Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-03-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


last week, for S84o
CHARLES f. BROWNE, better known as Ar.
temus Ward, died at Southampton, England,
on the 9TH of March, inst
The Republican Convention Of Michigan
on the 9th inst, nominated Benjamin Graves
for Justice of the Supreme Court.
OWING to the stormy opposition, Disraeh
has withdrawn his reform resolutions, prom
ising to lay before Parliament a regular Re
form bill.
Ir is said that Thad. Stevens has prepared
and will repor5 in day or two an elaborate
conGscation scheme for the south.
THAT portion Of table rock of Niagara Falls,
which remained after the fall of ten years
ago, fell into the river with great crash a
few days ago.
A MAN in Jackson, Miss, gave hisintendsd
money to buy her bridal outfit, and the fol-
lowing morning she married his brother.
The patentees Of the punched gun manu-
facture have punched l04 inch hole down
through steel iugot four feet high and
weighing three tons.
THE lower House of the Legislature Of Mis-
souri,, on the night of the 7th inst, passed a
bill to amend the Constitution so as to allow
negroes to vote. The vote stood yeas, 16 (;
nays, 46.
JEREMIAH BLACK, Ruchanan's Attorney
General, and the author of a doctrine that
State cannot be coerced, wrote the veto OF
the Reconstruction bill
SUBRArr's trial is to come off sometime
during the present month in the criminal court
Of Washington Judge Fisher presides dn-
ring the present term.
/ THE Chicago lake tunnel was opened on
Saturday, at the lake end, for the admission
| of the water required to clean it out. That
process viii be finished in day or two, and
then the full stream win be turned on.
BARCLAY HAyEs, a wealthy citizen Of Bur
Hngton, n. j., has been fined $1,000 for at
tempting to bribe a Senator in that State with
S.. No wonder the virtuous Senator peach
ed on a man who offered him so small a
sum as that.
Gov. BRowyLow has been rc.nominated for
Governor of Tennessee by the Republican
88f G2faT8t4g 8t aaa Of s B By 'ihSP 'hdP
| Democratic Convention OF that State.
DURING the existence Of the Thirty Ninth
/ Congress, the President vetoed ten bills aud
pocketed one. Sixwere passed over the retoi
four yetoes we're sustained, aud four bills be-
came laws without the Presidents signature.
THERE viii be accommodations on the
( Great Eastern fo1 $500 passengers, when
running between New York and Havre, in
connection with the Exhibition next summer.
THERE is to be meeting in New York
shortly to protest against the Kingdom Of
Canada The establishing of a monarchy on
our immediate border, has not much to com
mend it to citizens of the United States.
GEN. GRANT has just issued circular to the
effect that none but unmarried men, who are
not less than FIVE feet and FIVE inches in
height, viii be enlisted into any arm Of the
United States land service, with the exception
that the regulation does not apply to men en-
listing in any regiments of the Veteran Re
serve Corps or musicians.
THE Savannah Herald says, that this time
last year hundreds of freedmen we're lettering
around that city, but there is now scarcely
one idle one to be found-the agents from
SFlorida who have been going down through
Georgia for some time having cleared them
all away.
We were shocked by a cable telegram, pub
lished in the morning papers, announcing she
murder of DR.. David Livingstone by the CAT
fres The fate of the intrepid sportsman,
J ules Gerard, is hardly ascertained, when the
world is again saddened by the intelligence
that another and greater explorer of African
wilds has met cruel death in those unhos-
pitable regions.
GEy. GRANT sent to the President on
Thursday, so says dispatch from Washing
ton, the names ofGenerals Schofeld, Sickels,
Sheridan, Thomas and M'Dowell, as com
manders of the FIVE Military districts in which
the Rebel States are divided under the Mill
tary reconstruction act.
The Cities Of Portland, Gardener and Lew
istown, in the State Of Maine, have just clcc
ted Republican Mayors and City officers by
increased maiorities. The reaction so long
hoped for by the Copperheads is still far off.
Gov. BRowNLow has issued general order
organizing volunteer force to serve three
years, subject to his order as commauder-in
chief, to act as a military police to preserve
neace and nrotect the neople
ASoTHER pillar erected for the upholding
of the Republic A bill to establish depart
ment Of Education at Washington has been
passed by Congress- Its object-the promo
ton of education throughout the country.
The President has sign ed the bill appro-
priating $4,000. 900 for the payment of in
valid pensions S23, 600 900 for pensions to
widows, children, mothers, fathers, brothers
and sisters, of soldiers, and $3.50, 900 for ma
Wy pensions to the same class of persons just
mentioned.
The wheat crop in Illinois seems to be in
fine condition. The late heavy fall of snow
has left it looking better than it has been
known at this time in the winter for several
years past. Present indications seem to
point to an abundant harvest.
ACCORDING to Greek accounts, the Can.
dians were brayely holding out at the end of
January, and had gained several victories
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