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

viii be morning and evening service There
also viii be services every#ednesday elening
and prayer meeting on Saturday evenings.
except when Mr., Barsos IS at auntiazdon
NEIGHBORH0OD NEWS
BURNED 10 DEATH A little daughter oi
Edan Powell, was burned to death lasg week
in Altoona, in the usual manner. Lelt clone
in a room to play with h ire, tells the tory
No FIRE AT GHIFshGnG C0LLEaE. tAe
Gettysburg Sentinel Gi this week says
'tAn article is going round the papers. gv
ing an account of a late fre at PenusTlyan5a
College. There is no foundation al al Tor
such report-no fire having taken place p
that building.
SUICIDE. Giesey, an inmate ~ tbe
Aims House of York county, committed sui-
eide on the 5th inst, by hanging himself wth
his bed cord to the gratlngs OF MS cell win
dow. An inquest was held On the body ol
the deceased by a Coroner Jury, aad q YER
piet rendered IN accordance with the facts,
KILLED. The Huntingdon Roul0r says
1--WE are panied to learn that William ony-
der, youngest son Of cur towusmau, air.
John Snyder, was killed at Remove, on Aon-
day morning last by the explosion OF an en-
gine of which he was fireman.
The Country AerehGm inumates that
another public hall will be erected IN Cham
bersburg, on account Of the exhorbilaut pri-
ces demanded for the use OF the one recently
completed there,
SEVEN HUNDRED INDICTMENTS AGAINST A
BUSINESS FIRN.-Ihe Mount Union Times
says We are informed that " IA. T. JrDi-
son and r. Hare Powell, Broad Top coal op.
orators, were sued before Squire johnson,
in Huntingdon on Monday, for issuing their
personal promises to pay as a circulating
medium. There were over seven hundred
indictments against them. We did not hear
the result.
Hoe DISEASE. sE.-There is a disease prevail
ing among the swine in this town and neigh
borhood which battles the skill of the most
expert doctors Of the porcine family. The
disease seems to take effect in the hind parts
of the animals, rendering them entirely help
less Can some Of our friends give us a cure
for it ?-B Blair County IFhig,
RAuRoAD ACCIDENT. Ebengbure
Freeman says: Son Tuesday morning. Hen
ry Snyder, a brakesman on a freight train
eastward was killed in the Tunnel al GalGl-
zin, The head was entirely severed from The
body, and his body was horribly mmgled
He was a very worthy young man--hed ser,
we'd in the Union army, and was married on
ly three weeks previously. He is said %
have resided near Bolivar The death was
purely accidental
BuRGLARY.-A daring and successful rob
berry was perpetrated in this place on Mon.
day night last The clothing store Of John
A Mckinney, second door from the south.
east corner of Main and Franklin streets, wa.
entered through the unoccupied portion oil
the building now undergoing repairs. and
robbed Of clothing and other yaiuabIes TO thC
amount of four hundred dollars. No salts
factory clue to the burglars has yet been OBJ
tained.-JohHgtorn Tribune.
The Indiana Messenger states that mar
named Samuel Wynmau. residing In Center
township, near Homer. Indiana county
eloped, a few evenings since with frai
damsel named Pedjcord The guilty pain
were followed as Ear as Blaifsville, where
they passed as man and wife. Wymau leave.
wife and several children TO battle through
life without his aid or assistance.
Carr. ). w. DouragaTv. this uutouun-
ate gentleman is still living, and Ne hope will
recover. More than wee. has sIapsad since
he received his iaiar:as. and the physician.
have some hope. Amidst lla confusion
Of facts, We have been enabled TO iearn, how
ever, that he had been called ugoa by the
Constable to aid iu conducting Matthew Far
ren to jail, TO be KEEP until Die would Get sa
Der that tarreu is very s,0rt man and we;
too much for the Constable and after they
had concluded to let him 70, and Capt
Dougherty was on his way home, Farren ant
some others attacked him. aud during tho
contest DougheTiy was stabbed. His atfida-
Wit shows that he felt the knife In Farren +
hand, and Mccullough, OF Altoona. says he
heard him say that he had o $50 te, and hunt
ed for it but couldn't find it.
FIRE IN AIroo3A.--On Moua
the row Of buildings known rs b -nta Cor
ner, below the Logan House, took FIRE au.
was consumed, together with the Hotel o.
Jor Murphy. The immediate corner wa.
occupied by the Erhiuelr family as q drink
ing house Of the lowest character. and bat
few days before the preorietors were arse te,
for violating the law. They continued D sci
and keep open their house until Che fire de
Stroyed their business. Several small stores
between Murphy's aHd Efhinger' Hert
burnt Ii appears TO have been Che wOck o.
an inceudiary. No one regrets the loss ID
the Erhingers as their traffic was Of he MOS
unlawful character. There was no jusuranc,
on any Of the buildings destroyed Holt
ddySblTg Leader.
A SNAKE IL A STOVE. We learn that q gen
tleman residing in our town some few waek
ago purchased lot Of old condemned sleep
ers from the Railroad Company, for the pur
pose of using them IS tirewood They vcr
accordingly conveyed to his residence an,
sawed in suitable lengths for The stove an,
used as fuel, and as such gave great satislao
iion, until one evening the good wife place,
one Of the pieces in tbe stove, when q yer
strange and remarkable occurrence happen
ed, Shortly after placing the wood Ia tht
stove her attention was attracted hy a sinUu
| lar noise in the room, not unlike the cgin
/ Of a child or the moaning Of d person in dis
/ tress and upon searching for the cause Of
/ ascertained that the noise proceeded from ,h
stove, 9nd becoming somewhat alarmed cal
| led in her husband and acquainted him O
the matter. The geuLleaau a. once adyau
/ ced to the stove and upon opening the doc
n strange and fearful 81 ght met his ast0nishe
/ gaze-right IN the very midst Of the bazin
/ flames was q large black snake writhing d
/ agony, and uttering the pitlous noise whie
/ had attracted the attention Of the aslv Ih
snake slowly crawled out eff the stove an,
/ dropped on the floor, veriUbe fiery scr
I pent, and in a few seconds expired ih
snake had doubtless entered hollow cayi
in the sleeper in the Fall, aud lapriug int
| a torpid state, was only aroused wbca cacuu
passed by the flames. -HEuorer Spectators
| PhiIadeipliia Market
/ February 23-Fiour duiI superiiuc, +.
state SO 80. Wheat du cad declined; R.
state, So; red southern, s.. Rye. 81 3.
| Corn active: Sales OF 12e3a bushels yeN1
| at 81 % aAnnt Onts ..-.tn ~ -. E..L.-