Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-11-15
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and the poor child burned to crisp before help
rived.
- Sheridan Knowles, lost in the steamer
Arctic, not the author, but the Philadelphia agent
of the Bank Note Company, charged with the perfor-
nance of work for the Emperor of Russia.
- The Madison (Ind) Courier says that
40 900 hogs have been purchased by Madison packers
the present season at Sc ,5Oa675.
Slavery is very near its endin Delaware.
Between 1850 and lSGO the slave population decreased
from 2 ,29O to sos.
- The quantity of beef sugar made in
France this year l26 800 600 kogammes which is c.
OOO 600 klogrammes less than last year.
The Quebec Chronicle says: at is ru-
morcd that Mr. John Sheridan Hogan, NJ. P, for
Grey has been discovered in lunatic asylum in Tex
as"
When the French Empress at table
speaks any not close her. she has her words
peated by aid de camp, chamberlain, who stands
constantly by her.
y Mrs. Swisshelm says that the popularity
of her paper in Minnesota is due to the fact that peo
pie always expecting she will say something she
ought not to-"
A New Haven gentleman offers $S, 600
towards the establishment of home for INDECENT and
aged in that city condition that $40 600
is raised.
- Austrian misrale is depopulating Venice.
It's inhabitants though it is penal to leave that city,
have escaped by thousands and its population is 60 per
cent less than it was two years ago.
- Recent experiments show that Minnie
rife ball, which will pass through thick board bag
of Oakum at a distance of 500 yards is natened into
shapeless mass in a bag of sand at 800 yards.
A Selectman of the town of Hatfield,
after making out his bill for services rendered makes
this very sensible additional charge To time spent
making out the above bill, fifty cents
- The moment anything assumes the shape
Of duty persons feel themselves incapable of dis
charging it,
- Andrew B. Hutchinson, one of the fa-
nous Hutchinson family of vocaliss, died in a unatie
asylum in Boston, week before last, aged 50 years
A French lady is now giving exhibitions
in yentroqusm and legerdemain in New York. She is
the first female performer in that branch in this
country.
- Wlliamsport citizens complain much of
the practice of boys in that town tearing handbis This
is or less pracced in borough, and should any
be found in the act and be prosecuted they would have
themselves only to blame
On Saturday night a portion of the west
wall Of a brick bnding in of erection by
Levi Bender on Bennett street, Wiamsport, was blown
down. The wall fell inward and did some damage to the
timber work.
- PeterSOn's Detector cautions the public
to refuse Fves the Western Bank of Philadelphia
Over 900 in spurious bills have been recovered The
notes well engraved, and good limitations of the
genuine.
- Bishop Potter, of Pennsylvania, has is
sued pastoral letter to the ministers members of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in his diocese laying be-
fore them the condition of the starving people of Kan
sas. and recommending that individual and congrega
tiOnal offerings be made for the relief of the suffering,
In France, the announcement of the ap.
preaching marriage ofthe Princess Alice with the Prince
Louis Of Hesse Darmsadt is looked upon with
gret, owing to the well-known antagonism to French
principles evinced by the reignng Duke, his uncle.
Gordon, who was recently hung by q
mob in Pixies Peak said drinking was the cause of his
ruin and that he drunk when he committed the deed
for which he died.
In 1928, Gen. JackSon's majority over
John Quincy Adams in Pennsylvania, was ,SO4 votes
the largest majority given by Pennsylvania to any
Presidential candidate.
- Hon. Jacob Grosh, for many years
Representative from Lancaster county in the Senate and
House of Representatives and for years an Associate
Judge of the county died his residence in Marietta
the Sd inst, aged S.. He volunteer in the war
of 1872.
- Hon. Michael Carpenter, ex-Mayor Of
Lancaster, Pa died Monday, aged Co. He filed the
position of Mayor from si3 to 1851 with great credit to
himself and acceptabty to the people.
- Still another steamboat explosion is re-
ported telegram from Chicago states that the pro-
peller Globe, which arrived at that port from Buffalo
Thursday morning, exploded her boiler at the DOCK
killing 10 persons and wounding several Others The
boat, which was made a complete wreck was owned in
Buffalo.
A fire broke out q few minutes before s
O'clock Thursday morning, in the dryng.room of the
Astor House, which, though discovered at an early mo-
men ragged for nearly three hours before it was subdued
The extent Of damage done to the laundry and kitchen
departments amounts to about three thousand dollars
though informed by Mr. STETsoN that the business
of the house will not be interrupted. A man named
BRADY, who was employed waiter and night watch
man. so badly burned that lie conveyed to the
Hospital where he afterwards died.
- The recent rains caused greater rise
in the Lehigh than in the Susquehanna. On Sunday
morning. three loaded boats went over the dam at Eas
ton, and man named Owen Canacy, of White Haven
drowned. There has been break in the Delaware
division which, together with the freshet has caused
considerable detention in canal navigation.