Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-06-10
News from all Nations.

ed in Selinsgrove on the 10th ult.
The Harrisburg papers notice the killing
of mad dog-aso the horrid death that town Of man
with mania potu.
Commodore ThoNAs Ar CArEsBY JONES,
for a long period connected with the United States Navy
died Monday night at his residence, Georgetown
D. c., in the Goth year of his age.
The great Bell crevasse above New Or
leans is said have overowed forty plantations, and
destroyed enough to make % 900 hhds. of sugar
The Herbert has been stopped, but not until
large amounts of property were destroyed.
Maryland has expressed decided objec-
ton to any alteration of her Constitution. Official re-
turns received, of the vote cast Wednesday
last indicate majority against calling the Convention of
eight or nine thousand.
st Paul papers contain an account of a
fight between band of fifty Sioux. encamped Sha-
kopce and two hundred Chppewas The battle resulted
in favor of the Sioux -Four of the Chippewas kill
ed and six dangerously wounded, while two Of the Sioux
were killed and twelve wounded.
Counterfeit five dollar notes on the Had
ley Falls Bank Mass are in circulation. The yignette
is mechanic in machine shop, standing before cog
wheel of large lathe In the counterfeit the left foot Of
the mechanic Is not visible while in the genuine note it
can be seen close inspection.
The saw, Single and lath mill Of Henry
s Smith, the Sullivan County line, destroyed
by fire Wednesday fortnight and with large amount
of u mber Supposed to have originated from the stove
At banquet in Kingston, C. W, recent
ly DR.. Mackay said " consider you have more liber
ty here than the other side. Your Government can
Of people, as the United States can and does"
Prof Harvey, of Madison University
Hamilton, Y. Y, baptized on the 7th ult. Samuel SIN
thra native japanese. He is young who is the
relic Of japanese who wrecked in the North
ern Pacific. 1t is in contemplation to make him mis-
sionary to his own people.
The following banks of this State are set
down among the list of di-credited ones in Petersons
Detector; Bank Of Crawford county, Meadyie Pa. !;
Mexican county Bank Smethport, Pa Shamokin Bank,
Shamokn, Pa. Tioga county Bank, Tioga, Pa.
1t is said that hundreds of gallons Of
milk daily returned the dstillerics in New York
unsod and that the question put to the vender of
doubtful milk IS do you sell the long tail stumpta
milk"
In Mifflintown, on the Juniata last week,
three houses entered and robbed in one night ~
temptS made to rob several Others there and in
Lewistown also in Wliamsport. There are gangs Of
burglars taking tours through the country.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
decided that the premiums, per cent interest,
taken by building associations is u,lrous and that
all contracts 70 pay be charged with more than law
ful interest, are void.
Some miners near PottsyiIe, and boat
Sunbury recently undertook to raise their wages
by rotous strike but were taken into the safe keeping Of
the strong of law and thwarted in that direction.
Several fields and patches of wheat,
grown the present at Montgomery Ala have been
harvested recently and the yield fine and of the best
quality.
A DR.. Dorsey, of Hopewell, Bedford
county, Pa while state of intoxication on Monday
last swallowed dose of audanum which produced his
death in few hours. His remains were forwarded to
Huntingdon.
William A. Bell, a well-known citizen of
Boston, accidentally killed in that city Friday
evening, by falling out of window at his residence.
Mr.. Jacob Lands, of New Britain town
ship, Bucks county, Pa, lost three fine horses, which
died of namatory throat choking disemper,
call by A yet, there has been remedy found
for it.
The company who own the Leviathan, "
about to issue preferred shares to the amount Of fT2
OO0 to complete her works. This will make the total
cost of the vessel fsO4 2O2-about four millions of dol
lars.
A German barber named Conrad Hassin-
ger committed suicide in Newark n j.. on Monday, by
hanging himself in his shop. Domestic
troubles the cause.
Henry W Pratt, the teller of the Graf
Bank who robbed that institution of $4,000 has
been sentenced to the house of correction for eighteen
months
One of the best gold diggings in Iowa
is said to bo small stream emptying into Skunk
river short distance below the mouth of Crooked creek
The great Barnum the " inimitable Phin-
cas- is out in card in the City papers, proposing to
bring over the Opera and Ballet companies of Her Mes
tvs Theatre London, with manager Lumley, Orches-
ira, and ALL for short in New York Philadelphia
and Boston. The estimated cost is only 100000.
A fire broke out in the large public
school house Cattawssa not long since which was got
under by the old fashioned engines, men and women
with full buckets of water. The Bloomsbury Republican
there has been great calamity by fire in Cattawis
sa in her history of sixty years. happy exemption
A man. by the name of d. c. Tiffany,
from the green hills of Susquehanna was swnded cut of
$2j in New York, last week 10y the patent safe game
A colored child of Lewis Thomas, about
four years of age, drowned in Kshacoquias creek
Lewistown, on Friday week, by falling roma skif. The
body recovered short time after falling in but life
was extinct.
disastrous in effect even, than than the previously
reported. The village of Ellison, about twelve miles
south of Monmouth containing about five hundred nhal
itans entirely destroyed every house in the place
being blown down, and fifteen persons being killed and
I.tLn all.. inr.rnL LaI:a..l