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The courts have decided that refusing to take newspapers and periodicals from the Post office, or removing and having them uncalled for, is prima facia evidence of intentional frand. St <£nv&. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. AND LINGENFELTEU, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, ra. Ilavo formed a partnership in the practice of the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran Church. [April 1, 1869-tf A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFOBD, PA. Kespectftilly tenders his professional services to the pnblio. Office in the INQUIRES Building, (second floor.) jhß~Coilections promptly made. [ April,l'69-tf. TNSPY M. AI.SIP, 111 ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Will faithfully andpromptly attend to all busi ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin n g counties. Military claims, Pensions, bock jmy, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with Mann A Spang, on Juliana Btreet, 2 doors sooth of the Mengel House. apl 1, 1889.—tf. R R. DURBORROW, 0 . ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEBFOBD, PA., Will attend promptly to ail business intrusted to his care. Collections made on the shortest no tice. 11c it, also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent and wil give special attention to the prosecution , "lit.s against the Government for Pensions, Back I ay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac. Office on Juliana street, one door South of the Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the 'Mengel House" April 1, 1869:tf S. L. RUSSELL. J. H. LONGENECKKR RUSSELL A LONGENECKER, ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Bedford, Pa, Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi ncs- entrusted to their care. Special attention given to collections and the prosecution of claims for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac. ,r®-Office on Juliana street, south of the Court House. Apri 1:69:1yr. J' M'D. SHARPS E. F. KERR OLIARPE A KERR, iO A TTORSE YS-A T-LA W. Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad joining counties. All Easiness entrusted to their care will receive careful and prompt attention. Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col lected from tho Government. Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking bouse of Reed A Schcil. Bedford, Pa. Apr l;69:tf U R C. SCHAEFFER ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA., Office with J. W. Dickerson Esq.. 23apr1y P~A Y s ICTANS. J JR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully tenders his professional ser vices to tho citizens of Bedford and vicinity. Office an 1 residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hollas. [Ap'l 1,69. MISCELLANEOUS. 1 ACOB BKKNNKMAX, O WOODBERRY, PA., -< RIYENER, CONVEYANCER, LICENSED CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE OF TIIE PEACE, Will attend to all business entrusted into his hands wuh promptness and despatch. Will remit mon ey by draft to any part of the country. 17sely OE. SHANNON, BANKER, . BEDFORD, PA. BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections made for the East, West, North and ■ uth, and the general business of Exchange transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. April 1:89 nMAXIEL BORDER, PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED TERD HOTEL, BBIFOED, PA. WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEV/EL RY. SPECTACLES. AC. He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Doable Refin. e l Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best •,'ialityof Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line not on hand. (apr.2B/65. I) W. GROUSE, DEALER IX CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, &C. On Pitt street one door east of Geo. R. Oster £ Co.'s Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. Ail rdcrs promptly filled. Persons desiring anything in his line will do well to give him a call. Bedford April 1. '<59., p N. HICKOK, v -- DENTIST. Oi. eat the old stand tn BANK BUILDING, Juliana St., BEDFORD. All operations pertaining to St'rgieal and Mechanical Dentistn/ performed with care and WARRANTED. >•etktlic adminietered, when deeired. Ar ;' teeth inner ted at, per eet, SB.OO and up. \S I am deteimined to do a CASH BUSINESS or cone, I have reduced the prices for Artificial : '"th of the various kinds. 20 per cent., and ol •' • 1 Fillings 33 per cent. This reduction will be toads only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such wsl! receive prompt attention. 