Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-19
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS,

The steamboat Fn,ancier, bound down
the Ohio from Pittsburg was burned Friday twen-
ty miles below that city. Ten lives were lost, and
others were severely burned, The fire originated
in the bursting of a petroleum lamp.
After some weeks of disorganization,
caused by the bolting of several members, the
House of the Tennessee Legislature has secured q
quorum, and resumed proceedings.
The mills at Manchester, n H., are
running at loss, the cotton on hand costing more
before it is made up than it will bring now after it
is manufactured.
Edward w. Green, the murderer of
young Converse at the Maiden Bank, was executed
Friday at East Cambridge, Mass.
An oil tank in the gas works at East
Cambridge, Mass, exploded Friday, setting fire to
the building and causing much damage.
AN accident occurred on the Vermont
Central Railroad Friday, causing the death of one
person and seriously injuring several others.
The report of forthcoming amnesty
proclamation is said, by Washington dispatch, to
be without foundation.
The Loan bill has been signed by the
President.
Orders were issued long ago for the
preservation of neutrality on the northern borders
i'll view of the Fenian agitation.
The stormy weather along the coast
in the vicinity of Fortress Monroe still contin-
ueS
= The Fenian excitement on Campo BeIlo
Island is still kept up, and the residents are re-
moving to Eastport, Me. A raid in the neighbor-
hood of Calais is anticipated, and military prepa-
rations have been made to receive the Fenians
Quicksilver has advanced ten cents
per pound in San Francisco in consequence of
troubles at the new Almeda works.
The Canadian CABINETS in session dai-
ly but the proceedings are not made public The
report that President johnson will issue procIa
nation in regard to Fenian movements is received
with satisfaction in Toronto.
-Hod Annis, who was arrested for be-
ing concerned in the great bond robbery in New
York, has been released by the Supreme Court on
habeas corpus. He has been held thus far with
out authority. Only $4,000 of the stolen prop
erty has been recovered.
There is not licensed grog shop or a
billiard room in Potter county. Jails and DOOR
houses are of little use there
Alexander r. Bigler son of Ex-Gover
nor Bigler, committed suicide in Lock Haven, on
Monday week, by shooting himself with pistol.
during temporary fit of insanity.
Mr.. Jacob Mosteller West Vincent
Chester county, has calf, which, when three days
old, weighed one hundred and forty pounds. Mr..
NJ invites his friends TO stop and see it.
Mr.. Alfred Delhi, of Laurelton, Union
county, was lately robbed by three lighwaymen
III disguise, in the NaIrows, between Union and
Centre counties. The amount taken from him
was 500.
The village Of Ashland has met with a
severe disaster 10y fire. A whole square was de
stroyed. The loss IS said to be $4,000.
General Knipe has been appointed
post master at Harrisburg, rice 8ergner, who does
not support the Presidents reconstruction policy
The Union citizens of Tamaqua free
salute of one hundred guns on Saturday, in hon
or OF the passage of the ciyil-rights bill.
-Letita Lester took chloroform in Phil
adelphia on Monday last to have a tooth extrac
ted She went into spasms and died in a few min
utes.
"A child in Philadelphia, aged thirteen
months, was choked to death with button which
it had put in its mouth.
They have gold excitement in Frank
ford, Philadelphia. Digging has commenced, bu
the Shtterng metal has not come to light.
THE printers in the Office of the Recoro
Of the Times, Wilkesbaue, recently locked up {
form, then turned it over a mallet and shooting
stick and pied two columns. That was quite {
performance.
In Reilly township, Schuylkill county
last Sunday week, three Irishmen broke into
house, cruelty beat and violated the person of Mrs
Polly Phillips, woman between 70 and 50 years o
age.
The condition of New-Orleans is be
coming deplorable in consequence of the heav,
rains and the rise in the river The state of thing.
Sunday is thus described: Rain pouring down
in continuous floods, the heavens were hung blacl
with clouds, the levees were broken through witt
crevasses, sugar and cotton plantations were over
AoMeu, lue rear OL tne CITY was hooded, the Louis
lana races were suspended and the people were un
able to get to church except in skifs.
General Davis Tillson, Assistant Com
missioner of the Freedmens Bureau for Georgia
has issued order which, after recting the recen
enactments of the Georgia Legislature conferrinl
civil rights on the freedmen, says That in consid
Grafton of these enactments the officers of til,
Bureau will cease to exercise the Judicial functions
conferred upon them by the law establishing the
Bureau, and by previous orders.
The oil we'll at BalIston, n. Y, has
been bored to the depth of five hundred and eigh
ty feet Two mineral springs have been struck
plenty of gas, and lastly sort of black substance
soft and oily, which is supposed to mean oil The
stockholders of the concern are SO much encour
aged by signs and indications, that they have re-
solved to tube the well and pump for petroleum.
"A party of cavalry, by order Of Gen
Sickles, recently made 4 raid into Edgeield Dis
trict, South Carolina and arrested several promi-
nent citizens including Gen. Gary, late of the feb-
el army. private soldier in one Of the white
regiments had been robbed and murdered in that
neighborhood, and these arrests have some con-
nection with the murder.
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