Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-12-01
ne1ns from all Nations.
Charles Sumner has returned and {

Railroad has been taken by the first morgagers and its
name changed to Cattawissa Railroad.
"A house between Muncy and Fruitstown
was struck by lightning in the Saturday after
last and three persons stunned by the shock One
of them woman it is feared will not
William Knox, of Philadelphia was Friday
acquitted at Harrisburg of the charge of murder PREFER
ed against him about two months ago readers will
remember, by colored girl who domestic in his
family at the time OF TIE alleged The jury
rendered verdict without leaving the box.
The reports from Charlestown, Va, are
that ali quiet Three four companies of military
quarered in the town. and Gov. Wise has ordered five
hundred additional troops to present the day of
ecution. Brown represented manifestng signs
Of repentance
The physicians Of Judge and Mrs. Doug
las have strongly urged upon them the necessity of trip
to the coast Of Florida for the restoration of their health
Gen Tom Thanh will be % years old in
January next. He resides in Bridgeport Conn, where
he fine house the main street, valued at over
$1,000 He drives pony which he says will travel a
mile in three minutes
The dogs killed in Cleveland, Ohio, are
sold glove mandatory in Lcheld Medina county,
where the skins made up into kid and buckskin
In the Massachusetts Senate an amend
ment to the attachment law has been adopted exemptng
the library of debtor the value of $500 from attach
ment The present amount is $50.
| General Twiggs has ordered a section of
light artillery, four companies of infantry and two of
cavalry under the command of Major Heinzleman, to
march to Fort Morrill, the Neuces in Texas there to
await further orders.
Hon Beverly L. Clark, United States
Minister resident to Honduras and Guatemala, very
i'll al last accounts and his recovery not anticipated
Within thirty-three days only twenty five
tabbing and twenty shooting ARRAYS besides any
Der of destructive fires, have occurred at New Orleans.
Nine churches are to be sold in Ciucn
natl in December for nonpayment of taxes Religion
must be at a discount in the Queen City.
1t is stated at the Post Office Department
that it had been discovered that the late Post Master
Wescott of Philadelphia is deiaulter the amount of
nearly twenty thousand dollars.
Last week a young lady passed through
Cincinnati route for St. Louis whittier she had been
forwarded by express She from Paris, and being
ignorant Of language her friends had placed her in
charge OF an express messenger.
Paul Morphy is enjoying the hospitalities
of Baltimore visiting the chess clubs, and winning all
the games of He is route his home in New
Orleans, and says he has idea of locating in New
York
1t is now confidently asserted, in high
Official quarters that John A. Dix will be appointed to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. John
Mason, late American minister at the French Court.
The yellow fever is still prevailing to a
considerable extent in Galveston and other towns of
Texas.
"A severe shock of an earthquake is re-
ported have been felt in Chill on the 9Th October,
causing much damage.
Information from reliable sources at Pixies
Peak not designed republication states the protective
gold capacity exceeding anything yet discovered in
the world Russell Majors Co., army contractors have
made arrangements for the transportation of eight
thousand passengers when the season opens.
-Gcrrit Smith is improving somewhat. DR..
Gray of the Asylum has given Mr.. Smiths friends the
that there reasonable hope that he will
be entirely restored to health although his condition
50 bad at the time he entered the Asylum that his life
would have been in great danger had he remained at
home.
The Hornellsvile Tribune states that Col
Ward Of that village and Samuel Swain havo leased the
railroad from HorneIlsville to Attica.
The Sportsmens Convention came off at
Geneva on Tuesday. During the time it in session
that village looked like second edition Of Harpers Ferry
Tile Ithaca Journal says that Hon. Lyman
Truman and Hon J. B. Williams, have gone trip
down the Seneca River to Mosquito point and Jacks
Reefs to view the progress of the work of excavation
George r. Gilmer twice Governor of
Georgia. and tor three times between the years 1921 and
1885, Member Of Congress- died few days since Since
l849 he has been several times Member of the State
Legislature and in 1855 published historical work call
ed the Georgians.
jerome Bonaparte, of Baltimore, who re-
Gently returned home, has, to his honor refused the dig
nifty of senator which Prince Jerome his father tender
ed in order to retain him in France. He preferred the
simple title of citizen of the United States
An effort on Wednesday, in the House
of Representatives to let Mr. Burnham out of JAIL failed
by vote Of 12 to SO. Mr. Upham of Salem in opposing
the release said that Nj Bunham was not only in con-
tempt Of the Legislature but also Of the entire communi
ty.
-TwentY-six Democratic meetings have
been held in Kentucky in many counties and fourteen
have Instructed the delegates to the State Convention
favor Mr. Guthres nomination for the Presidency and
/ twelve have left their delegates uninstructed
Tile Washington Constitution, drilling the
Southern Members for the election of a Pro-Sayery
Speaker Of the House, says The plurality rule must
note he thought of for moment by any Member who is
not of Stewards coadiutors."
A man from Cincinnati was suspect ed in
Y,
and was hung up five times by rope attached to his
neck After the last ascension he let loose with the
assurance that caught Virginia again he would have
to stay up for a permanency.
A legal controversy, now in progress in
Cincinnati, has developed banking church. 1t is the
/ German Lutheren Church on Elm street. above Twelfth