7feb6S \Y ASHINGTON HOTEL. This large and commodious house, having beer re taken by the subscriber, is now open for the re ception of visitors and boarders. The rooms an large, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished The tabic will always he supplied with the bes the n arket can afford. The Bar is stocked witl the choicest liquors. In short, it is my purposi keep a FIRST CLASS HOTEL. Thankin, the public for past favors, I respectfully solicit i renewal of their patronage. B. Hacks will run constantly between flit " el ar.d the Springs. tnayl7/69:1j WM. DIBERT, Prop'r. pSCHAHOB HOTEL, 'if HUNTINGDON, PA. I jus old establishment having been leased by ■ i'JßttiaoN, furmerly proprietor of the Mor r House, has been entirely renovated and re '■ ic-i and supplied with all the modern im , u ' e ™eots and conveniences necessary to a first c.as, lintel. e ,', fce d '' iln S room has been removed to the first U.. „ u no '! B ! ,acious aE, i airy, and the cbam 1 e a,i well ventilated, and the proprietoi H endeavor to make hi* guest., perfectly .1 nie - Address, J. MORRISON, VI- , ~ EXCHANGE HOTEL, " lja] - nf Huntingdon, Pa JOHN JLUTZ, Editor and Proprietor. guquim Column. w ♦ JjO ADVERTISERS: THE BEDFORD INQUIRER. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, BY JOHN LUTZ, OFFICE ON JULIANA STREET, BEDFORD, PA. THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN cha, well satisfied that he had staved her of with his specious humanity. But Miss P re was valiant, ami not to be worsted in tie encounter. "You speak feelingly," she said ; "it docs you credit, I am sure," taking out her tab lots. "TVhat a luxury it is to be able to give wb.re your heart dictates and your jitdgnjt tit approves ! Acting upon your sug gestion, I will open a subscription for Mr. ffa iCDt at occc, ar.d headed by your name. 1 am certain it will meet with great success." This was a turn of affairs the squire had lardly anticipated. You won't get a cent, mark my word." "I shall make the effort at least. What ffiall I put von <1 jwn at ? A great deal de ltoids upon that, you know." 1 rhoulJ think to. Why, my dear lady, Vu won't get a sixpence out of these clod voppers. Come now, I won' put my name i wwn, but I'll do this for you ; I'll agree to ; diuble all ycu collect. Now isn't that hand sale.-?—I gue-s I've heard the last of that spry," thought the merry Squire. "Thank y, u," said Miss Poore. ' 1 hen you'll see me again. Good uiorn in; Mr. Suffolk." -nd she was away through the blcssoni ing'ancs again without a thought for any thin: hut Mr. Haunt's comfort and the Squid's offer. " Low vt>y good it was of the Squire !" "he is* tvo mean as people believe, after a!!, ifyouoiy work the right vein. Heigh ho! what godsend it will be to 3lr. Ilasent —a little Judv money for the necessities of ] next winvr ; a new gowu for little Belle, ] who hasn been at church for weeks; a jack- 1 et fcr Toi, who is inimediably out at the ' elbow." What cm fort, what heart's ease was laid uj> in.hat blank subscription list! Oh, 1 if the day were each a year long, and all the farmers ge.-e laid golden eggs! What a pity it waao many dose-handed people lived in North fraften! There was Mrs. Adams and Capt:n Jaekson ; they were both well to do, butio what a wretched extreme they carried cvnomy ! TV til, but now that she was pa.-.-iq she might as well go in. 'Good Horning, Caption Jackson. I'm raising a Subscription for poor dear 31 r. Ilasent, ad I want your name." "You tant my money, you mean?" "Certaoly; yours, and that of a good many otter good people. How pleasant it is to liatc something to give away !" "1 should think very like! but I hain't got a sent a head myself; never was so poor ly r.flln my life." "li ar me, what a pity !" .-ighed Miss Pool i. "Now we all thought you were fort landed. How surprised the neighbors will ltd Did you lose in that fire?" "lis*;! I hain't lost anything. What put Oat Lee in your bonnet ? I hain't got a cent, though, to give any prating parson— not 1" "Wry well. Then I must go and try 3lrs. Adams. The world has u-ed her well; perlilps she is grateful enough to give a mite" "A precious little mite you'll get there. Wltji my dear woman, she's closer than a !:>vt to the band. She wouldn't give a centto save her soul, provided she has one. Con*, I'll venture to double what she gives; i v>.n't stave a hole through my bulwarks, T wif be hound !" "Good morning, then ; perhaps you'll see mo ojain." And Miss Pcore was off to 3lrs. Adam s. She found the lady turning a loaf of plum cake out of the oven. "Lone to a charm, isn't it?" said the •ati L-J housekeeper. "Vou know I took a premium on bread last fall." "lut sure you ought to have one on cake, if it's as good as it looks. I wottder if 3lrs. Has at tastes such a thing once a year ?" "Not oftener, I guess, laughed 3lrs. Adams. "Fhe's too slack to b- at up the eggs—catch her." Tbis didn't look promising, surely. ''She is not well, you know ; she's an in valid. She has been denied the greatest blessing God can bestow, of which you and I seem to have store. Ln't it a pity that she .