Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-10-01
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from which men can extract wealth, it is a
heavy job for any man or set of men to IN
dertake to reform.
A MAN in Milwaukee deposited slo0 in a
bank, and being told the interest would be
fVe per cent, at the end Of the year he
came with FIVE dollars in currency to pay
the interest Learning that the interest
went the other way, he departed wondering
why man should pay him for being allowed
to take care of his money a whole year.
One C. NJ. Case, of New York, who
recently became bondsman for Henry
Woods, a notorious eounterfeiter, repre-
senting that he owned FIVE thousand acres
of land 10 Suffolk county, L. l., on which
there was no ineumbrance, has been held in
/ $l5,0 900 for examination, it appearing that
his statement under oath is contradicted by
the record.
ExPLANAToRY.--It must be query in
the masculine mind, what is the meaning of
the long, coarse hanks of gray, blonde, and
brown tow hanging in Haberdashers win
dows. These are material for stufing the
long and abundant braids which are so fash
ionable on every woman's head The scaut
supply of natural hair is carefully wound
round these wisps of fax, which are dyed as
near the natural color of the locks as posi-
bic, and rich braid is the result. Our wo-
men might emulate the conduct of the Gre
clan maidens, who cut off their hair for bow
strings, without such sacrifice. All they
would have to do would be to produce the
store of hemp threads from their tresses,
and supplement hair with silyery Mantilla.
! WHEREABOUTS OF MINISTER CURTIN
Advices received from His Exeellency An
drew G. Curtin, state that owing to the pro-
longed absence of the Emperor from st.
Petersburg, it has not been possible vet to
present his eredential as Envoy Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to that
Court He was, till lately, at Dresden with
his family, under the instructions Of Secre-
tary Fish, awaiting the return Of Minister
Gortschakof from London, when he will be
presented. Hon. T. j. Cofey, the Secreta-
ry of the Legation, accompanies the ex- Gov
ornor, and has placed his children at school
/ in Dresden. The health Of Minister Curtin
has been good, and he has received during
his visit many attentions from not only
American, but English, French and German
tourists at Dresden, who are enthusiastic in
/ their expressions Of admiration of our Penn
! sylvania Ambassador.
MURDERER HANGED BY a MoB.-In Por-
! tage City, Wisconsin, on Thursday, VIM.
Spain, lawyer, and Barney Britt, former,
met in the street aud renewed a quarrel
that had its origin when they were mem
bers Of the Nineteenth Wisconsin Reei-
ment. After they had separated Spain
went home, procured a revolver, and on
meeting Britt again soon afterward shot
and almost instantly killed him, scarcely
a word being exchanged Spain then de-
liberately walked down street, fourishing
his revolver, closely followed by Marshal
( Hickey, who arrested him. While he was
| passing up the street again an excited
crowd of people followed, and when oppo-
site the American Express Office a general
onslaught was made upon the prisoner.
The excitement increased fearfully, and
cries of Hang him. Hang himl rent
| the air. The crowd soon increased at the
express Office to the number of one hun
dred who took the prisoner into their pos
session, placed a rope about his neck and
dragged him to the nearest tree, below the
Ellsworth House, and hanged him.
A GREAT NATIONAL ENTERPRIsE. .-Ne1g
Mouth for the Utss issippi Rigey-Nofoh
to be made an Important Port. The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Her
aid says;
The naturally navigable waters of the
Mississippi valley aggregate nearly 100
miles. Water has its currents and so has
trade. But those of the latter do not run
with the former; for in the main the great
outlet Of trade is northeast by the lakes,
Erie Canal and Hudson, instead of South,
by the Gulf of Mexico. It is now proposed
to open a way across the Virginia mountains
broad and deep enough to drain the Missis
/ sippi valley due eastward into the Chesa-
peake, not of water, of course, but of pro
duce The old James river and Kanawha
Canal-already finished half the distance
was to connect the waters Of the James with
those Of the Kanawha, a tributary Of the
Ohio; but the proposed canal is to be of a
capacity equal at least to the great Erie
Canal of New Y ork Such canal, by sup
plying 400 miles of the route, would open
the way for transportation without trans
/ shipment between the ocean and I7,OOO
miles of already navigable inland waters.
The project is to be brought before Congress
this winter, and it is expected that it viii
be petitioned for by citizens of every part of
/ the Union. Great considerations of nation
al defence are said by military men to Justify
/ it, but the grand commercial hypothesis is
the manner in which it would effect the
grain interest Of the West and the bread in
terest Of the East. 1t appears by official
reports of the United States engineers
changed with surveys, etc, Of proposed ma
tional canals in the Northwest, that the
dangers of lake navigation, the numerous
transshipments, the necessity of much rail
road carriage, and the elosiog of navigation
five twelfths of the year, besides the heavy
tolls on the Erie Canal, all make the cost Of
carrying Western grain to the seaboard by
existing routes enormous
Another great work proposed is the Coosa
cotton route, from Mobile up the Alabama
river, thence up the Coosa river till within
thirty miles Of the south bend of the Tenn
essee river; across this thirty miles a ship
canal; thence up the Tennessee and its long