Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-08-30
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.


named William H. Hamilton, while he was driving
lot of his fathers cattle to the pasture, by man
named Cash, who drove the cattle into Nebraska
City, where he sold some of them.
The Topeka Record learns that Gen. o.
0. Howard who is at the head of the Freedmens
Bureau. has been invited to become President of
Lincoln College, in that city. He has answered
the invitation, by saying. that as soon his SER
vices where he is can be dispensed with, he will
favorably consider it.
Mr.. Edward Sullivan,a wealthy citizen
of st. Louis Mo, said to be worth Sl5O,OOO, was
found dead last Thursday night in a room in the
Union Bank building in that oity. He had appar-
rentlv been dead several days. The sum Of $500
was foupd in the room. The coroner declared
that he died of cholera morbus.
Mai Gen. Mcdowell, commanding the
Department of California, announces that it is
made the duty of the officers of the army in Arzo-
M to see that those connected with their commands
are not suffered to use their positions in connec-
ton with the Territorial elections.
"A. L. Strom, Swede of noble family,
died of cholera on Saturday in Cincinnati His
fatber was grand huntsman to Charles Bernadotte,
King of Sweden, and his brother now holds that
position. Mr.. Strom was born in Stockholm, At
the time Of his death he was bookkeeper in Gin
cinnati.
An old revolutionary soldier, named
Frederick Grader, died recently near Meadville,
Miss. in the one hundred and eighth year OF his
age. He had served in the War of 1912, as well as
during the Revolution.
The work on the Council Bluffs and St.
Joseph Railroad has been commenced opposite
Nebraska City, from which place to the Bluffs the
cars are to be running by the 1st of january next,
and through to St. Joseph by the 1st of July, 1867
Gen. Hancock has issued an order as
sumIno command of the Department of the Mis-
SCUM. embracing that State and Kansas, Colorado
and New-NIexico, with temporary headquarters at
St. Louis.
The directors of the Union Pacific Rail-
road. East division, have ordered 200 more miles
of the road to be Immediately put under contract
and finished by December 1867.
A letter from Col H. Balls, Speaker IN
= the State saws ssTwo men were found hanging,
about thirty miles from here. One was member
lofinp the Federals through the country. Two
more are missing. Bands ofmurderers are uaVers-
ing the country in different parts committing all
sorts of depredations"
DR.. George S. Blackburn of Cincinnati,
committed suicide in that city on the 22d inst
Several weeks ago he attempted to shoot hmsel1,
but failed and having last week resumed his prae-
tce it was supposed that all danger OF his renewing
the attempt had pacsed.
In conformity with orders issued by
the President permits are no longer required 1or
tbe sbipnent of arms. ammunition or other merchan-
disc to Southern ports of the United States.
While the clerks Of the FIRST National
Bank of st. Louis were eating lunch in the Cash
ier's room on Tuesday, apackoge of $4,000 was
stolen from the desk by some person unknown.
Hon. David A. Wells, special Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue has just returned from
three weeks tour to the Lake Superior region
where he has been to examine INTO the smuggling
business.
An unlucky man went into store IN
Portland, on Monday, to purchase some molosses.
The clerk started the bung to show the quality
burst out with tremendous force, striking the
customer full in the face, and drenching him with
sweetness from head to foot.
The New Bedford Standard describes
the adventurers of an elderly lady, who had been
visiting in the vicinity OF that city, and in taking
bv-path to the railroad station lost her way i'll the
woods She remained out for two nights, and was
finally discovered by farmer who heard her out
cries.
The keeper Of a New Bedford billiard
saloon has been arrested for refusing to allow a
colored person to play on his tables.
The water Of the Ohio at Cincinnati
has assumed a light green color and an unwhole-
some odor, and the people are advised to boil it
before drinking.
DR.. Blackburn, prominent citizen of
Cincinnati, committed suicide in that place on
Wednesday. No cause is assigned.
Saturday the thermometer at Mount
Washington N H, stood at IS degrees. One OF
the telegraph lines had been broken down by the
ice which had collected upon it.
"A trunk deposited in vault Of one of
the banks in New York, containing $500 000in Sc
curities, has been stolen. No clue to the robber.
st Louis appears to lead the mournfu
list in the cholera reports. The intements there,
in six of the principal cemeteries of victims to the
epidemic for Monday and Tuesday, numbered t@o
hundred and sixty. This is far below the actual
number of deaths, which are not reported by the
Board of Health.
-Thirty-three deaths from cholera occur
red in Cincinnati on Wednesday.
Saturday five cases of cholere were re-
ported in New York. There were no fatal cases,
and the disease appears to be abating rapidly.
In Brooklyn ten cases occurred in the
twenty-four hours ending Saturday afternoon three
of which terminated fatally
A Vienna despatch says the cholera is
making sad ravages at Pesth, In Hungary and
Nikolsbury, and among the wounded soldiers in
Vienna.
The Chicago Republican gives the fol
lowing version of Gen. Dix, amended by Andy
johnson: '.If any man attempts to haul down the
American flag ask him if he will accept national
situation"
AT Narrowsburg on the Erie Railway