The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-11-25
NEWS ITEMS.

being cheaper than oats.
Snow fell on Monday last to the
depth of twelve inches in the north
ern portion of Vermont.
Hundreds of cords of woodare being
burnt along the Lehigh canal, in or
der to get it out of the way.
The mining stocks of California have
deprecated in value within the last
nine months not less than $1,000, 900.
Two men were killed in New Or
leans candy factory last week, by the
accidental explosion of torpedocs.
1t is said that Mrs. General Custar
goes with her husband on Indian cam
paigns, and is good shot with the ri
fie.
There are twenty-three suits for di-
vorce before the Supreme Court at
Portland, Me-, and nineteen of the pc
titioners are wives.
Beecher wants John Chinaman to
vote, "pig-tail and ALL" The Boston
Post thinks this is queue-rious way
of expressing it.
Portion of the Central Railroad
track, on the Niagria Falls branch, was
torn up up the gale which visited the
Canadian frontier on Wednesday night
last.
It costs $50 day for first-class par
lor and bedroom at the new Grand
Hotel, in New York, provided you
don't eat anything.
The names of the common drunk
ards are posted up in Galesburg, Mich,
and saloons forbidden to furnish them
liquor.
An unmarried woman at Virden,
ILL.,, owns seven hundred acres of ex-
cellent land, which she paid for by
teaching school.
Another case Of whiskycide. Pat
Keenan, was found dead by the road
side near Racine, Mich, with his
whisky bottle beside him.
Three sailors belonging to the Uni
ted States steamer Lincoln, were
drowned at st. Paul, Iceland, by the
upsetting of boat.
1t is estimated that the total produc-
tion of grain in the United States for the
current year will amount to fourteen
hundred millions of bushels.
The experiment of another negro
postmaster is being tried at Manches-
ter, Va, near Richmond. Cunning
ham is the mans plantation name.
The Oshkosh (Mich.) Northwestern
says that crews are being hired for
the winter in the pineries, wages ran
ging from s25 to $50 and S35.
The miners of Luzerne county have
prepared bill for presentation to the
next Legislature providing for the
proper ventilation of the coal mines.
A smart man at Cedar Falls, Iowa,
gives notice that he has used about
two pounds of powder lately, and that
some of it may be in the wood pile.
On the Mississippi River, the steam
er which makes the fastest trip is enti-
tied to wear the antlers of deer upon
its piloC-house as "A token of suprema-
cy.
Mr.. John Gordon was brutally mur-
dered near Wharton, Wharton county
Texas, on the 18th, by two negroes,
and his body burned to conceal the
crime.
Massachusetts can't have anything to
herself. The Marquis of Butte had a
butler who committed suicide because
he thought somebody else had stolen
the spoons.
Some of the Insurance men in Bos-
ton wished to give every fireman in
the city turkey for his Thanksgiving
dinner but they wanted other people
to pay for them.
According to late advices, everything
in Alaska is as pleasant as could be ex-
pected. The military are well, the
Indians peaceable, the weather mild
and the fisheries prosperous.
Green Miller, an old negro living in
Harrodsburg, fell down and died in.
stantly on Tuesday last, during vio-
lent quarrel with his son-in-law. Pas
sion struck the old man dead.
The death of Gen. Wool leaves Ma
jor Mordecia Myers, of Schenectady,
n. Y, the only survivor of the cele-
brated 8th regiment of 1912. Major
Myers is aged about 80 years.
A prisoner confined in the Hampton
Jail, Va, set fire to the building on
Wednesday night of last week, think
ing thereby to liberate himself, but in
stead nearly got burned to death.
Hon. Robert j. Walker devoted the
last days of his life, it is said, to the
preparation of a statistical article show
ing that New York, in time, will sur
pass London as a commercial centre.
Peter G. DroSt, of Aillborough
township, Somerset county, n. j /,
gathered ninety-seven bushels of ap-
pies frem two trees this fall-from one
tree fifty bushels, and the other forty
seven.
The Spanish General Valmaseda has
ordered that his salary be divided a.
mong the poor in Santiago, Cuba
The misery there, caused by cholera
and smallpox, is reported on the in
crease,