Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-05-22
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get through? No thoroughfare.
Why is a coquette like a minister? Because
she never gives assent.
Why is the Pope like faithful goose? Be
cause he sticks to his own Propa -ganda.
Mas, E. T. Carter has been elected county
superintendent of public schools for Maury
county, Tenn.
Hon. Thomas B FLORENCE, an extreme
Democrat, is out is favor of eonferring sui
frage on all races and sexes.
All the towns throughout the State com
plain of the high price of butter, which ranges
from so to 70 cents per pound.
SHAD have been caught in the Susquehanna
this spring above the dan, of Columbia, caus-
ed by break in the dam.
THE Pittsburg Post, declares General Han
cock wiIl..not receive single vote in the Dem
ocratic National Convention.
WHERE should one always expect to find
bountiful supply of the milk of human kind
ness Within the pale of the church.
The Ku. Klux -Klan burned the new School
house in Carthage, Tenn, on Saturday night.
It's ofIenso aLat in sheltered coloredl
pupils.
No less than six Of the most influential
Republican newspapers of Missouri have run
up the name of Colfax for Vice President
A STEAM ferry boat is to be placed on the
Susquehanna river az Peach Bottom Ferry to
ply between the Lancaster and York county
shores
FARMERS have been busy sowing oats dur
ing the past week and planting potataes Corn
planting is next in order The farmers are
hard pushed.
Mr.. SEWARD is going on an extended for
eign tour if the impeachment results in con-
yiction. 1t has been suggested that he will
endeavor to find out, if possible, where some
of his resent purchases are located.
A corr of Eliot's Indian Bible, work
which no living man can read, was sold at
auction at New York on last Tuesday, for
the extraordinary sum of s1,19O, the high
est price ever raid for printed book in this
country.
The rolling mill of Messrs. Light is now in
working order. They roll cut plates to the
length of twenty five feet, and make all kinds
of boiler and locomotive iron. They have
fine prospect of success before them.-Le6a-
non Courier.
''THE pen is mightier than the sword"
Gen. r. Z. Lee believes this to be true, as
he killed more Union soldiers in the Auder.
sonville pen, than he did in any battle of the
war, by the sword or rifle.
The new telegraph line between Denver
and Sante Fe win be completed by the 1st Of
June. new mail route will be opened be-
tween the latter city and Hays city by the
18th of May.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has licensed
one hundred and eleven places of amusement
this year, including theatres, concert halls,
lager beer saloons, with music and dance
houses.
THz only counties il Pennsylvania through
which no railroad passes, and the limits Of
which are not likely to be soon touched by
railroad, are Fulton, Forest, Potter and
! Greene.
C. W. MILLER, farmer, near Mannheim,
Lancaster county, has young chicken with
four legs. 1t only uses two of them in rum
ing and goes about quite briskly.
IN Greenland the Young people who WOO
each other, eat ten pound of talloE every. day
to prove their devotion. Scaudleous.
A SMILE may be bright while the heart IS
sad. The rainbow is beautiful in the air
while beneath is the moaning of the sea.
The poor pittanee of seventy years is not
worth being william for. What matters it if
your neighbor lies in a splendid tomb Sleep
| you in innocence.
GrILr is that which quells the courage Of
the blood, ties the tongue of the eloquent,
and makes greatness itself sneak and lurk and
behave itself poor-Shuh.
Persons plowing and digging garden al
ready begin to turn mp the locusts. The land
will soon be swarming with 'Pharohs, come
to see the modern "Mosesl
PorTsrowS has no water works. The
Ledger is urging the formation of a Compa-
! ny, for the purpose ofsupPlying that growing
town with water.
| STEAM boiler exploded at Marshal,
Phillips & Co.'S rolling mill, in Philadelphia,
, on Monday of last week. killing one man and
injuring twelve others.
TIE new bridge over the Susquehanna az
, Columbia, Penna., is to be erected on she
, piers Of the old one, and viii be conpissea
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