Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-05-06
n EWs AND OTHER ITEMS.

70 yex one, andin prudently cultiYating under
growth of small pie asaras since velg few great ones
are let On long leases
PRlcE or BrTTsE.--The best butter is down TO 35
cents pound ia Providence r. l., where it has
been selling fer fifty cents. Butter sells atMontreal
at Is cents pound and lard at 8 and 9. At syria
cuse and 0swego, butter sells at 80 cents per pound
WESTERN WHrAT eRors The injury to the crops
'Sxinter lingering in the lap Of spring has moi
praved as serious as anticipated, and the Western
journals speak eaoouragingly Of a crop averaging
Com half to thresfourtlls the usual average.
One oftAe hardest sort of people was asked to
subscribe TO some worthy object. 81 can't, he re-
Piled q must be Just before am generous. -
'Well, said the one who made the request qet me
know just before you are generous. and I'll try you
again.a
WIsDoM.- Every other quality is subordinate
and iAferor to wisdom, the sarnesense as the ma
who lays the brick and stones in building is in
ferior to the architect who drew the plan and super
intends the work. The former executes only what
the latter cortrives and directs,
Bues.-As the season of bugs approaches, il will be
well 10 bear mind the advice Of the Country Gene
aslaan Hoasekeepersno not dasirous OF being carried.
out of the world by bugs, VIII be glad to learn that
they eaanot stand hot alum water. Take tw pounds
OF alum, sruise it, and reduce It to powder; dissoye
itinthree quarts ofwater; let it remain in q warm
place til the alum is dissolved The alum water is to
be applied hot, by of 8 brush, to every joint
and crevice. Brush the creviccs in the floor, white
wash the ceiling, putting in plenty of alum, and
there WILDE an end to their dropping thence,
PowER OF IHAGrxAT1oS.-A Vienna Jour nal rec
ords a new instance of the extraordinary power of
the imagination A medical man, with the perm is
sion of the authorities, proposed to notorious Grim
inal undergoing punishment in of the city gaols
that he should be pardoned, provided he consented
70 sleep in the bed of patient who had just died of
cholera The man, thinking cholera contagious
disease, hesitated tiae but at last consented
on the promise being made that if he were attacked
every possible means Of saving him should be en-
ployed In few hours after being placed in bed
the prisoner had a regular attack of cholera Tho
usual treatment was applied and he recovered, ow-
iag however, in no small degree, to the extraord-
nary strength of his constitution The man aston
ishment unbounded on being told that his attack
of cholera was entirely owing toimaginaton, the bed
in which he had been placed not having been occu-
pied by cholera patient.
GATHARIsE Ii. or RUssI4.-I was enthusiastically
fond of music but she was far from being so; and
Prince Dasohkaw, though witn some taste for it, was
little of performer as the Empress. She was
nevertheless fond Of hearing me sing; and sometimes,
when had done, secretly passing sign across to
Prince Dasehkaw, she would gravely propose du-
ct, weieh shewould cal the music Of the spheres,
and which fwithous either of them knowing how to
sing notel they both performed in concert. sud
den burst of she most exalted and rdiculonsy dis
eordant tones was the consequence and seconding
the other with scientific shrugs, and all the solemn,
sefcomplacent airs and grmaces of musicians
From this, perhaps, she passed TO the cat-concert,
and initiated the purrng of poor puss in thE most
droll and ludicroua mannqr-always taking care to
add appropriate halfcomic, half sentimental words,
which she invented for the occasion or eze splitting
Ike cat in passion, with her back up she sudden
ly boxed the first person in her way, making up her
hand into paw, aad mewing so outrageously, that
instead of the great Catharine, nothing but the
wrongs of grinalkin remained upon ones mind
Memories of tic Princess D0schka,c
EMPTY BorrLEs NAVIGATING The ocEAN.-Cap-
tain Beeeher editor of the English Nautical Maga-
zine, has complied within the Last ten years the fol-
lowing cRrious voyages of bottles thrown into the
sea by unfortunate navigators. a good many bot
ties thrown into the sea next to the African coast,
found their way to Europe. One bottle seems to
have anticipated the Panama route. having Travelled
from the Panama Isthmus- to the Irish coast. An
other crossed the Atlantic from the Csnaries to No
va Scotia Three or four bottles thrown into the sea
by Greenland mariners of Davis Straits, landed on
the northwest coast of ireland. Another one made
very curious trip, it swan from the South Atlantic
Ocean to the west coast Of Africa passed Giberalter
went along the Portuguese coast of France and was
finally picked up on Jersey Island One bottle was
found after sixteen years swimming one after four
teen, and two after ten, A few only Travelled more
than one year, and one only five days This was sent
off by the Captain ofthe Race Horse, the 18th Of
Aprilin the Caribbean Sea, and found on the 3D.
after having gone through three degrees longitude
(210 miles,, western direction. Captain Mcclure,
of the investigator, threw bottle into the sea in
1880 on his way to Behring'S Strait 1t SWAN $500
miles in two hundred days. and was picked up on the
Honduras coast
SEPARATION OR RSURNIssIos.-Gen SieAes made
alengthy and able speech at Chicago, while passing
through that city few days since, from which we
make the following eloquent and striking quotation
Separation my countryrnen, separation is war
endless war, and the decline and fall of the Republic
Peace nnion is peace union is the perpetuaton Of
ourfsee institutions union makes US one as Repub-
lie, one as Americans. THIS peace, this unon we all
hoped In the earlier daysofthe war would be possible
through the return of reason to the South through
apercepton of the imposbility and recklessness of
resisting the United States, that would compel sub
mission to the Lawful authority of the United States
Government.
These hopes, however, proved Elusive. This
peace. What is it? It is said e are exacting gnbnis
sion. Submission to what? To the Constitution Of
the United states-submssion to the constitutionay
expressed win ofthe majority Of the people of the