The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-08-12
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The report of the Board of Visitors
to the military Academy of West
Point commends that institution
for the good II has done, and is still do
ing, bat recommends that such i'm
provements shall be made in the sys-
tern Of instruction thereas will raise ii
to standard unsurpassed abroad. 1t
is also recommended that the acade-
my be enlarged and the number of pu-
pills increased.
A convention has been concluded be
tween France and the United States
and also between the latter and Russia
by an additional article i'm the treaty
of commerce and navigation, for the
protection Of .'trade marks, p and Civ
ing legal remedies tc the citizens Of the
respective countries against all persons
who infringe on them.
Major White was arranged last week
at Boston, He is charged with the will
ful murder Of a Mrs. Hobbs. 1t is
stated on his behalf that he had
known and loved his victim for sever
al years and as an evidence Of that fact
had attacked her with knife as far
back as 1861, and was tflereupon sent
to a lunatic asylum for six months.
An intelligent Pennsylvania en-
ployed at the "Salt Well" near Titus
Vile, on Monday last, undertook to oil
the machinery under his charge with
nitro.glycerine. An explosion took
place, by which Fetterman was blown
to pieces, and his brother James and
a man named McNally, seriously in
jured.
The corn crop of. the United States
for 1868 was nine hundred millions
of bushels; Of this about four millions
were exported. The wheat crop was
two hundred and twenty-five mil
lions of bushels, and of this the lar
ger portion was exported either in
bulk or in -four.
A fire occurred last Wednesday even
ing in the United States Bonded Ware
house at Philadelphia causing the de-
truction of thirty thousand barrels OF
whiskey, and loss of two and a half
million of dollars. Two lives are be-
lieved to have been lost.
The estimated value of goods stored
in the bonded warehouse at Philadel
phia is put by later dispatch at from
ten to eleven millions of dollars. Up
to one o'clock Thursday morning the
flames defied the efforts of the firemen
to suppress them. -Four children had
been killed by falling bricks.
There is a speck of war looming up
between Turkey and Egypt. The Sub
lime Porte has recounted its grievances
in a letter to the Egyptian Viceroy,
concluding with an uitimatum.
According to a special despatch to
the New York Sun, dated Tuesday
night, theSpanish gunboats at Mystic,
Connecticut, were at that time in pos
ession of the United States Marshal.
A new freight tariff over the Union
Pacific Railroad is published in Omaha.
Its rates are from twenty to forty per
cent. lower than the existing charges.
The Cuban Junta protests against
the proposed purchase of Cuba from
Spain on the ground that two-thirds
of the Island is owned by native Gu
bans.
Frank McCappen, the present incum-
bent, has been renominated by the
Democrats for Mayor of San Francis
co.
Twelve Millions Of gold are said to
be locked up in the United States Sub
Treasury in san Francisco.
The Peoria, Illinois Marine and Fire
Insurance Company has suspended
business.
The Kiowas, Camanches and ARA
pahoes are behaving we'll upon their
New Reservations.
Government expenses last month
were SIG, ,538, ,353.