Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-12-03

oduse grows at such rate tbal u neeu
more utteranee.
| THE duty on ploughs exported from th
United States to the Argentine Republi
has been reduced sixty cents on each plough
and on lumber four dollars, gold, per thou
sand feet
A NATIVE of Moscow, now travelling il
the South, expresses his surprise that al
though he has been in this country for 81,
months, he has never been asked to shoY
his passport 'siugle time
IT is reported that there are already pend
ing, in the three financial committees 0
! Congress, over five bills providing for tht
resumption of specie payments, and four OF
the national bank and currency issues.
A BosToN dentist, who sued man fo
$4,000 for reporting that his wife had diec
in consequence of the administration o
nitrous oxide gas at his Office has recovered
one cent.
WEST India adviees by mail state that tht
cholera, yellow fever and small pox ar,
raging fearfully at Santiago De Cuba, three
hundred deaths having occurred from
cholera alone within period Of thirty days
It was found impossible to give the deat
proper sepulehre, bodies being covered with
only a few inches of earth As a CONSCIENCE
the stencil from the cemetry has almost be-
come pestilence
A CARGO of four hundred and sixty
Coolies sent out by an agent from Calcutta,
arrived at Demarara The scheme meet:
with no favor, and viii prove great loss.
The Governors Of Bermuda, Barbados and
Jamaica proposed to send convicts from
| these islands to Demarara 60 serve out then
sentences, Demarara to receive the benefit
of their labor, but the Governor declined to
have the colony transferred into penal
settlement.
An iron safe of the Harnden Express
Company, which disappeared from car
on the Baltimore aud Ohio railroad on
Friday evening of last week, between Burton
and Cameron, was found the next day at the
foot of an embankment near Bellton, and is
supposed to have fallen out, the motion Of
the car in rounding sharp curves causing the
door to slide open The contents Of the
safe, consisting in part of considerable
amount of money, were undisturbed.
THE following is the subject of the lecture
which George Francis Train is delivering
throughout the West why is the reli-
gious press opposed to women suffrage
Woman can keep secret. The empty
chambers of woman's mind, where the
devils dance the polka. Woman the com
ing reformer. Why don't husbands give
their wives half the money? What has
made women adopt the Greeian dress and
ride horseback senSibly? Women must vote
in 1872. We want women lawyers, doctors,
jurors, and statesmen. Women are better
than men.
PRESIDENT CEsPEDEs has forwarded to
the Cuban Junta casket OF jewelry, valued
at $25, 600 in gold, which be desires to have
sold for the benefit Of the patriot army.
The articles Of greatest value are cluster
pin containing about twenty diamonds for
which he paid five thousand dollars in gold,
several diamond aud pearl rings of rare de
| sign and workmanship and a number o.
wathes, chains aud unset stones are among
the collection. Donna Cespedes contrib
utes four bracelets, one Of which is worth
six thousand dollars, a most beauti
ful work Of the jewelers. art. Several pa
triot ladies Of Cuba have contributed yalua
bic ornaments, aud even the soldiers in tht
field have offered their watches, seals ant
finger rings, to be converted into cash, ii
aid of the cause. The money value Of thest
offerings is little short Of $4,000
UTAH bookkeeping is as hard to under
stand as some Of its grammar One Of tb,
papers printed in that territory appeare,
with the following notice at the head of it
columns the other day Notice is hereb,
given to every subscriber to the Reporter
whether daily, weekly, semi-weckly, o
weekly, that we want them to notify US a
once how their subscriptions stand wheth
er they are behind, or whether they hay
paid in advance, and if so, how long or hoy
far ahead or behind they are al not an
swering to this notice win be deemed delin
quent subscribers, and their paper stoppct
at once. We are obliged to take this course
as we have recently taken a lease on tn
Reporter, and can tell nothing from ou
predecessors books how the subscriber
stand with the paper
4 FEW days since two boxes were shippe,
from Now York and cousigucd to parties il
Lexington, Ky. Upon their arrival ther
they were loaded upon dray and startet
for the house Of the consignee. Upon tn
arrival of the colored driver at the place h
was informed that the cousignee had re
moved to other quarters, and the party oc
cupyiDg the premises refused to receive tn
packages, wheTeupon the drayman reseate,
himself on the boxes and started to return
them to the depot He had proceeded bu
short distance when both of the boxes ex
ploded with loud noise, knocking the dar
key off the dray and some distance into tht
street, fortunately, however, without severe
ly damagiug-him. The cases are supposed
to have contained sky-rockets, torpedoe
and toys of that kind.
THE Fenian leaders are disposed 10 tax,
advantage Of the Winnepeg insurreetiou tt
strike blow at England. AT meeting il
New York on Monday proposition to ait
the insurgents was discussed with mucl
animation. One member declared, as th,
insurreetion was against the Canadian Con
federation, and not against Great Britain
interference by the declared enemies of th,
mother country would probably be unwel
come to the Red river half breeds. Anothe
member urged that the coldness Of the win