Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-07-02

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PAPEE petticoats At sixteen cents each in
London.
TIE prairies OF Northern Texas have been
literally covered with strawberries thisseasan.
HExEy WARD BEEoHER says it viii never
do to preach cream and practice skim milk. .
A NEW Orleans paper tells Of live mouse
being found in ehiIds stomach.
The Valley of Virginia win yield 5000
coo bushels Of wheat this season.
MAckEREl- are selling in Boston at II cents
each.
INDIANA is said to have a snake which is
three feet through the body.
IT has been calculated that sixty persons
per minute die in this world
CoUETERFEIrs on the Fourth National Bank
Of Philadelphia are in circulation.
THERE are two hundred and thirty ,one
thousard acres of coffee planted in CeyIon.
The Paris Pays says John G. Breckenridge
viii yet be President Of the United States.
a CROCODILE has been captered in Florida,
said to be the first seen in this country.
As Iowa farmer wants bounty offered for
squirrel sealps they have destroyed all bis
corn.
TIE New Jersey railroad Is transporting at
present, two hundred and forty tons Of straw.
berries per day.
THE wheat harvest has commenced in
Southern Illinois. The grain Is good and the
yield large.
JUDGE jeremiah Blacks arm. which was
broken on the cars near Louisville, few days
ago, will have to be amputated.
THE Wheeling papers estimate the loss by
the recent hail storm in that vicinity at from
100000 to 1900
To lay of a square acre Of land, measure
209 fee. for each side Of your square, and it
viii contain an acre within an inch.
CRoP reports from Arkansas, Northern
Mississippi and Northern Alabama are fayora-
ble, despite the unpropitions weather for some
weeks past
The Odd Fellows Of Harrisburg have de-
cided to purchase a lot on Market square, ad
joining the Bolton House, aud erect a. hall to
cost 100000.
The Maine newspapers report that the
snow in the woods near Morehead Lake was,
in places, up to the axles of the stage on Sat
urday, the 9Th inst, aud that until the week
before the stage went-on runners.
A LEAvESwoRTH paper thinks it '.an eyi-
dence Of the westward march of civilization
that the Kansas Legislature appropriated ST.
400 for tobacco for the Penitentiary prison
ers, and only $500 for preaching the gospel
to them.
A LADY called recently at the Office Of the
Newport, Rhode Island, Ne,rs, and paid for
the paper 10 be sent to a neighbor, who had
troubled her so much by borrowing it that she
took this method Of getting rid of the nui-
sauce.
JOHN MoR4RrY, President Of the Irish Re
publican Association of Pennsylvania, in an
address just issued, saysthe Irish Republican
Convention which meets at Chicago on the
4lh Of July, viii come out in favor of universal
suffrage.
TIE latest returns Of the vote on lay delega-
ton in the Methodist Church, as received by
mail and telegraph at the office Of the Hstho.
dist in New York, are as follows; Number of
churches, SIC whole number Of votes, 81
233 affirmative for lay delegation, 23,615;
against IT, s,5ls.
AMANDA CRNG, Tilted virgin Of thirty five
summers, has just obtained verdict for one
hundred thousand dollars against E. S.
Sprague for breach of promise. Sprague is
= festive old boy of fifty and worth half a mil
lion of dollars. His counsel have moved for
a new trial
A NEw YoRK lady recently ordered a
trousseau at Stewards for her daughters doll,
which received a complete outfit in under
clothing, silk and lace. One Of the articles
ordered was an India shawl, miniature size,
at $50, and a lace handkerchief was valued
at S12.
The Penn'a R. R. Co. has contracted to
furnish transportation for 5000 Mormon emf
grants that are to arrive from the old eoun-
try, during the present season, and be fo--
warded to the land Of the saints, beyond the
Rocky Mountains. They viii arrive in de.
tachmeuts of 400 aud 500 at a time.
GENERAL Quincy A. Gilmore has been or
dered to Savannah to superintend repairs upon
Fort Pulaski, which seven years ago he did
his best to batter down. The Savannah
NeJrs thinks it win be useless to repair the
fort. The missiles from the rifed cannons
Of Gilmore crashed through its walls, al.
though seven and half feet thick, With al
most as much ease as rife bullet could be
shot through butter, and the riaed gun of TO-
day is much more powerful than these whose
/ penetratve power created so much astouish-
ment in 1852.
A LARGE srEER-On the farm Of Isaac
Stehman, near Mount Joy, Lancaster coun-
I ty, according to an account published in the
Columbia Spy, is one of the largest bull
locks in that county. lie weighs nearly
/ four thousand pounds, is six feet four inches
in height and measures over ten feet in
circumference, He is about six years old.
Of Kentucky breed, and is generally con
ceeded to be the largest steer in the State.
he viii remain on the above farm until next
fall, when his owner, Jacob Kurtz, currier,
Of Mount Joy, win ship him to the Philadel-
phia market.
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