The Bedford Independent
Wed., July 5, 1865

LOCAL FACTS AND FANCIES

NUMEROUS--Caterpillars and runners for wholesale house.

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MAST.--The prospect for an abundant mast crop, was never more cheering than at present. A fine thing for farmers and hunters.

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SOMETHING NEW.--Those screwtop fruit cans, sold by HOWELL & JOHNSON, are the best invention of the kind we have ever seen. Go and look at them before you can your berries.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.--We are under obligations to Wm. P. MALOTT (he's married now, poor fellow) for numerous newspaper favors, while on his tour through Wisconsin.

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SOMETHING NEAT.--The neatest little arrangement for gentlemen's necks (except a pair of pretty arms) is one of those elegant neckties just received by PALMER, DUNCAN, & Co.

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CITY IMPROVEMENT.--The improvement of streets around the square, is being agitated. Plow them up, dig pitfalls, sow them in salt or smart-weed--anything for a change.

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THE "VETS."--A number of men who have "fought for the flag," are at home. They are the lions at home that they were heroes in the army, and as popular among the gentler sex as they are young, beautiful and virtuoius.

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FAILED.--LAKE'S Show did not show in Bedford last Friday, as advertised, in consequence of sickness and death among members of the Company. The agent tells us they will visit Bedford on their return trip, the latter part of next month.

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ALMOST A FUNERAL.--Mr. James Van Antwerp PROUDFOOT, Esquire, whilhom(?) Deputy Postmaster, and late of New Albany, narrowly escaped drowning, yesterday afternoon, in White River, whither he had gone to bathe. Water seems antagonistic to the welfare of Mr. P., whether he drinks or bathes in it.

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"HOW HAPPY ARE THEY."--Fifty-one divorce cases are on the docket for trial at the present term of the Common Pleas Court of Marion county. The matrimonial relation in that metropolitan centre, does not seem to be sufficiently harmonious to make a heaven of wedded life.

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A FACT.--FRANCIS & MALOTT are still getting a big run of custom, and they deserve it--both are clever gentlemen, and their goods are fine and fresh. For coats, pants, vests, shirts, hats, socks, suspenders, neck-ties, gloves, collars, etc., go to Francis & Malott's store, south side of the square, J. Peter Francis' old stand.

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LIQUOR LICENSE.--A number of persons in the county, neglected to give notice of application for license in time for the last term of the Commissioners Court. To make sure of the matter, send us the number of lot, where located, with your name, and we will arrange it in legal form--delays are dangerous.

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A NUISANCE.--There is an observatory, built in the shape of an octagon, occupying a prominent position in the court-house yard, sadly needing the attention of some one or all of the county officials. Fifteen or twenty bushels of lime may prevent a pestilence. For the sake of common decency, let something be done to drown the intolerable stench emenating therefrom.

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RETURN ARMS.-- An order has been issued, requiring the return of all ordance stores in various portions of the State, to the Chief of Ordance at Indianapolis. There are a number of muskets and accouterments in Bedford, and in the hands of private parties, that had best be accounted for by those who are sureties on the ordance bond, if they want to save expense and trouble.

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INTER'D.--We learn a stock company was formed, Tuesday a week, on Upper High Street, in which some half dozen persons took shares. The indications are surprisingly fair--so say those who were on the ground--and the substance but a short distance from the surface. One indivdual prospected with such success, that he brought up a quantity of specimens, which, for the odor, was indisputabley the "clear truck." "Old and dry don't count," but this, being new and fresh, counted amazingly.

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NICE WOMAN.--Mrs. WILLARD, a lady who combines a fondness for whisky with a looseness of morals hardly commendable in the sex, gave one of her moral and instructive entertainments on Upper High St., last Friday, without procuring a license for the same. The Marshal picked her up gently, laid her down in a wagon-bed carefully, proceed to jail with her cautiously and CARSON treated her hospitably. It cost Madme de Willlard the sum of $9 10 to bask again in the sunshine of her happy home.

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GERMAN PICNIC.--Our German fellow-citizens celebrated the 4th of July by a picnic and dance, in the grove south-east of town, enjoying themselves with a fulness peculiar to the natives of Fatherland. No distrubance occurred, to mar the festivities of the occasion, which were participated in by a number of their American neighbors. The German element is the best that goes to make up our foreign population, and we derive satisfaction from their hearty enjoyment of our national holiday.

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BURGLARY.--The residence of Rev. R. M. PARKS, was entered by burglars, on Sunday night last, and $240 in money taken from the drawer of a bureau. Another package, containing $70, was secreted in the same drawer, but had been overlooked by the robbers. Their operations evidently were conducted with coolness and leisure, as the half of a loaf of bread had been eaten, together with a quantity or blackberries, and two whole loaves carried off. No clue has been obtained as to who the perpetrators were.

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THE FOURTH AT MITCHELL.--A basket dinner was had at Mitchell, on the Fourth, and quite a number of Bedford people were in attendance. Orations were delivered by Major FRY, and others, but we know nothing, except from hearsay, as to what was done, or the spirit manifested; yet, knowing as we do, that the citizens of Mitchell excel in all they undertake; we feel confident the celebration was what it was intended by its projectors--a success. We hear conflicting statements as to the number of persons present, from which we conclude it might be safe to place the figures at from six to eight hundred.

Typed and donated by Diana Flynn.