Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-03-29
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tons have presented the Presbyterian Sabbath school of
that place a handsome library.
DR.. Peck, of Sussex, Va, sold negro
for s2 900 few days since and had the money with him
on his plantation At midnight several of his slaves
murdered him, stole the money, and fired the house
which was burnt together with the Drs body.
The notorious Parker Fl. French, whose
daring nancieIng feats in Mexico and elsewhere form
ed large part of the staple of the country
time ago. has been put IN limbo at New Orleans Orswn
ding mercantile frm out OF 5000.
The Memphis Appeal announces the death
on the 7th nst Of the widow of Morgan of antMasonc
notoriety. She had been connected with the Orphan
Asylum at Memphis since the death of her second hus
band Mr. Harris.
The Richmond Dispatch says that home
spun clothes becoming fashionable with business
men in Virginia. that the factories in the different parts
of the State find it impossible with their present faci
ties to fill the numerous orders that pour in upon them
The strikers of Lynn made great turn
out in procession Friday, numbering over 6OOo The
spectators double that number. Several hundred
banners borne by the strikers both male and female
aud the city decorated in many places with flags and
streamers.
Ohio to accomedate the increasing number of criminals
Columbus paper says there 933 convi,ts hand,
233 of whom without cells workshops. By the
time prison be erected there will be at least
400 that can be peither secured nor employed
The overland mail Of the 18th, from St..
Louis to California took out eleven thousand letters the
largest number yet dispatched.
julien, the great Concert Manager, at
tempted to kill himself by sabbing recently in Paris.
There is to be Chess Congress at ST.
Louis on the 1lth of next month Morphy and several
other noted players have promised to attend.
-Seventy-one ladies calling themselves
grass widows, who reside in and around Elkhart ndl
gave ball last week sand invited their male friends
None but grass widows were allowed to participate in
In the festivities
The Pennsylvania delegation to Charles
ton have contracted for the steamer Keystone State to
take hundred passengers from Philadelphia and back
between the 18th of April and the lst ofMay and furnish
them on board during that period, for $50 each.
The alias d Argus says that on Sunday
morning great excitment caused IN the Baptist
Church. Pittstown, Rensselaer, Co.. by man walking in
the midst of the congregation, stark naked. He was led
ont possible and decided to be insane on the
subject of dress.
Chief Justice Taney was eighty-three years
Of age Saturday having been born in Calvert county,
Maryland the st. Patricks day of 1777. For man
of his years. he is in the enjoyment of comparatively good
health
The Utah Judges have been removed,
owing 10 the conflict between them and Gov. Cumming
The President has conferred with the Mormon delegate
as to their successors
The accounts from Venezuela state that
the rebellion in that country was on the eve of dying out
Falcons troops had been totally defeated in sangunay
combat.
The telegraph reports fatal affray at
Jefferson City, No. Sunday between Warden of the
Penitentiary and of the guards in which both were
killed.
The Opposition State Convention of Miss
issippi meets at Jackson on the 23d of April.
The steamers are plying regularly upon
lake Erie.
The Senate of Missouri has passed the
bill authorizing further of bonds to the amount
four Millions to aid the railroads oftha State. The bonds
re to be issued as the roads progress
We have from Houston, Texas, the par
tlcuars of fire in that city the Sd nst by which
property estimated at quarter of a million was
destroyed
The journeyman cabinet makers Of New
York are strike for an advance of wages
The Post Offices of Canada are hereafter
e be kept closed on Sundays.
BY the explosion of a steamer on the
0cmugee river Ga last week, eight negroes and FIVE
whites lost their lives.
Some forty members of the New Jersey
Legislature are on visit to Washington.
The receipts of the Q. s. Treasury last
week 81 $50 S05 the balance in the Treasury On
Friday was 4,l6s ,2Is.
Thursday was the anniversary of the
birth Of John C. Calhoun.
Gov. Stewart of Missouri has again veto
ed the bill providing for the enslayement of free negroes
whS remained In the State after aeertain'time.
There are about two thousand fallen wo-
men in Cincinnati, and active efforts are now making
there to purchase land and erect house for their refor-
nation and care.
After passing over the Michigan Central
Railroad genemanenforms the Detroit advertiser that
the growing wheat never looked better than now.
-Capt. JudKlns, one or the Cunard cap
tains, we've recently in Paris with his wife, and was
treated with particular courtesy by Louis Napoleon who
was once passenger on the Cambria.
The Utica Herald, Of the 18th, says =
We Gerrit Smith in town yesterday and were glad
TO observe that he is looking unusually well and hearty
We should judge that he had entirely recovered from his
late aiflicton
Major Wilson--one of the Oldest best
known and most respected Democrats of Washington Co..
Palast week announced his allegiance the Republi
party, he could longer sustain the enormitr
advocated under the name of" Demacracyu