The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-08-26
RRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

by two negroes, who fonlly outraged
her person The brutes were after
wards arrested, and it is believed that
they have been appropriately iynehed.
The :sprize essayists,'' Allen and
Gallagher, bad their battle near st.
Louis, the other day. Allen was de-
clared winner on the 18th round, but
the declaration was denied after all
was over, and so the affair ended in a
disgraceful cheat.
A Virginia State Senator elect who
visited the Secretary of War yesterday,
states that he received satisfactory as
surances that the test oath would not
be required of members elect 10 the
Legislature.
The Virginia corn crop is believed to
have been shortened oHe-half by the
drought. The early corn in Georgia is
gone, but the late crop promises well.
A conspiracy to assininate the Shah
of Persia, originating in Constantine
pie, has been discovered, and the band
sent out to accomplish it has been ar
rested. Many eminent persons are
said to be implicated.
The Spaniards captured party of
Cubans, numbering eighty, near Puer-
to Principe, some days ago, all of
whom, it is said, were executed.
Great excitement exists in the Cuban
army in consequence, and demand
has been made for retaliation but
Quesada has mildly adopted the Con-
federate policy of humanity, and waits
for other Governments to get shocked
and interfere.
Cuban adviees to the 9th, from patri-
ot sources, record the defeat and cap
ture by Colonel Nevara, of Spanish
force of about 260 officers and men,
which was moving from Remedies to
Nuevitus. The Spanish casualties
were q killed and 81 wounded. The
Cubans lost Is killed and 80 wounded.
The negroes who committed an out
rage on Miss Thompson near Front
Royal, Va, few days ago, were not
Iynched as it was supposed. They
would have been lynched, it is stated,
had not the Sheriff, who succeeded in
getting charge of them, surrounded
the Jail with strong force of armed
men, who are on duty day and night.
In his letter accepting the nomina-
| ton for the Ohio Gubernatorial candi-
dacy, Mr.. Pendleton promises, as
soon as he is able, to discuss especially
the financial questions which at pres
ent puzzle the oppressed and overtax-
ed people.
Bogus deputy marshaIs and revenue
detectives are rowing around in the ru-
raj districts bIack-mailing unsophisti-
Gated people.
The Navajo Indians are said to be
contented and happy on their reserva-
tion in Arizona.
The Blackfeet Indians in Montana
have taken to robbing and numbering
settlers.
The London Star says that there's
no reason for Great Britain to grudge
the possession of Cuba should the Uni
ted States buy that island. England's
possessions in those seas are so exposed
to attack at present that the danger
cannot be augmented. The possession
of Cuba by the United States, the Star
thinks, would be to the advantage of
commerce generally.
Another rebort comes over the cable
telIiug of the dispersion of the Carlists.
They seem to be defeated every time
they try fight, and the cause has sew
| eral times, lately, been dead. But ever
and anon it revives and recaIcitrates.
The Pope is represented by IA cores
pondent as regretting that no schismat
ic or Protestant Bishop, has offered to
take part in the Gcumenical Council.
A freight train on the Vera Cruz
| Railroad was attacked few days ago
aud plundered of$50,0 900 worth of mer-
chandise.
The Vicar of Alcublas, in Spain,
with body of CarIists gave battle to
the Spanish troops, and succeeded in
getting himself and nineteen of his
followers captured.
Next year the Pope will hold at
| Rome universal exhibition of Chris
tian art.
More news favorable to the rebel
cause in Cuba has been received in
Washington. The patriots seem to
count with Yankee confidence upon
| the disaffection and the courage of the
negro slave population.
Three hundred Cuban rebels, accor-
ding to Gulf cable dispatch, were dis
persed by Spanish forces near Jaguey
| Grande recently. Ten rebels killed
no Spanish losses mentioned.
Callahan, the Radical Police Captain
of Richmond, Virginia, who killed
Joseph Kelly, a Conservative, at a reg
istration office, some weeks ago, has
been discharged by order erofGeneralCan-
by, without trial-only preliminary
examination by Radical military COM
mission.
A conspiracy among disaffected for
mer employees to burn all the bridges
on the Central Pacific Railroad east of
the Sierra Navada Mountains, has been
discovered, and measures have been ta-
| ken to prevent it.
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