-hould be deprived of so much beside*?' "Oh, but there must be a screw loose somewhere; either they're wasteful or something." ' Bless you. they haven't anything to waste; they don't know the meaning of the word. Why, Mrs. Ilascnt has worn that choco'atc calico for three years running. "Well, you know, invalids don't cloth s as fast as active bodies like me and you, Miss l'oore. Mow it's my opinion, bel\v as one surrenders an eyetootb, only because one would feel infinitely worse to keep it, i and Nell—not to be outdone—offered her I ear rings, and found that they were pinch beck. • It seemed as if one and all were bent upon ■ beggaring Squire Suffolk, fur on the first day of November the amount had reached three hundred dollars, and the subscription list was closed, except to the Squire. Accordingly one afternoon Miss Poo re put on her work of art. and taking her treas ure with her, proceeded to the Suffolk place. It was a bleakt Autumn day, a forerunner of sleet and storms and pinching wintry weath er, and Miss Poore, wrapping a threadbare shawl about her was glad at last to find her self before the blazing fire in Squire Snf folk's drawing room. It seemed to her at first as if be would never allow her to come to the point. .Either he had forgotten all about the affair, or meant to wear out her patience; but that was simply inexhausti ble. In the mean time he entertained her with a detailed account of hiseslate, as if he were the steward and she the master; with the increase in his crops and prices; with the story of his youth and schooldays : of his first beaver and swallow-tailed coat; of his awkward first love; and when he paused it occurred to Catharine that she knew him perhaps better than be knew him self. She wondered at this strange famili arity which was growing upon her; and when at leDgth she pulled out her subscrip tion list it was with a quaint reluctance of manner, not at all like Miss Catharine Poore's usual promptitude. Was she afraid he would fail to fulfill his obligation, and so disappoint her hopes? Was it because, having acquired a sort of friendliness for him, she feared lest he would prove the nig gard? '"Three hundred dollars," said he, "You have done finely." It plainly wasn't a very stunning affair to him, or he met an emergency with consum mate coolness. "Yes. I have it here in ready money. You shall count it if you will." "Three hundred dollars! Why, child I haven't so much on hand." She had feared it would come to that. "I never keep it about me, you know,' he pursued. "I don't like to put a premium on murder, to make it worth the servant's while to put a dirk through me any time after dark. •>he left her seat then and prepared to go home. She was quite miserable at that mo ment. To be balked thus! Six hundred dol lars would have gone so far with the Hasents —they needed it so sorely ! Only yesterday she had seen Thad's stocking peeping through his shoes; and then the doctor bad ordered porter for the mother; but it was one thing to be ordered and another to ob tain. Here would have been porter and plenty. She did not realize that all this, bad enough truly, was yet not enough to make her so dispirited as she seemed. She felt, as if some disaster had overtaken her which money in itself had no power to alle viate. "I will send lo town to-morrow," said the Squire, 'and you will have the money before nigbt. Will that do." "Do!" The tears steod in her eyes, the reaction of feeling was so intense. You cannot understand what it was to this wo man, who loved her neighbor as herself, who made his welfare, spiritual as well as material, a personal thing, happiness, the business of her life. She called in at Mr. Hasent'son her way home. There was no cheerful blaze in the grate. Mrs. Hascnt sat bolstered up in bed darning stockings, while her husband made the toast and tea, and lighted a solitary lamp. Miss Poore looked about her and thought of changes to come; of the comfort ably clad children; of the warm winter fires; of the new suit that should replace the shab by black of her father's; of