Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1864-12-15
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

arrived at Bagdad Mexico on October 18th, en-
route for Richmond via. Matamoras.
Mr. and Mrs. Brewer, of Wayne coun-
ty, KY, have twenty-five children This is, per-
haps the most extensive brewery in the West.
Hon Frederick w. Seward, of New
York, Assistant Secretary of State of the United
States, is confined to his room by broken arm.
Hon. Reuben E. Fenton, Governor elect
of New York, has written his resignation men,
Der of Congress, to take effect Dec. Goth.
Mai. Gen. John A. McClernand and
Brig Gems. Neal, Dow, and E. A. Paine have re-
signed, and their designations have been accepted
Mr. Enos Prizer, senior editor and pro-
prietor of the Bucks County hteligence died at his
residence, in Doylestown on the 25th ult
The rebel General Wayne, now in COM
mand of body of rebels in Georgia, alluded to in
the Richmond papers, is a of Judge Wayne of
the Supreme Court
Mai. Gen Pope has received orders
from the War Department to report to Washington.
1t is very probable that he is to be placed in an
tive command.
Lyman Cobb, widely known as the au-
thor of various school books, mainly of an elemen
tary character, died at Colesburg, Potter county,
Pa, ON the Goth ult, aged about IS years.
Gov. Curtin has been presented by
Bishop Wood, of Philadelphia, with a solid silver
medal, ten inches in circumference commemorat-
ing the dedication of the Catholic Cathedral in that
city.
Gov. Curtin has appointed John Ken
nedy Ewing son of ex-Judge Nathaniel Ewing, to
fill the vacancy caused by the decease of Judge
Lindsay, in the Fourteenth district composed of
the counties of Washington, Fayette and Greene.
Mrs. Sarah Hutchins, of Baltimore, re-
Gently convicted of giving aid and comfort to the
enemies of her country, is now in Fitchburg, Mass
House of Correction, under five years sentence.
She is the woman who presented a sword to the
rebel Harry Gilmore.
William Overield, Esq, at one time
member of the House of Representatives and Sem
ate of this State from Luzerne county, and after
wards Canal Commissioner, died at his residence
in Monroe county, the 2lst ult., at the advanced
age of IS years. He always an active and
prominent Democrat.
--Ex-Gov. Erastus Fairbanks, of Ver-
mont, died at st. Johnsbury, ON Sunday the 29th.
He was ~ years of age, and without reproach in
his public and private life. To the business world
he was known as leading member of the firm
which manufactures scales in that secluded Green
Mountain village.
The Rebel emissaries in New York
seem to be bent upon their work of destruction
large fire occurred i'll that city on Wednesday by
which lumber yard adjoining Government ware
houses containing immense quantities of clothing
was destroyed involving a loss of $780, 600 The
warehouses fortunately escaped. As in the case
of firing the hotels, phosphorus used
Hon. James Speed, leading lawyer
and earnest emancpationist of Kentucky, has been
appointed Attorney General, in the place of Hon
Edward Bates, resigned,
A petition from fifty thousand citizens
of Illinois will be presented mt the coming session
of the Legislature OF that State, for the repeal of
the Black Law Of Illinois
The hotel-keepers of New York have
offered reward of $50 600 for the detection of the
ncendiaries who attempted to burn the hotels of
New York
Muller, the Englshman who murdered
a passenger i'll a railroad coach, near London, and
then fled to this country whence he was taken
back, tried and convicted. publicly hung on
the 14th of November
In the next House of Representatives
thirteen States will be without Democratic Repre-
sentatives-exclusve of the seeded States Is
there not some danger that the Democratic party
will become sectional?
The Southern Methodist Conference
about to open its session at Milledgeville Just
as Sherman approached that place, and like the
Georgia Legislature, the members stampeded as
fast as their legs could carry them
An old Irishman who had witnessed
the effect of whisky for many years past said
barrel labelled whisky contained a thousand songs
and fifty fights.
Thomas Smoker, of German Valley,
Huntingdon county, had both his legs fractured
recently by the upsetting of load of clover seed
upon him.
A wedding transpired in Pittsburg,
Pa, ON Sunday week, and the bride ran away with
another man two days after.
Deer are said to be unusually plenty
in Clearfeld county, and parts adjoining thereof.
Mr.. Swain, one of the original proprie-
tors of the Philadelphia Ledger, who has been
nected with it twenty-nine years has retired from
it with ample fortune. Mr. George W. Chids
has purchased the Ledger.
Lord Lyons took leave Of the President
and Secretary of State on Monday, and proceeded
to New York in special furnished by the Gov
eminent. His health is so seriously impaired as
to require relaxation, with the benefit of his native
air. He carries with him the respect, sympathy
and good wishes of the Government and people of
the United States. J. Hume Burnley esq., will
have charge Of the British Legation during the alb
sence of Lord Lyons.
The excitement at Toronto concerning
the Fenian Brotherhood is reviving. On Monday
night Orange lodge was broken open, and all its
property destroyed by the Fenans Some portraits
of Queen Victoria We're disgracefully mutilated
A number of persons employed in the
Philadelphia Navy-Yar were arrested ON Monday,
on the charge of stealing public property therein
Several prominent Union men in East
Tennessee, have issued call for n Site Conven-
ton on the 18th of December, to form a ticket to
run for Constitution Convention. This State will