Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-01-13
GENERAL NEWS.

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Heavy RoRnERy ar THr Cusroa HOrsE.--Cn
Friday night the S0th ult, the fire proof or money
vault in the Philadelphia Custom House robbed
of a quantity of gold, bank notes, &C., amounting
to about $4,000 in currency AZ seems that the
keys of the hre-proof kept by the Cashier, Mr..
J. NJ Allen who says that on Friday afternoon he
took them to his home as usual. On Saturday NOR.
ming. on getting up, he found that his pantaloons
had been removed from the room, the door Of which
had been locked on the inside The key of the safe
was missing. Attempts made on Saturday to
get the safe open, but without avail though lock-
smith was employed for the purpose. At last an en-
trance was effected BY breaking through the wal in
the rear On entering the hreproof, II was dlscoy-
cred that the money had been taken. Three or four
bags Of gold we're lett behind bottle Of chloro
| form a Colts pistol, and some gunpowder were
| found inside of the FIRE proof Allen, the eashier,
was arrested in the orepart OF the week on Suspicion
of having himself committed the robbery, and upon
an examination Jan. Wednesday, the affair looked
suspicious so far as he was concerned.
MORE THAN THAT.-fhe Harrisburg Telegraph
announces, las creditahe TO patriotism, we sup
pose, that Zone firm in Westmoreland county pays
| $4,000 as an annual tax on their production OF
whiskey We don't know where the Telegraph got
its information but can say to it, that il did not
/ get it correctly. We have one establishment in
| Westmoreand whose tax on the product of whiskey
| in july August and September--just three months
Amounted to 500, ISL, ,00l Put that in your pipe
and give us another puff for patriotism l-Gresns
burg Herald.
There is a rumor current in London that the Prin-
cess Mary of Cambridge has married Viscount Hood.
According to the royal marriage act member OF
the royal family cannot marry without the consent OF
the Sovereign or without giving notce to the Pryy
Council The giving notice to the Priyy Council
does not make the marriage absolutely valid, for 1t
NAV be decided illegal by act of Parliament. 1t is
known that the Princess applied for permission TO
the Queen, and the Queen refused her sanction. =
However there is no fear if the marriage has been
contracted that it VIII be dissolved by Parliament,
for the Princess is very popular and the English
people are very sick of German alliances. The
Princess Mary is thirty-one years old. Viseount
Hood is rich, handsome, and enjoys very high
reputation.
SHOCKING CAsUATY.A sad calamity occurred
in West Buffalo township, Union county, Pa, on
Friday evening Dec. 80. Three little children were
burned to DEATH the precise origin of the fire being
wholly matter of conjecture. The parents were
both absent-Mr. Stricker was numbering in the
mountains, and Mrs. 5, was out OF the house few
moments, attending to domestic duties. Returning,
she found the inside of the dwelling IN hames but
was unable to rescue one of all her children. The
oldest child was three and half years and the
youngest but few months old.
| DEsEETEEs REscUED.-Some days since two Dep
uty Marshals arrested two deserors near Troutvle,
Clear6eld county, aud started in the direction OF
| BROOKLYN with them. The news of the arrest com
ing Immediately to the ears of ''Cop," he at once
started to inform the faithful of the mishap to
their two brothers. and about twenty of the
''gang" were ready, with rifles their shoulders,
and started in pursuit OF the Marshas, oyertaklng
them where the Punxsutawney and BrookyIlle roads
diverge The Marshals being outnumbered ten to
one, were compelled TO relinquish their prisoners
which they did without much hesitancy. The res
cuers and rescued then returned toward Irouty1lie
yelling and hurrahing and laughing over their sue
cess in driving off the officers of the law without
| their prisouers
NATURAL AsroxoMER. It's perhaps not general,
known that there lives at South Adams Mass,
natural Astronmer in the person of Fisher Jennings
ESQ. He claims that he without the aid of al
manacs other books, calculate the changes OF tht
moon, rising and setting of the planets eclpses o
both sun and moon for any number of years ahead
the appearance of all the comets, &c. be knows
all the planets, not however by the name given IN tht
books but by names of his All this knowl
edge he claims was not obtained from books, o.
teachers, but by laying forty days and forty nights
, in hog trough watching The stars !''--NOrth I'D
: nRs Transcript.
An Anti-Slavery Convention was heldin Frankfort
Ky. on Wednesday lam 4. Resolutions were adopted
adherng to the Baltimore platform, requesting the
representatives in Congress to vote for constitu
tional amendment abolshing slavery, endorsing Co
lionel Burbridge, and approving of vigorous realia
tory warfare against guerillas. Great harmony pre-
vailed in the convention.
| Oil has been found in Fayette county, and we'll
sunk to depth of eighty feet, are now flowing
splendid quality of the greasy fluid. The oil feve
is raging in Cambria county, where several compa
nes have been organized to bore for oil.
The Sultana Djemila, one of the daughters Of tn,
late Sultan of Turkey, becoming jealous of one O.
her slaves who she imagined was regarded with fa
vor by her husband, had the girls head cut off and
placed under cover on the PaSha's dinner table
On removing the cover the Pasha was so affected
that he fell back corpse.