The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1870-02-03
NEWS ITEMS.

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NEWS ITEMS.
Captain Smith Was murdered at Fort
Wrangler, Alaska, on the twenty-ffth
of December last, by drunken Indian.
The chief of the village refused to sur
render the murderer, whereupon the
commander Of the fort shelled the viii
Iage killing two Indians. After CON
siderable skirini.hing, the murderer
wa, surrendered, tried by court-mar-
tial, and hanged. Captain Smith was
formerly in the Confederate naval SER
vice.
The Pope having announced that a
commission of theologians will be or
ganized TO answer questions propoun-
ded by Protestauts who may visit
Rome during the sitting of the Coun-
ell, many of the clergymen of the
Church of England have delegated
three Of their colleagues to repair to
Rome to discuss with the commission
points of difference between Catholics
and Protestants.
The Cologne Gazette relates a story
in this wise: A country girl in
Schrimm, Government of POSeu, re-
ceived her Inheritance of 300 thalers
from the authorities. Returning home,
she spent night at the house of vii
lage justice. to whom she related her
good fortune. He advised her to go to
bed with his wife. When the family
were asleep, the host took a sharp
knife and cut the throat of the woman
lying furthest from the wall. 1t chanc-
ed to be his wife.
The London Times by last mails
gives very complete statistics of emf
grafton from the port of Liverpool
during 1863. The eXolu, was in eX-
cess of amy year since 1852. The tide
was chiefly toward this country, the
current toward Canada and other
British colonies having been less in
volume than in former years. Tie
whole number of vessels sailing TO the
UHted States during the year was 294,
Carrying about li3, 900 passengers. OF
these 81 600 were English, $4,000 Irish,
1000 Scotch, and about 45 900 fOreil n
er5.
A Roman wit has discovered the
habits ofall western Bishops at the G-
cnlnenical. The English are always
taking out something TO eat the A
merican Bishops are retiring to smoke;
the French Bishops are passing about
aud talking the Spanish Bishops are
in little groups, talking their own pol
itics; the Germans are silent and do
ing nothing. The Italians, if we may
conclude from the example of the wit
himself, are making their observa-
tiOns.
During the services at ST. Joseph's
Chapel, in Liverpool, ON Sunday last, a
false alarm OF fire was raised. and inn
mediately the usual panic and rush ior
the doors occurred, and when order
Was at last restored it was found that
fifteen people had been trampled %
death and a great many were badly IN
jured.
imprisonment fof debt is abolisht d
in England. The doors OF the debtors
prisons were opened in the early
morning of January lst, and the in
mates permitted to 90 free. One man
naneI "Barnacles," )" who had been in
carcerated twenty seven years, went out
completely dazed. One would suppose
81.
a citizen of Concord, n. H., surpris-
ed his wife and paramour few days
ago, and settled the little affair with
the latter by taking his notes on the
spnt fUF $3,0O0. Now the paramour
believes that he was sedueed by conv
spiFaGy, aud Is going TO sue both hus-
band and wife.
1t Is charged that dead emigrants at
the New York quarantine have been
buried without collins, the officials inn
plicated thereby saving the fee of five
dollars for each allowed by the State
for that purpose,
A pirate vessel was recently captur-
ed in the China seas by IA Chinese gum
beat, after bloody conflict, in which
twenty of the pirates were killed.
In New Orleans ehere is a man of
whom the papers say" lie commenc-
ed his career as a pirate 102 years ago
and now at the age of ll9, he is
dock rat and river thief"
"Bue-sky filled-with-music' is the
name of IA Seneca Indian girl near Buff
falo, who mas just married pale-face.
She must be one of those Eolian wind
instruments.
The earnings of the Union Pacific
Railroad for six months ending De-
cember last amounted to $4,6Il, ,I61 33.