The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-05-21
BRIEF NEWS EFEMs.

transport, Ia.
Kansas City, Missouri, built 1000
houses last year.
A nineteen-ounce baby is the present
wonder of Richmond.
Locusts, it is predicted, win make
their appearance this year.
Zine ore has been discovered four
miles from Milroy, Mifflin county
Sixty immigrants from Holland ar
rived in Richmond, the other day.
A divorce was granted a woman GO
years old in st. Lous, the other day.
The Columbia Shad fisheries have
been doing a large business for some
time.
The prohibitory liquor bill has been
defeated in the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture.
The Fenians are said to be stealing
arms and ammunition on every oppor-
tunity in Ireland.
On and after the first of June Allan
tic cable dispatches will cost only one
dollar in gold per word.
Springfield, Massachusetts,, boasts of
having sent the first train of cars across
the continent to Sacramento.
Abraham Brouse, of Jackson town
ship, Snyder county, committed sui
eide by hanging, on the 5th. inst.
Michigan has just elected eight Dem
ocratic judges in sixteen judicial dis
tricts. This will do for beginning.
The American Medical Association,
which has been in session at New Or
leans, will meet in Washington next
year.
Operations were commenced at 81.
Louis for the construction of the great
bridge which is to connect Illinois with
Missouri.
The Mount Vernon estate, consecra-
ted by the memory of George Wash
ington, is advertised to be sold at auc-
tion on June 10th.
The gifts presented to the Pope on
the fiftieth anniversary Of his admis-
ion to the priesthood, it is stated, a
mount in value to $1,000, 900.
A New Hampshire magistrate has
decided that language which does not
embrace the name of God is not pro-
fame swearing punishable by law.
There are over one hundred Thousand
grape vines growing in the vicinity of
St. Joseph, Missouri, and the number
is being largely increased this spring.
A Georgia paper asserts that a much
/ greater quantity of tobacco can be
grown per acre in northeastern Georg-
ia than on the best tobacco lands of
Virginia.
The wheat crop Of Pennsylvania
looks cheering. The prospect of a
heavy yield was never finer, a fact up
on which we congratulate all parties,
for all are alike interested.
i negro named Dan shot two ne
groes near Winona, Miss, week or
two ago, and was lodged in the Gala
boose. lie was taken out by the
friends Of his victims and hung.
The County National Bank at Clear
field, Pa, was broken into Wednesday
night and robbed of $4,000 in cash and
$4,000 in bonds. A reward of 81 900
is offered for the apprehension of the
| thieves.
A large number of white men have
been discharged from the Government
Printing Office. Thirty six were dis
missed in one day. One negro printer
has been employed. "The world
moves"
Damages to the amount of So, 900
We're awarded against the United States
Telegraph Company at New York, for
falling to send messages ordering Pc
troleum from Pittshurg to New York
for Warren & King.
Several Southern journals state that
the cotton crop this year cannot exceed
three million bales, owing to the ex-
tenslve emigration Of negroes to the
cities and towns and the withdrawal
Of freedwomen from farm labor.
The orange crop of St. Mary's parish,
| La, this year will he heavy. The
orange trees are so full of young fruit
that the limbs cannot possibly hold the
crop when the fruit is full grown
They almost grow III clusters like
grapes.
Fully half of the $4,000 miners en-
employed about Wilkesbarre and
Piitst0n, Fennsylvania, have s'struck y
by order of their central committe,
but, as yet have made no demand for
an increase of wages, nor any state
mept of grievances.
The Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle
understands that gentleman from
! England has purchased from Lewis
Turner, Esq, of Nelson county, Va,
! between three and four thousand acres
of land, on which aud other lands in
the vicinity, he intends settling eight
hundred English families.
| During the storm In Indiana, on
! Wednesday, lady was sitting near
the fireplace in her residence, at
Sharpsville, Upton county, holding a
young child on her knee. A bolt of
! lighting ran down the chimney of the
house and struck both mother and
child dead upon the instant,
AT Lithonia, Ga. James Gresham,
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