Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-05-28

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The New York TgjJ,me thinks the Penn
sylvania miner strike was resolved on be-
cause the season and weather are now pro-
pitous to the National game Of Base
Bal.
TIE Pittsburg Aaa says it is calculated
that about two hundred and seventeen per-
sons in the Smoky City make their living
solely by borrowing small sums Of money
from friends ard never repaying them.
Posr OFPIcE VACATED BY MARRIAGE.
Miss Jones, Postmistress at Winterset,
Iowa. recently married Mr. Alfred Smith.
Mrs. Smith is not known to the Depart
ment as postmistress, Miss Jones has no
longer legal existence, and things gen
| orally are very much mixed Smith is
anxious TO know if he married into the post
Office or has married the post Office out of
the family
RIP VAN WINKLE is no longer a myth.
There Is man in one Of the Paris Hospi-
tails who has been enjoying quiet nap for
/ the past six months The Paris doctors be-
grudge this happy individual his repose.
They and the nurses, who should have turn
ed his pillow once in while and changed
the bed clothes, have been engaged in stick
ing pius into the body Of the happy man,
and otherwise endeayoring to disturb his
slumbers. He has thus far been callous to
all annoyances Of this kind. and continues
to snore away as assiduously and loudly as
ever
NEw SPANISH CoYsTITUuoN.-The new
Spanish Constitution does not seem to meet
with the approval Of the liberal journals Of
Madrid. The objections may be summed
up as follows: The Constitution provides
neither for democratic nor a monarchisal
form Of government, but contains an ANAL
gamation Of contradictory principles which
are unsatisfactory to both Liberals and Con
servatires. So far from being bond Of
union, the Constitution, it is asserted, win
prove to be the source Of new and fatal dis
senions.
The STRIKE among the anthracite coal
miners, engineered as it is by the en-
ploying companies, includes, thus far,
but little if any more than half of the
operatives. In the Scranton and Car
bondale region the miners are still at work.
If these do not yield within few days to
/ the movement, the strike must come to its
/ own end. Should the operatives attain
clearer perception Of the influences which
animate their action, they viii be very likely
to abandon a position which the facts mark
as unreasonable, aud which is the more in
defensible since, on their part, it is without
any ostensible cause for complaint
CURIOUS SToBy.- Michigan papers state
that a young man named George Denslow,
living at Rome Center, in that State. dream
ed on the night Of March g, that he was
deaf and dumb, and on awaking was horri-
/ fed to find that be could neither speak nor
hear From that time till the 4th Of May,
! ffty-thTae days. he remained totally deaf
and dumb. On the evening of that day,
while returning frcm the field where he had
been . work, an odd feeling came over him
and he was obliged to lean agains, the fence
for support Presently he heard bird sing,
and he found also that his voice had return
ed to him During this suspension Of voice
and hearing be has enjoyed uncommonly
good health.
AROUND TIE WORLD An interna-
tioual excursion party around the world is
being projected by Monsieur Lessaps, the
enthusiastic originator and engineer in chief
| Of the canal across the Isthmus of Suez, now
approaching completion. He desires to
have one hundred gentlemen, of different
natioaalities, assemble at Paris next spring,
and 90, via Marseilles. to Egypt, TO be pres
ent at the opening Of his canal. From Suez
the party is to visit India, China and Japan;
thence across the Pacific Ocean to San Fran
cisco, and come Eastward to Chicago and
New York over the Pacific Railroad From
New York the Europeans win return to
their respective homes.
THE SoUTH.-As an inducement to emf
grafton from the North to the Southern
States it is announced that land in that re-
gion, adapted to the cultivation ofthe grains,
vegetables and fruits of the temperate zone,
may be purchased on reasonable terms, and
that with part cash, long credits for the re-
naming instanments viii be given. Farms
already cleared aud drained are, it is stated,
now offered from one-quarter to one-twen
tieth Of what they brought before the war
1t has been suggested that the money mere
y required to convey family to the North
west or Pacific would purchase farm of
three or four hundred acres of land in Vir-
ginia.
WESTERN MEXICO. from West
ern Mexico, exhibit a terrible condition oF
decay and Generalization in that fertile nor
ton Of the Mexican Republic. Revolution
in successful progress, when its forces do
not exceed three hundred men, is telling
commentary on the weakness of the govern
ment, while the ability of small bands of
robbers to hold the high roads and keep the
towns in constant fear of kidnappers exhib-
It's an utterly exhausted condition of socie-
IT, Alongside of this decaying State stands
California, wonderful picture Of power and
progress. The future is evident In this
case the fat kline viii at no distant day eat
the lean kline, and the world win not say
nay.
WHEN Fuad Pasha was sent as Embas-
sador Extraordinary Of Turkey to London,
Abdul Medjid sent by him a magnificent
diadenl TO Queen Yictoria, who was at that
time, quite young yet, and was highly de-
lighted with the splendid gift. A few years
afterwards she had some changes made in
the diadem, and caused two Of its most beau
tifuI pearls to be set in earrings Fuad