Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1870-02-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

I GEORGE WASHINGTON ROGERS sued Lu-
/ ther g. Riggs, of the Meriden Conn
4 Record, for $50, 600 damages for SANDER
The court awarded $40
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS. author of
1 Gates Ajar, has new novel for the press
/ entitled 'Hedged ln, the same being
| plea for fallen women who desire to reform.
DAVID WATKINS, aged seventy-eight,
and his wife Annie, aged eighty, died in
| Warren, K. l., last week, after fiftyseven
years of happy welded life, and both
possessed one grave.
j. II. BEADLE, a Salt Lake GENTLE is
stopping at his fathers house in Parke
county, Indiana, recovering from the beat
ing the Saints gave him at Corinne, and
writing book about the Mormons and their
wives.
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY says she never
heard of so many men, 10 one place, being
simultaneously affected with sore throat, as
she found at Washington, in selecting Con
gressmen to speak at her suffrage conveu-
ton.
Miss LUCY Bliss has taught school eight
years in the old academy school at Stock
bridge. Mass, without the loss of single
day. As she lives two miles from the school
house, she must have walked more than
Il, 900 miles in the time
RoCHEFoBT is an ayowed ufdel, and re-
Gently said in one Of his little speeches
The first duty Of a nation which desires to
be free Is to cast off that restraint called a
religion, and which leads fatally to slavery,
when it does not conduct to madness"
Mr.. HoPE SCoTr has the mot lucrative
legal practice in England, averaging SlI0,-
600 a year He married Miss Lockhardt,
the granddaughter Of Sir Walter Scott, and
his daughter By her is the only surviving
descendant of Sir Walter. Mr.. Hope
SCOTS present wife is Victoria Howard,
sister of the Duke Of Norfolk, the first peer
of England.
The Pope having announced that COM
mission Of theolOgians will be organized TO
answer questions propouUded BY Protestants
who may visit Rome during the sitting of
the council, many Of the cergymen Of the
Church cf England have delegated three of
their colleagues to repair to Rome to dis
cuss with the commission points OF difference
between Catholics and Protestants.
The question of suffrage is considered as
settled in Tennessee, iavorably 10 the col
ored citizens. A test question was decided
in the Convention on Thursday, for suf-
frage, by vote of 81 to 20 Hon A. 0. p
Nicholson, formerly editor of the Washing
ton Union, and afterwards Democratic
United States Senator from Tennessee, is
reported TO have made a powerful speech
IN behalf of colored suffrage.
THE old Medical Society Of Washington
city, whose charter it is proposed to take
away because they make distinctions of race
and color in their social relations, are in con-
siderable trouble lest the threat of some of
the Radicals may be carried out They are
using all the influence they can can to pre-
vent this result, and prominent New Eug-
land Senator has promised to champion |
their cause in the Senate.
THE bill to abolish polygamy, now pend
ing in Congress makes visible a speck of |
war Salt Lake war The Mormons are re-
ported to have militia force of 25, 900 |
men, under command of a Lieutenant /
General. However, these veterans are |
poorly armed and the one fact of the exist |
ence of the Pacific Railroad renders the |
force practically powerless. Mormonism I
may die hard, but the approach of eiviliza- I
tion already shakes it to the centre.
IT IS said by knowing observers that
Ecumenical Council will probably last at |
least a twelvemonth In former times such /
a prolonged absence of the heads of the |
church from their fields of duty would have /
been franght with the most cdlamitous con- I
sequences. But in these days of steamers
and teegTaphs, a bishop can govern his
people almost as well from Rome as from a
nearer point. So the Council may go on
as long as its members like, without their
having any qualms OF conscience over their
suffering dioceses
THE Louisville Courier & journal says that
Mr.. Prentice wrote a neat round hand using
always pencil Strange as it may seem,
the father and founder Of the modern
method of paragraphing and the most
brilliant writer oil separate paragraphs he
did not know how to divide an article which
exceeded a single paragraph into two or
three or more paragraphs. Nor did he un-
derstand the art of putting titles at the head
of his articles Long or short, the cur Of q
hand with finger out pointed sufiiced for
him, and he was strongly welded to this as
an indicator; but he adapted himself cheer
fully to prevailing styles, whether he liked
them or was ready with them or not.
No less than p, 900 penny song books are
sold every day throughout France. What
is still more surprising is the immense nom
Der of persons engaged in the trade It is
the custom of a man or a family of beggars
to procure the song books and tramp the
whole country round, singing the songs in
them. This attracts attention, and then
they sell the little books The singers in
France number about SOC, 600. They may
be divided into three great orders: those at