Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-08-02
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.


was confirmed without the usual reference by the
Senate.
Pigeons in immense numbers have con-
gregated in Stephen township Canada West and
are rearing their young.
In accordance with the recent law Vice
Admiral Farragut is to be admiral OF the navy.
Hosea Moril, of Pittsfeld, Ohio, was
married last week, aged eghty-two years.
"A large whale visited Portland harbor,
Tuesday, and swan past all the wharves and UNI
der both railroad bridges. He was peppered with
rifle ballsa bomb lance fired through his back,
and he was harpooned, but after all succeeded in
escaping.
Several white men, who were arrested
for assaulting and beating negro who attempted
to open a colored school at Jackson, La, are held
by the military under General Grants order. The
disloyal portion of the community are greatly dis
satisfied
Two men in Covington, Kentucky, Pc
ter Murphy and Henry Hartman recently fought
across a table with revolvers. Nine shots We're
fired by both parties, but without fatal results to
either.
"A National Cemetery is now preparing
at Culpepper Va. on the farm of Nh. Hill. 1t will
embrace about six acres, situated on rising ground
quarter of a mile from the Courthouse, and yis-
ible from the Orange and Alexandria Railroad for a
distance of four miles. The remains Of soldiers
buried between the Rappahannock River and Cor
donsvlle are to be inferred in this cemetery inclu
ding those who fell in the battle of Ceder Noun
tain.
The murderer Mcconnell and other
prisoners attempted to break Jail at Cleveland
Ohio, but were detected. They had by some means
procured powder, with which they first blew off the
lock of of the cells and then attempted to blast
hole through the stone wall.
The fair of the New-England and Yer
mont State Agricultural Societies will be held on
the grounds of the Windham County Park Asso-
citation, at Brattleboro, Vt, Sept. 4, s, and T.
The grounds are the bank of the Connecticut
River.
Commencement exercises at Yale Col
lege are hereafter to be held during the third week
idays.
w orks for the manufacture of Gas out
OF pine wood, bOnes and animal and vegetable re-
fuse were started in Detroit Mich, on Wednesday
evening. 1t was by way of experiment but prom
ises to be a success.
"A universal emancipation celebration.
conducted by the coored citizens, is to take place
IN Ithaca on Wednesday next, Aug l. Frederick
Douglas of Rochester is engaged to speak
--Rev. r. II. Gardiner, a Methodist Mis-
slonary to the Freedmen of Kentucky, was mobbed
and dueked by men in Georgetown, Ky, on Tues
day last, for preaching to the negroes
The members of the Boston Caulkers,
Association offer to resume work at "A dav eight
hours to constitute days work
chief Justice Salrmon p. Chase is on a
visit to Cornish, N. Il, his native town
The City Council of Boston on Thurs
day added $4,000 to the appropriation for free
public baths.
"A youngster going along the street in
MeadyIlle on Thursday afternoon let a pistol fall
from his pocket to the ground The concussion
discharged it, and its contents, consisting of fine
shot, went into the leg of man walking in front
OF him. The latter at once went into the nearest
store, and began to pick out the shot with pen
knife, congratulatng himself that the pistol was
not loaded with ball
-Engineers have been engaged durino
the past week IN surveying route looking to the
extension of the Tamaqua arm of the Reading rail-
road through the coal fields of the Black creek and
thence to Berwick, where it will connect with tbe
Lackawanna and Bloomsbury railrod
The Warren and Franklin railroad has
been doing large business since its onenine, to
1luoute, and the work of completing it farther
down the Allegheny is being pushed forward with
due dllhgence and rapidity.
The United States Hotel at TjtusviIlo
TOOK hre on Sunday. The rear of the building was
somewhat damaged by the flames, and most of the
household furniture and fixtures of the buildino
destroyed by carelessness.
"A Harrisburg man has received the
contract OF the New York fire department for fur
hlShlng 1t with thirty thousand feet of hose.
Many splendid private residences are
now IN course of construction in York, Pa.
--Ihe income Of VIM. B. Astor last wear
was u, l53 459 which is about $50, 900 less than
the previous year. There was a general falling off
oi incomes IN New York the past year.
Switzerland especially the Roman
Catholic eantons, is rapidly filling with Italian
monks, who have been expelled from their conye,,ts
by the late decree
The President has granted pardon to
Lawrence Rousseau, of New Orleans, La, formerly
captain IN the United States Navy, who resigned |
and entered the rebel service
"A young lady, while bathing at East
New London the other day, had one of her toes
SO badly bitten by crab that it will hayet, ba am
putated.
Upwards of six thousand watermeIous
came through the Albermarle and Chesapeak On.
nal on Friday, and were shipped north by the
truckers.
"A snake measuring fourteen feet and
seven inches recently crawled into house in Gal
yeston' Texas, and swallowed a leg of mutton II
should be killed ''if it takes a leg"
1t has been discovered that the names
OF several patriotic soldiers have been forced to
call for JohnsOn-Clymer Convention. at Wash
ington, Pa. !
The Petersburg mine "cratern i now {
IL the midst OF a luXIrianf cor,, E.11 -