Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1870-03-04

1 by me throat, II az no other ume. lf' orge
4 Fox, miser, who died recently in Third
avenue, New York, has wilIed his property
| valued at 100000 To the United States TO
/ be applied to the payment of the national
4 debt. Three nleees and nephews, now
living 10 tenement house in Brooklyn, are
contesting the will.
| GOVERNMENT SALES OF GOLD. The
4 Secretary Of the Treasury has directed the
/ Assistant Treasurer at New York TO con
tinue the sale Of 81 100000 in gold, and the
/ purchase of 81 900 600 in bonds, during al
ternatc weeks, throughout the month of
! March, ON account of the sinking fund, so
/ that at least 50, 600, 600 of gold will be dis
posed Of next month He has also ordered
the purchase Of 81 900 GOO Of bonds in each
alternate week sf March for speculation.
| TIE PRESENT population of the United
4 States has been variOusly guessed at from
1 40, 600. 600 10 Al. coo 0D0 and more sanguine
/ patriots talk of $4,000 900 now and 200
/ 600, 600 within generation or two. A
( carefully prepared estimate by the Tribune
4 gives 40 500, 600 as the probable population
on june !, 1870 when the ninth census is
TO be taken. This is an increase of over
| 1900, ,000i certainly very ereditable under
/ the circmstanees Of decade Of war and
( political disSenstons.
The introduction Of the Asike, or hybrid
/ clover, as forage plant for bees, is bec0m-
ing very general throughout the country,
but more especially with apiarians The
three plants upon which bee keepers now
mostly rely, are the mustard plant, buck
wheat and alsike clover, decided prefer
ence being given to the latter Ii comes
into bloom about the same time as the
white clover, and when cut for hay is rapid
ly succeeded by second crop which affords
the bees fine paSturage until frost. The
fact of yielding as fine crop of hay as the
red clover gives it additional value. Five
pounds Is the quantity necessary to seed an
acre.
WHEN the fact is taken into consideration
that fully one ha of the lands belonging 10
the Government we're granted as subsidies
20 the Pacific Raj road Company, the peO-
pie will be glad to learn that there is to be
an end to the business of granting these sub
sides to railroad corporations. The few
men who engineered the Pacific road bill
through Congress, and who were the origin
ators Of the project, have all become im-
mensely weallhy-in fact they are said to be
the richest men in America-snd have, we
understand, without an exception, retired
from any further participation in It's man
agement, They could well afford to do this
Robson CRUsoE's ISLAND. The island
of Juan Fernandez has been purchased by an
euterpri-ing German, who has exported
thither a considerable colony Of his country
men, and supplied them with suitable i'm
plements Of agriculture. The popular
notion of the island, derived from Robinson
CruSoe, Is very incorrect one. Juan
Fernandez is long, rocky island, about as
large as Staten Island, lying four hundred
miles off Valparaiso, on the coast of Chill
If things have not deteriorated since
Selkirk's time, the German coonists will
have pleasant quarters climate so good
that the trees aud grass are verdant all the
year round, and soil SO fertile that every
thing thrives luxuriantly.
The CROPS. The last monthly report of
the Department of Agriculture shows a large
reduction in the prices obtained for the pro-
ducts of the farm. II asserts that the fall
in wheat has marked an area in the history
of prices OF this grain. In the New England
States, where the prices in 1868 ranged from
81 10 81 ~, the averages now range from
81 40 to 81 So. In New York the reduction
is from 81 0s TO s 81; in Ohio, from 81 65
to 81 03; IN Illinois, from 81 20 to rs cents;
II
coru has fallen in New England from the
average of 81 AZ 10 that of 81 03; Pennsyl-
vauia, from 81 TO 90 cents; while 10 Ohio
the price has increased from 60 cents to y /
cents; Illinois, from 43 cents to 81 cents, !
and 10 Iowa from 81 cents TO so cents The |
price OF corn has increased throughout the |
West, except in Minnesota, Nebraska and |
Kansas
THE CANCELLATION OF REVENUE !
STAMPS. The Internal Revenue Bureau |
has directed that after May /, 1870. all ad- |
hesive stamps used upon instruments, docu- |
ments, writings and papers, mentioned in |
Schedule B ofthe Internal Revenue Laws, |
shall be cancelled by the person afhxing, |
either by writing upon each and every stamp |
in ink, the iuitials of his name, and date. |
year, month and day which the same is at |
tached or used, or by cutting or eaneelling |
the same by a certain machine approved by |
the Commissioner. The regulation has /
been made on account Of the extensive !
irards alleged to have been committed BY |
washing, restoring, and using the internal |
adhesive revenue stamps which have once |
been cancelled by the ribbon stamp ma
chine. The Commissioner orders that |
alter May /, 1870, no other method of can |
collation. than that first mentioned above |
shall be recognized as legal or sufficient.
THERE HAS been held at Birmingham, |
England, a Conference Of the Latter Day !
Saints which was called The instigation of |
fifteen Elders from Salt lake City, who are |
at present engaged on a mission to different
districts in England The presidents ofthe |
various districts read reports Of the prog
ress of MOrmnnism in the midland counties,
all of them being extremely favorable to the
spread of Mormon religion and the rapid
growth of the Society IN that country.
From these reports we gather there are ten
thousand members Of the sect in the British
isles, who are divided into twenty-one Con
ferences, presided over by an Elder. The
striking feature of this meeting, however
was the addresses of the American Elders,
who urged upon the Mormons in England to
maintain their religion. and who ex expressed
the frmest faith in President Young; they
assured their hearers he was 3 prophet, and
the best friend of man on earth. They also
described in glowing language ''the City of
the valley in the Mountains, but, curiously
enough. not one ofthem once mentioned the
subject Of polygamy.
A REAL MERMAID. "A correspondent of
the Delhi Gazette, writing from Benares, on
December 10 says: Some Mohammedans
of Benga' hava recently brought here mer-
maid preserved in case 1t exactly resenI-
bles fish covered with scales in the lower
half, and monkey having head and two
arms, with fingers and nails, in the upper.
OF course, it is curious thing to look at.
| was quite astoni>bed to learn from some
of my friends that real mermaid, exposed
in the chouk of this city, could be seen on
paying single piece. So, as this filed my
mind with great curiosity, | went there,
yesterday, and saw that il was all true, and
that a man, sitting at the door, with bell
in his hand was inviting the pa>sers-by to
that spectacle. |, with two friends, went
hands. l couldn't make ont anything
fcritious in it. On inquiring of the man