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

A wealthy and respected lady IN Canada, on
her DEATH bed, confessed to clergyman that
she had, at various times, committed six MUIR
ders by poisoning. She said she was posses
sed of a mania for destroying human life, and
that her inclination led her chiefly to the de-
struction of those closely allied to her by
blood. -Four of the six victims had been her
own children, and one her first husband.
The French Universal Exhibition for 1867
IS regarded with much interest. 1t viii sur.
pass any exhibition of the kind the world has
yet seen.
The New-York correspondent of the Lon
don Times writes upon the depth and earnest
- - - -A'r-s,s1- "alIvn prevails aua;nst
England in all classes of American soc;etv ,'''s
The Fenians are active $50 1.~I--a- Large
crowds regularly assemble for drill Gather
ings are held in open day, and the members
ayow their intention almost without reserve.
The cholera is rapidly decreasing in Eu-
rope and Asia.
Mason, the Rebel agent in England, says
that as soon as he heard of the downfall of
the Southern Confederacy he ordered the pi-
rate Shenandoah to disarm. She is therefore
now operating without authority.
Holders of the Rebel bonds in London talk
of holding the United States responsible for
the Rebel cotton loan.
Austria and Prussia have settled their diff.
ferences for the time being, and divided the
plunder acquired in the Danish war. Prussia
is made ruler of Schleswig, while to Austria
the protectorate of Holstein is awarded.
At the gold mines near Halifax, N. s.,
1900 ounces of gold per month are taken
out
The Great Eastern win be Immediately dis
patched from Sheerness to Newfoundland,
and on the way will endeavor to grapple and
buoy the broken ocean cable, in the success
of which enterprise strong hopes are INDUCED.
1t has been determined in England to attempt
the laying Of another Atlantic telegraph next
year, making use in the work of the recovered
portions of this Summers cable.
In England, the catacomb vaults on the
west side of Kensul Green Cemetery were re-
Gently found on fire. Five coffins were de-
stroyed and great many seriously burnt.
The origin of the FIRE is unknown. 1t is here
that Hood, Leech, Thackeray and other emf
nent men are inferred.
The emigration from the port of Cork alone
ofpersous whose destination is the United
States, is 1000 per week.
The Emperor of the French win not allow
the Prince Imperial to confess in the ordina-
ry way, but number Of questions, drawn up
by himself, are put by the father confessor to
the Prince in the presence and hearing Of a
third person, and no other - -
loMed
their evacuation of San Domingo, and the
Dominicans are now in inundisputed possession
of all their territory. A permanent govern
ment viii be formed.
The cattle distemper, at present prevailing
in various quarters of England and France, is
a twin scourge with the cholera. Wherever
this disease has appeared, the cholera has
quickly followed.
From Mexico it is rumered that the Impe-
rialists have forced the army of the Republi-
cans from the Rio Grande, and are now oc-
cupying the whole country, with the excep-
ton of small portion of chihuahua, in which
Juarez and his government were at last ac-
counts, attempting to make last stand.
The headway which the revolutioaists are
making in Haytihas forced President Gefrarc
to fee to place of safety.
The English think they have found beneath
the church of Bosham the body of the youth
ful daughter of the Danish King Canute.
The hardly -distinguishable ruins Of an an
cient city have been discovered in forest il
Mexico.
In Delhi, India, the heat ranged from 10
to 100 degrees for two weeks. At Umballa
reached 100 degrees in the shade.
About 20 agents of various Southern State
have gone to Brazil, to report as to its advar
tages for the settlement Of Southerners, UP
ward of So 900 of whom are now ready to EN-
igrate thither.
A submarine diver at Havre de Grace, Nc
WAS smothered to death in his diving dress 0
| the lst, owing to defect in the air pumps.