Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-12-10
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

a NAN recently arrived in a town in
| Minnesota, bought a lot built house, aud
set up housekeeping within the space of
forty-eieht hours and had a son and heir
born to him before the first meal was eaten
in the house.
Gov GEARY has just approved the bill,
| passed last winter, relative to the payment
| Of taxes on uuseated lands, requiring the
/ county Treasurers TO keep a receipt book to
] enter the receipts of the payment Of taxes
/ on unseated lands certified copies Of said
recorded receipts 10 be the only evidence Of
payment 1t also allows owners two years
from the present date to record in. This is
very important.
A FIRE 10 Galveston Texas, Friday morn
/ ing, consumed four entire blocks and three
/ fourths Of two other blocks. 1t originated
! 10 the clothing establishment Of Cohen Bros
corner Of Srandt and Fremont streets A
] high northwest wind swept the fames in a
southerly direction, burning three blocks on
Fremont street between Strandt and Post
/ Office streets, and three blocks between
Mechanic and Church and West and
Twenty-fourth streets.
Now that the Colombian Government has
/ accorded permission to the United States to
survey the Isthmus Of Darien preparatory
to digging the canal, there is no doubt that
/ the great work will be carried out to a sue
cessful accomplishment Truly does the
world move; and great indeed will be the
change in the lsthmus, when the two
! oceans shall be connected, from the time
when the diseoverer, Balboa, cried, Eu-
reka - at the first sight of the Pacific.
In England there are 2, ,405 cotton mills,
! in which are employed l52, CSC men and
/ 204, ,396 women: wooden manufactures num-
Der ,420, employing 50. 600 men and 1000
4 women; 5S7 silk iactOries employ 200
/ workmen The total number Of factories in
England aud Wales is {, ,69S, giving employ
ment to 27S, 7SS men and 800, $50 women.
Scotland has 507 factories employing 80
900 men and 50, 200 women. Ireland counts
l9S factories, employing %, 622 men an
/ 80, sol women.
& SHREwD Trick has just been played
! by Pennsylvania in the oil regions 1t
! appears that he had lost everything by spee-
ulation, and determined to retrieve his for
| tunes by getting up another petroleum ex-
/ citemeHt. He obtained quantity Of crude
/ oil, which he buried in the cellar of his
shanty, and afterwards pretended his land
/ was full of oil Some live Yankees from
Bath, Maine, gTeedily grabbed the bait,
1 bought the supposed rich oil tract, formed
a company, sold a great amount Of stock,
aud prepared for an active development Of
/ their petroleum property. Wells were sunk
and machinery set up, but no oil was to be
/ found, and the Bathites are out nearly a mil
/ lion of dollars by the collapse of the concern.
They acknowledge the gullibility of Ameri-
cans is about equal to that Of Englshmen,
THE Commissioners of the Sinking Fund
have decided to redeem the five per cent.
/ loans, 81, $4,000, on maturity, July /,
/ 1870. On November ! there was in the
/ State Treasury an available balance of about
/ 81, 200, 600, and on that day Treasurer
1 Mackey issued a circular in accordance with
/ his instructions. The remainder of the
money necessary for the above purpose,
/ $500, 600, the Treasurer has every conf
I dence in his ability to raise By the pay
ment Of this loan the State will be saved the
/ entire interest, and the Commission deserve
/ the thanks Of the community for thus get
/ ting rid of that much talked of unexpended
/ balance. This is the first time in the histo-
/ ~ Of the finances Of the State that the IN
debtedness of the Commonwealth has been
anticipated without making a new loan for
the purpose.
GARIBALDI AND THE PoPE-Notwith-
standing the widely published reports, that
| Garbaldi had put by the sword and gone
| into the peaceable pursuits of literature
not because he thought the pen mightier
4 than the sword, but simply because Italy
was satisfied with Victor Emanuel and de-
sired quiet days-the Pope is not sure Of
( the red-shirted patriot Of Caprera The
| Ecumenical Council, as all the world has
/ been informed shortly meets at Rome, and
I the Pope fears that among the expected
crowd which that august assemblage will
| attract to the Eternal City there may be
/ some troublesome mouniaineers, red-shirted
and violent Evidently he has communi-
Gated his anxi ty to France, for General
| Dumont has offered his Holiness, on behalf
/ Of Napoleon, five thousand troops, to be
stationed in Rome while the Council is in
session.
How TO GET A DIVORCE. " arious and
internally mean are the subterfuges often re-
sorted to by parties desiring 70 be rid of
matrimonial fetters. The New Albany,
| Ind. Commercial says:
We have heard of a case illustrative Of
this statement that occurred not many years
ago 10 this county A widow woman held
property which she might transfer while she
remained single, but which, according to
her husband S will, she could not dispose Of
it if she married again while in a state of
overture Well, she did marry again, and
in the course of time she desired to transfer
the property left her by her first husband.
This, of course, she could not do, the pro-
visions of her first husband 5 will inhibiting
her Here was quandary A lawyer of
this city was consulted. He settings up"
for the wife and her husband She went
home, told her husband what advice the
lawyer had given her, and he thought it
Just the thing Aud what, reader, do
you suppose that advice was? Simply
this = The husband and wife were to quar-
rel and fight every day, and this was to be
done in the presence Of the children Of the
wife, who were well grown, and they were
made to believe the quarrelling and fighting
was genuine, instead Of feigned. The pro-
gramme was carried out TO the letter, and
then the husband applied for divorce He
set forth 'incompatibility in his complaint,
the wife admitted it, aud the children swOre
to it. Judge Bicknell granted the divorce.
The same day ste transferred the property
as she had desired to do, and the next day
the divorced couple were remarked. Such
is one Of the phases of the divorce prac
tice
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