Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-07-17
BULLS AND BLUNDERs OF NEWS
PAPERS.

The AdUertisers' Gazette makes the fol-
lowing collection of this class of literary
curiosities
A Wisconsin paper says During q
fierce thunder storm near Mount Desert,
the lightning came down through the roof
of house and bed, upon which lay
husband and wife, throwing the man out of
bed, thence into the cellar and out through
the drain, and then plowed up the ground
to the barn-yard, where it killed cow
A Connecticut editor gives an account of
a man who blew out his brains after bid
ding his wife goodbye with shot gun.
The Salt Lake Vidctte has the following:
"CouectiOn-Instead of people all very
lousy, in letter from Crystal Park the
other day, read, people are very busy ,"
The strongest man has just been heard
from. He was lecturing to female assem-
bly, at the West, and an editor thus de-
scribes the scene ''Three thousand ladies
hanging on the lips Of one man.
The Independent, in speaking Of new
steam brewery in the town, remarks "We
are glad to see important articles manufac-
tured at home, at greatly reduced prices. "
An account of the FIRE at Barnum's :, which
was telegraphed from New York, congratu-
lates the country ON "the escape of the fe-
male giantess" We think male giantess
would be still greater curiosity.
A Western editor in one of his papers,
says: "For the effects of intemperance,
see our inside.
The Springfield Republican tells of
horse which ran away in that city, throw
ing the driver out and cutting a severe cash
in one of his hind legs
The World says that Ex-Governor An
drew was born in 1918, previous to which e
vent he had two strokes of appoplexy, one
in 1904 and the other IN 1900"
The classic London Spectator makes Gu
rious slip when it speaks of Matilda Griggs,
who twas stabbed by lover to whom she
had borne child in thirteen places.
A notice of recent steamboat explosion
in a Western papers ends as follows The
Captain swan ashore So did the cham
Der maid she was insured for $4,000, and
loaded with iron. "
An editor, referring to a patent metallic
air-tight coffin, says ''No person having
once tried one of these cofins viii ever use
any other
A political paper in Minnesota, in advo-
eating the election of its candidate, says that
its standard bearer, Charles Z. Flandrau,
has twice laid down his life to save Western
Minnesota from being devastated by the In
dams. Its opponents thinks a dead
corpse [! D after all a suitable candidate for
dead party. :"
From the Nevada Trespass we clip an ac-
count of meeting held in San Francisco by
the poor citizens who were trying to obtain
free grants of land from the State: Judge
Turner, of Nevada in addressing the meet
ing, had occasion to say that if the bold
hearted, landless men of San Francisco would
work together and exercise the right of pc
tition and discussion, they would each of
them, ere long, have little home for his
children. Imagine Judge Turner's con-
sternation on reading in the Bulletin the
next morning, that he said If the bald
headed landlords of San Francisco would
work together, they would each of them,
ere long, heaye little more land for their
children
A Syracuse printer, in setting up book
publishers advertisement, construed one of
Dickens works thus: :" Barney" by Rudge
81 SO"
Benjamin Franklin, once putting to press
form of the Common Prayer, the letter
SC in the following passage dropped out
unperceiyed by him: 1--WE shall be chang
ed in the twinkling of an eye" When the
book appeared, to the horror of the deYout
worshippers, the passage read: 'We shall
all be hanged in the twinkling of an eye"
A religious paper noticed, by an odd typo
graphical error, that "a new church has
been founded at Elizabeth, N. j., under
suspicious circumstances" The suspicious
was misprint for auspicious.
A reporter for London paper wrote the
verdict of coroner's jury "Died from
hemorrhage, and the public gained the
information the next day that the deceased
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