Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-04-11
Nems from all Nations.

-Sergent 81. H. Bergeman. SOL
der, who was wounded in the recent riot in
Carlisle, died on the oath ult., Of his
wound
The University of Pennsylvania
has conferred the honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws, on Gen. Crawford.
The Democracy of Cumberland
county have recommended the Hon. James
H. Graham for the Supreme Judgeship of
Pennsylvania.
Henry Lange, a German, and two
of his little boys, were scalded to death in
Philadelphia, last week, by kettle of boil
ing water falling on them.
An infant about a week old, was
recently found on the steps of citizen of
West Chester. 1t was taken in and cared
for, but died the next day.
John Young, and family, of ALE,
gheny township, Blair county, were recent
" poisoned by eatiug biscuits inwhich tar
tar emetic had been used by mistake instead
Of soda.
On Tuesday Of last week two of
the Dry Houses Of the Wapwollopen Pow
der Mills, Columbia county, were blown up.
man BIZ the name of Evan Davis was
killed.
Il man has been arrested in Blair
county on suspicion of being the murderer
OF Elizabeth Mcdonald, who was killed in
Jefferson county on the 18th of February
last.
1t is said there are at present
two iourishing Fenian "circles" in Erie,
who meet for drill and intend to be ready
to answer any call to arms on the Canadian
coast.
Il fearful warning to young men
Is contained in the case of Stephen Hodg-
elm, who was lately fined $40 in the Venan-
20 county court for the little indiscretion
OF putting his arm around young lady's
waist.
"A freight Car on the Erie Railroad
hlled with merchandise, took fire on We'd
nesday evening, twelve miles south Of
Rochester, and was wholly destroyed with
lis contents. The train was divided and
the other cars saved
By an explosion in the Glover
Hill coal pits, in Chesterfield County, Va,
on Wednesday, ,seventy-fve miners, of whom
twenty-five were white, were killed. The
pits took fire, and the bodies could not be
recovered.
Late news from Montana, says
mining operations will be very much extep-
ded the present season, and the estimated
yield of pr .cious metals is S36,000,000.
The bakery of Socrates Beach in
Burlington, VT, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday afternoon. Loss $4,000, on
which there was partial insurance in the
Vermont Mutual.
A dispatch from Kansas City,
says several car loads of colored troops
went out on the Pacific Railway on Tuesday
Tor service on the plains.
A dispatch from Galveston, Tex
as, discredits the report of the massacre OF
twelve families by the Indians.
Two barns in Rush, eleven miles
from Rochester, were fired by incendiaries
on Wednesday night, and destroyed with
the stock contained in them.
A gentleman in Portland lost an
envelope on the street containing $500, on
Monday last Several people passing, sup.
posing it to be an april Fool joke, kicked il
and poked it, but no one lifted it up until q
boy came along, took it up and developed
its contents, which were returned to the
owner.
Gen. Sickles, commanding the
military district embracing South Carolina
has issued an order prohibiting all elections
for the present, and announcing that he viii
by expiration of terms of Office.
Gen. Lee has sent his check foI
so to the Ladies' Memorial Association Of
Petersburgh, as q contribution, to quote his
language, in aid of their pious work fol
the preservation and protection of the
graves of the Confederate dead.
The negroes of Richmond, Va,
Thursday celebrated the anniversary of the
evacuation of that city, by procession
They were subsequently addressed by white
men on the subject of reconstruction.
Agents are begging through the
North for funds to found an Orphan Asylum
in South Carolina.
Hon. John Abbott, Republican,
has been reelected mayor of Concord, NH.
The Copperheads were success
ful at the recent charter election in Madi-
son, Wisconsin.
Gen. Schofeld has suspended all
elections in Virginia until voters can be
registered
Gen. Swayne has ordered that
the civil rights bill be strictly obeyed in
Alabama.
Gen. Hancock is after the hostile
Indians, with 5000 fighting men.
Providence, R. l., counts .22O
Sunday liquor selling saloons.
A large Union Convention was
held in Little Rock, Arkansas, on the first
inst Three negroes sat as delegates.
The Southwest part of the State
of Louisiana is inundated, from the giving
way of the levees on the Mississippi
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