Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-07-19
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

A. s. Lippncott. These works covered an area OF
two and half acres, employed three hundred
hands, and the loss, including stock, machinery
and buildings, is estimated at 10000 600. The fire
is supposed to be the work of an incendiary, as
during the contiagration man was caught IN the
act of firing another mill in the vicinity.
The Charleston Courier gives an &C
count of the decoration of the graves of the rebel
dead at Greenville South Carolina. 1t says over
a thousand persons participated in the exercises
The order of procession embraced eleven young
ladies clad in white and representing the several
Confederate States Most of the stores OF the vii
LACE were closed and the bells of the churches were
tolled.
A C. Robinson and some of his friends,
near Oskaloosa, Iowa, indulged in the pastime OF
hanging a negro whom they suspected of stealing
q pair of pants. The negro hung three minutes
when he was rescued by some persons who passed
that way, and A. G. Robinson is in Jail and with q
fair prospect of the State Prison.
AT the recent railroad meeting at Coun-
ell Bluffs Iowa, below Omaha City, it was voted to
accept the proposition of the Chicago and North
western Railroad Company to extend that line to
that city, and the amount of money asked for was
subscribed ON the spot.
1t was reported Thursday at Washing
ton that Leonard Hyck, Cashier of the exploded
Merchants National Bank, and who is also Treas
urer of the Washington and Alexandra Railroad
Comsany, has overissued stock of that Company to
the am cunt of $780, 600.
Tommy Nelson, an old negro, formerly
a servant in the Washington family, died at Suf-
folk, Va, recently. He was "a years old. Hehelp-
ed to cut canal leading from the western margin
of the Dismal Swamp to Drummond's Lake, an en-
terprise projected by Gen. Washington
The State Senate of Tennessee Thurs
day, passed resolution ratifying Constitutional
Amendment by vote of IA to g. There was no
quorum eff the house at last advices tits reported
that several absentees have been arrested by order
of the House.
On the llth of August next, the old
folks of ST. Louis propose to celebrate the eenten-
NAL anniversary OF the first grant of land covering
the site of that city. 1t is proposed to form an
Historical Society and to secure an authentic his
tory of the city from its first settlement.
Letters just received at St. Paul from
Fort Geary give accounts of a terrible fight which
took place in that region June %, between the
Mindesota Sioux and Red Lake Chippewas, in
which numerous redskins on either side were Kill
led.
Dispatches from ST. Joseph state that
the Indians around Fort Laramie seem but little
disposed to conform to any probable treaty that
may be agreed upon. They are offended because
of the whites encroaching on the Smoky Hill re-
gion.
Charles S. Woodruff, formerly a mer-
chant at Grenada, Miss. has been arrested by tel
egraphic order of Gen Thomas on the charges OF
participation in the assassination of Lieut. Blandre
at that place last April.
The Maine Episcopal Convention has
elected Rev. F. D. Huntington, D. D., of Boston as
Bishop of the Diocese.
The vote of West Virginia on the
amendment disfranchising rebels has been otf
cially ann ounced, and gives 6922 majority in its
favor.
ON Monday evening three Catholic
priests and two students were drowned in Anna
polls Bay. They had started out on boating ex
accidentally fell overheard, and in attempting t.
rescue him the boat was capsized. Only two o
the party were saved.
Seventeen families, numbering eighty
persons, lately passed through Cottonwood, Kansas
eastward bound. They were fugitives from tn,
Mormon paradise, and among them was DR.. H
Bates, a prominent Mormon, for some years Clerl
II,
Secretaries.
George A. Mitchell, of Turner, Maine
the inventor of the copper tips for chldrens shoes
and his son, six years of age, were drowned nea
their residence, on Thursday last. The father wa
endeavoring to the life of his son who had go
beyond his depth.
M L. Armant, a we'll known citizen 0
Lexington, Kentucky, was murdered on the stree
in that place, about dark, recently. No clue ha
been discovered to the murderer, although peopl
were within fifty yards of him when the murde
was committed.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnson has positivel
accepted the Presidency of the Alabama and Ter
nesseesRiver Railroad. He arrived in Selma las
week. and will make that his future home
1t is stated that W. l. Grover, Unite
States District-Attorney at St Louis, has been re
moved from his Office on account of his share
the prosecutions brought against the Fenians.
The city government of Portland is t.
king steps to effect a number of improvements i
the way of changing the streets and laying par
in the burnt district
Mrs. MaryH. Williams, wife of L.
Williams, of Taunton, Mass, was drowned on Sa
nrday evening while bathing with her husband {
the Weir in that city, She had been married onl
six weeks.
Hon. VIM X Postern. leader of tn
boilers from the Tennessee Legislature, died Sa
urday night
The remains of Col. S. w. Black. of tn
Sixty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers, killed d
the commencement of the seven days fighting i
June, 1862, have been recovered. He was prom
inent politician, and was appointed governor
Nebraska by Buchanan.
The second twenty-inch gun for the ns
Wy will probably be east at the Fort Pitt Foundry
at Pittsburgh Saturday.
"A horse railway has just been compile