Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-08-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


was in the llth year Of his age.
Efour hundred thousand children in Penn.
sylyania, students in the public schools OF
the State should be taught to revere the
name of Thaddens Stevens as the man who
secured them their present opportunities to
be educated.
DIsp4rcu from Omaha says fifty addition
al miles Of the Union Pacific railroad are
now finished, making 750 from omahe. 1t
now seems probable that nearly LOCO miles
win be 10 running order before the close Of
the year, and that the whole line to the Pa
ciic viii be open for business during 1863,
SPAIN is in deporable condition. Re
ports from Madrid the capital, contain ap-
palling accounts ofihe wretched condition Of
the people, especially at a station called Villa
Ropledo, where the trains are literally be-
sieged by hordes Of emaciated, halfnaked
beings. who beg for bread not money
Az association Of Cambria and Blair
county business men have leased from f. F.
/ Hodges, of Boston, with the privilege of
/ buying hereafter, the furnace at Conemangh
/ Station, Cambria county, which has been out
Of blast for several years They have also
leased, under, the same condition, $50 acres
of ore and coal lands adjoining the furnace,
and the ore right of ?, 300 acres on the Broad
Top Railroad in Huntingdon county The
furnace is now in blast.
WILLIAMS from European cities now opera-
ting in New York, battle the efforts Of police
officers and horrify ali classes of people with
their crimes. Poison is favorite means
used by these villains to conceal crime, and
there are more murders and thefts now per
perated in that city than were ever commit
ted before
Al MAcoE, New Orleans firm, by Carre'
apparatus, are producing forty tons Of ice
per day, and increasing their capacity by the
addition OF machines, SC that by next spring
they hope to produce $50 tons each day The
machines, however, are elaborate and costly,
the largest being valued at S25 600 and capa-
Bile OF producing more than ten tons per day.
at a cost estimated at 50 to SIS. The daily
expense is a very little fuel and the cost Of
working. CongeIation is produced by the
alternate evaporization which cakes Of ice are
formed every FIVE minutes in twenty pound
slabs abut three inches thick, which are piled
upon one another and CONCEALED to any
desired thickness.
The largest rose bush in existence is in the
Marine Garden at Toulon France It is
called the Lady Banks, and covers wall
seventy feet in width, and eighteen feet in
height. The trunk measures near the root,
two feet eight inches. During the month of
April 1t produces fifty thousand white roses
The oldest known rose bush is the one which
grows on he wall Of the cathedral at Hides
helm Prussia. Il is one thousand years old,
and from its trunk, which Is one foot il
diameter, extends six branches fifteen feet in
height. The Bishop Of Hildesheim, in the
Middle Ages, had IT covered with a roof to
protect it from he inclemency OF the weather
MoUSr YEeNoN the burial place of Wash
ington, is in dilapidated and disgraeeful
condition; but it is visited by hundreds CON
standy, and every visitor has to pay fee Of
fifty cents. There was q terrible hubbub
raised a few years ago by the old ladies who
chrisleHed themselves Regents" Of the
Mount Neraon Association, abous the then
owner of the property ''selling the bones of
Washington aud a considerable sum was
raised by Mr. Everett and the Regents" to
rescue the bones from the mercenary hands
Of the dekering F. F. Y. Some explanation
of the right Of the Association to now turn
the tomb Of Washington into peep-show
would be acceptable.
Az Art GALLERY, to cost one million and
half Of dollars, is to be erected on Fifth
avenue. New York. Mr. Henry Keep, a
wealthy railroad man, has bought lot two
hundred feet square.on Fifth avenue, between
West Fifty FIRST and Fiitysecond streets, where
the building is TO be constructed. After
founding and endowing the art gallery, Mr.
Keep proposes TO place it in charge of com
mittee OF ladies Of a fixed number, with pro
vision to ell the vacancies as they occur from
death OF otherwise. A small admission fee
is to be charged eoch visitor, the revenue
coming from which is to form a fund for two
purposes: first the care and repair of the
building and its contents; second the surplus
for the relief Of the poor of all nations need
ing succor in the city Of New York.
OS the recent wedding day Of tue grand
Duse Of Mecklenburg the reioicings Of the
party assembled at the dinner table were
suddenly brought to very dsagreeable close
All the guests were suddenly taken very sick,
rather large quantity of arsenic having been
added to pudding, Of which everybody
seated at the table had partaken. il was dis.
covered that. one of the girls in the kitchen
had thrown the rat poison into the sugar-box,
whence il had found its way into the pudding.
Emetics quickly administered relieved the
sufferers, but the wedding day Of a sovereign
Prince hardeiy ever closed in as dismal a
manner AZ tha. of the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg.
Ar the last session of the Pennsylvania
Legislature an act was passed providing for
disappointment Of commission to adiudcate
and record the claims of citizens Of the coun-
ties Of Adams. Franklin, Fulton, Bedford,
oFk, ferIy aud Cumoerland, Tor damages
incurred by the Rebel invasion Of 1868, eth
er through the public enemy or the appro-
pration of property by the Uaiou army.
Thus far the Commissioners have visited but
three counties es-Perry, Bedford and Fulton
in which the damage was much less than in
the remaining four. In Perry county the
losses viii amount to but $1,000. In Bedford
county there are fifty claimants, whose DANA
ges amount to $1,000. In Fulton county,
which was not exposed, there are one hun
dred and thirty claimants, whose damages
viii reach at least $4,000 exclusive Of the
loss by one party of one hundred and seven
ty-two fat cattle.