Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-02-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


articles and placed on the raw material.
CoxnscArIox no longer troubles the peo-
pie Of the South.
The anti contraction bill win be allowed
to become law by the President without his
signature.
The total ofthe general appropriation bill
lust reported 10 Congress exceeds 1000, 900.
MRs. LIScoIx is said to be in ill.health-and
Mrs. Andrew Johnson scarcely if ever leaves
her room.
GOODWIN SNITH's visit to America induce,
many people to believe that John Bright viii
also come to see US.
Gov. ORR, of South Carolina, in declaring
In favor of Congressional reconstruction, has
| produced great dismay among the fire eaters
OF his State.
| W. l.. PORTER, of Memphis, was shot and
seriously injured on Thursday night by party
| Of men who called him out Of his house and
fired upon him.
A NEW County is projected out of the
| southwestern portion of Lancaster and the
southwestern portion of Chester county.
Bgy WADE, at the end of his present term
as Senator, will have served eighteen years In
| the Senate. Ia all that time he never los
| sight of the truth, that all men are entitled
| 10 liberty, and now at the end of his services
/ he can look success in the face, conscious be
never did dshonorable act or spoke era
| ven word during all his career as an American
| Senator.
IL the Supreme Court Of the State, on Tues.
day. Judge Sharswood delivered the unanimous
opinion of the Court on the Conuellsvile
/ Railroad case. The opinion decides the act
repeating the charter Of the company uncon
/ stitutional, and declares the charter, with al
| rights and privileges, restored.
A. K. Mcclure offers for sale his Interest
| In the Franklin Repository.
THE Blair county Copperhead Convention
Just held, has instructed in favor OF Cen
| Hancock for President.
THE Democrat, Grand Rapids Michigan
hoists the ticket: Mcclellan and Pendleton
The editor has probably been asleep for foul
years.
! JANUARY 25tb, 1921, was one Of the eoldes
days ever experienced in New England. Ii
Massachusetts, the temperature was twent,
degrees below zero; and in Maine it wa
thirty five degrees below.
Ex-CmEF JUsmcE Woodward, of thi
State, has made q speech in Congress, taking
sides against Mr.. Pendleton on the fnancia
question. He repudiates Reputation.
| WYOMING County, Pa, has elected delega
tes to the Republican State Convention anC
instructed for Grant and Grow for Presiden
and Vice President.
The wife of the notorious Edward A. Poll
ard on Tuesday shot one DR.. Moore in Balti
more. Moore was Pollard's friend Pollard
had disappeared Mrs. Pollard went to in
quire of Moore; Moore's replies were unsatis
factory, and Mrs. Pollard got satisfaction b,
firing a pistol at him. This is the telegra
I NJ j -
bail, and is in Jail. She adheres to the gooC
old southern custom Of shooting people wheI
disagreements occur.
THE contract for the State Printing fol
three years ensuing, was awarded to the pres
ent contractors, Messrs. Siugerly a. Myers
by the two Houses Of the Legislature las
Tuesday Wiley Il Geist, of Lancaster, were
the next lowest bidders.
Ex-VICE PREsIDEYT HAMLIY, of Maine, il
urged for denomination for Vice Presiden
on the Grant ticketby Washington politicians
The Williamsport pa. Standard nomi
mates Jeremiah S. Black, Buchanan's Attor
ney General, and Jobnsons factotum, fo
, President Of the United States.
A very silly rumor is current in diheren
parts Of the Continent, and has even been ex
tensively printed, to the effect that the Prus
sian Government has secured the use of tn
United States navy in case of war.
The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Societ.
held its annual meeting and election of officer
in Harrisburg last week. A Boyd Hamilton
was elected President aud Gen. Tobias Barto
of Reading, was reelected one Of the Vic
Presidents. The Executive Committee fxei
the time for holding the next annual exhibi
ton Of the Society, on Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday and Friday, September 29th an,
30th, and October 1st and I'd. II was ordere,
that the President and Secretary should invit
proposals for the next exhibition, such promo
sails to be laid before the Committee at il it
next meeting, March 18th, 1868.
The Committee of the United States Hous
of Representatives on Banking and Currency
are said to be in favor Of bill withdrawing
the National Bank circulation, and substitu
ting legal tender notes therefor. Should sucl
bill be reported it viii encounter stronj
opposition, but will in all probability command
; a majority of votes, in the House.
New YORK may be considered decidedly
foreign city. The registry list Of the las
Mayor election shows SO, 900 native to II ,00t
foreign votes. The representatives in Congress
from that city, vote invariably, in favor o
foreign and against domestic interests
Under these circumstances it is a question
what weight should be placed in Congress OF
the opinions or votes of such representatives
Owing to these facts it is notorious that New
York is the worst governed city in the United
States.
A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
gives an account Of the famine in Tunis. The
country is in a most wretched state. The
Arabs are dying by thousands from cold and
starvation. In Tunis alone 5000 have died
in two months. The streets are full of or.
phans from three to eight years old naked
and starving, eating the ofsl they find. To
add to their suffering we have a winter of ex-
ceptional severity. Mothers abandon their
children or sell them to Europeans for less
than shilling. Private charity can do little
and the embarrassed government not much
more