Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-08-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

the franchise law in Tennessee better than
ever, and will not favor It's repeal.
JuDGE Hour, Mr.. Riddle, Judge Pet and
| Mr.. Pryor all deny the existence Of the aiiida-
Wits Of Mr.. Patterson, Anser and others, re-
Gently published relative 10 the Conover par
| don case.
4 Fenian scare is becoming prevalent again
| in Montreal The Brotherhood Il is appre-
hended, propose a raid during the coming
elections diversion in favor OF the Dcylin
party
! The Quaker City with the American excur-
| siouisis, has just arrived at Naples, where il
| was learned, with great dissatisfaction, that
| the vessel had to be placed under quarantine.
a Galveston dispatch reports yellow fever
raging terribly in that place. Twenty deaths
occurred on the l2th; thirty one on the 18th;
twenty nine on the 18th, aud over one thou
sand cases are reported in town on the 18th.
ISa Cabiue. session It was decided to re
| Ieiye Judge Holt and transfer him. The
pressure for the removal Of Secretaries Seward
| and McCalioch IS increasing. The case Of
| Gen Sheridan was not alluded 10 in the CabI-
net.
| The Office Of the Treasurer of Hamilton
| county, Ohio is computed by the CINCINNATI
| Commercial, to be worth for the term Of two
years the snug sum of seventy thousand dol
lars. 1t is worth running for.
ADvICEs from Vera cruz announce the ar
| rival Of Santa Anna at that port, on board Of
| the Mexican brig Juarez. lie was TO remain
| on board of The vessel, subject to further or
| ders from the supreme government. An or
der for his trial has been issued.
The last phase of the base ball mania has
occurred at Utica, where the Board Of Edu-
| cation have challenged the Common Council
| to play match. The latter have accepted,
and the old boys viii have it out in few
days.
! GENERAL GRANT will shortly order the mus
| ter out Of a number Of officers in the volun-
| teer service unemployed or getting double
| pay. General Howard comes under the lat
| ter class. He is getting a salary as Superlu-
| tendeut of the Freedman's Bureau and Ma
| ior General Of Volunteers.
! THE Gar has given orders for carrying an
nually to the budget Of the kingdom of Pol
and a credit of from $4,000 to 100000 roub-
/ les. for the construction Of orthodox Russian
! churches in the country. In consequence of
| this decision, one is to be built this yefr at
Lubiu, and more in other places.
The Michigan Coustitctional Convention
! has adopted provision for the new constitu-
! ton that no mechanical trade shall be taught
/ to convicts in the State prison, except the
manufacture Of those articles Of which the
| chief consumption is imported from other
States"
Between three hundred and fifty and four
hundred men have been discharged from the
| Springfield Armory. Over eight hundred are
still employed. As soon as the remainder Of
| ffty thousand rifles are altered to breech-
! Il. Il --,vsry nil Ir va
| duccd to a peace footing. This will take
| about three months.
RFv. W. B. WATKINS, A. NJ, pastor OF the
! Methodist Episcopal Church 10 Washington,
! Pa, has been invited to deliver the annual
address before the PhlOmathean Literary
Societies Of WayuesbuTg College, September
! 10, 1867 Mr. Watf;ins is one of the most
| popular lecturers in the denomination.
The Pittsburgh Annual Conference Of the
Methodist Church viii meet in Uniontown,
| Fayette county, on Wednesday, September T.
1t promises to be a session Of unusual inter.
est from the fact that the new discipline viii
govern all its proceedings.
TIE New York Tribune Association has
decided 90 erect new edihce at cost of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars Ii is to
be built upon the site Of the present building
and viii compare favorably with the Herald
and Times establishments. This undertaking
has for years been in contemplation.
ALI of the details Of the transfer Of the re-
| Gently purchased Russian territory to the
| United States are completed. Gen. Rousseau
! the special commissioner, had a long final in
! terview with the president and leaves at once
! for Alaska Capt. W. s. Dodge, of Illinois,
was appointed as special revenue agent to
/ accompany Gen. Rousseau TO look after the
revenue interest in that territory.
The English Reform bill has received the
/ assent of the Queen, and is now the law OF
/ the land. Thus the masses Of the English
I people see themselves. ior the first time in
1 the history OF their country, endowed with
1 the right OF suffrage, and admitted to a great
/ share in Parliamentary Government. The
1 result of the next election viii be looked for
ward to with intense interest
THE number Of emigrants that arrived at
/ New York from European ports from January
I lst, 1861 20 August 7th, was 154, ,299. Dur
ing the same period Of 1866 the total number
of arrivals was lj5. 799. Nearly 1l6, 600 of
the smigrants OF 1857 have come in steam
vessels, and thus far Ireland and Germany
send about equal numbers, and, together
make up more than nine teuths Of the whole.
The New York Times concludes an article
on the President and impending removals as
/ follows. The merit or demerit of Mr.. John
/ SON action viii not be affected by any modi-
1 6cation of the manner Of executing an obuox-
ous proceeding. Suspension or rejection,
/ the result will be the same. The President
will, by adopting either, convict himself of
/ hostility to legislation rejecting the settled
/ views and purposes of the Northern people
/ The reasons Of this suspension with which
| Congress is to be furnished viii amount to
this and this only.
! ANOTHER REFoM IN RussIA.-The Car
| abolished a strange custom The cure Of
| souls in Russia has for centuries been heredi-
| tary. The son of priest becomes a priest
or il he has only daughters, the eldest con
veys the parish to her husband. OF course
the priest is as little of a pastor as is well
/ possible, but he is much linked with the peas
antry, aud the government, to improve the
character and diminish the popularity Of the
| priesthood, have abolished its hereditary
| character Henceforth the best candidate is
! to be appointed, which, as nobody ever takes
the Office voluntarily, is a satisfactory reform
TnE Indianapolis Herald says: There Is a
man residing in Noblesville, named Moreau
who is 81 years old. He is one of the Oldest
if not the oldest members Of the Masonic
fraternity, having Joined that organization in
1900. He was one Of the assistants of Rob
ert Fulton in building his first steamboat, and
was on board of her first or trial trip. The
old man is never so happy as when, with
chalk OF pencil, he is laying of diagrams. and
explaining the machinery and vessel he help
ed to construct on that occasion. The scenes