porter and part ridges for the mother—and then she bid them grmd night, and her gladness illumined the path before her so that she seemed to walk in noonday. She went about her work as usual next day, never allowing her gaze to wander out expectantly, till a sharp ring brought her to her feet, with her nerves all quivering in her flesh, as if the points of enumerable pins were stabbin" b*- through and through. It was the m' ney from the Squire, in crisp bank notes, the full three hundred dollars —but what else ? What was it that made Miss Poore's hand tremble like an aspen, that sent the tears dropping slowly one by one, and made her flush and pale before this scrap of paper? "My Dear Miss Catharine: —'"The stin giest man in North Crafton" offers you his hand and heart. As it is the first time in his life that he has been guilty of such gen erosity, pray encourage him and heal him of his infirmity. JOHN SUFFOLK. And so Mr. Ilasent's heart and home wore gladdened with the six hundred dol lars, and this gladness rebounded upon the Squire and Catharine Poore and there was a great wedding, for North Crafton, in Mrs. | Hasent's best parlor, and everybody had a new gown for the occasion, not excepting the hostess herself, whose new gowns were like angels' visits—few and far between.— Harper's Magazine. JOSU BILLINGS PAPERS. THE HOBNEI. The hornet is an inflamibel bugger, sud den in hiz imprcshuns and has'y in h;z con clusion, or end. Hiz natral disposishen iz a warm cross between red pepper in the pod and fusil oi. and hiz moral bias iz, "git out ov mi way. They hav a long, black boddy, divided in the middle bi a waist spot, but their phisi kal importance lays at the terminus ov their subburb, in the shape ova javelin. This javelin iz alwuz loaded, and stands reddy to unload at a miDit's warning, and enters a man az still az thought, az spry az litening, and az full ov mclankolly az the toothake. Hornets never argy a case; they settle awl ov their differences ov opinyun by let ting their javelin fly, and are az certain to hit az a mule iz. This testy kritter lives in congregations numbering about one hundred souls, but whether they are male or female, or con servative, or matched in bonds ov wedlock, or whether they are Mormons, and a good many ov them kling together and keep or.c husband to save expense, I don t kno nor don't karc. . J never hav examined their habis much, f - -.—r y T r 'iff", SUBSCRIPTION iC Tke Tiqi.ntaa ii psklishtii c*cry (-"ninar morn ing be following rates : On Tetn, (in advance,) $2.00 " " (il not paid within lit mot)... $2.50 " " (if not paid withia the year,). . $3.00 A)! papers out-ide of the -#ufy ducoUirated without notice, at the expiration of the tiine for which the subscription has been paid. Single copies of the paperfnrnished.in wrappers, at five oeats each. Communications on subjects of local or general merest, are respeetfsCy solicited. To ensure at tention favors of this kind must invariably be publication, but sis guaranty against i All letters pertaining to business <>f should be addressed to JOHN LUTE, Kcnror.o, V* I i never kocsidercd it healt! y. Hornets bild their nests wherever they take a noshtin to, and seldom arc disturbed, for wbat would it profit a man tew kill 'J'J hornets and he v the one hundredth one hit him with hiz javeliu? They bild their nests ov paper, without enny windows to them or back doors. They hav but one place ov admi-sion, and the nest iz the shape ov an overgrown pine apple, and iz cut up into just ax menny bedrooms az their iz hornets. It iz very simple tew make a hornets' nc-at if yu kan, but i will wager enny man 300 dollars he kant bild one that he could sell tew a hornet for' half price. Hornets are az bizzy as their second couz- Z'.ns, the bee, but what tbey are about the Lord only know.-; they don't lay up enny honey, nor enny monev;. they seem to be bizzy only jist for the sake ov working all the time; they are alwus in az mutch ova hurry az tho (hey waz going foradoktor. I suppose this uneazy world would grind arouwnd on its axle-tree onst in 24 hours, even cf tliare want enny hornets, but hor net- must be good for sumthing, but I kant think now wbat it iz. Thare haiot been a bug made yet in vain, nor one that want a good job, tbare iz ever lots ov human men loafing around black smith -shops, and cider mills, all over (he country, that don't seem to be necessary for ennything but to lug plug tcbaeco and swear, and steal water-melons, but yu let the cholara break out once, and thou yu wiil sec the wisdom of having jist sieh men laying around; they help count. Next