Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-28
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cinis were investing Vera Cruz. having pos
sessions of the railroads, &c. An attack on
the city was daily expected, and it was
thought that it would soon be in possession
of the Liberals. Tampico was still occu-
pied by the Imperiahsts.
Sixty buildings were destroyed
by the great fire at Boutwell,, Canada, on
Monday night, including seven hotels, and
two printing-offices. The loss is estimated
at $1,000 in gold. Most of the sufferers
are Americans, who were engaged in oil
specnlations. Their property was mostly
insured.
A Government train, consisting
of eleven wagons, is reported to have been
destroyed by water spout in the Colorado
desert. The train was escorted by two COM
panies of infantry, and several lives were
lost The wagons and stores were carried
eighteen miles by the column of water.
Hiram Coon, convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Luker in the town of Peters
burg, y. Y, in October last, was executed
at the jail in Troy. He made statement
denying his guilt.
Solomon y. Beirce, of Canandai-
qua. y. y, who was convicted of bribing
the jury in 4 recent trial against insurance
companies, was sentenced TO pay fine of
$1,000.
The corning mill and packing
house belonging to the Wapwallopen pow
der-mills at Scranton, Penn, blew up on
Tuesday last. The cause of the explosion
is entirely unknown. One man was killed.
An elephant, on the New York
Central mail train, on Saturday, bound for
Girard, Penn, the home of Dan Rice,
amused himself between Rochester and
Syracuse, by pulling the bell-cord with his
trunk, causing the brakes to be put on and
the train stopped three times before being
discovered.
The Longworth Wine House of
Cincinnati offers premiums to the amount
of $500 for the best wine grape of the coun-
try.
The citizens of Richmond, Va,
are about to purchase lot in which to inter
the remains of the late Rebel Gen. 4. p.
Hill.
The commissioners of Luzerne
county refuse to furnish the tax collectors
with duplicates to collect the school tax.
An important enlargement of the
Erie Extension canal is now in progress
near Meadville, Crawford county.
A riot occurred in Carlisle on the
10Th inst, between soldiers and citizens
One citizen was killed and several woun-
ded
-Robberies continue in Schuylkill
county. Three outrageous cases are repor-
ted by the late papers from that county.
Jacob NJ. Campbell, Surveyor
General of the State has been confirmed by
the [. S. Senate as Brevet Brigadier Gen
eral.
The wife of Moses Deter, of Ire
mont, Schuylkill county, eloped last week,
with gay young clerk, named John De-
Dechaut. She took 500 for spending
money.
1t is rumored that John e. Whit
tier, the poet, is to be married in his old
age, to a widow of Philadelphia, with whom
he has been in love for thirty years.
The Legislature of this State Of
fers a reward OF s., 900 for the discovery
and punishment of the murderers of Noah
H, and Jacob Zook, in Mississippi.
An exchange says that extensive
examinations in Western Pennsylvania
show that the fruit has not been injured by
the hard freezing of the winter. The same
report is made from New Jersey There i!
now every reason to hope that fruit will b,
abundant this year, and. as consequence,
will be cheap.
The New York Board of Health
has issued q circular warming the public o
the probable approach of cholera this sum
mer, and urges the authorities to provid
for suitable quarantine Accommodations.
The Wisconsin Journal publish
es list OF combinations and rel ections b,
the L. 5. Senate under the caption, MAN,
are called, but few chosen.
Later reports from Mexico stat,
that the liberal government is en- route fo
the city of Mexico and that it will be impos
sible for the Imperialists to prevent thei
quiet arrival Maximilian is moving north
ward it is said, probably with view t,
meeting them in open field.
1T must be an amusement to q
marketing in Texas, with prices like these
Fine beeyes are selling from $14 to 81
each, for specie. Sheep are selling at 81 s.
per head, and pork at two and half an,
five cents per pound.
The cable announces the capture
OF Col. O'Connor, the leader of the Fenia1
revolt in Ireland. He was overhauled b,
the authorities at Athlone, 200 miles from
the scene of the insurrection.
"A rebel paper says: "Bennit
sounds pretty well for little urchin, bu
when he becomes a man We give him the tul
title Benjamin. Thus, in the early stages
of the great rebellion, the rebels were called
Johnnie" now we call them johnson men.
-GovernOr Bullock, of Massachu
setts, has appointed the 4th day of April as
day OF humiliation, fasting and prayer.
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