Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-07-30
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Z JeCti AFTER ouHraSei w liabs leceiFsu an
answer the other day in the shape Of an old
pair of trowseTs, a jacket and duh razor
The returns from Virginia are still IN
complete. Richmond papers Of Saturday
last having returns or reported majorities
for Governor from al the counties in the
State except Amherst aud Henry, which
foot up for walker 1I5. 100, and for Wells
6,446, showing majority for Walker of
IS, ,663
ASA PACKER showed bis patriotism,
when the war broke out, By going to Eu-
rope, and remaining sevsral years. The
whole male portion Of Governor Geary s
family, able to be in the army, was there
fighting for the preservation Of the Union.
As to the Governor, everybody knows his
enviable record.
CANADA, ike other British colonies is
famous for the poverty Of its Governors.
Lord Elgin, Sir Edmund Head, and Lord
Monck are said to have been IN rather
Strengthened circumstances when they first
came over, and Sir John Young to be no
better of. They all get more comfortable
before they 60 home.
a MAN who has worked for years in the
Brooklyn navy yard, as a machinist, has
learned in his leisure hours to speak, read
and write Hebrew, French, German and
Italian, and obtained a thorough knoul-
edge of geology and botany. Out of his
savings he has purchased library Of 200
volumes.
A STAGE carpenter named John O'Con-
nell, employed at the Bowory Theater,
New York, died very suddenly a few nights
ago 1t appears he undertook to walk
around the stage forty-two times in seven
minutes, and accomplished it, but was
Immediately taken sick, and died some hours
afterward
CoTToS IN INDIA The total quantity
of land devoted to the growth Of cotton
throughout the whole Of India does not ex-
eeed s, 100000 acres. If this quantity Of
land was as productive in India as it is in
the United States, it would yield something
Ike four million bales, or half bale per
acre. But the yield is so much less than
this that theextent Of the imports from In
dia in an average yield is not more than a
million and half of bales of 394 lbs. each.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to be failing in
health. A London paper says the presence
of crowd or a succession Of persons who
are present at court, produces on her ner-
vous system the giddiness and other simp-
toms common to landsmen at sea Consid-
ering her Majesty's habits Of puuctuality,
and the hard labor and anxiety she has un-
dargone during her happily protracted reign,
it cannot be matter Of surprise that the
nervous system should become fatigucd.
RED CLOUD, chief Of one Of the merciless
marauding bands Of Indians on the frontier,
who has Just swept a tribe Of peaceful saw
ages out Of the Wind River Valley, is de-
seribed as physically model Of perfection,
SIX feet two inches tau, with a handsome
face Of the eagle type, a keen, fierce eye, a
poudorous head and lofty brows; and as
doubtless one of the most crafty and intelli-
gent Of his race.
Ar Lawrence, Massachusetts, a cunning
old farmer was recently tried for putting
stones in his loads Of hay to increase the
weight. He put one hundred and fifteen
pounds of stones in one load, and was de-
tected in pulling them out after the hay was
weighed. One witness testified that he had
been annoyed for year or two past, at
times by piles Of country stones, moss Gov
ered being left where the prisoner unload
ed bis hay.
KooPNANsHooP. The idea of Mr.. Koor-
manshoop, the great Chinese coolie agent,
in visiting New York, is to take survey Of
the country, in order to form an opinion Of
its capacity for the employment Of Chinese
labor. If he receives encouragement, es-
pecially in the Southern States, be will un-
dertake the importation Of Cinnamon on a
huge scale. He viii employ all available
vessels, and his agents in China will be pre-
pared to fill them with human freight as
fast as they arrive. We may soon see the
insetting Of Mongolian tide, which is ca
pable Of rising to any conceivable magni-
tude.
I 4 DEMOCRATIC ExPLoFr-At last there
is a Democratic State Convention which
constructs a platform without mentioning
the Fifteenth amendment. This surprising
exploit was performed last week at Des
| Moines by the Democracy of Iowa. They
denounee the Maine Liquor Law, high
protective tariff, and so on, but laid resolve
against the Amendment on the table This
is encouraging, and proves the utility Of
being beaten. A long succession of severe
defeats has chastened the Democracy Of
Iowa into degree of good sense that their
brethren in some other States have not yet
attained.
An expert locksmith called on the officers
of the Ocean National Bank, n. T., and
offered to pick the combination lock on their
safe, if they would let him. The door was
locked, the President only knowing the COM
bination, which was single one out Of
some millions that the lock afforded and
then submitted it to the smith, who in a
very few minutes had it open. So it seems
there is way of overcoming the seeming
impossibility Of hitting upon the exact
figures. The locksmith said be could teach
the trick TO a person of ordinary capacity in
a very few minutes.
THE Boston Post, the leading Democratic
journalof New England, referring to the
eowardly attack upon the eolored printer
Douglass, says we see no reason, if a
negro be respectable, well behaved and com
petent, Why be should not be permitted to