Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-04-28
Rrms from all Aatfons.

Louis of secret organization among the Pixies Peak
grants for purpose of taking forcibe possession OF
Sonora and chihuahua. The St. Louis Republican gives
currency report and that prominent partie"
In that city interested in this fbusterng move
meut.
The commission for Com. Charles Stew |
art under the Of Congress creating him senior flag OIL
cer the active list of the United States navy for
warded him on Thursday last, by the Secretary of the
Navy .r.#. |
in the United States District Court, |
Thursday the trial exJudge vorrcrsrnth for forging
land-warrant certificates commenced The defendant was
formerly Judge in the Court Of Common Pleas in Lam
caster County.
From Kansas We learn that the official
majority in favor Of calling State Constitutional Con-
vention 5sSf votes The Convention will assemble
In June and Governor Nedary has issued his procama
ton TO that effect.
Hon. John Dohcrty, representing the
noventh district of New York City in the Legislature Of
that state died very suddenly at Albany Wednesday
evening.
BY dispatch from Memphis, Tennessee,
ra Cncinatt learn that two barges full Of coal
swept into the Lake Providence Sltur.
day night and their crews consisting OF thirty men, per
ished.
In New York, on Thursday, o man named
John Adams undertook walk four miles in thirty min
ues, for bet of $500 1t took him thrtyone minutes
and foythree seconds however. and John lost the
match.
The Legislature of Maryland, its last seS-
sion passed law prohibiting lotteries after the day
OF April 1859. 1t seems however that the law is nop
erative and worthless by that penalty attaches
to its violation.
"A note from Paris, dated April 5, states
that Senator Sumner has left Montpelier for Rome
He was, at last accounts, in very bad condition of
health.
A man named John McDonough was ar
rested in New York, Thursday, for choking his own
brother to DEATH Intemperancc the cause of the
Cain-Neact.
The Court Mner recently died in Lon
don leaving property worth 100000. She leaves most
OF to the charities for herself she directed that she
should be buried in point lace.
AT Sens Grove Pa. on the Susuuehanna
river, recently Baptist minister was administering
the ordinance OF baptism to young lady, in the river
both carried away by the force the current and
were only saved from drowning by the assistance by
stander who seized the minister dragged him
lady clinging to the latter.
The Grand Jury have found a true bill
against Mr. Brigham. of Norfolk Conn., charged with an
attempt to poison his wife by giving her apple with
arsenic in it, Being unable to give bond in $4,000
to Jail to await trial.
The little boy, Hall, who was whipped in
Boston for not repeating the commandments and disc.
beying his father has second mark of appro
val in gold medal from Alexandria Va.
Tho cIou ~ r,, l.o,,. - ..,...
ing the Niagara River stills published some time since
in the Chicago Press and Tribune out to have been
the work of young lawsudent, detained by n cd at
Carlo, Ill.
The South Carolnans are preparing to
erect monument at Eutaw TO commemorate the battle
OF September Sth, 1871. Some Of the leading men in
the State interested in this patriotic enterprize.
They are complaining already at New Or
leans that the weather is uncomfortably hot.
One of the pudding furnaces at the Cam
bria Iron Works, Pa, exploded Friday week resulting
in the slight injury Of of the workmen and the par
tial destruction Of the furnace roof On Tuesday an
other of the furnaces in the works exploded and
reduced to perfect wreck.
"A few days ago, little daughter of Ncl.
Connor, residing Castle Fin post Office York
county Pa died from the eating the ends fric
tion matches which it got possession of during the alb
Of the mother
--Rebecca Mccormick, colored, was last
week convicted of the murder of colored boy at West.
minister, Nd and sentenced to be hung She was con-
vcted last fall OF the crime, but obtained new
trial.
Some down Fast Yankee has invented
clothes line. It consists Of galvanized wire which
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ges Of weather
The Rev. Jacob Harden, who recently
murdered his wife in Mansfield j. was arrested April
18th, at Wheeling Vs. "A reward OF $500 offered for
his arrest but he eudcd capture for months lie is
in jail requission from the Governor OF New Jcr
rey being awae Harden is only "a years old, and is a
preacher of the Methodist Church.
The English champion, Tom Sayers, has
accepted the challenge of the Bcnica Boy to fight for
the championship. The wager il f2OO side and in al
dton, Sayers offers bet of $500 f 900 that he will
win. The time for the fight may he fixed for any period
after the settlement of three affairs that the English cham
pioR has hand.
The Government lands of Michigan, which
were withdrawn from market two or three years ago for
the purpose OF permitting the Railroad companies make
their selections from the grant of Congress- have been
stored and the land Offices Iona and other places again
thrown open topurchasers.
Several colored persons are in custody in
Canada suspicion of having murdered the macarrier
whose route lay between Paris and Brantord The body
of the man was found April H. near Brantford and in
house in that town, occupied by oored people were
found mutiated bank bills and other suspicious ndca
tions
Two young scamps, Henry W. Moran and
I;vipo IN tbn s(sol,r ~ u
been arrested at Rochester for placing Instructions the
track Of the Central Road Their motive supposed
have been chance for plumber during the confusion of
accident Luckily, the distractions discovered