground to spend the night.
When found in the morning all were
insensible. The youngest has since
died.
New York is disturbed at the falling
Off in the receipts of coal. Last week
only 10000 tons arrived from the
Schuylkill regions, which is nearly 90
900 tons less than Is needed and was
expected. The causes of this are vari-
Gus. There is scarcity Of miners,
rates have not ruled as high as was an
ticipated, and spectators find more
profitable channels for their opera
tiOnS.
General Cespedes, the leader of the
Cuban revolution, has again given
pledge of his earnestness in the cause
of liberty even more brilliant than the
burning ofhis large Bayamo property.
He now proposes to give to each fami-
~ who has father, son or brother mar
tyred forindependence, a tract ofthirty-
three acres Of land. Cespedes owns in
his right thousands of acres of the
most valuable land in Cuba,
IN the case of Mrs. Margaret Beck
and children against the Northern Cen
trail Railway Company, suing in the
City Court for $4,000 damages, on ac-
| count Of the violent death of the hus-