Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-05-03
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.

Ohio, and E. E. Otis, of Nashville, counsel for
the Government Benjamin F. Butler, Judge
Campbell and others, are counsel for the claimant
The case will be tried at Mobile ... .aL
At Crittenden, Ky, on Wednesday, a
circus exhibition was very unexpectedly changed
to a tragedy. party of seven or eight men asked
admittance, but for some reason were retused.-
They then fired revolyers into the interior OF the
circus, killing James Robinson and wounding two
other performers Several of the audience We're
also wounded. The cowardly murderers made their
escape. \ h ..
Along the line of the Nashville and
Decatur Railroad between Columbia and Pulaski
during thunderstorm last week, a half mile OF
the telegraph wires was melted, and divided into
small fragments irregular in shape, and many Of
them no larger than abuckshot a small rifle ball.
The glass nsulators were fused and the poles were
shiyered into fragments. @
A letter from Detroit states that Gen.
Cass is failing fast The veteran statesman passes
most of his time in sleep, undsturbed. At rare
intervals he wakens up sufficiently to ask for some
of his old friends, who sent for: but on arri-
wing, even within the hour, he is generelly asleep
again. His disease is softening of the brain. He
is 81 years of age.
"A case has been tried before full jury
of negroes at aIurfreesboro, Tenn. 4 freedman
threw a stone ut another freedmen, who retaliated
in kind, striking his assailant il the head and in
hicting il severe wound. The injured man died,
and the matter was brought before the Freedmen S
Bureau, and trial was had with twelve freedmen
for jury
james Glennan was executed at Ellz-
abeth, N. j., Thursday, in the presence of large
concourse of spectators for the murder Of his wife
Glennan made full confession of his guilt which
tailed with the evidence adduced on his trial. The
murderer was native of Brooklyn, Kings County,
and was 30 years of age.
"A canvass of the different departments
the government has been instituted, to ascertain
the number of employees who honorably served in
the Union army, with a view to the discharge of
incompetent clerks and disappointment OF ex-sol-
diers and sailors. ..|..
Charles H. Golden, in jail at Newbury-
port. Mass, on the charge of burglary states that
he was cogni2ant of the murder of Dr.. Burdel, in
New York City, some years ago, and was himself
offered $4,000 by Mrs. Cunningham to commit
the deed.
Gen Fisk reports that all through Ten
nessee his order of cleanliness among the freed
men is being carried out in very efficient manner,
in anticipation of cholera. The negroes of Mem
phis have subscribed $lO 600 for building hospit
al there for their own use.
"A can of nitro-g lycerine was discover
ed the other day at St. Louis on board a boat
about to start for the Territories. 1t was inclosed
in Il box, and marked ''varnish, and directed to
mercantile firm in Montana.
The negro recently arrested at Bowling
Green, Ky, on the charge of murder, was taken
from the Jail on the 24th inst, by mob Of two
hundred men, and hung
The Pittston Gazette announces the fail
ure Of A. n Meylest & Co.. of Scranton. Liabili-
ties 100000
Tho officers of Pittston, Pa, announce
that there il not an unlicensed grog shop in that
borough or township.
A maiden lady in Chester county recent
ly died in apparently extreme poverty, Over a
thousand dollars in coin was found boarded up in
the house.
The cattle disease in Montgomery coun-
ty is decided to he pleuro pneumonia, and not rim
derpest
-PuscyWickersham,o of Coatesville, COM
mitted suicide by drowning herself on Saturday
night last.
Evans Lewis, of Chester county, died last
I
ed $50 pounds. 1t required six men for pall-bear-
ers, and the grave was three feet wide.
A young man named Joseph Faust,n neal
Orwigsburg SchuyIkin county, while feeding cat
tie in the barn. fell from the hay ymow into the fod
der-gang, and broke his neck
Information is wanted of Orange P
Whitney, who was taken prisoner August 21st
1864, at the Weldon Railroad and was taken tc
Belle Island, and was there until near October fol
lowing, since then his friends have not heard any
thing of him. Any one knowing anything con.
cernng him Will confer great favor by giving such
information to his wife, Ellen L. Whitney, at Hop
bottom, Susquehanna Co., Pa.
The experiment of manufacturing paper
from wood, has been entirely successful, near Phil
adelphio. A poplar tree standing the hill side
was converted into clear, white paper in five
hours.
-Ex-Governor Johnson has been appoin
ted collector of Internal Revenue in Pttsburg
He supports "my policy, or "Moses in his
rushes.
John Piper, an old citizen Of Newvile
Cumberland county, fell dead on Saturday last.
A pair of horses died few days ago
in Greenville from eating the bark of locust tree
to which they tied.
A boy was scalded to death by steam
near Pt.sburg on Saturday last while inside of a
boiler, for the purpose of cleaning it.
"A Catholic Seminary is about to be
erected in Philadelphia for the education of Cath
Ole priests. Accommodations will be made fol
300
The Pittsburgers arc rejoicing over a
sprinkling cart. to paste down the black dust OF
their streets.
The Lehigh Canal Company has leased
the Delaware Division Canal, and will consolidate
the two lines, making a continuous water commIl-