Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-26
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.


the combatants were seriously injured
"A stock company, for the erection of
school buildings, is about to be organized in Way
nesboro', Franklin county.
Two horses were killed by an excur-
sion train on the Littlestown railroad, near Han
over a few nights since.
The Hanover Spectator announces that
there is every prospect of very heavy fruit crop in
that vicinity, this year.
The Hampton adams county, Oil
Company has erected derrick fifty feet high,
and with an engine already on the ground, it is
expected that boring will soon begin.
The vote in Snyder county on the pro-
posed removal of the county seat to Sellngsgrove,
will be cast on the 24th inst.
The Masonic Lodge at Sunbury has
purchased the old court house in that place, and
will proceed to remove entire, to another site.
u. P. Hafey, of Selingsgrove was
robbed of s495, at the Treverton depot, few days
since.
An engineer named John Spangler
was killed near Cameron station on the P. d Z.
Il. R., few days ago, by coal train passing over
him.
Col. Davis, the only soldier in Pennsyl
vania, who could be found last fall to be a cop
perhead candidate went to Connecticut to stump
for the traitor sympathizers and my policy" His
success in Connecticut was the same as in Penn
vania.
The brick wall of a dwelling in York
which undergoing repairs, fell while the fam
lily and workmen were in it. The cracking of the
walls alarmed them and they all escaped just as
the whole came down, crushing furniture and ev-
erything in the house
Judge Smalley, of the United States
Circuit Court, has decided that an Assessor has no
right to review any assessment made by him, and
which has been transmitted to the Collector aAd
paid, and that the Assessor has no authority un-
der the law to require any to appear for exam
ination in regard to such returns, nor compel him
to submit his books for examination.
The Kansas City Journal, of Saturday,
says the Missouri Pacific Railroad is doing an i'm
mense business. From five hundred to six hun
dred passengers are frequently brought through
on a single train. The long and heavily loaded
freight trains daily give evidence of the addition to
their business made by completing the road to
Kansas City.
The list of the awards to the captors
of the assassins Of Mr. Lincoln and the reward
paid for the arrest of Jefferson Davis have been
laid before the House of Representatives. Col. L.
C. Baker receives So, $50 Lieut. Baker, $4,000 :
Boston Corbett, 81, 600; Lieut.. Dougherty 81, 500
Col Pritchard receives S10,00 for the capture of
JEFF. Davis.
The Wilmington DELI Journal says
that Sc nator salisbury knew very well he uttered
Il gross misrepresentation whenhe stated in the Sen
that the Civil Rights law could not be enforced
in Delaware and it is a libel on the people of that
State tor him to say so.
The Charleston South CarOlinian chron-
icles a new phenomenon in that city, namely de-
mand on the part of the blacks for higher wages.
The colored stevedores unwilling to work un-
less paid two dollars day
Mr. Robert Mayo's estate, known as
Powhatan, James River near Richmond, and
where according to a dubious tradition, John
Smiths life was saved by the fair Pocahontas is
said TO have been sold to Col North, Of Massa-
chusetts. for $4,000.
The Newman (Ga.) Herald publishes
an application to the County Ordinary for letters
of administration by a Coored nan the estate OF
deceased friend This is the first instance of the
kind under the law passed by the last Georgia Leg
islature.
In Homer, Claiborne County, La,
steps are being taken to establish extensive cot
ton and woolen factory The people of Brenville
County are also talking about astablishinga cotton
factory at Arcadia, in the same State.
"A resolution in favor of the Confedera
ton of the British North American Provinces, apt
appointing Delegation TO go to England to ar
range the details, has passed both Houses of tht
Nova Scotia Parliament.
Dexter who has been under arrest il
Mobile for some time, upon charges of gigantic
cotton frauds, has been turned over to the civi
authorities. who will speedily try the case.
A bill appropristing $4,000 to be
used in cleaning and improving the Washington
Carql has passed both branches of the City Coun
ell
A case of death from cholera is repor
ted at Portland, Me. The man is said to have es
capped from the steamer England.
Clement C. Clay was Thursday reieas
ed on parole from his confinement at Fortress Mon
roe.
"A fire, involving loss of 100000, oc
Cured at Titusville Thursday.
Under the direction of the Troy Confer
ence of the Methodist Church, in session at Cam
bridge, \. Y, the remains of Philip Embury, tn
founder Of AIethodism in this country, were re
moved from their long resting place in an old an,
obscure graveyard near that town to the large am
tasteful cemetery now in use. An address on tn
occasion was made by Bishop Jaaes of that city.
The Christian Observer, southern re
licious journal, reminds 1.-The praying people c
tbe south that it is their special duty to pray 70
Jefferson Davis. Surely he is in prison and il
peril because of what We have done He wouli
not be there if we had not made him our chief
Will the praying people of the South forget him il
these trying hourS?'
THE Cincinnati Gazette says that pure
Essence Of Coffee is now made in that CITY ou
of the cheapest. dirtiest molasses, which il boil
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