Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-09-15
RetDs from all Aattons.

John Reynolds, a colOred man by proteS-
sion whitewasher ate ninety large peaches Thursday
in Cleveland, on wager He from the repast ap
parently refreshed and resumed his artistic avocaton
1t is said that the northen lights last Mon
day night scared old lady in Fairbaven, Mass.
that she got up, dressed herself said prayer, took
pinch of snuff and went to the meeting house where sat
on the steps singing hymns till broad daylight
Chief Justice fancy, of the United States
Supreme Court is in the eghtytbi yea- of his age
His eight associates in the court with single excep
ton all three years and ten and of them
considerably exceed that number.
Fatal MIsTAKE-A family named Fisher
residing in New Castle Pa. poisoned few days ago
by eating stools in mistake for mushrooms. child
about years old died from the effects but the others
are recovering.
"A man named SHIELDS announces that he
intends to jump into Niagara River the 18th inst
FROM Whites Pleasure Grounds, mile below the Falls,
where Blondn's rope crosses the river.
Copper Ore in considerable quantities, has
been found in Wolf township, Lycomng county, Pa and
! mine is to lie opened So says the Muncy LuminGry
The proceedings for the sale Of the Erie
Road under the fourth mortgage of that Corporation have
been postponed to October when Board Of Directors
will be in power.
--Ex-Governor David r. Porter. Of Harris
burg has been elected vice president of the Sabine and
Rio Grande Railroad Company and designs leaving for
Texas in month or upon the duties of his
Office.
Five of the women concerned in the tarring
and feathering of prostitute, at South Bend Indiana,
some time ago. have been arrested and held to BAIL
C FORGE H. FAIRcH1LD, Esq, formerly of
waverly has been nominated by the Democracy OF
Atchison, for the Office of Mayor of that city.
At Camp Meeting in East Kingston, New
Hampshire Deputy Sheriff was arrested for peddrg
cakes and pies without license After paying his ine IS
and costs he arrested Elder J. V. Hines for selling
- Second Advent P" books, who fined like the Sheriff
but he refused pay and jail confident that the
Millennium had not yet come.
Father Sullivan, the Catholic priest in
Northampton, Mass, has administered castiga
tion those of his flock who improve the Sundays 10y
getting drunk He alluded to the fact that eleven of the
lay members arrested recent Sunday, and
threatened hereafter to proclaim in open meeting the
names othoe who should be found drunk and disturbing
the public peace.
The Hon Oliver J. Morgan, of Carrel.
La has presented Bishop Polk the handsome sum of
100000 the foundation of Professorship Agricul
tura Chemistry in University of the South" This dona
ton makes mp the entire amount Of s50OO required by
the charter of the establishment of the University.
"A Mastodon has been discovered in the
town Of Plymouth, Michigan But portion of it has yet
been exhuned. The larger of the teeth five inches
in length and three and hain BREADTH and weighs
two pounds and an ounce.
The Wisconsin Republican State Conven-
ton, the 3lst u., nominated Alexander W. Bandal
the present incumbent, for Governor.
A young named ". II Jamison fell from
Genesce Falls Rochester on the 3lst ult while witness
ing the rope walking of Mons DeLave striking the rocks
below, and instantly killed. He fell distance of
over 80 feet, and but short distance from where Sam
Patch met his death.
The Niagara House, originally known as
the Franklin House. the ancient hotel in the city of
Oswego, destroyed by fire Friday morning at l
O'clock.
Mr. John Schuyler, of Chemung, has shown
the editor the waverIy Advocate specimen oSberian
oats in the stalk measuring nearly six feet in length
which he says will yield about seventy five bushels the
acre. Surely we live in an age of abundance.
At the Republican Caucus held in Wa
erection Ine county COnNen-
ton at Owego, resolution unanimously adopted in
favor of the nomination of Hon. j. NJ Parker for Justice
OF the Supreme Court.
Mrs Larned, of WellsviIle committed sui
eide Monday last by hanging herself in the cellar. No
reason is assigned for the act.
The Baltimore Patriot says that the pro-
perty of the late George Brown who died in that city last
week is estimated at 81 900 900.
The Keokuk (Iowa) Gate City, of the
26th ut says that exJudge Watson Charlton County
has been indicted for robbing the County sa of s5 OO
about year since when he acting County Judge.
1t is reported that Stevenson, the cele-
bratcd English engineer received s22 for the plan OF
the Victoria Bridge at Montreal.
The Republicans of Yates County have
resolved to have of every school district and
save appointed committee in each district to do it,
This work ought to be done in each county.
The Hon. Amos Kendall of Washington,
reached his seveutieh year Tuesday last on which
occasion he visited and congratulated by number
friends in that city.
-Messrs Coe and Brooks of ST. Louis, made
fine double ascension, in their ceebraedbaloOns Comet
and Excelsior, at o'clock Wednesday from the Fair
grounds in Ithaca.
The body of a middlng-sized man contains
pound of phosphorus which in free state and nfamed
would burn him up and everything around him.
Schuyler Cofax, F. 7. Blair, Jr., and
ausha A, Grow all announced address Republican
meetings in different portions of Minnesota during the
month of September.
Three prisoners escaped from the Seneca
county Jail at Ovid, Thursday night last by means
of burrowing under the wall No clue to the prisoners
The annual income of Mr. WIN. Macdonald
the of Flora Temple, is said to be $3OOOO He re
sides in Baltimore.
1t is estimated that there are on all tho