Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-10-29
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fully preserved. a monument is to be
erected to is memory, which will contain
room in which the engine is 10 be placed.
The Democratic nominee for sheriff in
Fond du Lac made the loll0Wiug aeeep-
ration speech. Heniemen II have serv-
"a yoa as sheriff one term. | regard this
nomination a. an Endorsement Of my official
conduct | cannot make speech or preach,
but when this convention is over, we viii
all so down to Rupp's and take a drink.
AN evidence that ladies are getting their
luiI share OF literary work, at least, IS seen
10 the fact that four English magazines are
now edited by ladies', while some Of the best
known writer's OF fiction are Of the gentler
sex Il Is SAID That Sir Charles Lyeli and
prominent member Of Parliament each en-
poys lady ia the capacity Of private sec
! retary
THE ladies Of Dallas, Oregon, lately got
up some sableaux for the benefit of church,
among which was one called the New Or
der Of Things, IN it the men we're repre-
s4nted as nursing babies, making bread and
talking one another to death, while the
women were chopping wood aud doing 9th
er outdoor work. The picture was received
with applause
On Thursday night the depot Of the East
ern Railrold, at Manchester, Massachu-
SETS was broken into, ard The safe, weigh
ing eight hundred pounds carried off in
band-car about a mile aud half. broken
/ open with a crow.bar, and robbed Of its con
t,ut., about $500. A trunk full Of rairoad
tickets was also taken, aud scattered along
the line OF the railroad
A DENVER special says the Kansas
/ Pacific party, including G rus w Field and
/ MIR Meek agricultural editor Of the New
4 York Tribune. arrived there yesterday
morning. after inspecting the country be-
tween Sheridan and Danver, and over one
/ thousand miles of the eastern base Of the
/ Rocky Mnuniains. In reference 10 the ex-
/ tension Of the Kansas Pacific Railway and
tuture business
/ A FORT BENTON, Montana, telegram no
/ tees the arrival of party of miners from a
| Finf four hundred and twenty five miles
/ horh, they having been forced to leave on
I account Of the Blackteet Indians and the
refusal OF the British to sell them prog-
/ ,lons The pasty, consisting of une men,
sutsl~ted ten days on one grouse The
weather at Benton was cold, the mercury
( yesterday being ten degrees below zero.
JoHN HATFIELD, who has just died in
/ England at the age of l02. was a soldier
/ Ia the time of William aud Mary He was
4 tiled and condemned for sleeping on his
! post but absolutely denied the charge,
/ solmeuly declaring that instead of being
asleep, he distinctly beard the clock of ST.
| Pau strike thirteen at midnight. This
fact was actually subsfantisted, the clock
on tie particular night striking thirteen
instead Of twelve, and the King pardoncd
the soldier.
IT is said to have been discovered that the
newly elected Senator from Virginia, Mr.
Johnston, as we'll as Mr.. Gibson, Que Of the
Representatives from that Stare, is still la
toring under the disabilities imposed by the
fourteenth amendment which was ratified
after the passage Of the act Of Congress re-
iievjng the disabilities of Johnston and Glib
son, as it is asserted that he act Of Congress
approved April j, 1862 removing the disa
hiltieS imposed by the fourteenth amend
ment, fails tn embrace within its terms Mr..
Johnston or Mr., Gibson,
FRANCIS hILL, of Exeter Maine, man
now about eighty years old took up wild
land and began farming about sixty years
ago. H lives on the saue farm to day, aud
10 that time be has never bought a pound
Of flour or meal Of any kind. kernel OF corn
OF grain, potato or apple, pound Of but
ter or cheese, Of pork. beet OF mutton, or
any other uamable thing which farmers 10
Milne ordinarily produce from their farms.
He has one Of the best farms ID his town
aud works 1t yet himself
BEEcHER says Laziness Is one of the
most iuexcusaile Of crimes. know men
I jus lfy sometimes because they have e mus
/ Ifihey have hich they usually have not
hey are ali the more guilty it they are
ary For, if 3 man has genius land that
lsa term which, when properly used, means
an organization so sensative that 1t easily
goes into a state Of eXalra'ion, aud prudu-
ess results more fruitful than can be produ-
cd by ord nary means), the more he has Of
| It the greater is the responsibility that God
aid upon him 10 use 1t.
BELFAST, Maine, has an Enoch Arden
case Twenty years ago Robert Steele a
res dent then there went to California,
( leaving wife aud one child. For d time
letter, were regularly received, bur for the
la-t ten years nUthlng had been head from
HIM. His wife believing him dead, about
five years ago married, 10y which marriage
she has one child. To the surprise OF every
one, Mr. Steele recently returned and in
qujrsd tor his wife and child. HIS emotion
N learning that she was married again was
very great. The son for whom be inquired
has grown to fine young man and is mate
OF a snip.
GENERAL KRYZANOWsKI, supervisor Of
Georgia aud Florida, reports under date OF
October II, that Jackson and Washington
countless in Florida, are under the control
ol an armed iOIce, which was risen TO pre-
vent the execution Of the revenue laws The
leader Of this mob one James =. Coker,
who Is represented to bs a wealthy aud in-
tiusntial man, has threatened Assistant As
>e-sor Love, Of Marilna, with personal vio
lence, and has challenged hun to fight.
That officer writes to the supervisor that he
can only cans ass his district at the hazard
Of his lIle, aud Assessor Wilson writes cor
roburau6g his assistant statement.
IT is not true, as recently published, that
Minister Wa>hburue has applied to the
State Department for Sl5, 600 in gold for
contingent expenses. The facts are, as oh
fained from an official source, that Minister
WashDurne, Minister Curtin, and Mr.. Mo
ran, first Secretary of legation IN London,
recently severally applied to tie Govern
uient 10 allow them each between $500 and
$500 additional for ofice rent. The records
Of the Fifth Auditor Office show that since
Minister Washburne has been in France he
has declined 10 recelve certain allowances
until be could legally satisfy himself that he
was entitled to them
SINGULAR DISCOVERIES IN ARIZONA. -
Commissioner Wilson, Of the General Land
Office, has just received returns of the sur
vey OF the township and section lines Of five
townships on the Gia river, III southern
Arizona, containing l05 252 acres Of agri-
cultural and grazing lanis, bearing evidence
OF having been formerly under high Siate
OF cultivation for centuries, and abuundns
in ruins of elaborate and sometimes magni-
hcient structures, together with relics Of
obhterated races possessing considerable
knowledge of the arts aud manufactures
among the most extensive of the runs being
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