Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-11-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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woman.
GEN. BELKNAP got acquainted With his
wife BY capturing her brother, who was a
Rebel officer
The forthcoming annual report of the
/ Commissioner of Customs will show the col.
lection of over 100000 of forfeitures, fines
and penalties against $500, 900 last year.
NJ. RAsPAIL, the champion Of the Paris
workmen, was in youth intended for the
Church, but changed his mind to the study
of medicine. He has spent ten years in
prison and fifteen in exile.
THE Cubans who have focked in such
numbers to Key West have introduced the
custom Of allowing their children TO run
about unclothed. Key West modesty is
shocked.
Col. ELLIOTT, in his speech at Houston,
Texas, last week, said: Ny niggers are
worth more to me now than they were dur
ing the time they were in slavery" The
/ Colonel is a Democratic candidate for Con
gress.
INFORMATION bus been received at the
Treasury Department that the examination
of the books and funds in the New York
Sub-Treasury has been completed, and ev-
erything connected wi h the office of the
Assistant Treasurer is pronounced correct.
THE San Francisco Duly Times, recently
consolidated with the Alta, lost nearly $780,
600 during the three years of its existence.
! The Attn paid $50, 600 for its remains, In
cluding good will.
THE two iival candidates for the Iowa
| Legislature had the same number of votes,
and cut the cards for the place. With
characteristic luck the Democrat won. but
| it remains to be see whether the voters will
acquiesce in the arrangement.
Mss KATE FISHER (the Mazeppa of the
stage) made an address to the Hartford au-
dience, Monday night, in which she threat
/ ened to sue the Hartford Times for saying
that she wears false calves' and said she
would make the reporter prove it. -
THE Senior 0rense arrested in Spain, but
! of late released, is the Marquis of Albaida,
/ and the patriarch of the Republicans 9th
er Republicans, Castelar, and Fgueras, are
reported as intending to go to France to
await the event Of the death Of Napoleon.
THE Rev. Willard Spalding Of Salem,
preached a sermon on the Coliseum Lottery
on Sunday last in which he called on the
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gagged in the enterprise and confscate all the
property in accordance with the laws of
/ Massachusetts.
SIR, said guest to his host at dinner,
this is a capital sirloin please tell me
what is the name of your puryeyor?' ''Ad-
olson, was the reply ANY relation to
the Spectator p added the gentleman.
Probably, " said the other Il have often
seen steel by his side -
MILAN has lately become an important
! seat of the kid glove manufacture, almost
4 rivaling Paris. One hundred and fifty
/ thousand dozen gloves are now made annu-
ally in Milan, while in Naples which used
| to stand next to Paris, less than one-quar-
/ ter as many are now manufactured
SOME time ago young Prussian applied
! for an ensign commission 10 regiment in
/ which bis grandmother, Frederica Kruger,
/ won the Iron Cross and the Russian Order
| Of ST. George for bravery in battle. 10
! 1916, about year after her discharge from
service, she married an officer
THE new Italian Home Minister, Marquis
1 Rudini, is but 30 years old, and ten years
ago was a volunteer clerk in the Foreign
/ Office at Turin. In his 23d year he distin-
/ guished himself as Syndic Of Palermo, and
/ latter as Perfect of Naples. He takes the
Italian helm during crisis, but is said to
have high capacity.
QuANTRELL, the Kansas Bushwhacker
and leader Of the Lawrance massacre, was
/ tracked TO San Francisco, where it was found
/ he had enlisted in the army aud been sent
/ to Camp Scott, Nevada. Before an order
/ for his arrest reached that point, he in com
! pany with three others deserted, taking the
/ best outfits to be found in the camp
4 VOYAGE around the world can now be
made in eighty days, by the following route
of travel: Start from Philadelphia aud pro-
ceed to San Francisco By the Pacific Rails
road, taking seven days; thence to Yoko-
/ hama in twenty one thence to Hong Kong
I in six thence to Calcutta, in twelve; thence
to Bombay, IN three; thence TO Cairo, in
/ fourteen thence to Paris in six; and back
/ to Philadelphia in eleven days.
A MARYLAND negro, now more than so
years of age, who manifests much interest
! in the freedmen schools of that State, was
recently asked if he had learned himself, to
which he replied, Only what ! got behind
/ the plow -tail-stole 1t like. When be was
asked, How was that, uncle?" he replied,
/ "Why, when children gwine to school, |
I
/ dem in de book-gjre chile hen egg for a.
you see. "
4 The revenue on sugar and tobacco coming
/ from Cuba to the United States is annually
! S25, 100000 In return we send goods to
that Island worth only $4,000, 600 each
year. About half the sugar we receive in
/ this country comes from the Queen of the
/ Antilles, - and General Cespedes proposes
I to equalize our trade by setting up Re
public aud inviting emigration, thus erea-
ting greater demand for our manufactures.
john c. BRECKINRIDGE aud Humphrey
1 Marshall met at Paris, Kentucky. the other
/ day, and Mr. Breckinridge told the follow
ing story of the war, which it is to be hoped
his fat friend appreciated When General
/ Pegram was preparing to march his troops
! into Kentucky, Marshall, who did not like
| poachDg upon his preserves, Intellectually
warned him not to come, and at last sent
word that any troops which attempted to
enter Kentucky would have to pass over his
dead body. Pegram replied that it would
be too much TO expect that of his artillery,
but if he found the obstacle in his way he
would Immediately tunnel through
SLIGHTLY INCREDIBLE "A story is GO
ing the rounds of the newspapers to this eff
feet. La April last two criminals were be-
headed in Brazil; physician Immediately
stopped the flow Of blood by compression on
the carotid arteries of one of the heads the
body was placed on bed, the head stuck
on and stitched fast The electricity of a
powerful battery was applied, and tracheot-
omy was performed to allow the patient air;
respiration ensued, and the physician, who
was only experimenting to ascertain how
long an artificial appearance of life could be
kept up, was surprised to find the pulse was
be<Iing feebly; at the end of 62 hours it was
o9ident that cicatrization of the lips of the
wound had commenced At this time it
was found that it was the head of the other
man that had been used; nevertheless, the