Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-07-12
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

but, it is supposed, without effect. No probable
cause for the assault can even be guessed.
"A dispatch from Denver City says that
a Mr.. Ezra Fuller, the proprietor of a rancho on
Little Blue, killed by party of Cheyennes on
the 23d ult. The deceased, in company with his
brother bathing in the river when they were
surprised by the savages, one only making his es-
cape. The settlers along the route are terribly
alarmed by the appearance of these rowing war par
ties of Cheyennes.
The New Haven Palladium learns from
a friend of Gen. Thomas, that fine residence was
recently purchased in Nashville by his friends, at
an expense of $50, 600; but the General declined
the present, on the ground that he had enough to
support himself and wife lhaving no children, land
requesting that the money be added to the fund for
Soldiers Widows and Orphans.
The Columbia, Ga, Sun says the wheat
crop, where it has been threshed, We learn from
almost every portion of the South and Southwest,
is turning out much better than was anticipated
the yield being far ahead of last year. This being
the case we look fora decline in -four from the
present figures The South and Southwest has
made nearly, quite, enough to supply the home
demand.
"A card signed by American citizens"
appears in a Montreal newspaper proposing Admi-
raj Farragut as n candidate for Pres ident of the
United States. The card quotes William ". Of
England as precedent for the elevation of sailor
to the high office.
The statement telegra phed from the
South that Ex-senator Robert BarnweIl Rhett, of
South Carolina, had been assassinated, proves er-
roneous. The person murdered was Benjamin S.
Rhett, younger brother of the Ex-senator
The statute of Washington removed
from the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington
Va, by Gen. Hunter on his raid up the Valley of
Virginia, has been resorted to the institute
Lieut. Gen. Grant is to visit Niagara
at the latter part of July or the first of August
Rooms have been secured at the International Ho.
tel for him.
George Peabody has made another
gift of hundred thousand do liars to the Peabody
Institute established by him at South Danvers
"A fendish outrage was perpetrated on
the I'd at Galveston, Texas. Three ruians, wearing
masks, entered his house. took him out of bed and,
built log fire in the fireplace and threw him on
it, and held him there until insensible His house
keeper found him burnt to a crisp. No clue to
the murderers has ben obtained.
Gen Fisk sent recently corporal and
squad of troops to jackson County, Tenn, to
hberate colored boy, about 1G years old, whom a
white man persisted in holding in Slavery, This
41n l,O1it $50 he
Freedmens Courts Slavery has been restored in
Tennessee.
In many towns in Mississippi the freed.
men who able to get along without assistance
from the freedmen's Bureau, have organized mu-
tual relief associations for their own benefit, and
to protect and assist the needy of their color
They also organizing into fire companies il
some of the larger towns, and in Columbus have
been uniformed as such by the white citizens
Trouble exists in the great immigration
party which left Minnesota for Idaho about a
month ago, under command of Capt. Fiske, con-
sisting of 800 wagons. The party broke up neal
Fort Wadsworth, a portion refusing to recognize
the authority of Fiske train of so started of
under another leader.
Some children playing near Augusta
Ga, the I'd, found lump of gold weighing
eleven ounces in a ravine, and several smaller
Jumps were picked up in the vicinity. On the 30
three more Jumps, weighing respectively thirteen
nine and eight ounces, were found in the same
place by the owner of the land.
1t is reported that marked change ir
the Horse Shoe Falls at Niagara has occurred with
in a few days. Large portions of rock have given
way in the centre of the shoe, giving the fall now
more of a triangular appearance, which, is sale
TO add to its beauty. 1t has been demonstrated
that the Falls recede ten or twelve inches year.
The Alabama State University is try
ing to raise means to restore its buildings -whicl
were burned by Gen Wilson-by a lottery, the pr
zes in which amount to $50 00O
Gen. Hunter, Union, and H. w Har
rington, Democrat, candidates for Congress in th
Third Indiana District, having joint canvass
addressing the audiences.
Gen. Fitz Hugh Warren announces
himself an independent candidate for Congress il
the First Iowa District, on the Baltimore platform
of 1864 and against unqualified negro suffrage.
-Gen.Sherman will reach Boston on the
18th inst, and remain there three days He vii
subsequently attend Dartmouth College Commence
ment at which his nephew, Henry Sherman, vii
graduate.
The combined incomes of the Chicago
Tribune said to foot up Sl60. 900, Mr.. Cowle.
having the largest, $4,000
There are one hundred and seyenty-one
convcts in the Wisconsin Penitentary, only ten Of
whom women.
On Tuesday night in Cincinnati, prin
ter named Filley was kicked to death by two coffee
house-keepers, named Presley and Straller Fill
ley had published in one of the German papers O
Cincinnati an article obnoxious to Saloon-keepers
in general and Presley and Strailer swore ven
gence, which they brutally and fatally executed
They are in custody and will be tried for murdei
in the first degree.
Saturday the freight depot of the New
Haven Steamship line, at New York, was destroy.
ed by fire. together with the steamer lying along
side. Considerable freight was burned, and it is
believed that one man has lost his life. Another
is badly burned
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