Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-11-26

| IT IS duly paragraphed that Henry
/ Ward Beecher's salary will be reduced to
/ sql 009 this year.. Whether or not ii will
| be considered proper to take up a subscrip-
/ fion for him is not stated Estimating his
/ further income. from lecturing and writing,
At some $l2, 600 per annnm-and@t Is all
! that the reverend gentleman viii have
oaly a paltry S33, 600 a year to live upon
/ It Is rather more, indeed, than any Of the
Apostles received and even larger income
than most of the English bishops get, fsr
doing very little; but considering that the
| Archbishop OF Canterbury has $75 600, and
the Bishop Of London $4,000 year, Mr.
Beecher may fancy that he has cause to
complain.
MANY are the anecdotes being told Of the
/ famous French academician Sainte- Beuve,
recently deceased in Paris He was sup
/ ping one evening at a restaurant, and close
/ by him the great friar Lacordaire was seat
ed Perhaps il was malice, or perhaps he
did not see the latter, but Saiute Baaye,
who was conFersing on the subject Of reli-
gi0n with friend, dropped the remark that
/ he could not believe in God because it went
beyond his understanding. He had scarce
| ly spoken this when Lacordaire rose up to
his full height and, pointing toward heaven,
| exclaimed: NJ Ssinte- Beuve, you say you
do not believe in God because you cannot
understand him. But can you understand
why the same fire viii melt butter and har-
den eggsl And nevertheless you are eating
your omeletelh Sainte-Beuve, struck at
this remark, remained sileut for moment,
but then be rose likewise, pressed the hand
of the ardent Dominican, and they remain
ed warm friends ever afterward
WHEN Eugenia visited ConstanGnopIe
she went to hear mass at the Armenian
church. This church had been magnificent.
ly decorated at the expense of the Sultan,
and strange to say, the decoration had been
performed under the immediate supervision
of the Sultana Valide. ThIongs Of enthu-
elastic spectators lined the roads over which
the Empress passed. aud when she reached
the church she was escorted to magni6
cent throne. A French writer observes on
this occasion, that this visit viii probably
be Of the utmost Importance to the Turkish
people. Seeing an infdel woman treated
with so much respect and even their great
| Padishah bowling before her, the native wo-
men threw off their reserve and were the
most eager to press forward good many
even dropped their wells, aud it was evident
that the spectacle inspired them with a sen
timent of the dignity of their sex The East
seems to shake off its torpor and awake to a
new life.
The latest intelligence from Cuba con-
firms the reports heretofore received Of the
intention of the insurgents to destroy all the
sugar producing estates they can operate
upon. On Thursday week seven cane-felds
near Las Cruces were burned Since that
time four Cinnamon were discovered in the
act Of firing another cane-held They were
seized and Immediately executed. The set
tlement Of Teguayaben, which was defend
ed by thirty volunteers, has been captured
by the insurgents and burnt Gen De Ro-
das has returned from Cienfuegos, whittier
he went to examine into the situation
Hardly bad he arrived there before Gen
Carlo begged him to send to his aid Z, coo
volunteers, to bring on, if possible, general
engagement with the Cuban commander
Cavada The Havana Didrio on Saturday
had an article declaring that there we're but
two elements of population in the island
the Spanish and foreign, and that the enc
mics of Spain could not remain there
ST PETERSBURG is threatened with total
inundation At the last adyces the Neya
had already overhowed the banks, and guns
were firing to warn the tenants of ground
floors to remove themselves and their fam
lies to higher stories, or else to abandon
the city. In the lower quarters the inhab-
itants were rapidly deserving This is the
first food that has taken place at ST. Peters
burg for four-and forty years The last was
in 1924, when 402 houses were destroyed,
and $500 seriously damaged; 10000 people
were then left without shelter, and 600 were
drowned. 1t is impossible to over-estimate
the misery produced by catastrophies of this
kind. In 1924 it was as though the whole
city had gone into mourning. Festivals
were everywhere suspended, and the money
destined for the usual round Of winter
amusemeDts all went to relieve the thou
sands Of unhappy people whom the inunda-
tion had either thrown out of work or turn
ed out Of doors. To make matters worse,
the cessation Of ialls and parties caused a
stsgnation in trade and innumerabe bank
ruptcies, so that to all classes the trial was
a long and a cruel one. The municipal ad-
ministration Of the city is, however, better
now than it was then