Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-05-30
Mems Of the lOeek.

Albert Allen, "a boy of Linesville
Erie County, Penn, lately ran away with
$4,000 belonging to his father, and was fin.
ally arrested in Saginaw, Mich. He bought
an interest in saloon in Cleveland for $3.50
and Immediately sold it for 500, then
bought the tugboat Emma, of Saginaw
paying $3.50 cash for it, and was about going
in the towing business when arrested.
Last Saturday night, Hamilton
Doughman, farmer, of ST. Joseph, Mo,
had street encounter with two of his broth
ers-ln-law. After the exchange of some tel
shots, he shot one of them, named William
Montry, i'll the left breast, causing his in.
slant death. Doughman was immediately
arrested. The friends of the prisoner de.
clare that the act was committed in self-de.
fence.
"A singular and imposing wed,
ding ceremony came of at Milford Conn.
ON Wednesday evening. The groom being
knight Templar, the knot was tied in 8
Masonic hall, and the happy couple were
escorted under the ''arch of steel" with i'm.
posing grandeur. The Sir Knights were in
full uniform, and appropriate music enliven-
ed the occasion.
Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana,
Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and several of the
Eastern States will be represented at the
coming races on the Laclede Course at st,
Louis. Fifty horses, some of them possess.
ing national regulations, already occupy the
stables at the track, and take their ''consti-
tutionals" every morning outside the en-.
closure.
-Gov. Patton has made arrange.
ments for the payment, in New-York and
London, of the total interest on the State
debt of Alabama, up to July /. The May
interest, amounting to SCI 731, is already
paid the interest accruing in June and July
has been forwarded. The aggregate in coin
is S15S,00S
over fifty plans and drawings
for the new building for the War Depart
ment have been received. Many of them
are very elaborate and nearly all are entire
ly different from the present style of pub
lie buildings, and vary in cost from 50, ,OOO,.
600 to s6,0O0,O00. No plan will bs adopted
until next Winter.
Garter D. Poindexter, formerly
an officer of the navy, but who resigned and
espoused the rebel cause during the REBEL
ion, has just been pardoned by the Presi-
dent He is cultivating farm near Nor
folk, Va, occasionally turning his attention
to the taking Of fish and oysters.
An emigrant and special freight
train eollided at Whitby Station, C. w.,
Thursday. The rear emigrant car was bad
ly smashed. One man, three women and
child were killed. Several others were
more or less injured. The passengers were
Germans.
The coming monthly statement
Of the Treasury will indicate temporary
in the national debt, which will be
by the retuen of June, when the
income revenue will be raceived.
Jefferson Davis has reached the
shores of Canada, the traditional refuge of
Southern fugitives, black or white. He has
escaped the land, but not the memory of
Andersonville and Libby.
The Constitutional Convention
II Michigan voted down, by large majori-
y, a motion to consider the eight-hour law
md very properly, such regulation being
! matter for statute and not constitutional
nactment.
General Pope is reconstructing
dobile, having already removed the mayor
nd chief of police. This action of his
ather throws doubt over the accidental ex-
itement" theory of the Mobile and Demo.
ratio press ON the late riot. |