Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-03-19


sosrE idea Of the naenituds Of the Amer
icip Cattla Trade may be derived from the
.ollowins facts, rleaHad from the Report of
the Department Of Agriculture for January:
Beeves received 10 New York 293. l0l.
B-evcs received is Chicago, los. .537
Becves received in St. Louis, 10000
B,eves received 10 Boston, $4,000
Total consumption in four cities, $780,
63s
TaE net pubic debt was reduced nearly
Given millions last month Dedueting the
railway bonds, the total was $2,49l ,399,-
904. So. Making the same deduction from
the preceding report, the net reduction,
/ Including those bonds from both months,
was nearly thirteen millions of dollars, or
about two millions in excess Of the mouths
issue Of bonds to those corporations.
THE annual report Of the Pennsylvania
State Lnnatie Hospital conveys some inter-
e,;ing information. The statistics show
/ that Of /, ,45G insane males, AL are farmers,
40l lsborers, % backsmilhs, IS carpenters,
43 merchants, l6 physicians, and printers.
OF women, 535 we're housewives, 81 daugh-
ters of farmers, go domestics and 254 no oc-
cupatiun, the whole number being l,073.
TIE sprouts Of the potato contain az aka
Ibid terrzed by chemists soJaaiae, which is
very poisonous if taken into the system
This does not exist in the tubers, unless they
are exposed to the light and air, which
sometimes occurs from the accidental re-
| movai Of the earth 10 cultivation. A potato
that shows a blackish green tint on one side
should never be cooked for the table or fed
to stock
THE counterfeit swindlers are now located
| in Illinois. They ssnda note to their vic
tim, incIosing 4 genuine twenty-five cent
piece Of pos,al currency as sample aud
offer to sell the same at counterfeiter's
prices. The victim tries it at a bank, and
finds it a sure thing and safe. He sends on
SO 70 $50 for four times the amount in
counterfeits That IS the last be hears of
the matter.
LUXEMBOURG, it was decided By the Lon
don Conference Of 1867, should belong Meth
or to F,ance ror Pralssia, but 10 provision
was made to enforce the decree. The forti6-
cations also we're to be demolished by the in
habitants, but the rate of progress OF the
work was not prescribed. The inhabitants,
however, it is stated, have appropriated the
sum of ST so per week to carry on the de-
molition Of the fortresses, and it is calcula-
tsd that it viii take about two thousand
years to com plete the leyeliug Of the walls.
TANNING.-It has been discovered recent
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adapted for the tanning Of hides as the bark,
and that almost any kind will answer the
purpose The principal point to be attend
ed to is to make use Of wood cut when it is
full of sap, as thereby the greatest amount
of tanuin is secured The wood may be
used without the bark, or wood and bark
may be ground up together aud applied in
he usual method.
WOLFE, Ophtbalmie Surgeon for the
royal nfrmatory, Scotland, reports curing
several ca. es Of cancer by applying caustic
arrows, which he inserted in deep, broad
punctures into the diseased part As many
as FIVE arrows were used ct one time. This
lcid destroyed the vitality of the morbid
growth in three days when it came away
The wound should be treated by water
dressings. He reports that this treatment
gave no pain, which, if true is 4 most re-
nor lilo airaupstanca
THE population Of Boston is estimated at
two hundred and forty thousand. OF this
number one third are Catholics, who have
ample church accommodations. There are
one hundred and twenty places of religious
worship for the ron Catholics, who number
one hundred aud sixty thousand OF these
thirty-tWo are free churches, scattered
throug huut the city and divided among the
eading denominations. OF the eighty-eight
other Boston churches, not more than one
iu ten is ever crowded at the regular servi-
ces,
INDIANA-- is reported that crime pre-
walls to an extraordinary extent in Indiana,
in consequence cf the failure of the authori.
Ties to enforce the laws. TwentY.one mur-
ders in ten days in State with population
of million and half is asserted to be some
thing frightul, and the condition of affairs
exceeds that of any of the Southern States
even Texas itself In ten Of these cases
only were the murderers arrested; in five
others they were known to the authorities,
but escaped. and in six cases the assassins
are not known.
A SINGULAR instance Of the absurdities
of charitable requests is furnished in Lon
don, where some hundred gears ago some
good old soul left house and garden IN the
city as perpetual maintenance for three
poor women and cat. The property is now
; worth e40,0 year. Three poor women
and their cat-frieuds Of the trustees-are
maintained; and the rest of the income,
e39, $50 per annum, is expended in salaries
on uncles, aunts, cousins, appointed as
secretaries, treasurers, charlains, visitors,
etc, who see to the proper distribution of
aims, cateehise the old women and stroke
the cat.
PETROLEUM is now used in London in
vulcanzing India rubber, as it is capable of
dissolving chloride of sulphur as readily as
bi sulphide of carbon. Ordinary petroleum
: must, however, be completely deprived Of
its water, by means of the addition of ten
per cent OF concentrated sulphuric acid,
and the two shaken rapidly together. The
acid then settles and the petroleum is to be
poured off into very dry receiver, and
caustic lime added to the petroleum, as well
!. as some oxide of msganese, and distilled.
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