Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-10-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

IHE contributions to the AYondale relief
fund have already reached nearly Sl40, 900
LOUIS HoLsNER, convicted in the Cam
bria county court, last week, of murder in
the second degree, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for ten years.
The New York .HaH says: when will
We get through with the everlasting. tedi
Gus, Improbable and demeralizing Byron
controversy Amen.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE, it is reported,
has recently invested So 600 in a tract OF
land of forty acres and a handsome resi-
denee just outside Of Washington.
ANY business is more respectable than
what Is termed loa6ng. a young man had
better sell soft soap by the pailful than hang
around public places, killing time and his
own reputation.
A BABY was found in Pittsburg on door
step, aud by its beauty excited so much at.
tention, and was so much desired, that it
was put up at auction, and sold for $50
This is to be invested as dowry for her
A WELsHMAN named Robert Thomas,
residing for several years past in Green
township, Indiana county, was thrown off a
loaded lumber wagon on Monday last, and
one OF the wheels passed over his neck,
killing him instantly.
A YOUNG man named Edwin Stewart was
killed In a smoke factory 10 Mercer, last
week, by having his head nearly sawed off
by buzz saw. After receiving the terrible
injury he walked few steps, sat down and
died in few minutes
THE county fair of Cumberland county
will he held on the 18th, l4th and 18th Of
October, at Carlisle Franklin county on
the 5th, 9th, 7th and Sth of October, at
Chambersburg. York county on the 5tb,
9th, 9TH and Sth of October, at York
SOME American girls in Paris sent rock
candy to each other in letters, and were
called up before the police to explain what
was in the envelope They we're not allowed
to press it, for fear it would explode, but
when the commissioner found what il was
be tasted it, and let them take the rest
home.
ONE of the sons Of Joe Smith, the "origi-
nal Mormon prophet, and who has recently
been lecturing against the polygamy doc
trines Of Brigham Young, has written to one
Of the officers of the Union Pacific Railroad
requesting him to procure passes for about
two hundred women now in Utah, who de-
sire to flee from the social iniquity OF that
section and seek homes in the East.
SCIENCE threatens the extinguishment of
''the dusty miller A method has been dis
covered of making bread without grinding
the grain, and a patent has been taken out
s. che nfoeeSS Ia making bread from flour
there IS much waste, ouU haadred pounds of
grain yielding only one hundred and twelve
pounds of bread. BY the new process the
same amount of grain will produce one hun
dred and tifty pounds Of bread. Moreover,
the decomposel aud lost gluten in the old
process Is preserved IL the new.
HALF TINE schools have recently been
established by the School Committees of
several manufacturing towns in Massachu-
setts. This plan, it is asserted, advances the
pupils more rapidly and thoroughly than the
common all-day schools. In the mills it has
been ascertained that such pupils do better
work aud earn more money than they would
by being in the factory all day. The chill
dren and their parents at first were afraid OF
the scheme, but as proof Of the popularity
of the plan. it Is asserted that the average
daily attendance in the half-tjme school is
" per cent; SO high an average being un-
known in the common day schools
JOHN BOWEN, who occasioned the fright
ful disaster on the Erie railway, at Carr S
Rock, on the night of the 18th of April,
1869, by misplacing rail, was formally
arraigned before the court at Milford, Pike
county, last week He pleaded guilty to
charge Of mauslaughter, and was remanded
for sentence. He is an Englishman, GA
years of age, and for the last fifteen or
twenty years has been a resident of Pike
county. For eight years he was employed
as a laborer on the Erie railway track, then
bearing fair reputation Finally he was
arrested by the company on a charge of
forging pay check, but obtained release.
Bent upon revenge, and afterward stimu-
lated BY passion for robbery, he carried on
the work of tearing up the rails