Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-10-19
DOMESTIC NEWS.

A movement is on foot to establish a
public library in Calais, Maine.
THE cranberry crop at Harwich will only
be an average one, but it will take thou
sand people to gather it.
GEORGE Francis Train is announced as
the independent Fenian candidate for Con
gress, in Nebraska. Paddock is the demo-
cratic nominee, and Tafe the republican.
THE managers of Philadelphia theatre
have sued the editor Of a Sunday paper in
that city for libel
The Ohio floods enabled gentleman of a
quiet turn of mind, in Columbus, to fish out
Of their upper story windows.
A race horse having been recently killed
in South Carolina by lightning, the owner
said there was some consolation in knowing
that nothing but streak Of lightning ever
caught him.
A fragment, eight feet long and eleven
inches in It's largest diameter, of an ivory
tusk originally about eleven feet long, be-
longing to an animal of some extinct race,
was dug up in Milford, Clermont County,
Ohio, one day last week.
On the upper Sacramento river in Cali
fornia, a little steamer, with its cabin fitted
up as a store, sails up and down, stopping
at all the farms, selling merchandise, and
taking chickens, eggs, etc, in exchange for
her coffee, sugar and calico.
LIEUTENANT Isaac H. Folger has been
appointed Collector of Customs at Nan
! tucket, in place of Hon. Alfred Macy, re-
moved Lieutenant Folger belonged to the
58th Mass regiment, and lost leg at the
battle of Coal Harbor, June Sd. 1864. He
represented Nantucket in the legislature
last winter.
THE Chicago papers announce that the
| halfinterest of Trussen, the gambler, re-
| Gently killed by his mistress in that city, in
the fast trotting horse Dexter, has been
! sold by the administrator of the estate to
Trussells partner for $4,000 cash. Dexter
was purchased by them only few mouths
ago for $4,000.
THE rebel admiral Raphael Semmes,
has become the editor of the Mobile Gazette
His assistant is Pcndleton Colston, Judge
advocate of the rebel navy during the war.
The paper viii of course support President
Johnsonss s policy.
! ASTRONOMERS predict partial eclipse ol
the sun on Monday, Oct. g. Only one
eighteenth of the solar disc viii appear OBJ
scured in Boston, and the eclipse will begin
at IL O'Clock and last about one hour Al
| st. Johns, N. F., about three tenths will be
obscured and to the southwest of New
England the eclipse will not be visible,
AT Pittsburg the President received q
small box, addressed to ''His Excellency
| Andrew johnson, and brought by some
mysterious channel. 1t was at once surmis
ed that the box contained a torpedo or in
fernal machine of some kind, and the great
est care was taken in opening it, but nothing
was found but the body o2a dead duck. 1t
is easy to see the meaning of the joker
who sent it.
A WRITER in the Atlantic Monthly proves
by statistics that man longevity is in ex
act proportion to his educational attain
ments, provided his health has not been in
iured by overmental exertion. 1t seems
that increasing intelligence and decreasing
war have prolonged the average length o
life in Europe from twenty five years in tn
seventeenth century to thirty-fve in tn
eighteenth, and to forty-fve in the nine
teenth. The best educated communities ar
the longest lived.