Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-10-11
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

iouse for the last thirty-fve years, and had not
spoken an inteIigible word in all that time. Hav
lng been disappointed in love, in early life, she
made a vow never to speak another word, and she
religously kept her vow till her tongue was par
niyzed in death.
The Pittsburgh Commercial states that
the editor of the Norfolk (Ya.) Old Domiaion and
chief accountant to the Paymaster at the Navy
yard there, who, as alleged, recently absconded
with some thousands of dollars and another mans
W., was c. C. Flint the Baltimore correspondent
{ me IVorld and the Ne,cs, notorously kno WI
.dough the war as Druid.
1t is reported in Washington that the
Attorney-GeneraI has rendered a decision favor
able to the claim agents, in the question referred
to him as to the right of the officers of the Gov
ernment charged with the settlement of bounty
claims, to disregard powers Of attorney given by
claimants in favor of agents.
The Yale Banner for the new college
year is out. Its catalogue of students shows $50
members of the College, of which there are n the
ologca Students I23 law, 81 medical, 113 scientif
ic; 100 Seniors, III Juniors, 126 Sophomores, and
149 Freshmen. The Lionian Society has 249 mem
bers, and the Brothers in Unity 243.
Cholera is increasing at Shelbyville,
Tenn, and not more than six hundred out of a
population of two thousand remain in town. Many
OF the citizens are living in tents near Tullahoma
and at other points, waiting for the scourage to
disappear. at the last visitation, some years ago.
S4elbyyille Was nearly depopulated. The fatality
attributed to bad water.
Fifteen cars loaded with oil were burn
= on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, near Al
Iona, on Tuesday evening. The tobacco manu-
.aotory OF W. & d. Rinehart, in Pittsburgh, Penn.
nearly destroyed by fire on the same evening.
loss estimated ut $50 900; insured for $4,000.
At an early hour last Sunday morning
the residence of L. Il. Peterson, Esq, in Philade-
pima, was entered through basement window, and
silver ware valued at 81, 900 stolen.
The jewelry store of George Doty, at
Detroit, was robbed of watches, &c. to the value
Of $4,000, on Wednesday night.
john Peruimau, Boston printer, who
cast the first composition roller ever made in this
country, died iii that city recently at the age of
alzty.
--Septimus Tennyson, brother Of Al
sod, died at Chelteuhan, England on the 7th ult
he thought himself poet but most people were
compelled to differ from him in this opinion.
1t is reported that the Hon. John Big
Glow, United States Minister to France, will on his
return from Paris, take charge Of evening pa
per in New York, devoted to the support OF the Rad
ical cause.
twenty-five large sea-going steamers
,,FN ,,..ll,
anna monthly When the line to China is opened
the Isthmas will be in direct communication with
almost every portion Of the globe.
The population of the United States,
according to returns from the census Office is IN
creasing at the rate OF a million year. The West
crn and Northwestern States are nearly absorbing
this population.
"A newly invented anchor has been tes-
ted in the harbor OF Baltimore, 1t Is triangular in
shape, and has six fukes, which work on pivots
when one side is buried in the ground the upper
prt closes, thus, it is claimed, preventing foul
l-g
The New Haven Historical Society has
3.vnedict Arnolds account book, and the sign Of
store in which lie did business before the Revo-
.u,ion. The inscription on it reads, '.B. Arnold
'guggist bookseller, &c. from London: Sijt t0ti-
p"c."
Twenty dollars week are allowed by
the Government to provide the table Of jefferson
Davis at Fortress Monroe with articles that are
not furnished in the regular Tatons of the garrison
THIS is the way il which the prisoner is starved"
a Mr.. Frank L. Burke, of Burksvill Ala,
writes that about the lst Of June he issued brief
Circular proposing TO compile "a book Of outra-
ges committed by United States soldiers during
the war," and that up to this date 'the number
VITO have answered the appeal is very small"
The pressure on the President for off.
.,a 3 more severe now tLan ever To a gentle
ian who called to see him Saturday evening. Mr.
johnson remarked that he had spent sixteen hours
that day in listening to delegations and Office ap-
picants
The sum Of $4,000 has been subscribed
III Lynchburg, Va, toward building the railroad
which Is to connect that city with Dnville. 1t is
proposed to raise the remaining $4,000 in Dan
ElIle and the papers Of that place declare that this
viii be readily done.
The report Of the State Auditor of Iowa
shows that there are GOO 59S catts, 3I2 932 hors-
Is, l3, Iol mules l,353,3lG sheep and 81, 21 swine
III that State.
Reports from Nevada indicate the cleo
lion Of Legislature which Will return Mr. Charles
/. DeIong to the Senate of the United States in
place OF General James W. Nye.
The People has sent several medals in
gold and silver bearing his egy to the Sisters OF
C"arity who have been in attendance on the chol-
e. patients at Amiens.
Sir Frederick Madden has resigned the
Ayepership Of the manuscripts at the British
-.uscum, an Office which he has held for forty
y'ars.
John I. Robertson has been convicted
ot murder in the first degree at Fredericksburg.
Va, for the massacre of the Limerick family, and
sentenced to be hung on the 10th inst
The Hanoycrian clergy feel some scru-
pies about their oath OF allegiance to the late King
and have written to Count Bismarck asking him to
spare their conscience.
The quantity of glass pancs necessary
for the Exhibition Palace in Paris would suffice to
cover eight hectares twenty acres)-tlat is to say,
$4,000 square feet.