Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-21
Mems from all Nations.

"A cotton betting mandatory,
with all its machinery, was destroyed by
tire, Thursday, at Augusta, Maine Loss
go, 900.
Henry j. Percival, committed
suicide in Detroit on Wednesday, by taking
strychnine. Domestic trouble was the oc-
cssion of the lash act.
A woman was found dead in a
house in the northern part of Philadelphia
Thursday morning. There are suspicious
that she was murdered.
The late food in East Tennessee
has damaged property to the value of S2,-
900, 900. Over two hundred persons in
The levee, near Mound City,
broke Wednesday morning. At Cincinnati
the river is higher than it has been at any
time since 1856, and at Louisville, KY, the
water rose nine inches in fourteen hours.
The proposition of the Anglo
American Telegraph Company to reduce the
cable rates has failed, in consequence of
the refusal OF the Atlantic Company to as
sent thereto.
The Viceroy of Egypt withholds
the tribute of that country to meet the ex-
penses of crushing the insurrection in Can
dia.
In October last an infant was
killed in Harrisburg, Pa. The alleged per-
petrators of the deed were William r. Kreps
and Alice Howard, with whom, it is said,
Kreps has long been living. The culprits
Farlew, with Chief of Police Campbell, of
Harrisburg, at last arrested both parties in
New York
Quite a number of students of
Centre College, at Danville, KY, presented
n memorial to the Faculty of last week, de-
string them to have the Federal troops re-
moved from the College grounds, where
they were encamped, and threatened to leave
the institution if their request was not CON-
piled with.
The Schenectady (N. W Star
says: ''Tuns of butter are passing down on
the railroads. Some of it has been held for
long time. and, after being revoked, is
sent to market. There being now no hope
OF further advance or safety in longer keep
ing, it must be sold to avoid losses"
In Georgia money is less plenty
than was ever known before, owing to the
withdrawal of northern capital and'the en-
ployment of all funds for the purchase of
provisions.
The number of deaths in New
York city last week was 375 being As less
than in the previous week, and 105 less
than in the corresponding week of last
year.
The Mississippi Legislature has
appropriated $40, 200 to be expended in the
defence of jeff Davis.
The Rev. George I. Williams, who
was arrested for pocket-picking in New
York omnibus, is reported as hopelessly in
sane.
The Delaware and Raritan Ca.
nal will be opened for navigation on Mon
day, 18th inst.
--Green leaves begin to appear on
the maple trees in Richmond.
A cable telegram has been re-
ceived in Richmond stating that the Societe
Generate of Paris had agreed to furnish the
maximum capital of forty million dollars
required for the Virginia Canal Company.
The Maryland Legislature has
passed the bill appropr;ating $4,000 for a
statute of Chief Justice Taney, to be placed
in the State House grounds.
"A bill to authorize the use of the
metric system of weights and measures has
been introduced into the Legislature oi
Michigan.
Gen. Meagher, Acting Governor
Of Montana, in the absence of Gov. Smith
has called an extra session of the Legisla.
ture to revise and perfect the election laws,
so as to provide for the election of dele
gate to congress.
The Kings Powder-mill, at Old
town, Ohio, near Xenia, exploded Thursday
morning. The report was heard twenty
miles of. Two men were killed named
Tuck and Ira McMangan.
The Committee appointed by the
Ohio Legislature to locate the Soldiers
Home has unanimously decided in favor o.
Dayton.
On Saturday, on the arrival Of
one of the Central Railroad trains, at Troy,
bright little boy, about two years of age,
was found in one of the cars without any
owner Neither conductor or passengers
knew when or how the child came into the
car, The conductor took charge of it, and
has had several opportunities to give il
away, on account of its unusual brightness.
1t is expected that ten thousand
men will be discharged from the Govern
ment Navy Yard this year.
By the amended constitution OF
Kansas, no color or sex can be excluded
from the ballot-box Intelligence is the
only test.
"A German brewer died a few
days since at st. Louis, leaving 81 to each
of his children and $500, 900 to his widow.
The Virginia and Tennessee Val
ley, from Lynchburg to Chattanooga, is
flooded to degree surprising the memory
OF the "oldest inhabitant.
"A decisive battle between the
lmperialists and Liberalists in Meyico ia