Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-07-08
Melps and Other altelus.

RAls is wanted in Nashville, Tenn. 1t is hot
there-97 degrees.
Bosros coAAos has been presented with q pair
Of swans.
THrheat in Hayana Is intense. Yellow fever has
appeared.
DuRfSG seventy-twe hours last week, 444l immi- |
grants arrived at New York from Europe.
FRASK BsT1ER, a recruit in NewY ork. was shot on
MONDAY evening, while trying to escape. Two 9th |
ers were wounded
FIyE thousand dollars has been appropriated to the
New London nayy-yard BY the Connecticut Legis-
lature.
The Pittsburg sanitary Fair, including contribu-
tons has realized for the Sanitary Commission
MAJoR RopNAN, commanding the Watertown ar
senal, has completed an iron gun carraige for his
twenty inch gun, which weighs 10000 pounds.
A BosToN company has purchased three thousand
acres Of Missouri pine lands for the manufacture of
turpentine,
The Washington monument has funds enough in
its treasury to justify the early resumption Of work.
The monument is now one hundred and eighty-five
feet high.
sUsAs ". SHEpHEap died in Troy, N. Y. last week,
from taking gelseminum instead Of geraniu through
the mistake Of the prescribing physician
The Pennsylvania State Teachers Convention
meets in Altoona on Tuesday, August 9, and viii
continue its sessions until the next Thursday even
ing.
], Fl. MCINTYRE was captured and hung at King
ston by the rebels, few days since, as a Federal
spy. He was one of the principal scouts Of the ar
my OF the Cumberland, and native of Inidana
THE Patterson IN. J.) works win have contribu
ted nifty locomotives to the government by the first
of July. They are for Tennessee and Georgia
railroads.
The great government sale of condemnedord
and ordnance stores by pablic auction, at Spring
field, Mass, the armory grounds, last Wednes
Gay was well attended The aggregate sale amount
to S120,000.
best tighter and general the Army of the Potomac
ever seen. He will fight the rebels until ne hasn't
man left, Unnecessary, and then take off his coat
and whip them all himself"
EIaHT gentlemen captured ten thousand trout. IN
one week fishing at Kettle creek, PennsylTania-
They rejected all under six inches in length and re-
tanned thirty-one hundred and fortv-two They
caught one hundred and 6fty-ive in one spot
SEVERAL grey-headed old men above sixty and
lads from fourteeen to sixteen years of age have
been captured carrying muskets in front of Peters
burg within a few days. They all witness that they
were impressed into the service.
CoLD WATER is determined foe to fevers agues
and consumption. Bathing in it is, therefore, high.
ly recommended. In London portion of the Ser
pentine is set apart for the use of the public where
IN single evening, seven thousand persons take ad-
vantage OF the privilege.
TRE family of Martin Pix was poisoned on SUNDAY.
at Ireland Station. on the Allegheny Valley Rail
road by drinking coffee made of water which had
been standing in the house. 1t is supposed that ar
senic was dropped in the water from the outside,
through broken window pane.
THOSE aliens who win not become citizen are
losing the rights of citizenship. Within a few days
Two workmen IN the sallmakers department of the
Washington nayy-yard, five in the masons' one In
the ship carpenters s. in the constructing engin-
GERS three In the blacksmths and seven in the la
borefs department, have been discharged for being
ahens and not willing to become citizens
BRIGADIER GENERAL PAYNE last week killed TWEEN
y-hve bushwhaekers and murderers In middle Ten
nessee: Nine were shot IN the public square Of
Lynchburg, and several at Fayettsville Massey,
brgadier general of the rebels, and commander Of all
guerrilla forays in middle Tennessee, was included
N the number. This treatment will lessen the rob-
berries AID assassinations there and elsewere.
The Berks and Chester Railroad between Birds
boro' and DoBnington, is now commenced. a corps
OF engineers are running the line, and laborers will
follow them lmmediatly. The road will connect
with the Reading by bridge over the Schuylkil
nifty yards above the present bridge. The line will
pass up Hay Creek Valley, and at Downingtown
Delaware.
A CARGO OF PETROLEUM BuRSEp.-A Baltimore
correspondent writes: 0ur harbor has been on fire
for the last twentyfour hours-literay on fire. The
surface OF the water for thousands of square yards
has been perfect fame, caused by the destruction
OF the Italian ship Juiana, which took Gre while ly
ing at the wharf and loading with petroleum. She
had ON board one thousand eight hundred barrels,
ana mad to be towed over to the opposite side of the
oasn to save the surrounding property As the bar
res would burst, the oil spread over the water in
flame. Thousands assembled TO witness the beauti-
full sight"
ABoUT MoTHs.-Many lady, on taking out her
fars the past winter, noticed the hairs falling out,
and, on examining the skins themselves, found them
perforated with small holes. These holes are cut
by the moth; an insect whose habits every lady
should know all about Naturalists tell Us that the
moth Is the larva of family ofinsees called Tied.
It's winged life begins in the spring and lasts only
few months is small, and of a light brown color.
After huttering around a short time, it finds mate,
when the happy pair 90 TO housekeeping and to
rearing up family. The female creeps into crack
and creyees, into closets and clothes presses under
the edges of carpets wherever wooden or furs are
stored away, and there she lays her eggs. The par
ents soon die. In asortnight the eggs hatch out in
TO llghtcoiored caterpllars, about quarter hall
an inch long. They begin to gnaw upon whatever
they can find to make nests of It is in doing this
that SO many carpets, so much upholstering, and
so many furs punctured.
In winter they lie torpid In spring the chrysa-
iis gives birth TO the winged insect which again be-
gins the circle of pairing and egglaying as its par
ents had done before. Now as moths lay their eggs
mostly in June, that evidently is the best time for
making an onslaught among them. Take out every
article OF fur or woolen, give thorough shaking anc
whipping, long exposure to hot sum- ifpracticable
and another dressing with the switch before storing
them. Put salt and Scotch snuff under the edges o.
the carpets. Fumigate the closets and drawer:
with tobacco. On returning the articles to then
places put small branches OF cedar or distribute little
packages Of camphor gum among them.-Anlericao
AgricltltR ralist
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