Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-04-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A WISCONSIN paper approvingly announces
the re appointment Of Mark Tapely as post
master of Racine.
RAREY, the horse-tamer, is now living on
his farm at Groveport near Columbus, Ohio.
He still keeps Cruiser.
In Biddeford Maine, the other day, the
new Mayor sent TO the Common Council an
inaugural message FIVE columns long.
GEv. Lane and Gen. Pomeroy have each
contributed one thousand dollars to the Lin
coin College fund Of Topeka, Kansas.
BosroS has subscribed $4,000 to the
Christian Commission, and the work is still
going on.
GEN. Ord telegrapbs that Gen. Russell of
the Twenty-ffh Corps, reported killed, is
safe.
GEN. Pope and staff returned to st. Louis
from Little Rock, Arkansas, on Wednesday
of last week.
MAJOR General Anderson of the rebel ser
vice is said to have been killed on Saturday,
in front of Petersburg,
HoN. L. W. Powell declines beiuga candi-
date for Congress in the second district of
Kentucky.
JUDGE Lewis is preparing circular respec-
ting the tax to be paid upon the tobacco
found in Richmond having Union claimants.
The lumber trade in Wisconsin is unusual
ly lively. It is estimated that at least TWEEN
ty million feet are now on the Neshoto
river.
A DIVORCE suit has just been decided in
Kansas. Mrs. Chloe Hallet got a judgment
against her husband, for alimony to the a.
mount of$1Ooooo.
GENERAL VIM. Fl. Adams, well-known
citizen of Western New York, died in Alba
ny on Friday. He was one OF the original
builders of the Erie Canal.
The pirate Mafit is said to be imprisoned
at Havanna, at the suit of G. E. Tyler, owner
of the Shooting Star, which vessel Mafit re-
Gently attempted to destroy
GEORGE H. Hoyt, the young lawyer of Bos.
ton who went to Virginia to defend John
Brown on his trial, is now Lieut., Col of the
Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry.
IT is found on examination that Secretary
Seward jaw is fractured, and apprehensions
are entertained of the possible consequences
of the accident.
The Post-Ofice Department has ordered
the Post Office at Hampton, Elizabeth eoun.
ty to be opened, and appointed Kennon Viii
ting, Postmaster.
ovE of the largest sized guns is to be sent
from ST. Louis to Galena, the home of Gen.
Grant, to be fred there in honor of the fall of
Richmond.
THE Richmond Post 0aice has been taken
possession of by the Government and % bags
of captured mails delivered to the War De-
partment.
PRoyosr Marshal General Fry has refused
a request to allow the drafted men belonging
to the New York State Militia thirty days to
rreou~a substituted
ACCORDING to a Russian custom, the wife
of the late Duke De Morny cut off her hair
and put it in his coffin as a pledge not to
marry again.
IT was anticipated that the Petersburg and
Richmond Railroad would be in running or.
der yesterday. The track was to be repaired
and widened.
The Louisville Journal says: "a Boston
physician has discovered that gold has medi-
cinal virtues. So the yellow metal, we sup
pose. is become drug.
Col. Duoll, formerly of the British army,
and who more recently served under Gems
Mcclellan, Burnside and Hooker, died sud-
denly at Meadville Pa, last Sunday.
The first weekly overland mail arrived at
Prescott the capital of Arizona, on the 18th
of March, in fifteen days from San Francis
co.
GEN. R. S. Ewell, of Virginia, captured by
Sheridan among the Rebel officers on the sth
inst, while escaping from Richmond, is ma
tive of the District of Columbia, born there
in 1920.
On Tuesday, Mr.. Lincoln gave a public re-
ception in the parlor of JEFF Davis's house in
Richmond. A number ofcitizens called upon
him, beside the officers of our army and
navy.
GREAT improvements have been made in
Laurel Hill Cemetry, Philadelphia. Fairy
Hill, the family seat of the late George S.
Pepper, has been added to the grounds, in
creasing the number of acres to nearly one
hundred, and admitting of a picturesque drive
miles in extent, without going off the proper
ty of the company.
GIRGRD College, in Philadelphia. has five
hundred and sixty-three pupils, each of whom
costs one hundred and eighty dollars year.
In 1857 there were only two hundred and
ninety-five pupils, and each then cost two
hundred and 6tty-two dollars. The number
of applications is increasing on account of or
phanage produced by the war.
ExSpeaker Colfax is in Chicago making
preparations to start on the first of May upon
an extended journey across the Western Plains
to the Pacific coast, intending to stop in Col
orado and Utah long enough to post himself
upon the resources and prospective develop
ment of those territories after which he |
will visit California, Oregon and Puget's
Sound.