Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-08-13
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IEHEBAN mas tue chOleTd. AS 1euetan
is in Persia and Persia is in Asia, it may be
presumed that it is real Asiatic cholera.
THE $4,000 which mysteriously disap-
peared from the arsenal at Philadelphia was
found concealed in the ground.
ENAMELLED ladies do not bathe this sea-
son. Itis said that polished ladies still in
dulge occasionally in that luxury
VIM B. AsroR talks Of, at his individual
expense, finishing the building of the Wash
ington monument. William can afford it
better than the United States can.
AIrHoUaH Olive Logan is at Long
Branch, it does not signify peace. Olive
Branch sounds pacific but means war to the
knife on the blondes Miss Logan is not
blonde herself
The Coroner of San Francisco during the
last twelve months held two hundred and
forty-three inquests, three Of which were on
persons who had committed suicide, eleven
murdered and eighty-two accidentally killed.
NINETY FIVE good sized Protestant
churches are to be built in Madagascar this
year. Missionaries have gone there and
have attempted to change the customs Of
the country as regards the keeping of the
Sabbath, with the above results.
JAMES Fisk, it is said, intends to give a
dinner party in New York which shall sur
pass anything the Ancients ever attempted.
The Suez canal, the Pacific railroad and all
of Mr. Fisk's own lines Of travel viii be
used to bring palatable rarities to the feast.
A land slide at Stockport, Columbia
county, New York, on Monday, carried
away about three acres of land, a hundred
feet deep. Much excitement among towns
people was caused thereby, thinking an
earthquake had visited the place
CAPE MAY, it is said, never before enjoy
ed so successful a season as the present
The new hotel and the new Irritation walk
are very popular, more dressing than usual
is done, and Mrs. j w. Forney and daugh
ter are said rather to lead the throng in that
respect Two Dukes and lesser Lord are
said to be among the beaux
THEY have now at Saratoga a young lady
possessing eight trunks Of Partisan toilettes,
several boxes of {ng,ere, and ten thousand
dollars in rings, ear rings, brooches, neck
laces and other ornaments Perhaps it is
well enough to remember in this connection
that five years ago this fair demoiseHe pre-
sided over her fathers dram shop in Sixth
avenue.-M T. Gazette
The "Avitor" or flying machine, now in
course Of construction at San Francisco, is
only partial success. It viii navigate the
air in calm, but the slightest breeze dis
concerts its movements. The San Fsepeis
co Chronicle thinks that if the inventor
should ever start for New York, he would
be quite as likely to bring up at Cape Horn
or the North Pole.
a STARTLING REVELATION Calcutta
savant has startled India with the afirma-
ton that a race of tailed men and women
are to be found in the forests Of Borneo.
He says his information comes from Sara
wax traders, who state that this missing
link race live in the trees, have bows and
arrows and other rade implements, and sub
sist entirely by hunting. An expedition is
to be sent in search Of the curiosity.
AFTER some opposition, some Hartford
parents recently consented to the marriage
Of their daughter with a youth whose pre-
tensions they had not iavorably regarded.
The cermony was all arranged, guests as
sembled, and the minister about to com
mence, when the coxcomb announced that
nothing more was necessary, as he had
married the girl three weeks ago The
result was a surprise party Of large dimen-
sion.
AT meeting recently held by the Land
League, on the Kansas neutral lands,
speeches were made by Hon. Sidney Clarke,
and others. Resolutions were passed uuan-
imously denouncing James B. Joy, and
United States Senators Ross aud Pomeroy,
asking them to resign their seats, cutting
loose from the Republican party and form
ing new and Independent State Central
Committee Senator Pomeroy was burned
in efigy.
Gov SMITH, of Alabama, has issued a
vigorous proclamation against lawlessness
in Madison county, on account of informa-
ton that citizens are whipped and otherwise
outraged, and even murdered by disguised
men, and that neither citizens nor officers
seem to take steps to bave the offenders ar.
rested The Governor directs the Sheriff
to proceed Immediately with posse conai-
tat,ss, and by calling upon the military to
| arrest the offenders and assure ample pro
lection to citizens.
Prolific. Quoting from an exchange,
that "a father, mother and nine children,
from Pennsylvania, recently passed through
Grand Rapids, Mich, on their way to Min
nesota, the children being three pair of
twins and one triplet, the ST. Paul Press
says: ''If these things are done in the green
tree, what may we not expect in the dry,
after this prolific pair shall have had the
benefit of few months of the wonderfully
stimulating qualities of our Minnesota eli
mate? Evidently quartettes and quintettes,
and astonishing developments in the next
census.
TERRIBLE DRoUGHT IN VIRGINIA
letter from Hanover, Va, to the Alexandra
Gazette says Within the memory of the
oldest inhabitant no such draught has ever
visited our sections as this For forty FIVE
or more days no rain has fallen to wet the
earth, and during the whole time there have
been bhghting winds and scorching suns.
The grass is withered and dry, the gardens
have ceased to yield their usual products,
and the corn is in every stage of disability,
from the stunted dwarf to the faded and
dried leaf On lands which usually produce
from five IN eight barrals Of eorn IN tba anra