Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-09-03
ITEMS.

IN the chain gang, for marrying white
woman.
The heat is so intense in Menphis that
it is melting off the composition roofs. Per
haps the roofs have not got the right pitch.
THE Irritation grounds at West Point are
not to be lighted by gas, but by the girls,
and the rejoicing of the latter is eonsidera-
ble
A SINGLE leaf of the Victoria Regia in
the botanical garden at Ghent foated two
hundred and sixty-four pounds of bricks
that were piled upon it.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT marriage to
a very young lady is the last item of New
York gossip lie is about seventy years
old, and worth, according to Wall street, at
least as many millions. She is nineteen.
THE Conservative Democrats of Tennes-
see are gradually taking ground against the
ratification Of the fifteenth amendment by
the Legislature of that State, though both
Brownlow and Senter promised their fol-
lowers that it should be done.
EMERSON ETHER1DGE takes ground for
the reputation of the railroad debt of Ten
nessee, and Andrew johnson for the repu-
diation Of the war debt of the United States.
Pity the Democrats cannot elect both to the
Senate
THE Democrats have always claimed to be
the hard money party, and yet the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, their chief Ohio organ, COM
plains that Governor Boutwelrs policy is
rapidly bringing the currency to the gold
standard
TX MARVEL, editor of Hearth and Home,
lately made some structures upon the man
agement of the New York and New Haven
railroad, whereupon the Superintendent has
forbidden the sale of the paper in the sta
tions of the road, the prohibition acting
splendidly as a gratuitous advertisement of
the paper.
As to the Cinnamon now and the China
men after awhile, the Albany Journal says:
"Hit the Chinaman, gentlemen, while you
can. He can't strike back now But re-
member, he is the coming man. And
when the time arrives you will crawl on your
parallel after him as peaceably as the World
does after the colored man.
A YOUNG MAN in Muscatine, Iowa, arose
10 his sleep, on the night of the 7th inst,
and climbed to the roof of the Trinity church
and proceeded to deliver an eloquent dis
course. After speaking some time, he re-
tired in good order until he came to the
edge of the roof, when one step brought him
to the ground and consciousness.
CHATTING at Wiesbaden about the young
fellow who was to become his son in-law,
the old man praised him very highly. Il
don't know that he has but one fault He
does not know how to play" do you call
that fault? 1t seems to me virtue "
All, well he does not know how to play,
but he plays, just the same "
Ben PERLEY PooBE has one of the finest
in New England, the house be-
ing built of stone, and in the style of an
old English mansion house. One portion
Of il is in imitation of an old colonial house,
every article of furniture being genuine rel
les of the old days before the Revolutionary
war
How IT ORIGINATED. The word dun
{ to ask for debit owes its origin to IA
nous English bailiff, named Joe Dunn, in
the time of King Henry Will, who piled
bis hard trade Of collecting doubtful debts
with remarkable success. When every re-
sort had failed, creditors would threaten to
put Dunn On their debtors, and hence the
phrase of dunning, which is so common
now adays.
Two peaceful events are recorded abroad
The first is the perfect reconciliation of the
Sultan of Turkey and bis Pasha of Egypt
The second the end Of the civil war in japan
and the restoration of peace throughout the
empire. The two most powerful Damios,
Satsuma and Choison, are members of the
new administration, in positions in which
they could do the greatest harm if they
should prove treacherous in their submis-
sion to the government of tue Mikaio-one
being placed at the head of the army, the
other at the head of the navy.
SARATOGA, the most popular and fashion
able watering-place in the United States, if
not in the world, is at the same time the
most uncomfortable and unsatisfactory to
all who visit it except for its gaiety and dis
sipation. To enjoy the water as well as the
pleasant walks and drives, the first two
weeks in September offer the best period in
the season. There is at that time more
room, less dust, less noise and confusion,
and the waters can be drank at leisure and
to their full fruition.
QUEEN VICTORIA is beginning to look
with more favor upon John Bright. She
has discovered at last that he is somebody
and may be needed in an emergency to lend
more assistance to her government than she
at one time ever could have been
possible He has been invited to visit Her
Majesty, as a friend, at Balmoral, where
Victoria has just taken up her residence for
the latter part Of summer and early part of
fall This is certainly mark of royal favor
not manifested every day.
A CHARLESTON paper says that in the
upper part Of South Carolina there is
young Confederate soldier whose leg was
during the war, near the thigh.
After amputation the wound rapidly healed,
and be was sent home About year after
wards feshy protuberance was seento grow
out of the flesh, which, in the course of
few months, took the shape of foot, and
since that time it has been growing finely,
until now the man has a perfectly new foot
and leg growing from his thigh, which, in a
year or so, promises to supply the loss ofhis
leg in the first instance.