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

RoBEar BEeKLEY, living in Wyaudotte,
Kansas, took his step-son, two years old, out
to the suburbs OF the town, last Sunday, and
deliberately killed him. Beckley was arres.
ted, and it was feared that the people in that
vicinity would take The law intheir 0 own hands
and lynch him.
The draft for the payment of the purchase
money for Alaska Territory, was signed and
delivered to Baron Stoeckel, the Russian
Minister on Saturday. II is drawn on the
Assistant Treasurer at New York for the sum
Of 81, 200, 600 in gold, payable on demand.
Mns. LNCoLg sailed for Southampton,
England, on Saturday, accompanying Hon.
Reverdy Johnson. On arriving there she Will
proceed thence to Scotland where she ex.
poets to spend the summer, with clergyman
a relatiye Of the family Afterwards she ex-
poets to visit the south Of France. Her
youngest son, Thaddeus, viii accompany her.
TnEY say that the cold hearted young King
Of Bavaria has been caught at last in the
meshes Of a pretty young lady named Ida
Braun, and filling a subordinate position al
the Munich Theatre. The Queen, bis moth
er, is highly indignant at this latest wbim oi
her royal son, who does not conceal his at
taehment to Miss Braun, and goes to see her
every day
Thirty years ago, when King Christian, Of
Denmark, then poor little German prince,
fell in love with his wife, then poorer, but
pretty little countess, his parents told him
that be must not disgrace himself by such a
mesaHiaRcc, However, he did so disgrace
himself, and the result is that the poor little
countess is now considered the most sensible,
dignifed and respectable lady seated on any
European throne.
SPEAKER ColFAX has appointed General
Butler, Judge Poland, Of Vermont, aud Mr..
Beck, Of Kentucky, Commissioners, under a
/ resolution Of the House. to visit Prince Ed
wards Island They are to make inquiry
into the exports and imports Of the Island,
and the views and position, as well as the
I authority Of the Colonial Government to enter
into special arrangements with the United
States.
CArrIN PlUM4CnER, Of Switzerland, has
/ purchased forty thousand acres Of land in the
vicinity Of Tulahoma and McMinnyille, in
Tennessee. The first instaIment Of immi-
grants, designing to establish themselves
( upon this tract, passed through Lynchburg on
/ Friday, en- route for their new homes They
are men Of means, aud will make excellent
citizens. They viii engage 10 the planting Of
vineyards, and in stock raising on an exten-
/ siye scale.
/ GENERAL HowAEn has written letter to
! Brevet Brigadier General Brooks. Assistant
/ Commissioner ofthe Freedmeu's Bureau for
Maryland, directing the operations Of ths
[ Bureau in that State, excepting the education
al work and the payment Of bounties as pro-
/ yided by law, be discontinued on and after
the l0th Of August. The educational work
and bounty payments viii be under the super
vision Of The Assistant Commissioner Of the
District Of Columbia and West Virginia.
ANOTHER winter Of starvation and distress
seems to be in store for The poor people of
East Prussia. A long continued drought has
much reduced the prospects Of good crop,
and even partial failure IN this respect will
4 lead to "a renewal Of last winters horrors
! The Enst Prussians are filed with the utmost
( gratitude toward the United States. Next to
/ Germany, North America has sent them more
I liberal assistance ia their distress than any
other coatry in the world Frsnce and
Russia did almost nothing for them. The
comparatively largest contribution in money
came from San Francisco
a PeonIyENr Radical Senator from the
West, says the Washington correspondent Of
the New York Times sent through third
party warming to President johnson that il
/ Congress re-assembles ia September twill be
for the purpose fimpeachng him. He ad-
ded that ifMr, johnson behaved himself in
manner acceptable to the Republicans Of both
Houses, there would be no danger Of a meet
ing Of either House before the next regular
session. The President is said to have re
ceived the message with an Acknowledgements
Of gratitude TO the sender and promise TO
heed it.
Tng Knox .IlL) Rcpu5licqa has the fol-
lowing: "A farmer near Oneida, one day
last week, while ON an unfrequented part Of
his farm, near a rayiue, discovered that an
oak saplug had been cut and carried to the
ravine, which caused him to investigate the
matsr, the result Of which was he found a
trap door covered by the sod, which opened
into a room excavated in the ground. This
room was ouite we'll fitted M, with tslias s,J
chairs, and containing stolen property Of all
kinds, and was evidently the rendezvous of
thieves"
The only important measures that failed in
Congress for the want of time to perlectthem
were the Tariff bill, the bill for the reduction
oft army, the bin providing provisional
governments for the States of Virginia.
Mississippi and Texas, and the Sandwich
Island treaty. The Tariff bill is in possession
ofthe Ways aRd Means Committee The
Military bill was passed by the Senate, but
was left in the hands of the House Military
Committee, while the Virginia, Mississippi
and Texas Provisional Government bill
passed the House, and is on the table Of the
President of the Senate awaiting action The
Sandwich Island treaty was postponed till
next session.
From Oil City, Eenango county. Penn
sylyanla, a correspondent writes to the
New York Tribune and from him we learn,
that lands, in the oil region, heretofore
deemed worthless for oil-boring purposes
are in cood demand q nd rho avtst,t of tarri