Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-07-26
Rems from all Rattons.

The age OF young LADY is now express
ed according to the present style of skirts by saying
that eighteen springs have passed over her head
The press of Virginia stands 81 for
Breckenridge to for Douglas.
Gov. Seward is to visit Wisconsin at some
period during the campaign be named by the Repub
lican State Committee, and make an address,
TO prevent dogs from going mad, put a
small portion of pounded sulphur into their drink thro
the spring. This is practced in Europe
The health of New Orleans continues
excellent and there scarcely any fears of the appear
ance of the yellow fever this season.
The post mortem examination OF the body
of Prince Jerome led to the discovery of ball which
had remained in his chest after duel which he fought
in his youth with brother of Marshal Davoust
The London Times of the 22d of Jcne
makes prophecy of famine The season has been not
only in England, but throughout Western Europe
prOpitiOus.
"A negro slave who had been whipped Sc
verey by his mistress in Gilmer county Ca during the
night cut two of her childrens throats and fed
Edward Murphy murdered Mr. Rob.
bins on Lake Michigan nine years ago. arrested
and imprisoned but escaped On the 10th inst he
recognized prisoner in the Chicago Pententiary.
The Governor has appointed Robert E.
Wright ESQ, of Lehigh county, Reporter of the dec
sons of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in place Of
Joseph Casey, Esq, whose term of Office has expired
In the inquest case of the Walton and
Matthews murders, the jury, Wednesday brought in
verdict of guilty of murder against Charles Jeerds.
The prisoner received the with composure
and declared that he was not guilty.
The Wilkes Barre Record gives accounts
of four persons bitten by worthless dogs in that Borough
man. Solomon Hamburger died shortly after being
bitten-some think, partly from the effect of the bite.
A mad dog excitement prevails in York
county. owing to rabd dog having bit en- number Of
CANNES in the village of Freystown. The people
wagng of extirmination against the canine race
a large number having already been slaughtered.
Patrick Durkin, an employee of the Mine
Hill Railroad Company, killed at the planes by be-
ing run over by a car-both hs legs were cut of.
Last Monday, 495 letters were mailed
FROM and 38s received at the wiiamsport Post Office.
Mrs Barbara Nell, aged one hundred and
t gears died 9th July, at her residence Third St. near
Poplar, Philadelphia
Among the applicants for admission to
Harvard University, this year, are son of Abraham
Lincoln of Illinois, and one George Washington of Va
descended from brother of the first President.
Albert W. Hicks, the "oyster sloop
murderer" executed last Friday Bedloe's Island
in the Bay OF New York IN the presence of over 1000
persons.
1t is said that President Buchanan will
not make his usual trip to Bedford Springs this year.
In Boston. on Saturday morning, a man
Iaboring under derum tremens was found hanging by
his hands TO the Of three story house in Clifford
Place
DR. Thomas Bats, Of Southampton, Va,
who died last week has directed in his will that all lis
servants, los in number, shall be freed.
John Tyler has been heard from He
thinks the election either of Bell Lincoln OF Douglas
would be fatal to the Union.
Owing to the extreme drought, the entire
wheat crop of Kansas has proved to be failure The
loss casts gloom the Territory. correspondent
of the Lawrence Republican informs that in his opUion
there is not family in twenty, south of the Kansas
valley in which pound Of -four be found or where
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On Thursday last, an elderly man named
Guinnip citizen of Meadvle, and named Crock
cr engaged in street fight, when the latter shot in
the breast by the former with pistol The ball entered
the cavity of the chest and it is feared that death will
Gunnip surrendered himself, and gave bail in
= 600 to answer at Court.
ALI the German press in Indiana, except
one, for Lincoln, three of them having abandoned
the Democratic doctrine and embraced Republicanism.
Mr.. NJ. Cults, father inaw of Mr. Doug
and Second Auditor of the Treasury at present in
Boston. Attempts to secure his removal rumored.
Gov Wise will not take any active part
in the canvass until the Virginia State Democratic Con-
yenton shall have acted. Cautious as well as wise
Nineteen papers in the State of Illinois,
eleven of them in Egypt which have before espous
cd RepubIcanism have hosed the Lincoln and Hamlin
flag.
Judge Petit, of Indiana, writes to his
in Lafayette concedng the election of Lincoln by
the people. The Judge is sensible man.
The English Astronomers estimate the
length Of the tail of the Comet visible, at about
twenty two million miles.
All EoShSu paper says tHd1 ueuei III
bred Scott commands the United States Army We
don't wonder at the above mistake They have good
son to " Dred old Lundy's Lane over there.
Charles Owens, clerk in the post Office
at Utica n. Y, arrested last Thursday a charge
of robbing the mails and several letters were found upon
his person. He was committed for trial.
Mrs. Myers, residing in Rayne township,
Trdiana countv pa went i'm the woods few davs
to gather plant known to botansts pipsisswa but
gathered some poisonous plant instead and having made
decoction of it, she drank it and died after.
The Ohio State Journal says that the
split in the Democracy of that State is past surgery and