Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-07-28
Retps from all Aattons.

As picnic party was returning to Troy,
n. Y on the schenectady Railroad Thursday evening
last, the train neaTed Troy gang of rowdies COM
Gcnced throwing stones through the windows. Al
though number of the went through the glass
was hurt. Two of the rascals subsequently
arrested, fined $50 each and sentenced TO six months
Imprisonment in the penentiary.
The new Passenger Depot fer the n. Y.
L. r. r. at Corning is about completed II is built of
stone and Is two stories in height is located nearly in
front of the Dickinson House.
The Lancaster (Pa) Union says the
largest harvest ever secured in that county is now being
garnered 1t estimates the wheat at four millions OF
bushels and every thing in proportion
The Wellsvlle Free Press reports that
counterfeit ones on the Chemung Canal Bank in cir
cuation in that vicinity
We learn from the CanandaigCa papers,
that Mr. Albert Ceaveand proprietor of the Canandai
qua HOTEL sold handsome span of matched horses on
Tuesday of last week for seventeen hundred dollars
They were purchased by gentleman in Albany. for
friend in Paris That is large amount ofmoney to have
invested in such risky property.
Two men attempted to kill their wives, in
Richmond Va, on Saturday night, one by unmercful
beatngs of the head with club the other by kicking in
of the ribs of the partner of his BOSOM and breaking
her collar bone
The shaft of the Washington Monument
the Capital present Ia feet in height from the
ground. An attempt to have been made yesterday
morning to reach the top in order to make speedy re-
sumption of the work but the plan of ascent proposed
was too dangerous and another will be devised.
Hon A. B. DICKINSON has been engaged
to deliver the Address before the Broome County Agr
cultural Society at the Annual meeting in September.
There are now four Bishops elect, who
will be consecrated at the General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States to be
held in October next, at Richmond Va viz: DR.. 0den-
hemer, Bishop of New Jersey; Dr. Dedell, Assistant
Bishop of Ohio; DR.. Gregg, Bishop of Texas and Rev.
MI Whippe, Bishop of Minnesota.
"A man was fined $50 and costs on Tues
day. Rochester, for killing brace of woodcock He
pleaded ignorance of the law but the Sportsman Club
unreleating and he had to undergo the penalty.
They had lively game Of ball at Ash
tabua, the Fourth, and the venerable Joshua R. Gid
dings made the score never missing the ball when
it came near him.
The Erie receipts in June show decrease
of $4,000 compared with June 1855 and up to the
8th of July the decrease is $4,000.
Burglars paid a visit to the Office of Ger
rt Smith at Peterboro one night last week They broke
in the door, blew open iron safe with gunpowder and
carried off about 500 in money.
The agent of French house was in New
ark j. last week to contract with of the shoe
manufacturers furnish 100000 pairs of shoes for the
French army.
The Council Bluffs Bugle says that VIM
n Byers ofthe editors of the Rocky Mountain Ncs
arrived at Omaha City, Nebraska on the 5th inst, with
$4,000 in gold dust.
Mrs Appleby, of ST. Louis, an interest
ing and beautiful young woman, so overcome by
grief the loss of her infant child that she committed
suicide by cutting her throat.
MIR. j NJ. Wright, prominent citizen of
st. Joseph, was murdered the 18th inst. by ne
gro whom he had employed to drive him few miles
from the town. The negro subsequently arrested by
committee of citizens, in whose hands he is They
have concluded to burn him to death.
Bedford Springs is daily receiving acces-
slons to the company sojourng there Quite
Der of pilgrims vending their way thither anxious to
bask in Presidential smiles.
The record of the case of Mrs Gaines,
about to be carried to the Supreme Court at Washington
has been made up New Orleans and covers two thou
sand one hundred and twentyone pages of manuscript
The Detroit Advertiser says that the
slaves off by old John Brown, of Kansas and who
arrived Windsor c. w. early in the spring all do
ing well.
The Philadelphia Banks have given up
their attempt to the country banks keeping
heavy deposits in the city, ostensby for the purpose of
keeping their notes at par but really to pay tribute to
the city institutions. If banks redeem at their own
counter, that is enough.
AT the late session of the Z. S Court at
Wiamsport the Grand Jury recommended the u S.
Government to give the Commissioners of Lycoming
county $4,000 to aid in builIng Court House at
Wiamspor, in consideration of which the U. S. Court
will have the use of the house.
The Hon jeremiah Shndel, of Lehigh
county, Pa has resigned his pastoral office in the Ger
man Evangelical Lutheran Church which he has held
many years The church authorities lately declared that
tie holding of political Office Incompatible with
that OF the clerical.
Victor f. Ward, of Louisville, the boy
whose whipping by Butler, the school teacher the
first act i'll the Mat Ward tragedy died the 26th ut
Bishop Potter. Of Pennsylvania is among
the visitors at Atlantic City Pennsylvania The state of
his health is lar from encouraging.
Gen. Tom Thumb (Charles L. Stratton)
is his way home from England. He is now of age is
a smart little man, and declares himself in the matr
monial market.
The members of the State Committee of
the Peoples party of Pennsylvania at the ST. Law
renee Hotel, in the City of Philadelphia on Thursday
the 4th day of August next.
Col. Eli Sifer, the present efficient State
Treasurer recently paid $4lOO of the public debt and
also the interest due the public debt amounting to