Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-02-14
News from all Nations.


past year, the largest portion of which was
the production Of the Centre Lisle Mills.
The store of Harris & Erlich, in
Corning, was burglariously entered Friday
night last, and robbed of silks and other
goods to the amount of $400.
"A gang of horse thieves are OPP
Grating in Washington County Pa. They
palm themselves off as wool buyers, and
have succeeded admirably in pulling the
wool over the eyes of the unsuspecting far
mers.
-Gov. Geary's pardon Of .Jonath-
an Bieber, convicted in Berks county be-
cause he refused to take a deserter's vote,
meets with the approval of the Republican
press of the State.
The Feuian prisoners whose sen
tences were commuted to Imprisonment in
the Penitentiary arrived at Kingston, c.
W. in irons. On their arrival at the Peni-
tentiary their heads were closely shaved
and their whiskers cut. Lynch objected to
sacrificing his moustache and impe rial, but
the Warden succeeded in persuading him
to do so. .......
Ten convicts in the State Peni-
tentiary at Joliet H., escaped on Wednes-
day last in the day time, set of tools hav
ing been smuggled in to them, with which,
the Chicago Times says, they fled the bars
on the inside of the Wardens house, the
place least suspected and most exposed to
view.
-Mollie Trussell, who was sen ten
ced to Imprisonment for one year for the
murder of George Trussel, at Chicago, was
pardoned by Gov Oglesby, of Illinois, on
Thursday last, after remaining one month
in the penitentiary.
"A dispatch received by the Uni
ted States Express Company states that
there is no truth in the statements from
Jewett City about difficulties with Indians
on the Smoky Hill route.
Edward II. Wayland, the Erie
Railroad clerk who is alleged to have ab-
seconded from Jersey City with S15, 900, was
arrested at Richmond, Va
The blooded "war horse" used by
Braxton Bragg during the war, is offered for
sale at Montgomery, Ala. 1t was presen-
ted to him by citizens of Louisville.
1t is reported that coal has been
discovered on the land of William Jones, in
Lower Augusta township, Northumberland
county, along the Northern Central Rail-
road, about seven miles below Sunbury.
The outrages committed upon
Freedmen, in Texas, according to official
testimony, have been of the most brutal and
outrageous description.
The ice in the Potomac is break
ing up. Several sections of the Long
Bridge and the Railroad Bridge, at washing
ton, have been carried away.
The reported murders by the Che
yenne Indians are authoritatively contra
dicted.
Ross Wynan, of Baltimore, has
received the contract to build railroad cars
and locomotives for the Russian govern
ment.
The kenton Woolen Mills, at
COvingtOn, Kentucky, the most extensive
of the kind in the west, were burned We'd
nesiay. Loss S225,O00.
"A proposition asking Congress
ayfapJ The .l,o Cto+o oF
Nevada over the territory of Utah has been
introduced into the Nevada Legislature.
The cable dispatch states that
fresh complications are arising in the East
The people of Servia are flying to arms
against the Ottoman rule, and at Constan-
tinople the peace party is increasing in num-
bers and influence. The Viceroy of Egypt
is reported to have sent agents to the lead
ing Powers of Europe to ascertain whether
they will favor his complete independence
of the sovereignty of the Sublime Porte.
Jacob F. Haddop was executed
at Norristown, for the murder of julius Wo-
chele, in November, 1865, in Montgomery
county. He made speech in German, and
declared that he was innocent.
The Working Mems Convention
at Albany discussed the adoption of the
platform of the Baltimore Labor Congress
and referred it.
"A terrible hurricane swept along
the Onachita river, in Arkansas, on the 1st
inst, and destroyed life and property.
The Legislature of Arkansas
have voted for State Constitutional Con-
vention.
$. G. Voolfolk, of Kentucky,
travelling in Tennessee, was robbed by high
waymen near Memphis, and left in the road
with both legs broken. He was known to
have about 81 900 with him before the rob-
berry.
Some desperadoes at Memphis
boarded the steamer Clifton, while at her
dock, and administered chloroform to sew
eral Of the passengers, and robbed them of
their valuables.
A terrible fire occurred in Wells
vile, Allegheny Co.. n. Y, on Friday morn
ing last, by which half of the village was de-
stroyed and loss entailed of Sis, O0O-
Among the losses is the Free Press office
totally destroyed without cent of insur-
ance.
On Tuesday last between and
2o'clock P. NJ, a man went into the Office
Of l.. w. Jerome, No. 42-Exchange Place,
New York, took from a shelf $780, 0OOworth
OF United States fve-twenty's, and walked
off with them.
The Stewart divorce case is be-