Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-08-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

lege, died Tburday night, aged ninetyfour.
IT is reported that the Czar, who is now in
Crimea, is quite i'll.
Hon. JAS. Fl. CAaRgLL, late Minister to
Sweden, has arrived home.
JAMES BGCHANAy returned from Cape May
to Lancaster yesterday, in feeble health.
JoHS BIERLY, the Oldest ship builder in
Philadelphia, died in that city yesterday.
GEy. GRANT is rigid in his ideas Of econ
omy, and allows no man in employment
which he controls who docs not earn bis pay.
The new Canal around Des Moiues Rapids,
on the Mississippi, is to be two hundred and
fifty feet vide.
The Minnesota farmers talk Of forming
associations to keep wheat up to - 50 per
bushel.
IT is understood the assets Of the Unadilla
Bank viii pay about thirty per cent Of its la
bilities.
lr is understood that all the members ofthe
Cabinet are willing to resign if the President
so requests.
A letter from Lancaster says the illness Of
Thaddeus Stevens is not SO serious as repre-
sented.
The Turkish Minister has been introduced
to the President by Secretary Seward. He
presented his credentials and was formally
received.
IruAs BgEN DECIDED in the United States
District Court Of New York that a married
woman may be declared bankrupt under the
involuntary clause Of the bankrupt act.
THE Soldiers and Sailors Of Philadelphia
have spoken out brayely in condemnation Of
the suspension by the President Of Secretary
Stanton.
TnE Michigan Constitutional Convention
has decided to submit separately to the peo-
pie an absolute prohibition Of the sale Of
liquor.
SEWARD has been notified by the National
httetiigeRcsr that he must leave the Cabinet,
and when the poor old man is put out in the
cold, he will learn how many warm friends he
has lost.
VAST Of rain is alleged as a cause likely 10
prevent more than half a crop Of corn and
potatoes in ONO. Too much rain in parts OF
Pennsylvania ii is predicted, will result in q
similar failure.
OSE man boasts in Indiana that he gets a
new wife aud a new divorce every quarter.
Or the kind OF wives that he gets under such
a system of things a man would want new
one at least as often IS that.
THERE are said to be, by the Clarion Dem
OcYat, over three thousand men IN Clarion
county who do not take newspaper The
fact showing such ignorance explains the
persistent Democratic maiorities in that re-
gion.
PRoP J. C. WArsoS, Of Anr Arbor, Mich
igan. announces the discovery of a new plan
ct, hitherto unknown, which was FIRST seen
by bin on the 18th. Il is situated in right
ascension degree and 40 minutes south,
and is working west and south.
A CALL Is published for a Convention in
Wilmington on the 4th Of September, for the
purpose Of sending delegates to the Border
State Convention. which meets IN Baltimore
on the 18th, to demand Congress to guarau-
tee the citizens Of all States equal rights and
a republican form Of government.
AK amusing Incident occurred in Albany
recently While gang of telegraph men
were stringing wire from a reel in a wagon,
the horse being driven along slowly, a coun
tryman rushed up 10 the driver, and in the
innocence Of his heart informed him that he
was losing his load that his wire was scatter
cd all along the road behind him.
A correspondent Of Democratic paper,
who says he has just been in prison with two
Of Quantrell men, conFadicts the report
that the famous guerrilla is in Mexico, and
asserts that Quantrell was mortally wounded
in a fight in Kentucky. in the fall Of 1864,
captured and imprisoned in Louisville, and
died there under an assumed name.
The political contest il California is very
bitter and exciting as the election draws near.
Efforts are making to concentrate the Union
lists of San Francisco on the Legislative tick
ct. The Independent party continue their
opposition to GOrham, but support the gener.
al ticket, and urge the election Of Congress
men, Legislators, and the ratification Of the
constitutional amendment.
Persons having correspondence with Cal
iforuia should mark on their letters or news
papers the words ria Panama and con-
tinue to do so until the Indian hostilities over
the Plains are suppressed. According to the
regulations of the Post Office Department, all
letters not marked ''rja Panama are sent
by the overland route, and the Indian out
RACES render their safe transmission doubtful.
4 correspondent of the Boston Hatch
man says: 'Ihe day that / arrived in Liver
pool / was saluied while taking stroll
through the city. by newsboy who shouted
out to me, Paper, sir; latest news from
America, SIR; suicide of Andy johnson, sir. ,
Had II not been that I could not conscien-
tiously reward dishonesty, l should have liked
to give the youngster something for making
so good guess at my politics. -
THE prospect Of the French wine crop is
not good The inclemeney of the weather
has caused a spread of the disease known as
the ojdiUm, whose attack could not be ward
ed off by the use Of sulphur. owing to the
heavy continuance Of showers of rain aud
hail and high winds. 1t is now thought that
only one half or two-thirds of the quantity of
grapes gathered in 1866 will be obtainable in
1867 and even this small proportion will be
lessened if the weather does not improve.
I TTNREP