Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-12-24

IOWA paid last year, 10 school teachers
81 ,440, 600, males receiving weekly, on an
average, 50, "a, and females, 1910 There
are in the State 8, 407 school houses, atten-
ded bY 295. $50 scholars.
THE United States Treasury now holds
| S75, AIS, 500 in Government securities, fol-
which $50, ,2S2 Is were paid. The accrued
interest on these bonds viii amount at the
end Of the year to 81, ,52s, ,72S. The Treas
urer's books show the amount Of coupons
paid during the month Of November to be
SI2, 364, 265 so.
On the 30th Of November the Govern
ment works at Harpers Ferry we're sold at
auction. For the musket factory SIG, 000
was received, and for the rife factory $50,
900 The sale includes the buildings,
grounds and the magnificent water power
attached to them The purchasers viii use
the buildings for manufactures.
A STUDENT Of Ann Arbor, Michigan,
having remarked that men had more endur.
ance than women, a lady present answered
that she would like to see thirteen hundred
young men in the University laced up 10
steel ribbed eorsets, with hoops, heavy
skirts, trails, high heels, panniers, chignons,
and dozens Of hair pins sticking in their
sealps, cooped up in the house year after
year, with no ezhilarating exercise, no
hopes, aims or ambitions in life, and see if
they could. stand it as wed as the girls.
Nothing, said She, but the fact that women,
ike cats, have nine lives, enables them to
survive the present regime to which Gus
tom dooms the sex.
SANTANA BAY.-The Consul General Of
San Domingo, stationed in England, writes
to the London Times asserting that treaty
for the eession Of the Bay Of Samana to the
United States has been negotiated with the
Government Of the Republic of San Domingo
by Gen. Babcock and Senator Cornelius
Cole, Of California, the United States Com
missioners. This treaty Is now awaiting
the approval of the Uuited States Senate,
and the negotiations had originally in view
the annexation of the entire Republic Of
San Domingo to the United States, and not
merely the ecssion of the Bay of Samana.
The letter Of the Consul General was ELECTED
in consequence of the publication in the
Times Of a statement that the Bay of Sa-
mana had been sold to the United States by
the Haytien Government, and that a United
States feet had been sent to those regions
ia order to protect the purchase from the
revolutionary armies Of Hayti. The Consul
General says there are no revolutionary dis
turbarces in San Domingo, and that Sa-
mana Bay belongs to San Domingo, and not
to Hayti.
IMPORTANT DECISION. The Pittsburgh
Dispatch says The Supreme Court Of
Pennsylvania has decided Judge Shars-
wood delivering the opinion ttbat a mort
gagee or purchaser at sheriff S sale, is not
bound to look beyond the judgement dock
ct to ascertain whether the entries thereon
are properly made by authority. and that
where there is a defective eatry of a judg-
meat, or an authorized entry Of satisfaction,
the prothonotaTy is liable for damages to
the party injured. Hence, where the
prothonotary, without the authority Of the
court, entered 90 his docket against a
judgement, satisfied on Il, ia, it was held
that the entry was perfectly regular and
conclusive as to third persons to whom the
judgement itself regularly docketed was
constructive notice, and that it was not
necessary to search further and ascertain
whether there was any record Of an order Of
the court directing such satisfaction.
IMPORTS. - The relative Importance of
the several customs districts in the United
States is shown by the recent report Of the
Bureau Of Statistics. The total importa-
tions we're S437, 500. 36s. New York re-
ceiyed more than half of the whole amount
-$2s5, III, ,6S2. The next heaviest bust
ness was done at the combined cites Of Bos-
ton and Charleston, constituting one port,
and amounted to S44,636, 967 Much Of
this is Canadian trade San Francisco,
with the whole Pacific tributary to her. re-
ceived but SIS,08S, 90l, aud next in rank
and amount was the exclusively manufactur-
ing city Of Philadelphia, reporting SIS, ,957,-
$50. Baltimore pressed close upon her with
SIS, sos. 032, and New Orleans follows with
SII ,4l4,s98. Portland reaches nearly three
millions Brazos exceeds twelve hundred
thousand, but no other port exceeds a mil
lion. The northern frontier, however, has
a third place, when aggregated Its collec-
tive amounts reach Sls, ,O62, ,04I from the
extreme west to the extreme east, and show
what our business with the Dominion may
some time become. a noticeable feature,
says the Washington Chronicle, Is the insig-
niieance of the amounts imported at some
Of the best ports of the Southern States.
Savannah importing only S74S. 977, Charles
ton $4ol pa, Mobile sil3, ,439, and Nor
folk, which has perhaps, the best barbor on
the Atlantic coast, and is near the site Of
the first English colony in America, only
$2o5, 5,59l.
How TO MAKE a FORTUNE. Take earn
estly hold of life, as capscitated for, and
destined to, high and noble purpose.
Study closely the minds bent for labor or a
profession Adopt it early, and pursue II
steadily, never locking back to the turning
furrow, but forward. to the new ground that
ever remains to be broken. Means and ways
are abundant to every mans success, if will
and actions are rightly adapted to them.
Our rich men and eur great men have carv-
ed their paths to fortune, and by this inter
nal principle principle that cannot fail to
reward its votary. fit is resolutely pursued.
To sigh or repine over the lack of inheri.
tance is uumanly. Every man should strive
to be a creator instead Of an inheritor He
should bequeath instead Of borrow. The
human race, in this respect, want dignity
and discipline. They prefer to WELD the