Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-03-22
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

accused to be sent under guard to Nashville. for
tfiai before military commission.
--lhe Matamoras Ranche5'o of the 9th
UT says that a railroad is to be built from San
fernando TO Monterey so as to have a port entire
y and unmlstakably within Mexican territory and
rapid through communication with it. The port
VIII probably be at the Barra de Jesus BTaris. not
many league south of Bagtlad
"A military post Known as Cottonwood
ON Platte River will be known in future as Fort
Mcpherson, in honor of the gallant Gen McPher-
son. who was killed in the campaign in Northern
Georgia. 1t is in Nebraska Territory, between
Fort Kearny and Julesburgh
-Anti-monopoly meetings are constantly
held through the West At OrIand Cook County.
Ill, the farmers have formed league for the pur-
pose OF working III concert toward the re iuction
OF the present evil. They insist that the only rem
edy Tor oVercharges in freight is ship canal around
Niagara Falls.
At St Louis, on the 10th George
Starr, under sentence of death for the killing of
William Smith, was taken out of his cell in the
county jail for the purpose of being baptized bv
immersion, which cermony was performed at the
Christian Baptist Church.
Mr. George Parry the resident secre-
tary OF the English capitalists interested in Mime
sofa railroads, in speech at st. Cloud to Mon
'ana meeting said that the British ca ptalsts are
10" considering the propriety of build ing rail
road from Minnesota to Montana.
The statement that there was plot
TO assassinate Gov. Brown low, Of Tennessee was
MT a c1iard The prime mover in it has been mr..
rested at Granada, Miss. and is now on the Uav
TO Nashville, where he will be tried bv Military
Commission.
A Richmond paper mentions a rumor
that Gen Terry proposes soon to pay a visit to
Fortress Monroe and states that the gossips are
already linking this report in connection with the
distinguished prisoner now confined there.
The petroleum refners of Cleveland
OHIO, are seriously damaging the water supply of
the city. Even the ice which has been cut for Use
next Summer is impregnated with oil 1t is pro-
posed to extend pipes far ont into the lake in ii
t'tion of Chicago
The Paymaster Of the Schulkill Navi-
CATION Company was robbed on Monday of six
thousand dollars in money, and twentv-nine hun
A strict quarantine of the Georgia
coast, against vessels arriving from the West In
dies. has been instituted by the military authori
ties
The work on the Union Pacific Rail
road is pushed with vigor. Sixty miles are now
completed west from Omaha the eastern terminus.
An excursion sleeping car named the
Silver Palace, and which cost SIC, 900, has been
built by Josiah Woodruff, Esq, of Pittsburg. for
running between that city and Chicago.
Hiram Wolf, President of the First
National Bank of NIauch Chunk, committed sui
eide on Monday of last week, by shooting himself
with pistol. He left a letter stating that the act
vas caused by ISLANDERS which had been circulated
agains him. and which no doubt so weighed upon
his mind as to cause temporary alteration He
was captain in the Mexican war, and was one Of
the most esteemed citizens of Maueh Chunk.
DR.. Jayne, the wealthy medicine ven
der Of Philadelphia. died in that city last week
The counsel for Christian Berger, con-
ycted of the murder OF Mary Watt of German
town, made application to the Supreme Court for a
"rit Of error which the Court on Saturday refused
The Governor vii now. it Is presumed fix the time
tor the execution.
Michael Make was waylad and robbed
near Pottsyille last week by four Irishmen. They
took about $50 from him.
A drunken negro, named Ewing was
confined in Jail in Chester county, last week. for
shooting man at Dowington, because the bar
tender refused him Ewing liquor. The man shot,
died the next morning. His name King.
The children Of John Shenburger, who
resides in ork county, nearly opposite Columbia,
were killed by the explosion of a shell, last week
1t of the shells thrown by the rebel Gen
eral Early's forces, near Wrightsyille in 1858 II
was in the house a relic. The childred were
aged six and eight years
A barn was recently burned in Chester
county, and twenty-five COWS and. seven. horses
persisted in the flames. 1t belonged to Ezra Thorn.
rs.
A bold, but unsuccessful attempt was
recently made to set fire the Mansion House and
stables at West Chester
-Brevet Major-Gen. Pennypacker, who
was so terribly wounded while leading brigade at
the capture Of Fort Fisher, recently rendered his
resignation, which was refused. He is worthy to
be kept in service.
The council Of Bcllefonte has banished
slaughter house from the corporation
Mr. Philip Nicklin Dallas, the only son
OF the late George NJ Dallas, died on Thursday in
Philadelphia, in the 4lst year of his age. He was
81 member of the bar and while his father was the
American Minister to England he was Secretary OF
Legation. Mr. Dallas was a very estimable gentle
man. and his loss is much regretted
cotton growing this year was unu-
sually lucrative in Southern Illinois, Jefferson
County produced one-half million pounds, which
at Western prices (forty-iiVe cents per pound) is
worth s225 OO0 while some of the counties below
.,ised four times that amount
News from Montana says the Black
Indians are retaliating for some of their tribe
who were killed by whites last Fab. The Governor
has called ont five hundred volunteers 10 rendez-
Vou~ at Fort Benton.
dispatches from San Francisco report
the probable discovery Of the remains OF Prof T.
G. Pomeroy Of Pennsylvania, who has been mis-
sing since September last