Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-07-23

- EE1AAAA EAI NEW Bfk democrat
writes the editorials for The Inlpeialist
Saturdays internal revenue receipts we're
81 ,6s3, 600.
a census just taken shows the population
Of Mexico to be 100000
NINE houses in Brooklyn, n. Y, were
blown down by tornado on Friday after
noon.
GEN. SHERMAN is at Boston, and Gen.
Sheridan at Newport Chief Justice Chase
IS in New York.
GEO. B. VAssHoN, eolored, was admitted
TO practice law as lawyer in the Criminal
Court at Washington on Saturday.
The number Of conyicts in Sing Sing
prison Whoare rebelious is over SIX hundred.
They refuse to work, and are locked up
The era of the unsurveyed lands of the
United States is fifteen times greater than
the whole era Of France.
THE forthcoming wool exhibition in Gin
cinuaii is looked forward TO with interest
throughout the trade
CHICAGO is to have two new fire engines
Of the rotary make. They are to cost
SANt1VDt 1A0 WIN w tAAAtA Siehoo hlaDAAiiI1'
THE Secretary Of the Navy and Admiral
Porter will shortly make a tour Of in
spection through the various eastern navy
yards,
THosE who can take the time TO nap it
during the summer season, are informed
that ten minutes sleep before dinner is worth
more than an hour after. 1t rests and re-
freshes the system for vigorous digestion.
GIN. PM SHERIDAN was recently chos-
en- President of a society of the Officers of
the Army Of the Potomac over Gen. Ne
Clellan, who was also a candidate for cleo
ton.
MCCLELLAN once remarked to friend
that he would not again put up with the in
Gignities which he had TO endure from poll
ticians during the campaign of 1864, to be
President hundred times.
GABRIEL FAU, military surgeon under
the first empire, suruamed the Physician of
the Poor, went on foot to the village Of
Levalynot to deposit his vote at the recent
election, though he is in his l02d year.
THERE is a man in Gallia county, Ohio,
whose sole personal property returned for
taxation IS included in the item Dogs
one hundred hollars OF course he's a
Democrat, aud howls about excessive taxa
ton
A MAN at Belfast, Me-, who had not seen
his son for eight years, and supposed him
dead, recognized him as one of the acrobets
10 circus which exhibited in that city last
week
TIE Pittsburgh Gazette says that the
MOnongahela collieries have shipped, in the
first half OF the current year, twenty seven
millions of bushels of bituminous coal to the
West and South This equals very nearly
one million of tons
A REVEREND son of Rev. Beecher. on be-
ing ordained, was sOlemnly charged thus
/ charge you never to forget that you are
the son ofyour father, the grandson of your
grandfather, and the nephew of your un-
Gle. - How about his aunt Harriet ?"
THERE we're three hundred and ninety
seven deaths in Philadelphia last week, an
increase of seventeen over the return for the
week previous. Among the deaths we're
nine from cholera and cholera morbus, thir-
teen from diarrhea, and l04 from cholera
inlantum
An 0BuGING LANDLORD. The sign
board Of tavern near Strasbourg, France,
hears the following inscription: Strong beer
and wine of the first quality Customers
drinking more than twelve glasses will be
sent home in a cab, free Of charge, in case
they are unable to walk.
A QUANTITY Of lager seized from beer
dealer in Boston on July 9th, was returned
on Saturday, on the ground that if kept it
v-,s,il er,rFl hafars. L,~4 Il,
could be had. In Cambridge man whose
stock consisted of only one keg oflager, lost
it By seizure, and was also sentenced to three
months imprisonment and a fine Of fifty
dollars.
Mr. Isaac ~ NORRIS, late a Govern
ment Commissioner to view the Union Pa
ciic Railroad, whose report caused so much
comment is out in long letter, in which
he reiterates his former statements concern
ing the road, aud is rather severe on Sena.
tor Conkling and ex Senator Wade for their
dispatches in praise of its construction and
management
OLIVIA, the correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press, excuses the strong
mindedness Of Susan B. Anthony. Let
u" she says, visit her faults tenderly.
Baby lips have never pressed her hard, cold
cheek. She has never tasted the sublimity
of motherhood. She has never bathed in
that immeasurable sea of Glory whose
waves touch the gates of Paradise.
HANK Monk, who drove Mr.. Greeley so
rapidly and joltingly down the mountain de-
scent into Placeryilie as to coerce the most
vigorous Saxon out of the mouth of the
philosopher, and to make him howl in sin
eerity lust once for protection, still
lives to tell the story, which he does to.
every casual traveller.
HELEN DoUGHERTY, of Western New
York, after long contest, has secured in
the Supreme Court the inventor title to a
machine which cuts splInts from a board in
beyel form, producing a cut hoop ready to
apply at once to a barrel; which patent COW
ers monopoly of the manufacture, and
pretty penny for the inyentress.
We notice the following in the Gaulios
Princess de-, before leaving Paris. must
have come to the conclusion that all is not
c0ulelu de rose in the life Of fashionable
woman, as the bill presented BY her dress
maker, and paid amounted to the modest
sum of one million two hundred thousand
francs This beats the Boston dressmaker's
bill for nearly one hundred thousand franesl
A FRENCH Democratic writer, just re-
turned from Italy, gives the following dis
NAL picture of the actual condition of Carl
baldi "The General is reduced to q skele-
ton; his features are wizened and contracted.
found him lying on divan and suffering
horribly from chronic rheumatism. The
ex Dictator, bent over like the leaning tow
er of Pisa, Is but shadow of bis former
SELF 1t is difficult to recognize the lion of
the republic in this forlorn and babbling old
man.
Rev S. S. BURTON, Methodist minis
ter of Chantauqua county, has Just been
tried by his church on the serious charge of
having said that he believed many Univer-
salists would be saved, and acquitted, the
charge not having been proved against him.
"Do YOU believe everybody will be sayedPr