The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-06-04
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Wayne county, New York. Stephen
Burton, a respectable citizen, died on
"Wednesday last from an overdose of
3 -ehIorcforms aud was buried on Friday.
1t was suspected that his grave had
been violated, and the tomb was ex-
amined. The body had been dragged
out of the coffin and mutilated and
concealed in the woods. DR.. Brout,
of Ontaria, has been arrested, with
two students, and held to answer for
the crime.
A rather sensational story reaches us
from New York to the effect that Miss
Carrie Roberts, a beautiful blonde of
twenty, ran away last week with her
i fathers coachman. one Patrick O'Con
nor. They were at once married, butthe
next morning the young lady return
ed home and said that she only we'd
ded for fun. Proceedings for divorce
are to be instituted, but as the only
grounds are social Inequality, it
is difficult to understand how the
result desired, by one at least, can be
obtained.
The Pottsville Standttrd relates how
two daughters of Mr.. Hoy, residing
some four miles from that place, SO
faithfully practiced the teachings of
their radical father as to allow them
selves to be ruined by a negro whom
their father taught them TO look upon
as man and a brother, one of whom
he married, leaving the other to suffer
for her folly.
James A. Hunter, Esq, one of the
radical members of the last legislature
from the Westmorland district, de-
clines denomination, and thus es-
capes certain defeat at the hands of the
people for his support of the negro
suffrage amendment. At least such is
the opinion of the Republican and
Democrat.
The wool clip of Iowa for this year,
it is stated, will not reach the figures
of last year by at least 5000 pounds.
Three hundred thousand pounds of
wool were shipped from Des Moines
last year, besides supplying the home
demand; and the clip this season will
barely supply the Iowa factories.
The New Orleans, Opelousas and
Great Western Railroad has been sold,
by order of the United States Circuit
Court for Louisiana. The successful
bidder was Charles MORGAN. Price
/ $2,050,000, The purchaser designs ex-
tending the road to the Sabine.
/ A gentleman of Rochester, n. H.,
saw an advertisement that a receipt
for the cure of dyspepsia might be had
by sending postage stamp to the adj
vertiser. He was victim and sent
his stamp. The answer was, ''Dig in
the garden and let whiskey alone"
A Greek, at Stamboul, recently had
dream that vast treasure could be
found in certain hill, if a child were
sacrificed TO the guardian demon. He
took his little daughter to the place
next day, beat out her brains, and dug
for gold in high spirits until he was
arrested.
Deyoe 4 Pratt's oil factory, New
York, together with several adjoining
buildings, was burned last week.
Eight propellers in the adjacent docks
were also destroyed, Total loss, ST.
100000.
Crawford j. Painter, son of Henry
Painter, near Coultersville, Westmore-
land county, aged nineteen, was killed
on the I'D inst, in a coal mine near
that place by the falling of slate or
"horse- back"
Captain K. II. Fletcher, a prominent
citizen of Dawson, Ga, and universal
fy esteemed, was shot and instantly
killed few days since. John Lee has
confessed the deed and is now in Jail to
answer.
A thunder storm swept ovr Charles
ton, S. G., on Saturday, doing great
damage to property, &c. A boat in
the harbor was capsized, and Mrs.
Douglass and two children were
drowned.
Disinterested political gentlemen out
of employment are beginning to SUBJ
nit plans to the President for the dis
bursement of the two millions of dol
lars appropriated by Congress for the
amelioration of the Indians.
The city of Detroit, place of half
the population of Washington, has
just voted to appropriate S950,000 in
aid of four new railroads, to run in diff
ferent directions from that city.
| A boy ofsixteen was sentenced to
five years in the Massachusetts peni-
tentiary yesterday, for having COM
mitted rape on woman sixty years
of age.
4 w. ID. Wharton, residing near He
lena, Ark, was brutally assassinated
i on the night of the 18th. Nine buck
shot lodged in the abdomen, and he
i survived but twenty minutes.
| Over Eight hundred vocal organiza-
tiops have reported to the Boston Peace
Jubilee Executive their intention to
swell the chorus when the day of the
said Jubilee shall have come.
The Newfoundland seal fishery has
been very successful during the past
season. The number of seals landed
1 at ST Johns has been about $50 600