Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-05-16
Mems from all Nations.

Hon. Schuyler Colfax had great
ovation at the Union League House, New
York, on Monday.
Five colored men are ON the
Grand Jury of the U. S. District Court, at
Richmond
A wholesale dry goods house in
New York, die business of $50, 600, 900
last year, and returned an income over ex-
penses and losses of S13!
j. Pusey Smith, proprietor Of the
Indian Queen Hotel, Wilmington, Del, was
murdered by J. W. Pratt, on Monday oflast
week.
The extensive paper mills of Jes-
sup Il Moore, on the Brandywine, in Della
ware, were destroyed by fire last week.
The First Presbyterian Church,
in Wilmington, Del, has been closed by the
Presbytery, until quarrel is settled.
A New Jersey farmer has just
been convicted ON eight indictments, and
fined $1,000, for poisoning cattle belonging
to his neighbors.
There are ninety-two divorce ca
ses on the docket of the Supreme Court, for
Providence, r. I. Seventy-two of the suits
are brought by women.
There was a serious flood in the
Chemung, at Elmira, last week. Consider
able damage was done to property in the
cellars.
The Fenian prisoners, Burke and
Doran, tried for high treason in Dublin,
have been sentenced to be hung on the 29th
inst.
The President is having compiled
list of officers nominated by him and re-
jected by the Senate, with the military rec
ord of each
Mayor Munroe, the Chief of the
New Orleans murderers, has been cordially
received by the traitor of the White House
The Judiciary Committee of the
House of Representatives. are now in Wash
ington, pursuing the impeachment investi-
cation.
"A sea captain asserts that Mis-
sissippi riVerl water will keep longer at sea
than any other 1t keeps longer on the land
also.
The Paris correspondent of the
Press says the great Exposition is great
failure. All who see it are disappointed.
"A woman in crossing the fence
at Louisville, on Saturday, had her bonnet
strings caught by a rail, and was strangled
to death.
John Upton, a heavy stock ope-
rator in Boston, has failed, and has been
arrested for fraud. His liabilities are
S1,0OO,OOO.
Washington Hall Block, Roches-
ter, N. Y, was destroyed by fire on Satur-
day morning last. Three men perished in
the flames.
The Turkish Government has de-
termined to place Massuras, a Christian,
over Crete, as prince of Crete" 1t is said
that this will not satisfy the Cretans.
On the 4th inst, there were three
lives lost by fire in Rochester, four in Chica-
go, one in st. Louis and three in Philadel-
phia.
The steamer Seaboard was total
ly destroyed by fire, about o'clock on the
morning of the 5th inst, at Red Bank, N. ].
A peace Congress of the Euro.
pean powers is now in session in London
The prospect of war in Europe is over for
the present.
Sunday cars are running in Bal
timore, and preaching takes place in the
Park. instead of drinking.
The London Morning Post thinks
the Fenians, Burke and Doran, who are un-
der sentence of death in Dublin, will not be
executed.
The ice went out Of the river
Neva on Monday, and the harbors of ST.
Petersburg and Cronstadt are open for the
season.
Rebels in Nicholsville, Ky, in
large numbers, attacked Lieut. Rice and
his company, and successfully resisted the
arrest of murderers.
"A boy u years old, in New York
has recovered $4,000 damages, for being
injured for life, by railroad car.
On Monday last, 100000 unen-
franchised Englishmen, met in London, to
consult on their rights. All was quiet and
none of the extra police were required for
duty
At Sandyville, Iowa, recently, a
man was annoyed by the crying of his child,
tour or five months old, atlhight, got up and
deliberately strangled it to death. He has
been arrested for the crime.
Scott, the rebel candidate for
Judge of the Baltimore City Court is cleo
ted, by the very men who murdered Union
troops, when they went to defend the Capt.
tol.
At the election for delegates to
the Union State Convention held in Balti-
more, last week, several colored delegates
were elected, about one-third of the whole
delegation.
-Four Lodges of Good Templars
were organized in Chester county, last
week.
Hon. William D. Kelley has gone
South on political tour. He will speak in
the principal cities.
Mayor McMichael says there is