long one.—Bird Combs loft Wednesday evening for Chicago, where lie has secured position •with Kellogg Carson, undertakers, as funeral director, at a salary of +*10 a month and board with the promise of an increase of wages if his employers uro satisfied with his services. That ho will succeed in giviug the best of satisfaction no ono will doubt who knows hint. Ho has been raieod in Bedford from a child and has falleu into no habits that will lead him astray. Very few young men iii the country could be found bo well qualified in all respects for such a position. His many friends hero congratulate him on tho favorable prospects that acorn to lie before him and Lave the ( fullest confidence in his success. There arc but few towns tho size oi Bedford that hflvo furnished to theb?irdijjC,l;s community more iimt elaa* j’uung men thuu she lius.