Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-10-08
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1t is called the Sterenhaus (star- house, after
the banner Of the United States.
WHEN Asa Packer was a member Of Con
gress, during the session of nine months, he
was only in attendance fifty four days, yet
he drew pay for the whole time Do the
people of Pennsylvania want such man for
their Governor?
The Democratic papers fly at the head
of their columns "For Governor, Asa Pack
er, of Carbon County, and then they de-
clare that he does not live there at all but
that his home is IN Philadelphia Why
can't they tell the truth Lebanon Courier.
Why does not the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee furnish the people Of Penn
sylvania with the record of Cyrus L. Perish
ing? His votes in the Legislature during
the war, on all measures looking to the sup
port Of our soldiers in the field, would prove
instructive reading to loyal men
IT Is estimated by the Treasury officials
that the public debt statement this month
win show a further decrease Of $40, 600, 600.
The good work goes bravely on, Republi-
can integrity in the collection and disburse-
ment Of the revenues, is steadily and surely
pulling down the public debt
THE cattle disease is dying out fast in
Prussia In the province Of Bradenburg
special precautions have been abandoned
in the districts Of Lebus, Landsberg, and
Sternberg, with the exception of two or
three small localities. In the province Of
Prussia proper no new cases have appeared
for weeks.
THE Chambersburg Repository says that
che Democratic aspirants for the Congress
sional nomination next fall are taking time
by the forelock. There are already in the
field from that district viz: Wm. S. Steng-
er, of the TaHey SpHi, B. F. Meyers, of
the Harrisburg Pqt,7oi, and Alexander Cof
froth, an ex-M C. Thus far Stager is
ahead
An exchange says the copperheads are
busy at secret work. They are canvassing
every district in the county, and expect to
get out their full vote They think they
are catching the Republicans mapping, and
are already eongratulating each other on
their expected gain. Republicans, will you
sleep white the enemy are working for your
overthrow
THE Chicago Republican Of Tuesday says:
THE jury called for the trial of criminal
causes in this Court was discharged yester-
day morning by Judge McAEister appar-
emily for the reason that their general ap
pearance was scarcely more creditable than
the prisoners arraigned.
THE st. Crispins, in Massachusetts, who
have I1O lodges with a membership of over
10000, have made arrangements to pur-
chase coal in Philadelphia and -four in the
West, and to transport them to that State
for their use. They expect to obtain these
articles by this means at a very cheap rate.
A FRENCH convict, after having served
twenty years imprisonment for his crime
at Cayenne, returned to France and attract
ed the attention Of the police By his lavish
expenditure of money. He was arrested,
and stated that he lad found the money of
the man whom he had murdered in the
place where he had concealed it.
A domestic romance comes from New
York. Twenty-Five years ago a couple were
married, had one son, lived together ten
years, and then, after losing all their prop
erty, procured divorce. The woman mar
RED again, and got fortune; the husband
didn't, and remained poor And now that
the woman has become rich widow, she
has e-married her first husband
Az enterprising colored man in Trenton,
y. J., devised petition to The common
council of that city, asking for an enlarge
ment of the school house for colored child
ren. It occurred to him that the signitures
Of certain white folks might be seryieaable,
and he applied for and obtained large
number The petition commences, eve,
the parents Of the colored children"
SOME excitement has been created at Col
umbus, Miss, by the appearance there Of
four immense insects, supposed to be Egyp-
tain loeusts They were three times as
large as the common locustz, with large
black eyes, legs Of great strength, feathers
ike a Shanghai chicken. tails similarly
adorned, and hard shell covering. The
like Of them was never seen before by the
Oldest inhabitants
THE last surviving soldier of the Reyo.
luton pensioned under the general laws
died in 1867, and Of the two soldiers pen
stoned by special acts Of Congress, David
f. Bakeman, Of New York, survived at
the date Of last years pension report.
Nancy Serena. Of Pittsburgh. Pa, is the
only survivor Of revolutionary widows
married prior to the close Of the war OF
those married to soldiers Of the Revolu-
ton since January l, 1898, SS8 remained
upon the rolls November /, 1868, but as
the decrease by death in the year preceding
that date amounted to l09, the number viii
now probably not reach 500 The total
amount of pensions paid to revolutionary
soldiers is sac, ,0s2, I75, and to their widows
and orphans, $l9,254, 1855. The revolu-
tionary widows viii disappear from the rolls
with increasing ratio each year, and in a
short time the revolutionary pension list
will have ceased to exist.
NATHANIEL MAPEs, residing near Tunk-
hammock. was recently bitten in the hand
by pet rattlesnake His hand and arm
soon became much swollen, and turned to a
dark spotted color for some days, but by
reason of the copious flow of blood pro-
duced by the fangs of the snake, or the
prompt application of proper remedies, OF
both, no very great inconvenience has beeu
experienced BY him. This interesting pet,
one of the largest Of his species, having