BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 1900 Rev. C. W. CHADWICK received word from his mother, Mrs. R. A. CHADWICK, of Houston, Texas, Saturday. Mrs. CHADWICK was in Galveston during the great storm, and took refuge in a large hotel. Aside from the information that she was well, she said but little regarding the awful work of the storm, which words would fail to describe. Dr. Ben MESSICK and wife, who had been visiting Bedford relatives, left Monday for their home at Union City, Ind. L. E. PAYNE is confined to his bed with a large carbuncle on his arm. Rev. H. C. MOORMAN, of the A. M. E. church, arrived home from Conference Monday evening. He will move his family to Lyle Station, near Princeton, in a few days, where he will preach for the coming year. S. N. WHITTED has bought the CAVINS homestead on H street, and will move to town. He will sell off his farming implements, stock, etc., at his farm five miles east of town, Sept. 29th, in the forenoon. Mr. WHITTED is a good citizen, and will be welcomed to our city. A revised list of the dead in the storm at Galveston, Texas, makes the total 4,078. The list may be still greater. The work of uncovering and cremating the dead goes steadily on. Sunday 107 bodies were thus disposed of and as many more yesterday. Rev. William J. SMITH, of Mt. Carmel, Ill., has been assigned to the A. M. E. church in this city. He will preach his first sermon in this city next Tuesday evening. He comes to the church here very highly recommended. Bedford tried to close up like a clam Sunday last. The warning to "follow the usual avocation on the Lord's Day not," was heeded not. The preacher preached for his usual stipend, the cows gave down their usual week-day quantity of milk, and the small chuck of ice left at the door, continued its unholy "melt." Event he sun continued to follow its usual avocation. The militia should be called out. – Oolitic News. Frank CARMICHAEL, who lives with his mother in this city, was seriously injured Thursday by a channeler falling on him at the Consolidated quarry near Clear Creek. Three ribs were crushed and he was badly injured otherwise, so that he is in a very serious condition. – Bloomington Star. O. S. WOLFE and sister, Miss Stella WOLFE, have recently remodeled their photo gallery on the south side of the square, making it one of the neatest places of the kind in the city. L. V. MITCHELL has moved to this city, from Mitchell, and lives at 16th and E streets. Joe A. BURTON informs us that what he pronounces "brown rot" is destroying the apple crop of this country. He states that in Uncle Aaron WRIGHT's orchard all the apples are destroyed. The destruction is serious, and in Illinois and Missouri he says the crop is entirely obliterated. He has written the State Pomologist to get an analysis of the infection, and a remedy. It is pretty certain that the apple crop is knocked to smithereens. – Orleans Progress. The law defining the qualifications of a voter requires that he shall have been a resident of the State six months, of the township 60 days and of the precinct in which he votes 30 days. Each party seeks to prevent the casting of illegal votes by the opposing party. Therefore, in order to procure data on which to base challenges, they should take a poll six months before election, one 90 days before, and another 30 days before, in order to know where each voter has resided at these times. The six months poll is seldom taken, partly because taking a poll is very expensive and partly because the chance that voters will be "colonized" so far ahead is slight. The 60-day and 30-day polls, however, are usually taken with as much care and accuracy as possible. In addition to giving information as to the residence of voters, they produce much valuable information as to the preferences of individual voters, and frequently a very accurate forecast of the result may be made from the showing of the poll-taking. The poll-taker is not an officer of the Government, and there is no law requiring any one to answer the questions he may ask. – Indianapolis Press.