Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-02-10
NeWs and 0tllrr altenrs

geo 900.
The snow is deeper in northern New York than t
has been fer several years.
Petrihed honey has been found in Nevada, six
teen feet below the surface of the soil.
The Province Of New Brunswick has issued a
greenbaek in the shape Of three,dollar note
tits proposed to start daily paper in Chicago
with capital Of $500, 900, Of which sum $3.50 600
has teen subscribed. It's to be conducted by an
incorporated company.
Russia how has direct telegraphic communication
with India. A line passes direct to Teheren and
thence to the Persian Gulf submarine cable. Rus
81 hes also reached the frontier China with her cas-
tern line.
A young lady of Greenwood Me-, died short
time since on the day she was to be married. and
IN ten days afterward her intended husband died
with the same disease -dptheria.
Holland papers, 50 the London journals say, claim
General Sherman as native Of that country, who
emigrated to America after commercial failure in
Amsterdam. 1t is sufficient to dispose of that claim
TO say that General Sherman is a lneal descendant
of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Dee
laration Of Independence
A correspondent Of the Montreal Gazette says
that the ports of Canada are in state of blockade
Windsor Toronto, Hamilton, Kingston and Mon
treal are as eHectually blockaded by the passport
system of President Lincoln as they possibly could
be by his gunboat system, should those gunboats
ever be built
Advices from the tobacco growing districts Of
Missouri state that the crop of that article raised
this year viii be small-smaIler, perhaps than any
yielded for twenty years. The apprehension of a
tax the leaf and feeling of uncertainty caused
by the predictions of another season of guerilla op
erations the coming summer are said to be the
cause that win ourtail the crop.
SPRUCE UP.-Ifyou get a moment to spare, spruce
up-put the gate on its hinges, put little paint on
the picket fence you built last year, make it cosy
and inviting don'tsay you can't find time for these
things. The fact is you have no time to grow slo
venly Your wife an6 children will be happier, youi
farm will sell for money in the market, and bt
worth more to you at home, if you devote an odd
hour now and then in sprueing up.
Aman came to the Duke of Wellington with :
patented article. "What have you to offer?'' "a
bullet-proof jacket, your grace. 'Put it on The
inventor obeyed The duke rang bell An aid
de-camp presented himself ''Ten the captain o.
the guard to order one of his men to load with bal
cartridge" The inventor disappeared, and was new
er seen near the Horse Guards No money wasted
in trying that invention.
Vienna Journal relates droll story. young
man, who was paying assduous court to the wife Of
dyer, had the misfortune to be caught by the en-.
ragged husband, who called his workmen about him
and without any ceremony, the gallant was plunged
into eauldron prepared for imparting true blue
color to various fabrics. In second the unfortu-
nate youth had acquired such tint that he dared
not appear in public His friends implored the dy.
to restore the poor fellow to his natural hue but
the ptiless answer was ''It is impossible He is a
beautiful color, and all can do for him is to change
him to a green or violet
New WAR IN INDIA.-The English have apoth-
er Indian war on their hands. 1t is net mutiny
that is to be suppressed this time but an ndepend
ent State, never under British rule, that is to be
conquered and annexed" Bhootan, a poor and
isolated State, hitherto exempt from the ravages Of
foreign wars, has not only turned the cold shoulder
to envoy from England, who penetrated its drea-
ry wastes, but actually threatened him. so that he
conceived that his life il DANCE and hastily re-
tired For this and other offenses England declares
war against Bhootan and the Bhootans are to be
footed down the hill of adversely.
A Car DEyTIsT.-A true tale is told of Mr.. Slip
heimer, the famous Saxon dentist. He had yaua-
BILE tortoiseshell cat that for days did nothing but
Guessing the cause, he looked into his
mouth, and seeing decayed tooth, he soon relieved
of its pain The following day there were at least
ten cats at his door the day after, twenty; and
they went on increasing at such rate that he was
obliged to keep bull dog to drive them away. but
nothing would help him. A cat that had the tooth.
ache would come any number of miles to see him.
1t would come down the chimney even, and not leave
the room till he had taken its tooth out 1t grew to
be such nuisance at last that he was never free from
one of those feline patients However being one
morning very nervous, he accidently broke the jaw
Of an old tabby The news of this spread like Wild
FIRE. Not single cat ever came to him afterward.
This isrelated as true.
DoN'T FORGET YoUR GIRLs.-When liyeda among
the Chocktaw Indians, (says atraveler, held con
sultaton with of their chiefs respecting the sta
ges of their progress in the arts of civilized life,
and among other things he informed me that at their
start they made great mistake-they only sent
their boys to school These boys came home intel.
hgent men, but they married uneducated and unciv-
iized wives and the uniform result was the chill.
dren were all like their mothers. The father soon
lost all his interest both in wife and children And
now, said he, if we would educate but one class of
our childrenwe should choose the girls for, when
theybeeome mothers, they educate their sons. This
Is the point, and it is true. No nation can become
fully enlightened when mothers not qualified to
discharge the duties Of home work of education
Parents, give your daughters, well as your sons.
the best education in your power.
TRuTH STRANGER THAN FIcrIoN.-The Doylestown
Pa Democrat prints the annexed historic strange,
and vouehes for its truth.
A few years ago there was living in northern
county in Pennsylvania poor family. The mother
was fond of reading. One day pedlar came along