Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-11-05
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

in Jaw, Mrs Hill, has been found.
COLEMAN C. MoCLEAN, aged aboutl9
years, who>e par nts reside at Gettysbfg
committed suicide at Meadville on Satuday
last, by shooting himself with pistol.
ONE Of the Harvard professors, who lad
taught French fnr twenty years, with eeat
,uccess lately tried to converse viii
Feochmen, and the man had finally toin
form the sage that IL was no use-be
couldn't understand Dutch
TEE colored population Of Cairo, Ilinis.
have such dread of medical students belly
ed to infect thai place aud to seize ann
good specimens Of their race for d,sseHion
that night meetings and promenades a'e un
popular.
TEA.-A Japanese colony has commenced
the produc ion Of tea in California Ihr
leeds were brought from japan BY people
accustomed to the culture. They haze been
planted, have eeFmiBatcd and afe row
growing lhriitily in III Dorado eouny
THE free traders are in convention at Euf
falo. Professor Perry, who recently had a
d scu>sion with Mr.. Greeley at Boston, sBd
other prominent free trade advocates, made
-peeches. Resolutions were passed urgiug
the repeal OF the duties on iron and coal
THE business men Of Wabash, Indiana
have adopted resolution asking hat the
harbers' shops in that city be closedbn Sun
day, because allowing them TO be ipen ON
that day would be granting black nen spe-
cial tavors over white men.
PRoF. GRUEssELBEcK, of the University
OF L ndon, has discovered sleeping potion
which will suspend the vital faculties Tor
any length of time, when he can rvive the
patient by Stimulating fluid He pro-
noes to test his discovery on the next erin
inal condemned to death.
RETURNS are received from more than
two-'hrds Of all The Prrsbyteries raifyine
the re- union of the Presbyterian Chueh hy
The required majority The two grad As
semhlies will meet in Pittsburgh on tie IO,h
of November, to count the votes aIl de.
clare the result.
THE flag Of the One Hundred and Fitch
regiment Of Pennsylvania volunteers can
'ured hy the rebels at Gettysburg, ad az
terwsrds re-eaptured among the baggge Of
JEFF Davis. has been received by the State
A jutant General from The War Dpart-
ment
The Miners Joay7al announces ahsud
N the election, in Norwegian towship.
Schuylkill county, there being but tWsuty
three names on the list of voters while I72
votes we're polled, aud calls for investigation
not only as To that but other distress in
that county. The voters in that mex of
woud- couldn't have been enlightened on
the Registry question.
A REFRESHING story is told by the lon
don Times Of the state of educalion in the
British navy. It appears that when he
French feet visited Sgithead the admirajn
command OF the English feet Signslled 10
all The ofhcers OF the squadron who cuud
speak French To accompany the pilots on
board The French vessels. But one officer
the signal.
Miss EMMA WEBB, the young woman
who is leciuling against female suffrage Is
described as Of fascinating presence, ra her
more than the average hight, poses ~ng
charming oval face, full of intelligence;
pair OF bright black eyes, from which dart
glanceS full of fire and meaning, and be,au
ful hair, arranged in the most wonderful. of
Iop knots with long streaming locks behind.
AT the late meeting of the Educa ion
League. in Birmingham, England, one OF
The speakers told a story designed to illus
lrate the Failure of present methods of teach
ing. A teacher was trying 20 show her pu-
plls that they saw with their eyes and heard
With their ears, but it was revelation Ia
hem. She then said, you have noses.
what are they for?' After dead Si epce
f9r moment an adventurous youth re-
Piled, Please ma am, to be wiped -
The Pittsburgh Gazette says "Au i'm
portant imnroyement in The msnufacture of
~" 7S C'nia'H ''a. 49, haep devised Nv -,
Philadelphia mechanic. The III. IL being
-tntfrd with elastic cork, is light in wei ht.
and adapts itself 70 the shape of the animal
~ readily as if it was mduld-d IL is highly
.laStic. does not chafe or gall the neck. and
The cork being uou-conductor, injury from
The heat is prevented.
A CANADIAN merchant, recently arrived.
-avs that money is very abundant In Can
ada, and can he had on roo security atfour
per cent. per annum. He add. that TIlit,d
States bonds are the brst securities for uau,
north Of the St. Lawrence. Pronabl- the
Canadians will think before long tlat it
y ould he hfst tn arrange their BOUNDARIES So
'hat United States bonds will not he cllssei
As foreign securities.
SAD CASE OF DRowNIHG. On Sunday
afternoon last two men took a bout at
Connecticut. for the puro>e
1t crossing the Pennington liver Ni'h |
hem we're boy and girl and the faurtook
'eats in the boat. When about half Wav |
across, one Of the oars slipped and fell ,yer-
hoard. and in endeavoriDg to recover the |
iaS rh L
ost, and the boat becoming mnmsnagetlle. |
aoated rapidly down the stream and oycr
the dam. The men We're rescued about 1
half a mile below, one of them ip>eb>ible |
ana the other nearly soi but the two children |
we're drowned.
REJOICING OVER A Us DEFEAT-The |
Republicans OF Tennessee who are t mora |
-ily residing in Washington met on Satur
lay evening at the S.. James Hotel. al |
eight clock, for the purpose of EXPRESSING |
heir gratitude for fhe def4at OF Andrew !
Johnson in their State. The parhrs were
iled 70 overlooking by the friends Of the |
Republicans from Tennessee. On motion. |
J udge j. W. North, Of Rockville. T-nnes- |
zee, was called to the chair and Colonel |
John Robinson, Of Carol county, vas elect
d Secretary. Judge North explained the /
'hJfct Of the meeting in well-timed speech |
'ongratnlating the country upon the glori
,us result of the late Senatorial election in
heir State
The identical towel which Hannah Dustin
Ised 10 tie fifteen Indian scslp>, atthe time
,he ESCAPED from captivity aud retlrned TO |
daverhill, Mass, Is now in guod state of I
preservation. and is hand, d down As an heir.
o"n IN the family Of Charles H. Bowel, Of
Randolph. Mrs. Dustin maiden name was
Hannah Cluff. the initials Of which are
marked on the towel by her own hand. |
.Fhlch towel she herself spun and wove be-
'o!re marriage. She requested {, have ir
given TO the Oldest daughter in eacl family
lt has passed through four successive zen
'rstions, aud Is preserved az a sacied relic
u the brave woman. That's first class /
Dustin towel
A WHISKY REBELLION. There has been
} whisky war In Brouklyn on small >ca'e