Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-05-31
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tie disease and the need of increased appropriations
Governor Banks has decided that it is expedient to
woke an extra session of the Legislature.
The Syracuse Journal says that Gerrit
Smith was in that city Tuesday, and appeared in ex
cellent health and spirits
The Richmond Enquirer of the 2lst inst,
says that three hundred negroes baptized in the
Appomatox, at Petersburg, en- Sunday last.
C. w Kendall, of the New Orleans
Pcayune, who has for years past been ranchng"
it in Texas, writes that he is the owner of 200
lambs, and expects, in three weeks, to own $500.
AID Russell, of New York, has sued ex-
AID Billy Wilson for pulling his in the City Hall
the other day. The exdignary has been arrested and
held TO bail by Judge Brady of the Common Pleas in
$4,000.
=" Occasional says that notwithstand
ing all the to the contrary Geo. Sanders
tnues to hold his place navy agent at New York and
to advocate Douglas in defiance of the Presidential
date"
There was great many representatives
of the press in the crowd at Chicago For the prnci
pal reportOal benches set apart for the leading report
ers there were 900 applications when only 60 could be
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body of the hail. capable of holding SOO there 1900
The President has rendered to Mr. John
Van Buren the appointment of Commissioner under the
the Paaguayan treaty to settle claims against that Gov
ernment. He has not yet sgnifed his acceptance Mr.
Dix had been decided upon for this place prior to his p
pointment as Postmaster of New York,
The Panama Railroad Company charged
the United States 3OO for transporting the japanese
and their baggage asross the Isthmus.
j. G. Holland (Timothy Ttcomb) has
purchased lot two hundred feet wide, adjoining his
dence in Springfield The inference is that his books
and lectures paid"
About sixty gipsieS are encamped near
Columbus, Ohio. clergyman visited them on Sunday,
but they paid no sort of attention to his efforts.
There is now in Richmond, Va, lad be-
tween six and seven years old who is said to play chess
with extraordinary skill. 1t is thought he will soon be
come rival to the celebrated PauIMophy for the champ
ion chess-belt.
1t is stated that Gen. La Vega, recently
taken prisoner at St Luis Poos by the LJerasts, has
been shot 1t will be remembered that he captured
by Capt. May at Rcsaca de la Palma and subsequently
at Cero Gordo All the prisoners taken with Gen. La
Vega at St. Luis were shot.
One of our Troy exchanges thinks that
city has right to brag some on the of muscle"
After noticing the fact of Hccnan being Trojan, and
the great horseshoe feat which recently Off there
it says that the Rev. Mr. jameson, Baptist preacher Of
that city baptised at South Berwick, Ne. Sc persons by
immersion in the short space of 36 minutes
Col. Isaac Smith McMickcn, United
States Consul at Acapulco Mexico and formerly of Ly
81, 40 1 N,.;I
The boom at WiIliamSport was only part
ybroken carried away and the loss is less than
at first anticipated.
Joseph Young succeeds NJ T. Heintzeman
as Editor of the Middeburg Tribune.
The Lycoming Insurance Company has
made an Assessment of 3 per cent
On Saturday last, 1000 bushels Of New
Wheat from Georgia, for sale in New York, for
which 81, 10 asked, and $l1O offered The general
expectation is for good crop. 1t is coming into head
on the West Branch, and promises we'll
The furnace of David r. Porter, in Dau-
phn county, sold few days since, the Harrisburg
Bank, for :23,5OO
There was snow Storm on a small scale,
at Montreal on the night of Saturday the 10Th.
May II, at Hartford, Conn., the ther-
momcter was low 4O and at Sucld it fell to 800
killing tender vegetation.
There was a heavy white frost along the
line of the New York Central Railroad on Monday morn
ing, the 2Ist inst
Hicks charged with the murder of the
captain and crew of the sloop E A. johnson, has been
found guilty The jury absent but eleven minutes.
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