Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-09-25
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

ing bears in the streets of Quebec was recent |
ly complained of and taken before the courts /
for endangering the lives Of citizens. He took |
his animals into the court and proved to the |
Judge that they were not dangerous, as they |
happened to be boys disguised in bear skins. |
THE bricklayers Of New York have sent |
committee to visit the different cities of the
United States to lay before the trade organi-
cations the true position of affairs in refer
ence to the strike and to request aid. The
report of these committees is said to be
very encouraging, and the sympathy of the
mechanics all over the country is enlisted in
the eight-ho movement.
TIE Sea Island cotton crop for this season
is represented by the Charleston papers as a
total failure They say that although the
crop is more advanced this year than last,
the caterpillar is three weeks earlier. In
reference to this insect, it is stated that they
are sweeping the entire east coast of Florida,
and are pervadng every island on the coast
of South Carolina, and devouring the crops
along the whole line of the Savannah and
Charleston Railroad.
| SPEAKER CoLFAx is reported to be engaged
to be married to Miss Nellie Wade, niece
| of Senator Wade of Ohio. She is described
| as a sweet sensible, accomplished lady Of
/ thirty years, an Ohio farmers daughter,
/
1 heart Of the second man in public lite in the
nation, and of the position by his side in
! home and in society she is destined soon to
1 take.
In BERLIN, the capital of Prussia, there
are now sixty-one political, social and official
papers; one hundred and thirty news,
| scientific, religious, art and entertaining jour
| mails, and fifty three agricultural, commercial,
| industrial and advertising papers. AT the
| end Of the reign of Frederick the Great, in
| the year 1885, there were only one daily pa
| per, two tri-weekly, two weekly, and one
monthly.
| AT Nantucket common conversation is in
sea lingo Boys in the street never throw a
stone; they hedre it. People out walking or
! driving are 'gone on cruise" They don't
stop or rest; they lay By. place is not SO
many rods, but so many ship lengths away.
| Clothing and knick knacks generally are
| tackle and rigging. To 60 from side to side,
or from room to room, is to gam. They put
| things aft, they Stoto them away or haul them
over; they shct0 light, and every man is a
captain.
The OLDEST PRlNTER.-The Palmyra
| (Missouri) Courier says that the oldest prin-
| ter in the United States lives in that village,
and claims the honor Of Colonel James NJ.
| Stoddard, who was born in Croton., CT, Jan
uary 81, 1884. He began to learn the prin.
ting art in the tenth year of his age, 1894,
| with Col. Samuel Green, in the Office of the
| Connecticut Gazette, at New London, where
he continued his apprenticeship for about
three and half years, when he emigrated
with his father family to western New I ork.
A QUEER FIsH.-The Calais (Me.) Adrer.
| tiseT describes monster fish recently caught
near Eastport. 1t is thirty three feet in length
and about ten feet from the tip of one IN to
! the tip of the other across the back. About
! ten feet from the tail are two powerful legs,
| about three feet in length, with feet which
resembles those of an elephant, and enable
! it to navigage the flats and shoal-waters along
| shore in quest OF food, it undoubtedly lives
on marine herbage. 1t has three rows of
/ teeth, which look like so many rows of rice
on end. Its name is given as the ''shark
| dog fish.
DEATH or ANOTHER CoSGREssMAE.-Th
/ Hon. Darwin A. Finney, Member of Congress
| from the Crawford district, died in the city of
| Brussels, Belgium, on the 25th Of August.
| He was elected to Congress in 1886, and
occupied his seat but few months owing to
| the State of his health. He left Washington
to go to Europe to reeuperate, and it was
| thought that he had been greatly benefited
! by his travel, until the sad intelligence of
ago a member of the State Senate from the
| Crawford district. He was man of talent,
highly esteemed and an ardent Republican.
Nh. GEORGE w. GUILDS. of the philadelphia
| Ledger, who has won, by many good actions,
! the name of being one ofthe most benevolent,
! as he is also one of the most enterpr5sIng and
| sagacious of Philadelphia business men, not
long ago presented to persons employed in
! responsible positions in the Ledger office, life
! insurance policies amounting in the aggregate
| to $40, ,000-undertaking at the same time to
! pay the premium-about SO, goo per annum,
/ for ten years, at the expiration of which time
/ the policies become, by their terms, self
paying. Mr.. Childs goes to Europe next
month with his wife, on a tour in search of
rest and health.
! OLD FAsmoYED Wheat CRoPs.-The
/ farmers in the vicinity of Rochester, New
/ York, who are now in the hight Of wheat
4 thrashing, report some very large yields. A
/ few farmers in Bergen and Byron have raised
crops that average forty bushels per acre, and
/ a large number in Genesee and the western
| part of Monroe have realized thirty-tive
/ bushels per acre. The largest yields from
/ selected fields that we have heard of are five
/ hundred and hfty-two bushels from twelve
acres, raised by Ed. Emmens, of Riga, and
| two hundred and four bushels from four and
one half acres, raised by Pitt Squires, of Chill.
In quantity per acre the Genesee wheat
section is returning to its old standard; but it
is doubtful whether it viii do so in point of
quality.
A New York correspondent writing on
| Thursday evening, the 17th inst says: ''Ne
are having a genuine foretaste OF winter,
which makes fires and overcoats indispensa-
| BILE, and affords the coal dealers plausible
! Eo- ~, nf Fbafr
! merchandise a peg or TWO. Passengers down
| the Hudson River and New Haven roads, this
morning report quite heavy frost all through
that region. heavy gale from the North
west has been blowing since last evening,
doubtless, the precursor of our old friend, the
| equinoctial, if not the veritable equinoctial
itself Sore throats, catarrhs colds in the
head, and various other ailments, resulting
from so sudden a change in the temperature,
appear to be almost universal
KING VIcToB Emanuel recently had
narrow escape from death in a mountain
pass He suddenly found his progress imped
ed by mass OF rock, which appeared impas-
sable Undeterred by its formidable aspect,
the King put his foot on it, but the snow with
which it was covered rested on mass Office,
which his weight gradually displaced. A shep
herd few yards below him, perceiviug the
imminent danger, scrambled up the rock and
caught him by the back Of his shooting coat
The King took off his hat to the shepherd, and
the spot handed him one thousand scudi. He
has since settled pension upon him for life.
BARON Won BEusT.-The feudal aristoc-
racy of Austria treats Baron Won Beust and
his colleagues of the Liberal Cabinet with
the utmost dsdain. His wife is not recogni-
zed by the high-bor ladies as their equal,
and, when they happen to meet her in public,
they treat her with offensive rudenes Few
wealthy aristocrats have ever set foot in
Beust's house When he issued invitations
for his first public dinner, three-fourths of
them were returned. Most of the Archdukes,
too, treat Beust and Giskra with ridiculous
hduteur The Archduke Albert, who, al
thnnrh he won the hattie of Cnstnzza Is hv