Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-02-15

society OF hiOOGY ihQns Mlil nave an OEstet
Supper on the evening of the 22d inst
rea-Tbe Lecture Of Prof. Fuller, in the
Union School House, on last Friday night,
was well attended, and gave unusual salts
faction. The astronomical representations
were certainly very instructive and edifying
to the young, while The whole impaired a
very impressive lesson to both old and young.
g~Au exchange says that printing paper
has come down so as TO effect the price per
yearly subscriber 10 the amount Of about oHe-
fourth of a cent. We win make the rcduc-
ton for such Of our adrance subscribers as
can make the change.
EzyThe second lecture for the benefit Of
the Cemetry Association, viii be delivered at
the Courthouse, on Tuesday evening next,
the l9Lh inst, by Rev. Kepler. Subject
sThe power and grandeur of Moral Princi
ple. as ezempHGed IN the Statesmanship of
Moses"
FREE LgcrunE.-Alr. Uniac, the distin-
guished Orator Of Boston, viii deliver, in the
Court House. on Saturday evening next, at
O'Clock. his celebrated Temperance Lee
{urc. Mr., Uniac. as a Lecturer, Is said TO
be equal, If not superior, to John B. Cough.
Let the Court House be crowded-let the
public generally attend, and they viii hear
che crandest display Of eloquence to which
they have ever listened free Of charge.
Bzg Postmasters throughout the county
will save trouble by obeying the laws IN re-
gard to newspapers, &c. When paper re-
mains dead in the Office for four consecutive
weeks. 1t is the dhty Of the P. NJ, or his
deputy to send the publisher Of the paper a
WRITTEN notice of the fact-stating, if posi-
BE. the reason Why the paper is not lifted.
The sending to the publishers Of paper
marked mot lifted, refused. or ''uncaIIed
for is not a legal notice. Postmasters who
fail to comply with the law in this respect are
liable for the subscription for the time said
raper remains dead in the Offices.
THE GALAXY for February = s. 1861, com
neucss IN this number thenew novel, ''Wait-
ING for the Yerdict;" by Rebecca Harding
Davis, whose shorter stories Of Life in the
Ir5a Mil, "Ma7gret Howth, " ETC., have OBJ
tanned for her So high g reputation. Ia sue
ceeding chapters the scene Of the story is
changed to the south. and the characteristics
Of Southern society, and rhe tone Of South
ern thought and feeling in the very heat Of
she war, ara forc.bly depicted.
The price of the GALAXY is - year; S3
for six moaths six copies for one year, S25.
Single copies 80 cents. Address W. c. & T.
P Church, No. A. Park row, New York.
SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. D.-We
are asked daily, almost hourly, what this
company IS going to do. The community Is
very much exercised in regard to its redcence
and finds relief in applying to US, presuming
that we ought to know. 1t is true that we
have felt an interest, in common with all per
sons who desire the welfare Of this portion Of
Southern Pennsylvania, in the construction
Of this road and have cndeavored 10 keep the
matter prominently before the public Yet
with all our anxiety in regard to the matter,
we feel provoked shat our business men 90 so
little towards agitatiug OF driviE5 this enter
prise ahead. Bedford has been agita,ing the
construction Of a railroad up the Baystowu
Branch Of the Juaiata for twenty years. and
at the end OF this time we find ourselves inca
pable ofsecuring the construction Of SIX miles
TO our own doors. It is very humiiia-
ting. Had our men OF enterprise made as
+H~ of
railroad, as they have made towards flrlhering
political interests. We would not now be left
high and dry as we are. Tt has only wanted
somebody TO properly represent our resources
to capitalists abroad to get them to invest
their money where Z, would be sure to pay
heavy dividends But there has not been
even pubic spirit enough here to do this,
The community has been, 10 use yulgarism,
as "dead as q door nail. It is all very true
that we have no rich men, nobody that could
spend ten thousand a year, and stand it for 2
half dozen consecutive years, bat II IS not
always the wealthy communities that make
the greatest strides towards public improve
ments, it is generally the poor communities
that strain every nerve to bring about im
Drovcments as means Of amassiEg wealth.
This is the history of the Great West, not so
however with Bedford. IF there were ten
railroads to terminate here tomorrow
it IS exceedingly doubtful whether suiHcien
ground could be purchased whereon to locate
depots, unless they we're to enter by main
force and take possession. Instead Of ifteer
or sixteen hundred inhabitants, Bedford
would contain twice the number if liberal
policy had been pursued by those who OWL
lands IN and around it. Not foot Of ianc
can be purchased unless two or three prices
are paid for it, and very little at even these
rates. We sometimes think Of asking Nlessrs
Nauge Chenowitb and others to cut up theil
farms into lots, and offer them for sale, VITA
q condition ,hat the purchasers must builC
upon them within reasonable time, if no
the lots to revert 60 the original owners the
present proprietor might only sell every alter
nate lot and by bis reservation he would real
ize ai the advantage Of -heir enhanced value
by the buildings erected on The adjoining lots
and by this means start up a uew town, then
petition the Legislature for an apPropria-
ton to fence the old one in and seal 1t up, bu
our courage fails US and we never get it done.
This much we have bqen compelled to say
OF '.bust;' if the reader thinks he can stauJ