The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1870-03-10
NEWS ITEMS.


NEWS ITEMS.
France has at last taken very deci~
ded stand upon the question of the Pa
pal infalIibility. The Minister of For
eign Affairs, Count Napoleon Daru,
has written an official note to the
French representatives at Rome, declar-
i-g that if the obnoxious dogma is pro-
claimed France will Withdraw her
troops from the Holy City. This is
emphatic. The Pope must now choose
between disappointment and revOlu-
ton. What he will do in this dilem-
ma is uncertain; but we learn, direct
from Rome, that he is still confident
of his AGILITY to carry the proposition
for infailibiiity. The London Tunes
says that Spain and other Catholic
powers have forwarded notes similar
To That of Count Daru. 1t is reported
in Brussels that so far the ultramOn-
tanes have been unable TO induce the
American bishops TO declare for the
dogma. The sessions of the Ecumeni-
cal Council will be resumed next week,
when this important question, which
seems TO thr> aten the peace of the
world as we'll as of the church, will
receive some solution.
From the daily Scranton Democrat
we learn of a terrible calamity caused
by the explosion of boiler in the
LackaWana Iron anu Coal Company's
blast furnace at that place, on Monday
evening, 18th ult., which carried death
and desolation 10 many hearth stone.
The Democrat describes the explosion
As being one of terrific force, and the
scene as being most heartrending and
appalling. Ten persons are reported
Killed, nineteen wounded, and many
of the wounded, dying. This seems to
be the fourth terrible disaster at the
saline furnaces, the previous ones being
even more terrible than the last. st
the first, one hundred and ten persons
were killed and wounded at the sec
Ohd, forty-four were killed and wound
ed at the third, thirty-three We're kill
cd and wounded, and now twenty-nine
have been killed and wounded.
More royal scandals. This time the
Spanish Bourbons are in the pillory.-
EX Queen Isabella has her family
troubles as wei! as her royal sister Vic.
toria. Prince Girgenli, Of Naples, who
married Isabella's eldest daughter
three years ago, is a worthless rOue
and spendthrift, and has already sqIan-
dered his wife's dowry. The telegraph
announces that the unfortunate young
woman has begun legal proceedings a.
gainst him. This is not the worst,
however. The Queens husband ha>
taken it upon himself to embargo all
her eX-Majesty's private property in
Spain TO prevent the waste of the chill
dren's inheritance. The Queen has
been living almost riosously since the
beginning of her exile, and this action
on the part of her despised lord was
probably necessary to save something
from the wreck for the future main
tenance of the family.
A party Of about twenty-five mas
ked men surrounded the Sheriffs
house at Harrisonbnrg, La, about
O'Clock Sunday night, 1St inst and caus-
ed the Sheriff and his family to retire,
when they entered the house and kill
Ell Colonel Charles Jones aud his ell
tlest son. His youngest son, who was |
in the house, is supposed TO have sa
we'd himsel by leaping into the Qua
chita River and swimming across.
They were in the custody Ofthe Sheriff, /
charged with numbering General Sid
dell a short time since on board the
steamer St. Mary's, at Jones' Landing, |
Ouachila River. The party of mask
ers are supposed to be friends of Sid
dell.
A disease as fatal as Asiatic cholera
broke out in Albion, Erie county. |
Pennsylvania, few days ago, and in
bCoS tiidl "CCh ANC XIV" HCOiiN
died, each of the victims dying in from
twelve to seventy hours after the first
II is called the spotted
fever" from the fact that the victims
are covered with crimson spots, The
first symptom Is violent chill, which
Ia accompanied with vomiting and
pains in the head, neck, and back
The persons who were arst attacked
all lieI, but the more recent GtseJ have
not proved fatal.
Two sisters in Missouri fought duel
with case knives about Il lover. One
of them received painfuI wound in
the waterfall, while the other got a
slash across the panier which will dis
able her until she gets new dress
made. The lover sat on fence and
laughed like villain.