The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-04-23
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

arrested. Seventeen houses, q number
of which contained stores, We're de-
stroyed. A number of stables were
also consumed. Loss about $40,000,
covered hy a small insurance.
Washington, April 2o.-It is re-
ported that upward of 1000 men, arm
ed with Spencer rifles, are soon to lie
dispatched from New Orleans for Cuba,
by the agents of the revolutionary gov
ernment. he Navy Department has
stationed vessel of war at the mouth
ofthe Missippi to prevent the depar-
ture Of such expeditions; but it is sta
ted that an effort will be made to send
them from Key West.
The Agent of the Cuban revolution
/ has issued an address to the American
people, reeiting the grievances of the
Cubans, and giving promising view
of the progress of the revolution. Ces-
pedes' army is said to be $4,000 strong,
and claims to hold virtually two-thirds
of the Island OF Cuba. The agent APP
peals to the sympathies of the Ameri-
can people and the virtue of the Mon
roe Doctrice.
President johnson spoke to about
five thousand persons from the stand
at Overton Hotel at Memphis. His
speech, but repetition of those made
at Knoxville and Nashville, was well
received and heartily appiauded.
Instructions have just been prepared
for Mr.. Plumb, consul general to Cuba,
who is about to leave for Havana
They are of the most peremptery char
acter looking to restitution and full sat
isfsaction to American citizens for all
injuries and insults offered by the Span
iards.
A telegram from Corinne says that a
coach came through in twelve hours
from Terminal Station, on the Central
Pacific Railroad, which is now
completed within six miles of Monu-
ment Point. Travel over the Union
Pacific is very heavy. A large number
of persons are going to White Pine and
other mining localities.
The total loss of oil is | 800 barrels
refined, 10000 distilled and $4,000 of
crude, together with all the refinery
building, two dwellings and office of
the Clarax Works. Fancy d jaeger
man lost their barreI-house, agitating-
house, engine, &c. The total loss of
Forsythe Bros is estimated at S225, 900.
The Legislature of Illinois has passed
a law giving married women the right
to use and possess their own earnings,
and the use for the same in their own
name, free from the interference of a
husband or his creditors.
Governor Geary has re-appointed
James p. Wickersham of Lancaster
county, State Superintendent of Com
mon Schools. The appointment has
been confirmed by the Senate.
The Treasury Department gives its
aid to the detectives in the matter of
trying to discover the robbers of the
Beneficial Savings Bank of Philadei-
phia All the Sub-Treasury age nts
have been ordered to keep on the Qui
UiUe.
One of the oldest merchants of East
vile, Virginia, Joshua P. Westcoat,
was murdered in his counting room,
Thursday night, by some persons un-
known. but supposed to be a negro
named Spencer Wright.
The Methodist ministers of the New
York East Conference are required to
preach at least once a year against the
use of intoxicating drinks, and, rather
awkwardly for some, against the use of
tobacco.
a branch Junt& of Cuban sympathiz-
ers is to be formed in Philadelphia,
as an auxiliary to the Junta in New
York and concerts are to be given for
the benefit of their relief fund.
In excavating the great mound in
the northern part of st. Louis large
quantities of bones, beads and coins
and other Indian relics have been
unearthed.
1t is stated that the fruit crops near
Petersburg and Lynchburg, Virginia,
have been almost entirely destroyed
by recent frosts.
Well executed counterfeit twenty
dollar bills on the Fourth National
Bank of Philadelphia, are in circula-
ton.
Bartholomew O'Donnell, who muir
dered Bridget Murray in October last,
was sentenced at Worchester, Mass,
yesterday, to Imprisonment for life.
The election in Virginia, by the
grace of Grant, will probably take
place on the fourth Tuesday in May.
There will be a new registration.
The aurora borealis the other night
interrupted occasionally the working
of the Atlantic cable.
Tom Allen and Mike McCool- ARE an
nounced in St. Louis to fight within
two months for 81 900 side.
There was terrible confiagration at
Forsythe Bros oil refinery, at Pitts
burg, last week.