The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1870-02-24
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS
NEW CASTLE, Del, Feb. I5.-At-
tempted Outrage By Negro.--Y Yester-
day, halfa mile from the Dover depot,
negro attempted vile outrage on
young lady. She made a desperate re-
sistance, and her screams summoning
assistance, the negro fed without ac-
complishing his object. The intended
victim, Miss Frick, sixteen or seven
teen years Of age, lately removed from
Pennsylvania. She is badly hurt
Two arrests have been made, but nei-
ther of them was the right party.
The Paris authorities have been dis
posing of the radicals who participated
in the late riots. Gustave Flourens
was sentenced to six monthsimprison
ment and a fine. VI. Deveure, the
printer of La Ndrsditldise, forpublish-
ing false news, to two months, all 9TH
ers convicted Of carrying arms to
three and four months, and the fellows
who only uttered seditious cries to If
teen and thirty days. The editor Of
the ReUeH gets thirteen months for
''false news" Nevertheless, the r.
reconcilable press is as insolent as ever.
The Rdppet publishes letter from
Victor Hugo, in eulogy Of Henry
ROchefort, and calling him "a force for
the future"
Sanguinary executions of Cuban
prisoners in cold blood continue in Gu
ba. Thirteen young men, most Of
them of good families, were shot last
week. The Captain-General confsca-
ted the property Of seventeen Cubans
and one American. The American is
General Thomas Jordan, whose prop
erty In CuSa must be difficult to get
hold of. More skirmishing in the in
terror is reported.
The Mexican insurrection is prosper
ing. General Escobedo, the comman-
der-in-ehief Of the national army, in
stead of fighting the insurgents as he
threatened, fell back to Guanajuato.
He has been superseded by General
Alatorre. The Juarez government ap-
pears to be in panic, 1000 men have
been impressed into the army. 1t is
suggested among the revolutionists to
make General Garcia de Cadena Presi-
dent, with new seat of government
in the insurgent district.
An interesting insurance case has
just been decided by the law courts of
Maine. The plaintiffs We're II. w.
Lancy & Co., of Portland, whose store
was insured by the Phoenix Insurance
Company, of New York, for s., ,000.-
The stoIe was burned in the great FIRE
of 1866. The company refused pay
ment on the ground tnat the store was
situated upon leased land, and the "a
gent of the company had omitted to
state the fact in the policy. The court
decided in favor of the plaintiffs, a.
warding thefull amount of the insur-
anee, with interest from 1866, and costs.
Woman Suffrage, it appears, then, is
not to form the subject of the Sixteenth
Amendment. Mr.. Ingersoll, of Illi-
nois, has introduced an amendment to
the Constitution, to be called the six
teenth, which declares that Congress
shall have the power to issue United
States notes and make them a legal
tender for debts. Should one of the
trainers of the Constitution rise from
the dead he would scarcely recognize
the instrument.
Sheridan seems to regard the In
dians as so many hares TO be hunted
down. His plan is to reservation
them. and then, when an outrage oc-
ours outside of said reservations, to go
into and through the same with fire
and sword. How Mr.. Grants quaker
policy viii square with General Phil's
treatment can only be ascertained when
learning the exact terms on which oil
and water mix.
frhe Appeal of Gen. Fitz John Por-
ter to the President for re-examination
of the proceedings of the court mar
tail in his case, with the documents ac.
companying, including letter of Gen.
Pope, Is said to be calm, full and well
sustained statement of the reasons for
a re-opening and reversal of his case.
The Hartford Times declares that
when Senator Sumner coInplimented
Mrs. Senator Revels upon the good
fortune Of her husband, that delighted
lady rC piled, ''Tank you, sab! dough
de Lord affiick you wild a Waite skin,
he glib you heart as black as any
body's!"
The Kentucky negroes are TO meet
in State Convention, at Lebanon, ON
the 22d of February, for the purpose of
consultation regarding the political
and social interests of the race.
The Alabama Legislature employs
scholar "to overlook, correct the SPELL
ing, and make good grammer ofall its
bills introduced in The House before
the bills are brought up on second
reading,
A parody on the Cup in Balloon"
song goes this way: Drunk in sa-
loon, boys, drunk in saloon, picking
up short cigars out of a spittoon."
Lucy Stone likens boys to vinegar
the more mother in them the sharper
they are,
Silver has been discovered in Ash
land county, Wisconsin.
A bookseller in Galesburg, Illinois,
has Bible Just 300 years old.