tew the cockroach, who stands tew the head, the hornet hazgjt the most waste stummuck, in reference tew the rest ov hiz boddy, than er.ny ov the iosek popula-liun, and here iz another mistery; what on arth duz a hornet want so mutch reserved corps for ? I hav jift thought—tew carry biz javelin in, thus yu see, the more we diskoverabout things the more we ate apt to LDOW. It iz always a good purchase tew pay out our last surviving dollar for wisdnm, and wisdura iz like the misterious hen's egg, it aint laid in yure hand, but iz laid away under the barn, and yu hav got tew sarch for it. The hornet iz an unsoshal! kuss, he iz more haughty than he is proud, he is a thorough bred bug, bu' his breeding and refinement has made him like sum other folks I kuo ov, dissatisfied with himself, and every boddy else, too much good breed ing ackts this way sometimes. Hornets are long-lived—l kant state ji&t how long tfceir lives are, hut I know from instinkt and observashun, that enny krit ter, be he bug or be he devil, who iz mad all the time, and stings every good chance he kan git, generally outlives all his nabers. The only good way tew git at the exact fiteinc weight ov the Knrnpt. is {.ew fntoh him, let hitn hit you once with his javelin, and you will be willing tew testify in court that sumbody run a one-tincd pitchfork into yer; aD J s z for grit, i will state for the informashuu ov thoze who havn't had a chance tew lay in their vermin wisduui az freely az i hav, that one single hornet, who feeta well, will brake up a large camp meet ing. What the hornets doforamuzemontisan. other question i kant answer, but sum ov the best read, and heavyest thinkers amung the naturalists say they hav target excur sions, and heave their javelins at a mark, but i don't imbibe this assersbun raw, for i never knu enny body, so bitter at heart, az the hornefs are, to waste a blow. Thare iz one thing that a hornet duz that i will giv hiui credit for on mi books—he alwuz attends tew hiz own bizziness, and wont allow aDy boddy else tew attend tew it, and what he duz iz alwuz a good job, you never see them altering enDy thing, if they make enny mistakes, it iz after dark, and aint seen. If the hornets made liaff a L mcuuy blun ders az the men do, even with their jave lins, everboddy would luff at them. Hornets arc clear in another way, they bav found out, hi tricing it, that all they kan git in this world, and brag on, iz their vittles and clothes, and yu never see one, standing at the comer ova street, with a twenty-six inch face on, bekausc sum bank had run opb, and took their money with him. In ending oph this essa, I will cum tew a stop, by concluding, that if hornets was a little more pensive, and not so darned peremptory with their javelines, they might be guilty of less wisduru, but more charity. But yu kant alter bug uatur, without spileing it for nunything else, enny more than you kan an elephant's egg.— New York Weekly. THE WAIST OF THE PERIOD. The London Lunot srys: "Our old friend tight lacing has again made its ap pearance. Beaten back for a time, proba bly more by fashion than by the spread of knowledge, he has not been killed, but has only recoiled apparently for a better spring, for its victims are as numerous and pitiable as ever. The folly is one which was for mally to be found mainly in the drawing room, but now it also fills cur streets. It is lamentable to observe at every turn a wo man, young or old; who moves forward in a stooping position, unable even to hold her self upright in consequence of tbe constraint upon the muse!e o° the back. If the evils of tight lacing were confined to the distorted appearance which it never fails to produce, we might regret indeed to see the female form divine so defaced; but it would scarce ly be in our province to comment upon it. But, as medical practitioners, we see its effects every day in the train of nervous and dyspeptic symptons by which it is constant ly indicated, and in the still more grave and internal mischief of permanent character which is often caused by it. Until some little physiological knowledge is made a part of female education, and is considered an 'accomplishment,' we suppose it is of little use to protest against the cruel injury to health which women thus inflict upon them selves. The matter is one that is 'worse than crime—it is folly,' for beauty is de stroyed by tbe process which is intended to increase it. ' DURING a series of wet days, a gentleman ventured to congratulate his umbrella maker. "Yes, that's all very well, sir." he replied, "but then there's nothing whatever in parasols."