Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-02-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Ex. Gov. Huar, Of New FORK, died few
days ego.
GeoEeE W. EILERY, the last man living
whose father signed the Declaration Of lnde-
pendence, died at Newport last week
TuE Long Bridge at Washington was car
ried away by the late food. sothe Capital IS
now short of bridge.
THE wife Of Daniel t. Sickles, famous or
infamous the country throughout few years
since, died in New York city on the 9th
GEORGE PEABODY, the eminent banker,
has given the sum of 81, 100000 to be applied
to the education of Southern youth, black as
we'll as white.
STATE Treasurer Kemble advertises for
new State loan, TO be devoted TO the reduc-
ton of overdue gold interest bearing State
securities.
The remaining portion Of the Table Rock
at Niagra Falls fell on Tuesday. Fortunate
ly, at this season of the year, no one was
on it,
MISS MARY HARRIS, who shot her seducer,
Burroughs, in the treasury building two years
ago, has Just been admitted to the Insane As.
sylum, says a Washington special.
Two apprentices, who went out for sail
in the small boat OF vessel lying at Phila-
delphia pier, were picked up three days after
ward one hundred miles out at sea.
A PROPOSITION was made in the Missouri
Senate, on Tuesday, to amend the Constitu
ton by striking out the word 'white" when
ever it occurs in that instrument.
FESIAN CoNGREss.-A A great Fenian Con
gress will meet at Utica, New York on the
26th inst. 1t is understood that business of
very special Importance viii be transacted by
that body.
MRs. HENRY JOHNSON, late Miss Harriet
Lane, has just given birth to a son, who has
been christened James Buchanan. Poor lit
tie innocent He win have heavy load to
carry through life.
IL Vienna the snow ia removed as fast as it
falls, at an enormous expense. All the men
out Of work are employed to sweep the
streets. Some people would prefer clean
streets and despotism to liberty and slush
A St. Louis German gentleman recently
displayed his paternal tenderness by dying
and leaving one dollar to each Of his children
aud half million to his widow. 1t is pret-
ty certain that widow was a second wife,
IT has been decided by the Supreme Court
of Appeals Of Virginia, that a married wo-
mans clothing belongs to her husband. The
question whether an unmentionable garment
of married mans clothing may be proper.
ly worn by the wife, is still undecided.
The librarian Of the New York Port Soci-
ETY. has found a sailor who once mined in Cal
if9rlia; and spent twenty-five thousand dol
lars, bullion, in rum. The whiskey men
ought to be made to pension him for life
TnE Great Eastern is fitting for the Paris
exposition excursion scheme. There will be
a smoking room on deck, plenty Of space in
the state rooms, four hundred sofas and two
thousand berths. Single fare is one hundred
dollars in gold for berths in large rooms.
! Only FIVE thousand bales of cotton were
raised in Madison county, Alabama, last year
but the present season from twelve thousand
to fifteen thousand are promised. Strange
/ how those free niggers viii work sometimes.
| They must do it out of spite-just 10 prove
their former appreciatiye owners were in the
habit of neglecting strict regard for truth.
4 MAN advertised lately to forward, on re-
ceipt Of postage stamps, sound practical
advice, that would be applicable at any time
and TO all perSo-- aud conditions Of life. -
n-.-ycelPt Of the stamps, he sent his victim
the following Never give boy penny to
watch your shadow while you climb tree to
look into the middle of next week
The Heralds Washington special SAYS
The decision of the Court of Claims at Wash
iugton, in the case of allowance for servants
to officers of the army from the first Of May.
1864, to the third Of March, 1865, entities
the officer who served during that period to
four dollars extra for each servant employed
being the difference per month between elev.
en- dollars and sixteen dollars, the amount
which should have been paid