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


That was hiss first visit 70 this county, and
he attracted considerable attention. In 4
French politics be has been considered more
liberal than the Emperor, and at one time
was in disgrace with his despotic cousin for i
opposing his policy. They were soon recon I
cilled, and the Prince has since been a sup
porter Of the Empire The effect Of his /
killing OF Noir must be injurious to the Im- 4
perial dynasty. The French press mu I /
resent the assassination Of brother iourn- /
alist The code Of honor condemns the /
Prince, and the liberals will use il as an ar I
gument against the Empire.
| An effort is now making to consolidate /
/ the State Of Delaware, the eastern shore Of I
/ Maryland and Ace0maG county in Virginia, I
! into a new State, 70 be called Chesapeake I
/ The thirteen counties 10 the three States 1
make the peninsula lying between the Ches- |
I apeake the Delaware river and the Atlantic I
I Ocean 1t is believed that these counties I
/ have population and identical interests OF !
/ sufficient importance to warrant their creG-
! ton into a new State. Under the proposed /
plan, Delaware, Of feonrse, loses its identity,
but this is 10 Offset the objection which the
! people Of Virginia and Maryland In tie
1 counties adjoining might have to annexa-
/ ton 10 so small a State as Delaware, which
.
more important State of Chesapeake. The
nlan is not a new one Simon Cameroa, as
Secretary Of War in 1861, officially. recon-
mended it, and it has been discussed from
time to time ever since. The reason given
for moYeiug IN the matter now IS that. II
the new State is TO be created. it can be
ranked ia the enumeration, estimates and
statistics Of the census about to be taken as
the State Of Chesapeake, not Delaware.
DIR. FAYER, an English physician in In
dia, communicates to the Indian Medical
( GGzette an extraordinary case Of the effect
Of imagination on the phyieal system. lie
says "On entering the hospital, ! was
told that a man had been admitted during
the night suffering from snake bite, and
that he was very low. ! found him 10 a state
Of great prostrati0n-he was hardly able to
sneak. and seemed to be 10 a state Of depres
sion He and his friends said that during
the night, in going into his hut, a snake bit
him In the foot; that he was much alarmed
aud rapidly passed into state OF insenslbll-
ity when they brought him to the hospital
They and he considered that be was dying,
and evidently regarded his condition as hope
less. On being asked for description OF the
snake they replied they had caught It and
brought il with them in a bottle. The bottle
was produced, aud the snake turned out to
be a small innocent lycOdOn. Ii was alive,
though somewhat Injured by the treatment
If had received. On explaining to the man
and his friends that It was harmless. and
with some difficulty making them belleveit,
the symptoms Of poisoning rapidly dlsap-
peared, and he left the hospital as well as
ever he was in his life in a few hours
The BUSINESS FUTURE The Financial
Chronicle concludes a survey Of the business
future as follows: I'm view Of this steady
and natural process Of reaction from Intia-
ton. we are at a loss TO conceive Of the
grounds for the vague and settled convlc-
tion. now so general, that the financial and
commercial arrangements growing out Of
T the war must sooner or later issue IN gener-
al panic and Insolvency. There could be no
better guarantee against such a catastrophe
than the universal caution which now pre-
walls The sentiment Of the country Is es-
sentially conservative. An expansion ofthe
currency would be SO unpopular to the peo-
l ME at large that there are few members Of
Congress who have thl daring to propose
such a measure, no enterprises can be float
ed that do not present good evidences OF
. / sounduess. Wall street brokers find It far
more difficult to promote an advance IN
stocks than decline and upon the question
of specie payments there is a marked con-
I version of public opinion in favor OF an ear
: " adoption of the measure. There are plain
indications Of wholesale commercial senti-
rnent, such as usually precedes public pros
! perity and cannot, with any cOngrulty, be
: regarded as the forerunner of panic.
PEACH STATISTICS. s.-The Wilmington.
Del, Commercial says. An item is going
the rounds Of the papers, and has been pub
lished in this one, stating that the State
of California has 100000 peach trees, or
about i've to every voter-enough to pro-
duce more than one hundred pounds annu-
ally for every person. The figures are large,
but they are official, and are supposed TO be
I correct These figures may sound large
to people who do not live where peaches
grow, but they seem somewhat insignificant
in this latitude. California has an area of
lSS, 9S2 square miles Delaware has an area
1 Of >, 100, and the eastern shore of Maryland,
adjoining her, has an area of probably about
5000 square miles The Delaware Rail
road and its branches furuishe transporta-
/ tion for the products Of these two congres
sional districts, with a united area of not
much over ; 900 square miles, and a united
!, population in 1860 of PSF, 344 In the year
) 1866 there were growing along the line Of
this road .the greater part of them In Della
, Z WdTEJ l-UJJ1-yJ peach trees. Dy tue tpFlUg
of 1859 the number counting none under
one year old had increased 10 3,q59,0
and from the large number planted last year
1t Is probable that the present number along
the line Of the road is at least 4. 500, 000
All the figures except those of the above es-
innate are official, made from actual count
by the agents Of the read, for the use Of the
freight agent, Mr.. A. Brown, TO enable him
to make his estimates. They do not include
at all the large orchards the fruit from
which is sent to market By water, and con-
cerning which we have no definite data, but
which probably have one-third the number
Of trees of those along the railroad
Taking only the estimate Of 1900, 900
trees along the railroad, which does not rep
resent anything Ike the whole number on
3 the peninsula, aud making a liberal esti-
mate Of the population, still these two con-
gressional districts have, instead of FIVE
3 peach trees to each voter, over fourteen to
! each inhabitant; and in Delaware the pro-
! portion is much greater, as her population
; is smaller than that of the Eastern Shore
while probably four ffths of the trees are in
her limits.
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