Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-03-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

ment,
THgRE are nearly twice as many papers
published in the United States as in the rest
Of the world together.
The Illinois Legislature has passed bill
making eight hours legal days work.
In Mexico every Indian has as many wives
as he can build huts to keep them in.
Az exchange thinks President johnson n
walls dancer in standing on one toe-the
veto.
THr friends Of Oberlin College will be glad
to know that the endowment of 100000 is
likely soon to be made up.
THE Episcopalians of Mauch Chunk, we
are told, intend to erect new church ediiee,
the cost Of which will be 100000.
SAMUEL DowxING. the last surviving sol
dier who was actually under arms in the war
Of the Revolution, died on Thursday at Edin-
burgh, Saratoga COUNTY New 5s York sg...ss -.
young ladies', where spiuology, weavology and
cookology can be taught-the graduates to
receive the degree of f. +. W., or fit for
wives
The town of Pelham has been indicted in
the Superior Court of Northampton, Mass,
for not maintaining its common schools for
six months in the year.
Tx bushels OF snake bones we're found in
a ledge of rocks, few days since, near Ce-
dar Rapids, Iowa. A correspondent of the
Chicago Journal says, 'that is where the Cop
perheads went in last fall,
THE daily pay of Prussian infantry soldiers
has been raised to seven cents day. Won
der what our boys in blue would have said to
fighting for two dollars and ten cents a month.
Cheap food for powder at that rate.
MISS HARRIs, who shot her lover, Bur
roughs, in the Treasury two years ago, and
was acquitted therefor by the jury which tried
her, has just been committed to the insane as
sylum. A fitting end to most dismal trage-
dy.
A YOUNG man advertised for wife, and re-
ceived eighteen hundred answers from hus-
bands saying he could have theirs. This
shows the virtue Of advertising
Ar the funeral of Capt. Joseph Scoyern,
at Scranton, Pa, on the 18th inst, one man
was fatally aud two seriously injured, by the
prem ature discharge of piece Of artillery
used in firing the salute.
A MAN has been arrested in Hungary for
killing four children and eating their hearts
raw. He acted on the belief that he would
have the power TO become invisible when he
had eaten seven, but was not permitted to
carry his experiment to a conclusion.
THE Wabash river is now at a stand, aud
the water is higher than ever before known.
It is reported that steamboats, are running
over the prairies on the Illinois side picking
up corn aad other freight. The water is ten
miles wide and the tops Of houses are barely
visible. The fences are all gone aud cuusid-
cradle damage done.
THE Frankford kentucky Commonwealth
makes the following alarming statement -
"If any candid Democrat, of an average
quautum of brains, will examine page 276 of
the auditors report for 1867 he viii have the
appalling Abolition fact driven in upon his
understanding that Kentucky is $50, ,63s, ,89l
richer without the negro than with him"
A YOUNG man named B. s. Ayers, residing
at Dallastown, York county, was literally bu-
ried alive on the 18th inst He had gone
down deep well to recover bucket which
had got loose from its fastenings, and while
at the bottom, the well caved in burying him
to the depth Of about fifty feet. 1t took two
days to dig him out and recover his body.
CHICAGO at present contains hundreds of
houses marked For Rent, and the newspa-
pers Of that city say that rents there are de-
clining. In Philadelphia there are now more
buildings publicly offered for rent than has
been the case for some time past and the
general impression is, that house rents have
seen their highest point.
Al mass meeting held at Oil City it was
resolved to petition the Legislature to grant
the right of the citizens Of Venango county to
veto on the question of the removal of the
county seat from Franklin to Oil City.
WEare happy to be able to state, upon the
authority of an eminent fruit grower, that
peaches and other fruits are as yet safe, the
winter having been most favorable one.
THE Uniontown Standard recommends in
terms of high and just compliment, Hon.
James Veech, of Pittsburgh, for Supreme
Judge
JuDGE JOHNSTON, lately charged the Grand
Jury of Meadyille, Crawford county, to make
presentmeut in favor of building a new
Court House at Meadville The address was
very conclusive in its arguments, and Just af-
ter its delivery, portion of the plaster upon
the ceiling of the present Court House sud
denly fell down, and barely missed striking
one Of the County Commissioners.
Is all the cases of the Commonwealth
against G. " Culver, L. H. Culver and John
Walker, in the Court of Dauphin county, for
embezzlement of bonds of the Venango and
Petroleum Banks, there being no evidence to
sustain the charge, the jury has recently ac-
quilted defendants without leaving the box.
An Episcopal Convention of some of the
eastern counties was in session at Reading on
the 10Th and Goth. The Convention favors a
new diocese, composed of the district outside
Of the counties of Philadelphia Montgome-
ry, Bucks, Chester and Delaware.
Gov GEARY on Saturday appointed John
Stauaer, of Lancaster county, and Captain
VIM. d. Franks, of Philadelphia, Whisky
Inspectors at Philadelphia.