Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-04-26
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


WuEEsBARRE was nearly destroyed by FIRE
one day last week
The Great Eastern steamship has arrived
at New York
THERE are one hundred and forty churches
in Pittsburgh
Flour is now so high that the addition Of
yeast to it raises it clear out of sight.
JEFF. DAVIS plantation and Jea7s brother
Joe's plantation, in Mississippi, have been
sold to a former slave of the former for 500,
600.
GREAT Loss OF LUNBER.-The boom in
the Susquehanna at Lock Hauen, was bro
ken through on Thursday, and it is estimated
that about ten millions feet of lumber we're
lost thereby.
Mr.. J. S. CUMMINGS, Tuscoa, Illinois, says
he has raised potatoes from white spreut,
this wiRter, outside of any hot-house, in a
space of thirty days. He says, Furthermore,
he can raise them any month in the year, and
challenges better ones than he produces.
The Hancock expedition against the Indi-
ans is progressing. The troops will proceed
to point where Hancock has arranged a
meeting with the chiefs of the different hos
tile tribes. If they eYince a disposition to be
submissive and peaceable, they win be allow
ed to depart in peace. If they are fractions,
and are for war, they shall have it.
THERE is assembled at Lexington, Ken
lucky, a Conference of the Methodist Church
tcoIored), composed of one hundred and for
ty ministers, presided over by Bishop Quinn.
Delegates are present from Ohio, Penpsyl-
yania, Kentucky, Indiana and several South
ern States.
THE town of Napoleon, Arkansas, is situa-
ted on a tongue Of land at the junction of the
Mississippi and Arkansas rivers. Last year
the river cut deeply into this point, and now
a large portion of the town has disappeared.
The water the other day was sixteen feet deep
in the streets, and the chances are that anoth.
er season viii see steamers running over the
site
4 YOUNG Methodist clergyman has preach
ed from the steps of his church in Salisbury,
n. IL, al through the winter, the mouse nav
ing been closed against him soon after he was
sent there. No one comes to hear him, but
storm or shine, he takes his position with un-
covered head, and ezhorts and prays, and no
expostulation or entreaty can turn him from
what he deems his duty.
A YOUNG Ohio soldier, now living in CIeve-
land was wounded aud taken prisoner dur
ing the war, and confined at Andersonyille
but came out alive in the end. Meantime his
friends, believing he was dead, had funeral
sermon preached and a monument erected,
while his comrades inscribed his name on the
monument erected in Woodland Cemetery to
the memory Of the fallen heroes Of the Twen-
IS third Regiment.
AK evil-tempered old man. named Patter-
son. miner at MinersvilIe, on the Chicago
and Rock Island Railroad, attempted to kill
his two sons, on last Friday. They escaped,
and he then deliberately wrote his viii, shot
his dog, which he asked to have buried with
him, and shot himself
THE "cussednessf Of the fathers is devel-
oped in the children, at an early age. in Ten
nessee. Last Saturday, two boys, each about
eleven years old-one q son of Judge Reeves,
the other Of Dewitt Moscby-quarreled in
Somerville, Fayette county, and young Nose
by shot the other, inficting wound of which
he has siuce died.
THE building fund of Yale College now
amounts to $780, 900. It is designed at an
early day to erect an entirely new set of brown
stone dormitories, a memorial chapel, the
Peabody geological museum aud new di
vinity hall.
ADyIcEs from the West Coast Of Africa
states that war has broken out between two
opposing tribes Of savages, in which several
Of the new Calabar tribes we're made prison
ers by their enemies and roasted and eaten
by them.
FHAHELN HAzLEwooD, an aged cripple, of
Bedford, Trimble county, Ky, has reported
that las. Friday, he and his two sons were
taken from their house, by tire men, tied
and numerically whipped. They assert that
their Union sentiments provoked the outrage
and detachment Of fsol6iers have been sent
to investigate the affair
A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Times ,
writing from Jonesboro, H., says "We have
hada week ofvery fair, dry weather but 1t is
now setting in to rain again. Winter wheat
has not looked so well all through Egypt as it
does now, for many years. Peach trees are
now out in full bloom, and the prospects for
a large crop were never better. There is
very little danger from frost SO late in the
season. ali other fruits, are so far, unin-
jured.'
AccoUSrs from the upper Missouri say
that the high water of the Platte river has
caused great damage to the Omaha branch Of
the Pacific railroad, and no trains are run
ming at present. Forty miles of the track are
under water, and the bridges over the North
Platte and the South Fork are so badly dam
aged as to be unsafe for crossing.
Ix the general tumble Of European stocks,
bonds and securities Of all kinds, 1t IS inter
esting to notice that United States bonds are
quoted higher at the present time than they
have hitherto been. There is nothing re-
markable in this fact, for it is natural that
capitalists should desire to transfer their
funds from endangered investments. 1t
shows, however, that the public mind in
Europe is very distrustful Of the future and
that the United States is regarded as the safest
depository for surplus cash.