Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-07-22
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ABouT seventy thousand dollars in gold was re,
Gently found insan old cellar in New Hampshire.
The match between Joe Cosurn and Jem Mace
has been arranged to come of IN October next $500
q side.
5000, 900 cents and 5000 two cent pieces were
coined at the U. S. Mint during the month of May-
and yet they are scarce.
Tue Pacific railroad is in running order for thirty
one miles east Of Sacramento The next section Of
thiFty miles IS beng graded.
LARGE force Of naval aftlerists las been order
ed to Baltimore from the various navy yards of the
north Some have gone.
Nal GES. @. a. GILMoRE hiss been assigned TO
roe commend of the portion Of the Tenth Army
Corps now in Washington.
Ak Ohio paper states that there arc two thousand
farms, and two thousand seven hundred wheat fields
IN Ohio, left without to attend TO them.
Mn. L. E, GHl1TrxptS rendered his resignation as
Register OF the q. S. Treasury to take effect on or
before August lst. He goes back to his home in
Vermont.
a sTRAxGER at Niagara was swept into the torrent
while visiting the Cave of the Winds, on Monday
He was lost. Despite the gaiae 5 warning ne slept
upon slippery rock.
THREE brothers of Fitchburg-G Bowman Clark
and Aaron Simonds-have died in this war, and their.
widowed mother is now left childless. noble sac
Ti6ee for the country
TX consequence ofthe increase of guerrillas in Mis-
souri,, Gen. Rosecrans has ordered one or two
companies of enrolled militia to be raised for active
service IN each county of the State
GEs. HANcocK.-This able General and gentle
man has returned to his command, having again per-
feetly recovered from his severe wound. He says
ne feels better now than he has for year
The boat on which Mrs. De Bar, wife Of Ben De
Bar, the Western manager, was proceeding from N.
Orleans to ST. Lenis. recently fred into by guer
rillas, and shot went through that lady's bonnet
Tox HrrR well known in sporting circles for
many years past died suddenly in New York on Sun
day. He was forty-fve years old. The jury of in
guest returned verdict that tha deceased died Of
cardiac dropsy.'
JeES c. HEExAS was seriously injured by a rail
way accident in England recently. He Jumped from
the train at the moment of collision, fell heavily
injured his spine, and has since Suffered from sue
cession Of fits.
In was admitted, in a recent debate in the House
of Commons that during The last ten years Ireland
has lost two and a-haf millions of It's population,
and that the exodus IS still going at the rate of
hundred and twenty thousand per annum.
USTI further orders no steamboats, will be allow.
cd 10 ascend the Missouri river above Jefferson City
without sufficient arms, ammunition aud crews com
petent to defend them against the guerias who are
swarning the counties along that stream.
GES. LEES personal property. which has been
confscated by the United States District Court is to
be sold on the 10th of this month at Alexandria,
Many OF the household articles it IS said, are of e
treme richassssand value.
The completion of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad
IN Pennsylvania, completed on the I'd inst opens an
important fine connecting Philadelphia with Erie
distance OF 292 miles. The harbor at Erie is said
TO be the finest on the Lake.
ASUBsTAXTTAL REEARD.-Itis is stated that by naval
laws, when inferior vessel sinks superior one,
her entire value goes to the victors. The Alabama
being estimated to be worth S500,00O, Capt Winslow
viii be entitled to from $4,000 to 500, GOO while
the seamen viii get from 200 to 81, 800 each
A CoURT MARITAL, for conseripts, at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, has sentenced ono guilty of desertion, to
forfeit all pay and allowances due, and to become
due him, and be imprisoned at hard labor for ten
years with ball weighing twenty-four pounds attach
cd to has leg by Chain tour feet long.
FEELING against England, on the part of the
Germans IS showing isself in various forms One
OF these Is the recent action of several authorities in
matters of commerce and industry, renouncinp the
use OF English coal, and using that which comes
from the pits Of Westphalia.
PORTLAND merchant who has for some time past
missed money in bills out Of his drawers and having
watched his clerks in vain, called in the aid of de-
teetlYe this week, hy whose aid he not only discover
ed the thief but recovered some of his losses. Il
was nothing else than material mouse which had en-
tered the drawers, and carried of the scrip to make
nest for its young.
THE Government being in want of supply ofhor.
es to resist the RAID in Maryland has seized all the
horses belonging tothe Passenger Railway Compan
les OF Baltimore. The effect is temporary stoppage
OF all such railways in that city They are now de-
1beratlng whether or not they shall introduce the
dummy engine as substitute for horses.
"THE OLDEST INHAB1rANr The Gettysburg Star
says Mr.. Levi Osborne, of Straban township, has
brought to our Office a,terrapin, which has lived on
ms plantation tor period of one hundred and ffty-
four yearsaccoFding to the initials and date carved
on the shell. 1t bears the initials s.M T. I7IO -
AZ has been frequently picked up during the last
eighty years by Mr. Osborne and by his father be-
tore him, who first settled on the place. and it is
known to be the same identical teFrapn 1t has al
ways been found nearly on the same spot--neyer
wandering more than the distance of few acres from
the place.
On EXCITEMENT IA FAYErTE-The recent dfscov-
cry OF oil IN Greene county, and the great excitement
consequent have led to examination of oil indica
tons IN Fayette,county. The Unientown Standard
says quite number OF our citizens having visited
Dunkard creek and observed the indications. aside
from the actual possessions of the oil such as the
peculiar appearance of the surface soil the eroppipg
out Of rocks peculiar to low formations the relative
Posluons OF the coal veins to the surface, DC. 3d.
we're induced, from their similarity to several points
IN fayetIe, TO lease some of the most available terri
tory and commenced thorough investigation inme-
dlstey. Browns ran, q stream rGnning througb
tTern1an township, and emptying into the Mononga-
heaa above Davidson's ferry and the farm af Iobn
Pain, on Redstone creek, q few miles below IJnien
town. seem to be the particular points of attraction
Companies are formed-one Of them sinking well
and the other viii be ready to 60 into operation in a
few days Ihe indications at these points are such
as to almost insure success-oiI and gas annear;n
IN snch quantities as tojustfy the conclusion that ali
that Is needed TO put Fayette on par with her sis
ter county IN the oil trade is byt to sink the shaft