Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-06-18
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is only two feet high, although full grown
This makes the seventeenth species Of fossil
horse discovered on this continent
VESSELS TO BE SOLD. The Secretary o.
the Navy has ordered the sale Of three more
of our unneeded war vessels at auction tc
the highest bidders This is double meas.
ure Of retrenchment-it gives US money fol
paying our debts, and it stops a serious leak.
The Secretary is doing we'll
TIE enormous growth of our Intercourse
with Europe is well evidenced by Tie in
creased number of letters sent abroad. The
excess this year over the figures of 1868 is
upwards Of half a million judging from
the crowded state of all outward bound
steamers, the number bids fair to increase
in a still greater ratio.
EIGHTEEN in favor to one against is the
vote of Methodist Philadelphia on the ques-
tion of lay delegation Nineteen churches
have been heard from so far. This great
and radical change in the ecclesiastical or
gauization of the Methodist church of this
country may already be considered as an
accomplished fact
MEXICo. The mexican papers furnish
US rather gloomy readings Their themes
are always the same-the ruinous depres-
sion Of trade, the degradation of the public
credit, the prevalence of highway robberries
and the menaces of anarchy, the folly OF the
Government, the corruption of public affairs
and the imbecility, Incidence, depravity and
misery of everybody.
The New York State Temperance Con-
vention discountenances the idea of a sepa-
rate political organization, a large majority
voting down proposition to make nomina-
tions. The two parties were requested to
present candidates pledged to prohibition,
with the understanding that their failure to
do so would call third ticket into the local
field when necessary.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the New York Oh
serrer says: The King Of Sweden is the
most affable and approachable monarch in
Europe. In his daily walks. Or while
going about in the public steamers that play
through the waters of the city as omni-
buses in New York, be enters freely
into conversation with the people And to
strangers, especially Americans, be is ex,
ceedingly kind-or, as his subjects would
say, gracious.
Reform IN PARIs.--A very profound
and wonderful reform has just begun in
Paris The principal shops-includiDg
those of nearly all the linen-drapers, hosiers,
silk MERGERS and venders of ready made APP
parrel-will henceforth be closed on Sun
days The merchants have taken this step
Of their own accord, ard their employees
appeal to the goodwill of the public to aid
them in making the measure general -
When Paris enjoys a Christian Sabbath,
there viii be some prospect of its ceasing to
be heather city,
The news with regard to the condition of
affairs in Georgia is very satisfactory. The
reign of anarchy and crime which has been
going Oh in that State for the past year cs-
peciaHy, will be checked by the firm and
impartial hand Of General Terry, who has
assumed command Of the Department of
the South. The instructions of the Presi-
dent to him look towards an unbiased ex-
animation Of the elements Of disturbance
and the protection Of all citizens from vio-
leuce. There is now some hops of having
much that has been mysterious cleared up.
) SINGULAR DISCOVERY. "A remarka-
bic discovery has just been made by a man
at Grenoble, France, by which it is calcula-
ted that cemeteries and graveyards win be
superAuous. At the deceasc Of an iudiyid-
ual the body is plunged into a liquid invent
Ell by man at Grenoble, and in about FIVE
years the individual is turned into stone.
The secret of the petrifcati "a is known only
to the discoverer. But he goes further.
He says that IN a thousand years time, if
persons viii only preserve their relatives
and friends, they viii be able to build hou-
ses with them, and thus live in residences
surrounded by their ancestors.
OPPOSITION TO REFORM Every great
and genuine reform has to encounter an op-
posing mule principal In the case of the
Irish Church disestablshment, the general
donkey encountered by the English Liberals
IS in the House of Lords. These latter de
fend the system Of church barnaeles, be-
cause they are barnacIes themselves. The
tory organs Of London are now denouucing
the church bill because it is one move more
to the dangers Of democracy, and all that
can be retorted IS that it is a step away from
the stupidity of toryism. With its wonted
spirit, the London Star replies to the Tories
that the House Of Lords is no more logical,
desirable Or excusable than the Irish
Church These are words of omen, and
raise the right issue. The general tone of
the Liberal press is in like manner decided.
A SAN FRANCIsCo telegram says: Three
Japanese families have arrived here under
the auspices Of Prussian named Scbnell,
an old resident Japan, driven tberefrom
in consequence of the defeat of the North
ern Princes. Thirty-seven more families
are also on their way; eighty additional in
tend coming, making total of one hundred
and twenty families who propose settling
permanently in this State to cultivate silk,
tea, &c They bring many mulberry trees,
tea and bamboo plants, and intend pur-
chasing Government land for immediate
cultivation. It is not improbable that sew
eral Of the Northern Princes viii also come
and bring many more industrious families.
THE Easton Argus says: One of the
most remarkable cases Of longevity that have
ever come under our notice is that of Peter