Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1870-01-21

stitution in Ohio.
The nail mills at Wheeling have all stor
ped operations to take stock. The aggre
gate number of kegs of naiEs made in tha
city last year, the LateHigeacer says, wi
reach six hundred and fifty thousand. In
Guiding the production of the mill at Ben
wood, it would swell the aggregate 10 eigh
hundred thousand
HAIR CLOTH skirts, to take the place o
hoops, have recently been imported. Their,
Is founce around the bottom, in rounc
plaits, on all except the front breadth, anC
the upper part Of the back has rolls of th,
material, fora quarter of a yard, in imitation
Of the hustle.
They have secured new anasthctic il
France, to supersede chloroform and its va
rious substitutes 1t is a chemical com.
pound, and is called "chloral. It is not
inhaled, but swallowed, when it produces
a perfect insensibility without any dangerous
aecompaniments. This is, in surgical prac,
tiee, a discovery of the utmost importance.
VERMONT has at last arrived at such a
pitch of civilization that it sees what a bad
mistake it is to tax machinery. Its Legis.
lature has exempted from taxation for five
years all manufacturing establishments
hereafter to be erected in that State. and
all the capital and machinery used in opera
ting them; and also the capital and ma
ehinery put into buildings already erected,
but not now used for manufacturing pur-
poses, whenever the capital used amounts
to one thousand dollars or more.
The Polish Land Emigration Company.
Of which Hon. Caleb Gushing is President,
has just purchased 81, 900 acres of land. "
ing on both sides of the James River, in
Amherst, Rockingham and Bedford conn
ties, Virginia It is proposed to place
colony of Poles on the purchased tract, and
the transportation of such emigrants to this
country viii at once be begun, under the
charge Of Gen. Smolenski, the director of
emigration.
The Chicago Tribune makes this positive
grammatical poi1t: "WiIl editors of quar-
terles and of the New York Tribune have
the grace to learn that woman is noun.
and cannot be used as an adjective; that we
can have woman-lovers or woman-haters.
but we will not submit to woman-speakers
nor woman teachers; that we can have female
speakers and female teachers; but we rebel
against female colleges. female hospitals,
and all other female objects of the neuter
gender
THE revolution which has broken out in
the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi is the
worst oftwo or three which have happenediu
that state within our memory 1t has cap
.ured a Governor and the most ola Legis-
ature, and has brought down upon it an
order from Juarez calling out portion of
he national guard, if any such force have
'fteetual existence in that state. Worse
lews, however, is the resignation Of General
one Of the bravest and ablest and
perhaps now the most necessary of the Mexi-
an Generals, who follows his late command
n, General Diaz, into retirement.
Two of the youthful nobility Of England
nave been distinguishing themselves lately.
Lord Albert Pelham Clinton has won q
wager of so pounds sterling by walking ten
niles in two hours, in the presence of a Sc
ect circle Of friends, at Hackney Wick. The
Court journal admits that he had mo pre-.
entions to style, his feet coming down
heavily at every stride, but he walked the
Instance within three minutes of the pre-
icribed time. Loud cheers greeted the
pedestrian at the termination Of the feat.
which was accomplished solely BY great
The community Of Carter's Station,
irginia, was considerably exercised few
lays ago by the announcement that Mr..
Lyon, who lived in the neighborbood, had
married. his mother. 1t seems that LYONS
ather had been twice married, and the
children by the first wife continued to live
n the family after the second marriage.
lyon, the father, died, leaving his second
wife widow, and Lyon, the son, married
us fathers widow The clerk issued the
license without knowledge of the facts,
md the minister requested to solemnize the
marriage declined; magistrate likewise re-
used, and the pair crossed over to Stony
Jreek, where they we're unknown, and we're
married.
The WAGES OF LABoR.-Before the dis /
.overy Of America, money was 50 scarce
hat the price of a days work was fixed
y act of the English Parliament in 1851 at
'ne penny per day; and in 1914 the allow
nee Of the chaplain to the Scotch bishops
then in prison in England was three half /
,ence per day. At this time "a eggs we're
old for penny, pair Of shoes for pence, |
fat goose for p pence, a hen for a penny,
wheat pence per bushel, anda fat OK for
X shillings ani eight pence. So that, in
hose days days work would buy a hen
r two dozen eggs; two days work would
'uy pair of shoes, and a fat OK cost eighty
lays work. On the whole human labor bro
the average about half as much food and |
'erhaps one-fourth as much cloth or
lothiug as it now does. On the whole, we
uess the good old times" were not worth |
eealling. The above facts are given in
Adam Clark 5 Commetary On Matt. Xxx. .. /
HERE is another good word for Alaska |
rom the San Francisco Bulletin:
Whenever the timber resources Of Alaska
ave been brought to view as an element
{ future wealth, some one of the many
olunteers who are depreciating that country
J ready to inform the world that there
plenty of timber this side of Alaska.
We have before US some data furnished By
resident of Sitka, which shows among
ther things that thare is an extent Of
ountry bordering on the coast Of Alaska,
quail to twenty miles Of width and 100