Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-08-27
ITEMS.
SOMEBODY figures up Commodore Van
derbilt's wealth at 100000, 900.

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Hospital viii be laid at Dauyille, OF
Thursday. August 10Th, by Governor Geary
The finest cottage erected at Newporf
during the past year is That of Mrs George
Francis Train, who herself superintended it'
construction and plans
IDLEwnD-once the abode Of Willis,
now sadly neglected. The property has
passed into the hands of Mr.. George, oi
Newburg, who purchased it for thirty thou
sand dollars.
IT is rumored among railway men that
the war between trunk lines on freight trans
portation, win end this week. Many canal
boats have hauled off, as the railways are
carrying grain between Buffalo and New
York cheaper than the canals.
THE manner in which the railway kings
contrive to use the courts Of New York in
furtherance of their respective ends, goes
far to sustain the imputation that Judges
are becoming at least quite as purchasable
as Legislators.
BULwER is now seldom seen in the House
of Lords. He is an old man, looks gone,
as if his day was done. He has quit wri-
ting, come down from the clouds of TO
nance, and walks the plain old earth
gloomy and unhappy.
DEMOCRATIC newspapers in Iowa are in a
ludicrous position, They have candidate,
and are disputing about the spelling Of his
name. The genteman's own testimony is
rejected, on the ground that he doesn t
know"
1T WILL crafty all good citizens to learn
that the Administration is substantially
unit upon all political questions, foreign
and domestic, and that all statements and
that the President and por-
ton Of his advisers are seriously at variance,
has no foundation in fact.
THE gentlemen of society at Saratoga are
epitomized as follows Greatest lion, Gen
eral Sheridan luckiest man, John 6. SAKE;
ladies' favorite, Ensign Mason; most dis
,iaque, w. r. Travers; dances the most,
Sheridan best dressed, Charles Leland
politest, Joe, of the Clarendon.
FIRST CLASS tickets from New York to
San Francisco, $3.50 second class, so. A
palace car will leave tonight to go to Sac
ramento without change. Extra charge for
double berth and double seat, 500. This
standing announcement Is now placarded in
front Of the Broadway ticket offices.
The railway-freight quarrel at New York
S ended by agreement among the lines, Its
profit to the general public forbade the idea
IF its continuance. Another quarrel, from
which the public derives no special benefit,
5 going on more vigorously than ever. This
s for the control of the far Western connec-
ions of the Missouri River, to which end
III the trunk-line corporations are active
buyers Of the leading stocks from Toledo
Four Buffalo editors, not at all satisfied
With the troubles incident to newspaper life, |
ecenty determined to enjoy balloon ex-
.ursion. In short time they landed in the
op ofthc tallest pine tree on Rock Robbie,
he highest spur of the Alleghenies, near
Hinzna, Warren county, Pa. They stayed all
hight in the tree, no doubt highly relishing
,eing rocked to sleep by the wind. Event.
lally they reached terra Jfrnla, resolved
leyer more to stir beyond their editorial
anctum.
A WOMAN named Mrs Clifford, living in
he northern part of Marion county, Iowa,
lied on Saturday, from the effects of fright
It the eclipse. She had no knowledge of It's
approach, and was alone at the time it came
N, with the exception of child four weeks
I'D. Terrified at the sight, she seized her
.hild and fed to neighbor' s, mile dis
ant. When she reached there her reason
vas gone. A doctor near by was called |
Yho pronounced her incurable She linger-
d along till Saturday, when she died, with
,ut her reason having returned.
SOME time ago the North was startled
With the ivid account of negro riot in
Mobile, the reporter kindly intimating, al
hough not in plain words, that it would
nave been far better had few more ne
yroes been shot. This riot turns out to have
been deliberate massacre of unoffending
'olored men by white rowdies. The colored
people were peaceably celebrating the cleo
ion of their Congressional candidate, when
he signal shot was fred by white rufian,
md the bloody work began, the whites firing
upon the blacks, with the
esult already stated.
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER. Eighteen
ears ago august 18th, 1851, J forty Amer
cans, members of the ill-fated Lopez expe-
lition, were publicly executed by shooting
II the city of Havana. After they were
hot, they were dragged by the feet by ne
,roes, and then left to the mob, who strip
,ed them of their clothes, mutilated their
Dodies, and INDUCED in the most frantic
of delight. Their crime was
eeking to achieve the independence of Cuba;
nd there is no doubt that the Spaniards
ong to glut their revenge in the same way
IN Cespedes and his followers. Fortunately
however, they will never have this opportu-
Iity
Coon EXAMPLES. "A paragraph is going
be rounds of the papers to the effect that
Commodore Vanderbilt daughter has actu-
lily condescendcd to teach her daughter to
mend stockings There is no doubt that
he lady in question is woman Of good
ense, who is aware that riches are partieu-
lry liable to take wings and fly away from
american holders, but where the wonderful
comes in, remarks the Gin.
innati Gazette, we cannot see. Every male
lember Of the royal house Of Prussia is
bliged to learn trade, that he may be able
D support himself should want overtake |