Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-01-10
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great rage now among the fine ladies Is to have negro
lad sort of page, about them to carry their fan and
hold their parsso The uglier negro is the higher are
his wages.
Austria has issued bank notes of the val
ue of four cents each.
1t is stated that the original table on
which the Declaration of Independence signed is in
Charleston owned by lady there who Indignantly re-
fused to the seceder when they asked to be permitted
to make of it in signing the secession ordinance.
A Chicago merchant being asked what
the people of the North would do if the South should
fuse to sell them cotton and sugar. replied that they
would make maple sugar and woolen shirts till they
could raise fax enough to furnish their clothing.
- Mr. Church has at last commenced upon
his undertaking Of painting iceberg studies for which
he made two years ago in Newfoundland The canvas is
the same size the Heart Of the Andes. The sole OBJ
ect in the picture will be vast and solitary iceberg,
mountain of gltering ice with domes and antastical
pinacles, rising out of the ocean.
- Bigler, meeting John Cochrane casually
in the hall at Wizards Hotel, said "What about this
Bailey fraud Cochrane do you hear anything in addi
ton? ?" 0h," replied Cochrane "there is nothing in
Addition, its all in Satisfaction"
-OOuu Dun udfLuS uOLC COuAuCHIO tuou
some of us Yankees have in the stability of American IN
ttutons and securities has taken advantage of the
cent depression in the stock market to dip largely into
the better class of railroad stocks. During the past
week less than 900 shares of Illinois Central have
been purchased English account and large sales have
been made of New York Central, Erie, and Panama.
Young DeForest who so mysteriously dis
appeared from the Metropolitan Hotel New York about
three years ago. has turned up in Australia He thought
his friends did not for him. and therefore concluded
to withdraw from them Money has been sent him. and
he is soon expected home.
1t is reported that e. B. Hart, the Sur
veyor of New York. teegaphed to Miss Lane to know if
that the President had gone crazy the
report at the time Buchanan opened the dispatch,
goes the report in the presence of other gentle
men, and after reading it, turned round to them excaim
ing "See the malignity of abolitionism."
Three companies of United States flying
artillery are to be concentrated or Washington
on the occasion of the Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln and
Gen. Scott will superntend the necessary arrangements
for preserving ORDER in any breach Of the peace is
attempted.
The Independent suggests Major Anderson
of Fort Sumpter for Secretary of War under the
Administration. good many persons have thought of
him in connection with that post.
"A correspondent writes from Washington:
T learn by private letters that effort is making by the
merchants of Boston to raise tyve thousand dollars
TO be presented to Governor N P Banks to induce him
to forego his engagement with Illinois Central Railroad
aud continue in politics. This is said to be part Of
programme to induce him to take place in Mr.. Lncon's
Cabinet, which there is no doubt he could hav if he
would take it.
Mrs. Jane Sparks, widow lady living in
New York having become possessed of two bills on the
Chemical Bank-one for 81 900 and the other for $500
thinking pat them where thieves could not break
through and steal attached them to of her under
garments. When washing day came Ms. Sparks changed
her nen but forgot to relieve the soed garment Of the
500, and did not think of it again until she that
article of wearing apparel uttering the clothes line
in the back yard She then hasened down and searched
it, but the money missing Mary Moran the servant
who had done her washing quickly summoned, and
accused of having stolen the money. Mary denied the
charge, but being arrested committed for
nation.
Mr.. Ash. ". Carr, through the Union
Springs Herald challenges any person IN the State of
his weight to compete with him on skates He consid
stands ready make good his claim against all competi
tors.
Mrs. Patsey Allen died few days ago
Putnam county Indiana at the very advanced age Of
lie years. She born in the year 1744 and has left
daughter living in the county who is 50 years old
"A new colony of free lovers, socialists,
sprituasts people of advanced and respective minds
is about being founded at Hammonton, the Camden
and Atlantic Railway, about thirty miles from Philade
pha. About eleven hundred fools already there
their way thither, most of whom spirtualists-
They intend to follow the business of market gardening
The Erening Post says that one of there
presentatves Of the Chvary in Congress- who has be-
irrated at his inability get the floor of which
the Speaker probably thought he could not make good
use, heard to excaim the ther day, in sudden
burst of passion "I have been in Washington all winter
and caught every id thing in town. except the Speak
er's eye"
-Rarey, who proposes to commence bis
horse talk and exhibition at Nibos time during the
month of January, offers prize of bundled dollars
to the party producing for his experiments the most
vicious and ungovernabe animal and will be responsible
for his safe keeping and all expenses while under his
care in New York"
In small village of Illinois may be seen
daily taking his morning walk jolly old Frenchman
who prides himself upon having built the first house
the spot where Chicago the proud Queen Of the West
now sprea DIS herself with Ill 900 inhabitants.
Queen Victoria recently visited Oxford,
where her eldest son is at college. The Prince of Wales
conducted his mother through the collegiate halls.
The compass used by Roger Williams in
his journey when hanished from Massachusetts,, is still
preserved by Mrs. Harriet Brown, of Providence.
The business of the New Orleans, Jack
and GIeat Northern Railroad 1.-THE principal road Of
that section has during the past few weeks dwindled
to almost nothing"