Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-12-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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GOVERNOR CURTIN was presented to the
Emperor Of Russia as United States Min
lister on October 2S.
The House Sub Committee on Foreign
Affairs will not report on the Paraguayan
difficulties until after the holidays
THE result of the Newfoundland elections
is the election of twenty-one Anti Con
federate aud nine Confederates.
In an affray with knives, between a
| planter of Joe johnson county, Arkansas,
and his three negro laborers, the latter were
killed. johnson, the planter, viii recover,
though wounded in twenty places
AS evidence that American ideas are get
| ting foothold in Italy, correspondent cites
the fact that American rocking chairs are
/ now in high favor, though when first intro
duced by American families they were
looked upon by the natives as something
ridiculous.
| YoU never saw such happy lot Of peo-
/ pie as we had here yesterday said land
lady in Indiana to newly arrived guest /;
there were thirteen couples of EN-, :
What thirteen couples just married ?"
! 'Ob, no, slri thirteen couples Just diyorc-
ed
THE principal objection in England to a
/ law compelling all children to attend school
| is, that if they leave off work Tor that pur-
/ pose they will starve Wages are so low
! that parents are compelled to rely on the
wages Of children Of tender years for the
support Of the family.
ONE thousand skilled German laborers
recently arrived 10 New Orleans on the way
to the Teche Country and other parts of
Louisiana. They were transported from
various parts Of Illinois to New Orleans at
an expense of twelve dollars each, not in
Guiding meals, which cost fifty cents a day.
The laborers found plenty Of work and high
wages
DU PAGE county, Illinois, is in a state Of
anarchy. In consequence Of a division on
the county seat question, feeling runs high,
the people Of one section threatening the
other with mob violence. The excitement
Is represented as fearful, so that the lives
| and property of citizens are in jeopardy, aud
It is feared that before the matter is ended
soldiers viii have to be called out to pre-
serve order
| TIE milduess of the winter in Louisiana,
50 far, has proved great ANNOYANCE to
| hunters and lovers of wild game. But few
ducks have been seen or killed, while the
smaller frs of the icathered tribe are remark
ably scarce, In New Orleans there have
/ been few wild ducks in market this season
worth buying, and not more than eight or
ten days of weather cold enough to make
fires agreeable.
THE SE THOMAS TREATY. The failure
OF the Senate to confirm the treaty for the
eession of the Island Of st. Thomas TO the
United States, Is exciting invidious com
ments in Copenhagen, where it Is asserted
that the ratification Of the Alaska treaty
was procured under the compulsion of Rus
sia, but the Denmark is insulted because
she is weak. Unless a formal request IS
made to extend the time of the ratification,
it is bell we'd that the treaty will be formal
" and publicly annuled by the King and
the Rigsrag, on the ground that the United
States failed to fulfill the stipulatons.
The ANCIENTs AND THE MoDERNs.-I
the year 1870 the English Parliament enact
ed that Whoever should lead into matri-
monial bonds any male subject Of his Males
ty, by means Of rouge or powders, per
fumes, essences, artificial teeth false hair,
Spanish cotton, iron cOrsets, crinolines,
high heeled shoes, or false calves, should
be prosecuted for sorcery, and the marriage
declared null and void The Parliament
of l770 was very ungallant, to say the least
Of it, But 1t IS question whether there
is not quite as much nasessity in these mod
ern times for such law as there was in the
ancient days.
A GENTLEMAN who attended Sainte-
Beuves funeral writes Among the dis
tnguishud ladies' present l observed George
Sand rapidly falling into the very yellow
leaf Proudhon 5 widow, very delicate and
Nine. RatazZi, who is to be met everywhere.
The terrible Raspail was arm-in-arm with
his son, a venerable figure, with flowing
white locks, reminding one Of Douglas Jer-
rold Dumas, father and son-the former
promising to live 100 years, but the son fitted
to occupy the cast-off Carmeite garments
OF his friend Father Hyacinthe Dr. Ricord,
fat and heavy with the vestige of his last
laugh, &c. p"
We notice in the English papers the re-
port of the trial of a man employed in a
warehouse, for stealing one apple. He was
duly convicted and muleted in the sum of
FIVE shiIlings for the offense The magis-
trate, in passing sentence, said that this
proceeding had become absolutely necessary
in defense of the rights of more than one
person interested The property was
freight, In charge of common carriers, and
if every porter, warehouseman and drayman
helped himself, though each only to a sin
gle apple, the 'shrinkage was something
very considerable. The transporters being
liable for the loss, sought a preventive in
the arrest of the first man against whom
they could clearly prove the theft.
Rich MEN and great men seem to be
cursed through their progeny as frequently
now as in the past A short time ago Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, Jr, grandson Of the
afiluent Commodore, offered a check for
fifteen thousand dollars, in payment for
goods purchased, on a bank in which he had
no money, and got the Hon. Horace Greeley
to indorse the paper Mr.. Greeley will have
to pay the amount, It's said, and will lose it
all, as this young sprig OF New York ar
istocracy has contracted debts 10 the amount
of $500, 00O and Commodore Vanderbilt
says be will not be responsible. Young
Vanderbilt has Just been b8ilcd out of jail
by one of his creditors, who thinks he has
lost enough by the misbehavior Of the
youth, without paying his board in prison.
TIE METHODIST Book CONCERN. The
Book Committee Of this establishment, after
a careful investigation lasting over two
weeks, has arrived at the following judg-
ment in reference to the alleged losses and
frauds connected with the business, to wit:
First that the last exhibit OF the agents is
a true and reliable statement of the financial
responsibility and solveucy of the Book Con-
eern. Second, That though the agents
have bought paper and other materials
through middlemen, yet the concern has not
suffered any serious loss by such mode Of
making purchases Third, That their has
been great mismanagement in the bindery,
and that serious losses have occurred there
in Fourth, That the general management
of the business, in all matters involving the
credit and integrity of the Book Concern. is
such as to meet the approval of the commit
tee and command the confidence of the com
munity. The report is signed by the twelve
rnemhers of the committed