Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-08-07
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

TnE orange crop in Florida is unusually
promising, and has been generally engaged a
so a thousand. Other tropical fruits are
growing finely
IT isrumored by the Presidents friend.
that he intends to violate the laws of Con
gress by appointing his ex-Private Secretary
Cooper as Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
The National Temperance Convention at
Cleveland adopted series of resolutions
taking extreme grounds in favor of pro.
hibitory liquor law, and denouncing the sale
OF alcoholic drinks as criminal.
A DESPATCH from Savannah, Ga, says tha
Jefferson Davis viii soon sail for Europe, to
be gone several months, and that he will be
represented in the coming trial by his counsel
at Richmond. II is understood that Chief
Justice Chase has consented to his departure.
GENERAL Howard has issued orders re.
ducing the numbero OF agents the Freedmen
| Bureau in the South, particularly in South
Carolina and Arkansas. He will continue to
issue similar orders until, when the bill
terminating the offices Of the Bureau goes
into force, it win be virtually forastalled
MAD DoGs are said to be plentiful in the
southwest of Texas county, three having been
killedwithiu a week. On the 12.h inst, one
Of these rabid animals made an attack on a
religious meeting, greatly alarming the at
tendants. The dog was killed by club in
| the hands of a son ofthe officiating clergyman,
Mr. Stogdill.
ArroRyEY General Evarts is said to have
given it as his opinion that the President can.
not remove Revenue Commissioner Rollins,
unless upon charges, according to the proyis-
ions of the Tenure-oc Office act. He is also
said to strongly oppose any interference with
the Commissioner. Mr.. Johnson's friend,
Cooper, has gone home to Tennessee.
MARvAEz, the Spanish Dictator, left very
little property This would be taken as a
proof of his integrity as public man, were
it not known that the old Marshal was an in
veterate gambler, and lost several hundred
thousand dollars a few months previous to his
death.
IT IS stated that member of Trinity
Church, New York, was very indignant the
other day, on seeing colored man in the
congregation, but being informed that he was
worth several hundred thousand dollars,
promptly waived his objection, aud asked to
be introduced
AT all the dry goods stores in Berlin,
where the Princess Victoria buys goods, fe-
male clerks are employed. This is done in
compliance with the special request Of her
royal highness, whose great hobby is the ex-
tention Of female labor beyond the narrow
circle to which it is still confined
MKs. COLONEL MORRILL,, of New York, was
a few days since forcibly taken from her
home by her brother, and put into an insane
asylum in Trenton, New Jersey, unknown to
her husband The latter is now endeavor-
ing, by writ Of hqBeas corpus, to obtain
possession of his wife. She is perfectly
sane.
A. j. STREETER, Of st. Paul, Minnesota,
appeared on the streets of Hartford Connect.
icut, the other day, with carriage and pair
of horses which had, in seven weeks, brought
him from St. Paul. He appeared as fresh as
when be started on the trip, but the horses
showed the effect Of their 6fteen hundred
! miles journey.