Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-02-07
Mems from all Nations.

supreme Judges OI IIldL OLaL6.
We see it stated in one of our
exchanges that the Detroit Post, Carl
sehurz's paper, is groaning under the weight
of 5O,OO0, mortgage.
The great sacrifice of the Crosby
Opera House, by the lucky winner, Lee
gives just grounds for doubling the honesty
of the lottery.
Chattanooga and Evansville each
rejoice in the possession of fearless and
out-spoken daily journal.
"A State election takes place in
Connecticut on the first Monday of the COM
ing April.
Snow recently fell, for the sixth
time in a century, in Louisiana.
The Tyrone and Clearfeld rail-
road is to be extended to Clearfeld without
delay.
"A young woman recently at
tempted to shoot her seducer in Meadville,
Pa. She missed the mark.
Eight panthers have been killed
in Centre county this winter.
The anniversary of the birth of
Robert Burns was celebrated by the Thistle
Club of Pittston, on the 25th ult.
Rev. John McNair, D. D., a dis
tinguished and very able minister in the
Presbyterian Church, died at Lancaster on
Sunday last.
The 1ron Clads," is the name
adopted by newly organized Lodge OF
Good Templars in Harrisburg.
John McDuff, a man of intempe-
rate habits, in Marietta, committed suicide
last week, by taking arsenic.
An Indian burying ground has
been discovered near Easton. Seventeen
bodies and about bushel of ''trinkets'
have been exhumed
TO avoid imposition, Forney's
Press has silver badge for each editor and
reporter. This cuts off pretenders.
The old John Hancock chair, in
which he sat when the Declaration of Inde-
pendence was signed, has been sent to In
dependence Hall, Philadelphia.
The Copperhead Court and jury
of Berks county, recently convicted Jonath-
an Beiber of misdemeanor, for refusing a
deserters vote. When called up for SEN
tence, he presented pardon from Gov.
Geary.
On Monday night of last week,
three men entered the house of widow,
who lives near Mahony City, held her, and
robbed the house of $500 in greenbacks
and gold:
Edward Gamberling, Jr., of Sell
insgrove, went out to hunt ducks. He broke
through the ice in the river, threw his gun
from him, when it discharged its contents
into his side, producing serious and prob
ably fatal wound.
Governor Cummings, of Colora-
do, publishes a card denying the statement
in relation to the exclusion of negroes and
mulattoes from the jury box in that terri
tory.
Jacob Rife, an extensive tanner
at Middletown, has been appointed by Gov.
Geary Leather Inspector at Philadelphia.
The diplomatic correspondence
relating to the American colony at Jaffa
sent to the Senate. Minister Morris, at
Constantinople, reports the condition of the
colonists as very pitiable. The Sublime
Porte will not grant land to foreigners un-
less they become his subjects. The Vice
Consul has been suspended for alleged mis-
conduct toward the colonists.
1t is said that Earnest, Grand
Duke of,Saxe Coburg-Gotha, will abdicate
in favor of King William, of Prussia.
During the great snow storm in
Providence, Il. l., milk sold at 25 cents pei
quart. Those having milk to sell thought
it presidential.
"A Mr.. Beattie, prominent law
yer and politician, is in Jail in Joliet, Ill,
OH charge of seducing respectable far
mer's daughter.
"A bill has been introduced into
the Senate of the State of New York, tc
double the size of the locks on the Erie and
Oswego canals.
1t is in contemplation to tunnel
under the Detroit river, for railroad purpos-
es. The old underground railroad is out OF
use.
Gov. Wells, of Louisiana, recon-.
mends the passage OF the Constitutional
Amendments and he denounces the New
Orleans massacre, in his late message.
WIN. P King and Abe Owen, the
train robbers, near Franklin, Ky, who sub
sequently killed Harvey King one of their
band, were sentenced to be hanged on the
22d of March.
The New York Tribune says that
the number of respectable persons applying
for lodgings at the City Police Stations, is
greater this season than ever before
Gen. Thomas b added the
weight of his testimony to the thousands of
others as TO the barbarous and rebellious
spirits Of the whipt traitors of the South.
The Government Of Austria has
made overtures to the Federal authorities
of Switzerland with the view to commence
negotiations for commercial treaty between
the two countries.
1t is reported that the Greek hero
Kanaris intends to go to America to thank
the people of the United States for their
sympathy, and to ask the Government to
send feet of Monitors to the assistance of
the Cretans.