Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-09-15
DOMESTIC NEWS.

Thousand laDorers are employed, and che num-
ber is being constantly increased.
An immense coal field has been discovered
at Redwood Falls, 20 miles from Fort Ridley
MINI.
6en. Grant has written letter to Assistant
Secretary Dana, deprecating the assaults be.
Ing made on Gen. Hunter, and indorsinp his
West Virginia Campaign.
a lady in Philadelphia was thrown violent.
y backward ont Of buggy, and woald doubt.
less have been killed, had not her watorfar
protected her head from the concuss;op with
the pavement
A beautiful and accomplished young lady,
daughter of James McGregor, Esq, Presi.
dent of the State Bank in Boston, was pistol
firing at target in New Hampton, when a
pistol in the hands of companion was acci.
dentaly discharged, the bullet entering her
brain. She exclaimed, ''0h, Godl'' ana fell
a corpse.
A lady in Malta, Ill, while npon load Of
hay with pitchfork in her hands, was
thrown off, striking upon the tines of the
fork in such way that one of them passed
through her body, the end coming out at
her back. She was alive week after the ac.
cident.
A box was shipped from Fortress Monroe,
August 25, to New-York. Itwas said to con-
tain tools, but was found, upon reaching New
York, to contain corpse.
Large fields of cotton are growing in Cali
fornia. The State offers bounty of $4,000
for the first 100 acres of cotton-also $4,000
for the first 100 bales of 800 pounds each.
Over 100000 is donated by the State for the
encouragement of agriculture, in the raising
of various products.
The Illinois State Agricultural Fair com.
menced at Chicago on the 4th inst The
New England Agricultural Fair opened at
Concord, New Hampshire, on the 5th.
Wirz has furnished his counsel with doeu-
mentary evidence to prove that in establish.
ing the dead line in the prison pen he acted in
accordance with orders.
At Winona, Wisconsin, Gen. Grant deliv.
cred what is supposed to be his longest speech
on record, containing So words
Horace Greeley is to deliver the annual ad-
dress at the Minnesota State Fair, at Mime
apolis, the last week in September. His sub
ject viii probably be "The Eradication of
Weeds
The evidence against Wirz of Sergeant Bos-
ton Corbett, who shot Booth, viii be rejected
by the Court, on the ground that Corbett is a
monomaniac on the subject of Rebel cruel.
ties.
In Idaho Territory greenbacks are taken
for gold dust at par.
The records of the Andersonville prison,
which were secured, have recently mysteri-
ously disappeared, and a quartermaster's
Clerk is now under arrest on suspicion of
knowing what has become of them.
AT Wilson's Gulch, idaho Territory, mug
get of gold was found which is valued at more
than s., 900.
Snow fell at the White Mountains last
week.
In Idaho Territory, near Prickly Pear City,
more or less gold is found in every stream,
dry gulch and bar throughout the country.
There are now in existence /, ,457 oil com
panies, with total capital of 1863, 5s4, 900.
In 1860 the amount of beer sold in the Uni
ted States was 5000, 900 barrels. In 1864
the quantity used had increased to q, ,0O0, 900
barrels, or nearly barrels apiece for every.
body.
In Chicago Street car, pale but pretty
young woman gave up her seat to one-legged
soldier, who proved to be her husband, long
mourned as dead.
A young lady recently died in few hours
after witnessing butcher killing a lamb.
Gov. Henry, of Washington Territory, who
was lost on the Brother Jonathan, was an in
innate friend of President Lincoln and Mrs.
Lincoln, who were married at his house.
A California Sculptor has nearly completed
a colossal statue of President Lincoln. 1t is
nine feet in height, and stands on a pedestal
ten feet in height.
A. lady and daughter, while driving in Mich
igan, recently, were attacked by bees, and
stung so severely that the daughter died. The
horse also died in three or four hours.
There are in the oil regions class of men
called oil smellers, who for SO indicate the
place for boring.
Gen. Swift, who died recently, was the first
cadet ever appointed to West Point. He en-
tered the Academy it 1902.
Col. Parker, Gen. Grants Chief of staff, is
pure Seneca Indian, and grandson of the
celebrated chief Red Jacket.
In Connecticut, under the existing laws,
no dog can have an existence, legally, unless
he is regularly registered; and wears collar
with his proper number marked upon it.
A lady in Massachusetts, while in fit of
mental arrangement, shot dead her husband,
daughter and herself.
They have had slight frost in some por-
tons of Michigan.
The receipts of internal revenue by the
Treasury Department for August we're $S4-
600, 900.
The receipts of the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad viii this year foot up to about SI5,.
600, 900, between $5,Oo0,OO and $4,000 600
of which is clear profit.
1t is said that Gen. Butler is to be associa-
ted with the Attorney General as public
of jeff Davis.
The vicinity of Lewiston, Maine, is infest-
ed with gipsies.
The regular army is rapidly filling up with
men who have already served as volunteers.
The National debt is 81, ,757 ,6S9, ,571, on
$40 elA