The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-12-03
NEWS ITEMS.

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means employed in Indiana for obtain
/ ing divorces that the newspapers are
beginning to denounce the practice in
good earnest. A lawyer at New Al
bany, who has made fortune by his
! practice in securing divorces, gives
this as his mode Of procedure in re-
cent case: The husband aud wife
were to quarrel and fight every day,
and this was to be done in the pres
ence of the children Of the wife who
were well grown and they were to be
made TO believe the lighting was genu-
inc, instead of felgned The pro-
gramme was carried out to the letter,
and then the husband applied for di-
vorce. He set forth ''incompatibility"
in his complaint, the wife Admitted
it, the children swore to it. Judge
Bieknell granted the divorce. The
same day she transferred some proper
ty of her first husband as she had de-
sired to do, and the next day the di-
vorced couple We're remarked,
A shrewd trick has just been played
by Pennsylvania in the oil regions.
1t appears that he had lost everything
by speculation, and determined TO re-
trieve his fortunes by getting up an
otller petroleum excitement. He OBJ
tained a quantity of crude oil, which
he buried in the cellar of his shanty,
and afterwards pretended his land was
full of oil. Some live Yankees from
Bath, Maine, greedily grabbed the
bait, bought the supposed rich oil
tract, formed company, sold a great
amount of stock, and prepared for an
active development Of their petroleum
property. Wells were sunk and ma
chinery set up, but no oil was to be
found, and the Ba:hites are out nearly
a million of dollars by the collapse Of
the concern. They acknowledge the
gullibility of Americans is about equal
TO that of Englishmen.
A wOod-sawyer who was piling
wood near the railroad track at Edgar
ton, Ohio, one day last week, noticed,
while standing on the pile as the
lightning train approached, a large
stick lying upon the rail- Without a
moments hesitation, he leaped direct
ly before the train and grasped the
stick. At that instant the engine
struck him and hurled him some dis
tanee forward. He fell to the ground
mangled and lifeless, but he saved the
train.
A negro boy stole doll in Peters
burg, Va, the other day, and while
protesting his innocence unwittingly
pressed it as he eudeavored to hide it
more completely under his shirt. The
doll gave loud squeak, and the little
negro, who had never heard of crying
tolls before, turned almost white and
thought miracle had been done in his
case.
In Waltham, Vermont, last week, a
girl eight years of age, finding her
dress in flames, with remarkable pres
ence of mind smothered the fire, and
cut off her burning apron with a pair
of scissors, while her little hands were
being burned to blisters, and not only
saved her own life, but that of the ba-
by also, by keeping away from il until
the fire was put out.
the verdict of the eOroner's jury on
the Western Pacific railroad accident
is that the collision was the result OF
the ignorance and incompetency OF
Bernard Kane, the switch-t tender at
Sampson station. The jury also find
that he deceived the officers Of the
company, whose business it was to in
struct him in his duties as TO his abiIi-
" 10 read. Kane has been arrested
and sent to jail
+ a vigilance committee in Fremont
county, Iowa, few days ago Iynched
a notorious person named Sam. Muir
dock charged with the murder of Henry
I johnson. Since the lynching, Johnson
has made his appearance alive and
well. Efforts will be made to try the
Iynchers.
The mail train west on the Erie and
Philadelphia Railroad collided last
week with freight train going east ;
both locomotives were wrecked, the
baggage car ''teIescoped" with the
smoking car, number of passengers
and employees were injured, but none
killed.
The reported offer of Gen. Jordan to
surrender to the Spanish forces some
time ago is confirmed, his objects, as
stated, being to escape with his fellow
Americans, who were always forced in
front in every fight, from the almost
certain annihilation which awaited
them.
The London Times asks the question
why should not Spain have an upstart
dynasty as well as France and Sweden?
And intimating that one scion of roy.
atty will do as well as another, sug-
gests the elevation of the Prince of the
Asturias to the throne, the right to
which he has not forfeited through
any fault or crime of his own.
y Pittsburg inventor has construct
ed stove for the consumption of BIZ
luminous coal without producing
smoke. The principal of the inven-
tion is to produce both an upward and
downward draft, meeting in the fire
and causing perfect combustion.
Last Saturday evening as Mrs. Cassi-
dy, at WoodvilIe, Luzerne county,