Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-11-29
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

white. Last Spring this act of justice was de-
ieated and its adoption shows moral progress of
which tie State may well be proud.
The New York EUening Post, of Nov.
18th, says 1t is understood that soon after the
opening of Congress the House judiciary Committee
will review the whole subject of the assassination
plot and examine new witnesses in relation to
jeff. Davis completely
"A dispatch from London, dated London,
Nov 18th, says :-''Telegraph dispatches have
been received which state that the war in Japan is
ended. The report of the death of the Tycoon is
confirmed"
The wife of Rev David A Wasson, of
Somersyille, Mass, was brutally outraged by va
grant negro on Friday morning, at her own house,
while the remainder OF the family were absent
Hang the miserable wretch.
Gen. Dix has received his final instruc-
tions from the Department at Washington, and
viii sail for France in the steamer of the 24th His
family arrived in Paris last Saturday.
--Forty-four of the Fenian prisoners
discharged Saturday. no indictment being
found against them.
"A man named Burdick Cooper on We'd
nesday afternoon last, passed over the S. B. & n.
Y. r. r. from Binghamton to Syracuse, and in
the evening while waiting in that city for train
eastward, robbed of his wallet containing s35.
Two OF the thieves were subsequently arrested.
"A Cayuga county Democrat sold the
wheat from his farm this fall for S. 000 receiving
three dollars and twenty five cents per bushel-
Not satisfied with this he asked for more and ID
black Republicans for the high taxes created by
carrying on the 'nigger war;
-Jethro Bonney, an old soldier of 1912,
died in Cortland village last Saturday evening"
lie went to the polls last election day, and voted
the Republican ticket.
We learn from the Ithaca Journal, that
on the 10th inst. Z. S. Dudley of Newfeld, had
his mill broken open and his safe robbed of $40
in money and S4, 600 in notes.
"A man was knocked down and robbed
in Watkins few nights since, during torch-light
procession, of his watch and 5000.
We learn from the Chenango Union
that old gentleman of the village of Norwich,
named Ingraham, at present in INDECENT circum-
stances, is likely to become heir to an estate of
100000 in England. Squire Bundy of Oxford
assures him 1t is all right The old man says that
hereafter he shall buy his tea by the chest, shant
feel above his neighbors, shall have his hair cut,
and get new hat
One of the prisoners which escaped
from the Cortland County Jail few days since has
been recaptured He was found in the swamps
between GAINESVILLE and Syracuse.
A dispatch to the Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph says that the Grand Jury in session at
Baltimore has indicted sevral Judges of the recent
election for violation Of the election law, refusing
voters whom they considered rebel, and also for
destroying ballots received from supposed Conser-
vative voters and putting Radical votes in the bal
lot-box in their places.
The Conservative Army and Navy
Union of Washington, at a late meeting, passed by
two thirds vote resolution declaring that in the
judgment Of that organization, it is clearly the duty
Of the Conservative Press throughout the country
to appeal to the Northern and Southern States to
extend suffrage to the negro on such qualified basis
as may be deemed proper and just.
Some of the Presbyterian churches in
Baltimore, in sympathy with the Louisville Pres
bytery, have initiated movement to effect the Or
ganization of new Presbytery Independent of the
General Assembly.
The United States Consul-General at
Montreal is procuring affdavits from the Fenian
prisoners in Jail in that city, to be forwarded
to Washington for the information of the Govern
ment
Admiral French Forrest, formerly of
the United States Navy and late of the Confeder-
ate Navy, died at Washiu gton on Thursday, in the
list year of his age.
Three thousand mineral specimens have
been collected in California for the Paris Exposi-
ton. The project for sending section of the big
tree OF Calaveras has been nearly abandoned.
Raphael Semmes, late of the rebel ma
u, HIrs aseepted the Chair OF Professor of Moral
Philosophy and English Literature in the Louisiana
State Seminary of learning at Alexandria
The President being engaged upon i'm
portant public matters preparatory to the early as
sembling of Congress- will have no time until af-
ter the meeting of that body, to give the slightest
attention to applicants for office Allsuch matters
are referred to the heads of the different depart
ments.
Maj George f. Glenn, a paymaster,
was robbed at Fort Boyes, Oct s. of $50 900 in le-
gal tender notes, and $50 600 in vouchers for money
paid out to troops.
The extension of the Platte County
Railroad from Weston to Kansas City is rapidly
progressing. A large force is employed on the
grading, which is nearly completed, and iron is on
the way.
The Nashville Union says that the
health of Hon. Cave Johnson forbids the hopes of
his friends and physicians that he can long survive.
The postal service in the eleven seeded
States, which before the war never paid expenses
has netted over 5000, profit during the past
year.
Admiral Dahlgreen is about leaving
Washington to assume command of the South Pa
cifc Squadron.
On Tuesday frightful locomotive boil
er explosion took place on the Atlantic and Great
Western Road, at Newburg, Ohio, killing Fred.
Gardener, the engineer and James T. Green, the