Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-02-01
NEWS FROM ALL NATIONS.


pockets of the deceased we've rifed of their con-
tents including, as is supposed about 5000
The new United States Telegraph line
west of Chicago, on the Pacific route, is perfect
success Offices are now opened at Clinton, Ce-
dar Rapids and Boonville, Iowa. The office at
Omaha will be opened in few days, when the in
termediate stations some ten or twelve III num-
ber will be opened without delay.
California has again been visited with
heavy rains and extensive freshets. Sacramento
perhaps the most exposed town in the State, has
been saved by energetic efforts and its substantial
dykes, from serious damage. destructive tor
nado occurred at Geneva, Nevada on the Sth list
The Legislature of Kentucky has de-
cided to postpone for the present the election of
United States Senator. The House has passed
resolution rejecting the Constitutional Amend
ment.
In Illinois the farmers forty miles from
Chicago find it economy to cart their grain with OK
en- to that city, instead of sending it by rail. A
comment on railroad charges
The Northwestern says the Hudson
Bay Company recently forwarded to st. Paul six
thousand mink skins, contained in twelve ordina-
ly-sized probably the most valuable pack
age of f1rs ever sent to st. Paul. They sold
at nine dollars each
General Sicklcs, commanding Depart
ment of South Carolina, has prescribed regulations
for the government of all concerned in his depart
ment. He directs that all laws shall be applica-
BILE alike to all the inhabitants no person shall be
held incompetent to sue, make complaint or testi-
fy, because of color or caste.
Perry, Knight, Grab and Lisaugh, the
four murderers of Mr.. Hefferman, were hung Fri
day at Nashville. They were all under twenty
years Of age.
"A resolution has been adopted by the
louisiana House appointing Il special committee
o prepare amendments to the constitution oI 1854.
and to call a convention.
Two respectfully y-dressed women were
arrested at the White House. Washington tcr cvs-
ting pieces from the curtains in the Easr nom -
souvenirs.
Hon. Alexander Cummings, Governor
of Colorado Territory, has written letter TO Hon
Charles Sumner in favor of negro suffrage.
The Louisville (Kentucky) city coun-
ellis have paased resolution offering the State
$500 OOO for the erection of public buildings if the
capitol is removed to that city.
General Crawford is not in Washing
ton, but is confined at Fort jackson, by order of
General Sheridan.
Mayor Lincoln, of Boston, appeals to
the citizens Of Boston for castof clothing for the
benefit of the poor, whose wants are more pressing
this season than for several years past
Colonel George \. Woodward has been
temporarily assigned to the command of the dis
trct OF Ohio
Commissioner Rollins has decided that
inland and domestic bills of lading are not sub
ject to stamp duties as such.
On Thursday the Tennessee Senate con-
Cured in the House amendment to the negro suff-
rage bill.
A large portion of the town Of Parma
Michigan, was burnt on Thursday Loss, $4,000
insurance, $4,000.
A branch railroad is in contemplation
from Iuka, on the Memphis and Charleston rail
road, to Eastport on the Tennessee river.
Smallpox prevails among the negroes
in the interior of Louisiana.
The wheat crop i'll Wisconsin is en-
dangered by the absence of snow this minter.
The Congregational Westinghouse in
Williamston, Mass, built in 1898 and thoroughly
reftted in 1861, in which the Williams College
commencements have been held for seventy years,
was totally destroyed by fire Sunday week. Loss
500 600 insured for -, 600 The fire caught from
an overheated stove-pipe.
The report that the steamer Contincn,
tai, bound for Oregon with female emigrants, un-
der the charge of Mr., \. S. Mercur. had put into
Fortress Monroe, is incorrect
One hundred citizens OF Springfield
H. have formed Vigilance Committee for tht
purpose of rdding the city of the gamblers, Thieves
and murderers that infest it.
800" Hetty," a colored woman and relic
OF Pennsylvania slavery, died on the 18th inst. al
Abbottstown, Adams county. She was upwards o.
y years old.
Three boys at New-Havcn, Conn, ur
der u years of age, have been detected jn quite
extensive mail robberies ana forgeries. One of tn,
boys had in his pocket when arrested Il check fo
So,OVu IItg dlt Stllu w pt th' HouS bl ICSl'tttt
ble and worthy parents.
About one thousand tons of shot anC
shell thrown into the forts at the mouth of Capt
Fear Kiyer (below Wilmington by the navy du
ring the bombardment under Admiral Porter, hay,
been collected and will be sold at auction. Feb
Is, for the benefit of the government.
Sacramento is in danger OF another
flood. The water i'll the river is twenty three fee
above low water mark but the leyee still holds
out TIL low lands of the surrounding countr,
are flooded, and families have been driven from
their homes by the advancing waters
E. J. Carpenter, editor of the Bloom
ington Qll., paper left home the 14th to visit
sick brother at Lyons, Wayne county. On reach
ing Buffalo, he was seized with insanity, and wa
picked up in the street and sent to the lunat
asylum, where he died in few days. Meanwhile
his brother also died.
The Scranton Register says coal in the
bed is worth twenty-five cents ton. 1t costs 81
cents to mine it, and 50 more to prepare it fol
market-a total of 81 90 All that is charged above
that is for transportation and profit
twenty-five soldiers, who have been
confined by orders of courts-martial were recently