Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1870-01-07
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likely to receive the honors.
TIE Reformed Church Synod, 10 session
at Philadelphia, have voted in favor o
striking the word German from thei
title, and have officially declared the title &
be The Reformed Church of the United
States Of America.
FATHER HYAcINTHE sailed for Europ,
from New York on Saturday IN the steamer
Pereire. He was accompanied to the YES
sci BY seeeral members Of the Frencl
Benevolent Society and several American
friends He stated he would return to thii
country again and make an extended tour
oft.
Eadyise girls TO go West If they wan
husbands The excess of men in Ohio i.
10000; in Michigan, 40, 600; in Kansas, I5,-
600; in Missouri, $4,000, and in California,
l45,O00. On the contrary, there are So
600 more momen than men in New Eng.
land, and nearly the same excess Of females
in Pennsylvania, New York and New
jersey.
THE coming census-taking in this country
/ Is a gigantic work. Forty millions of people
to be numbered; the age, sex, occupation,
nativity, &c, to be noted; all the statistics
Of the farmers, their productions, live stock,
&c, to be gathered; all the manufacturing
establishments of the country with their raw
material, machinery and various products,
to be enumerated; schools, Libraries,
churches, to be reported. The work IS truly
ponderous.
IT is aggravatiDg to have an officer of the
internal revenue service shot while in the
performance Of his duty; it is exasperating
to have him shot by whisky distiIler, who
is not the most valuable member of society
conceivable Lieut. Moses, Deputy
Marshal, going on the 4th inst. to Linn
Creek, No, to seize certain whisky works,
was shot in bis room in the tavern, by some
riheman, supposed to be a dishonest ex-
torter of rife-whisky from honest grain or
potatoes. In the evil, old times, they used
to call those who helped runaway negroes
LEVERS of war upon the United States The
hostilities we're short, if sharp; but some of
these whisky-men seem to have organized
for regular campaign,
A PLEASING little incident at Utica, Ill.,,
exhibits the beauty of kerosene as a kinder
The children of Mr. Higgins, in order to
expedite fire in the stove, did what they
had seen their elders do-they poured
kerosene upon the Goals Instantly an ex-
plosion ensued. The baby lived half an
hour after it. The oldest boy died the same
night Only one Of the children is likely to
recover One always experiences desire,
after recounting story like this, to point
moral, and to utter words Of warning; but
really, kerosene accidents are getting to be
so common that we have come to the CON
clusion that people, rather than otherwise,
enjoy them, and are positively in love with
burning and blowing up.
SURGEON GENERAL BARNES reports that
the health of the army has been remarkably
good during the past year, except at Key
West, where the yellow fever carried off is
men. The average mean strength of the
army during the current year was SO, $50
white and 4, 263 colored troops The number
of deaths reported was 473, or thirteen per
thousand of mean strength. The medical
corps as at present organized is highly ex-
tolled and is believed to be the best in the
world, considering the manner in which the
troops are distributed
TIE Montreal Ncvs says. We have ac-
! quired a knowledge that we can live without
reciprocity, and perhaps the American Elk.
ecutive is unwittingly teaching us a whole
some lesson of self reliance Wemust learn
to use the weapons they prize so highly.
We must assimilate our frontier tariff to
theirs, and prevent Canada being made a
sacrifice market by American mauu!ac,ur-
ers. The use Of our canals and fisheries are
boons worth purchasing, but beyond them
We have nothing to tempt the Americans to
/ relax their tariff in our favor. The Ottawa
Commons have thus clear field before
them, and can legislate upon reliable data
hitherto their movements were paralyzed By
the prospect of the reciprocity treaty being
revived.
ACCORDING to the Chicago journal, the
German population Of this country are the
most sensitive and desperate of all those
races coming into it, exceeding in that res
pect the Irish, who have had the name oil
being much more excitable and rash The
/ highest number Of suicides in the above
city for the past year belonged to the sons oi
the Fatherland, numbering nineteen against
eleven Irish persons, the Americans, mum.
bering nine, coming next. -Four Engliah-
men were found on the roll and, if com.
paratiye estimate were made, it would prob.
| ably be found that they fell very little, il
anything, behind the Germans on that
ghastly table OF statistics. The causes ol
/ these suicides are not Disseminated, but
1 they would probably be found, for the most
/ part, in the favorite beverages of the respec-
tive nationalities
a LEWIS county jury has earned the graf
itude of society by refusing to acquit will
full murderer whose defence was the pretexl
Of wounded domestic honor One Power;
suspecting his wife of improper familiarity
with ono Shaw, deliberately killed the latter
by cleaving his head with an axe. The usu.
al plea Of temporary insanity was put for
ward, and able and eloquent counsel ex.
hausted themselves in customary argument
and appeal, but, although the suspicion oi
the jealous husband was apparently vel
/ founded, the jury refused to accept heprof
fered justification, and Powers will be hang
ed next February, unless executive interior
ence in his behalf is secured 1t is to be
hoped that juries will act on this wholesome
precedent and unite in putting an end to the