Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-01-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
I.,.rss,,ns I,e.s ire. Homo a.d Abroad

HUMMAWI VI NEWbs
Iu,eressins Itens irsn Hsns and Abroad.
During crisis In the French ministry Presi-
dent MaoMahon issued . proclamation In favor
Of law aud order. -. Tho Republican national
committee, ct meeting held In Warrington
concluded TO hold their convention for the
nomination OF President 1t Cincinnati, juno
18th, Each State will send twice ~ many
delegates ~ II has Senators and represent
tatiyes, aud each Territory aud the District OF
Columbia will send two each, The municipal
ooupoil of Paris will send TO the Centennis'
tho models Of tho ssrs~ss and vublio buill.
lngs, which werc. ~ the Vienna exhibition :.
L.pags was found guilty Of murder In the first
degree for the killing Of Josie LAngmAid, noar
Suncook, N. H., and was sentenced to DO
hung. So. .Wisoonsins debt IL "a, 252, O57, ac.
cording to Gov. Ludington. :. -. Captain. Josiah
Briggs, his wife and two children, Of Coz
ssckie, N. Y, were drowned in the Hudson by
falling through hole In tho Ice. ..., Three
boys were drowned at Lowell, Mass, by tho
wind carrying the sled on which they were
aiding into the water. Harvard College
has TIC students.
The report Of tho American Iron and Steel
Association shows there were $1,000 tons
Of pig.iron manufactured in this country last
year--a falling OF Of GOO, 900 tons from the
previous year ....., The aggregate Of tho
Alabama claims 10 sl2,673, 457.44, OF which
tho commission has disposed Of %, 7O4, COS. 65.
...... There have been important Egyptian
successes in Abyssinia ..... II 9 reported
that Prince Bismarck and the vatican arc COM
ing to terms. ... The number Of failures in
1875 was 7,740, tho average liabilities being
less than tho year previous. .... Thirteen dis
tllers Of Chicago, representing the largest
houses in the city, pleaded guilty to con-
spiracy..... A fire in Mobile, Ala, destroyed
tho block Of buildings bounded by 81. Francis,
St. Michael, Royal, and st. Joseph streets,
with the exception Of the Bank Of Mobile tho
registers Office, the old Western Union tele.
graph Office and the express Office.
The wife Of ex-President johnson died at
the residence Of her daughter, Mrs. Judge
Patterson, near Greenville, Tenn. The legis-
lature Of servia has voted to impeach all Tho
members Of Mainovic's cabinet for allow
ing the expenditures to exceed the amount
authorized by the budget. ... The vatican
has instructed the archbishops of Cologne
and Treves to endeavor to find means Of pre-
venting their deposition from their sees. .....
Two boys were drowned while skating on Col
gates creek, near Lower Canton, Md. $50.
Bowdoin college has voted to remain in the
boating association. War has been de-
clsred between Guatemala and San Salvador,
Central America. Germany will only pur-
chase the railways Of Prussia at present, as
some Of the smaller states oppose the sale.
The Democratic national committee will
meet in Washington February 22d, to select
a time and place for the nomination OF Presi-
don't. 80. Four negroes, all confessed cotton
sin aud houso burners, we're forcibly taken
from Coahoma county (Miss.) Jail, at F.inr's
Point, and shot dead by masked men .. "A
young Englishman named Henkley laid down
OF railway near Baltimore for the purpose
, cling killed by tho cars passing over him,
bat tho engineer discovered hin and st pped
tho train in time to avoid him, whereupon the
would-be suicide drew pistol and shot hmeelf
dead. .... The Tredegar Iron Works at Rich
mond, Va, have suspended, throwing six hun
drod mon out of work. 80. The English na-
tional rifle association accepted the challenge
Of the rifle association Of America. 90. The
London Times Berlin special says that the
government will close the Ursuline convent
and school on the first of April next .... Ger
many's preparations for the Centennial are all
complete, and the articles to be exhibited will
shortly be shipped.
1t is now discovered that Thomas, the author
OF the ,Bremerhaven crime, was charged, in
1866, with ecuttling ship on board Of which
lie had goods insured in England for f24,OOO.
He was arrested, but subsequently effected his
release. 80. Nineteen carloads Of goods arrived
in Philadelphia fran Japan via San Francisco.
to be exhibited at the Centennial. . Tho
archbishop Of Cologne has taken IT fuge in
Holland, where he lately met the bishop OF
Paderborn. ..... The operations against the
Malayans at Perak have been altogether sue
cessful go. The Kentucky Legislature elected
James b. Peck United States Senator in place
Of John W. Stevenson, whose term expires
next year. 80. Ex-Gov. s. J. Kirkwood has
been elected United States Senator by the
Iowa legislature .....A young German in New
York, on account Of being refused by Young
girl, shot pistol at her, inficting slight
wound, and then swallowed sulphuric acid and
attempted to shoot himself. He afterward died
from the effects of the poison -. The noted
New York Seventh regiment, having been
refused funds by the State to build new
army, are collecting the same from its friends.
The books of the Post-office department
show that under the new postage law some OF
the leading papers paid as follows for postage
for 1875: New York Tribune, 500, 294l6;
Chicago Inter- Ocean, $13, 029.84 New York
Times 81, 586.02; New York Herald 8,O43. 90;
Cincinnati Times, $4,963.00; Cincinnati Ga
zette, LASS. 80 Boston Journal, $4,O52 lG
st. Louis Republican, SO, 9613s; Chicago Times,
$3 646.60 ; Chicago Tribune, $3, OO4. SO; Cncin-
natl Commercial, 1,72672; st. Louis Globe
Democrat, 49, 3OO.S2. {. The Italian government
it's refusal to admit government inspector
This is the strongest step yet taken in the
States dealings With the church, and will
produce great results :. The debt
of Alabama has been fixed at ten millions. :.
Gen. Lees birthday was generally observed
throughout tho South. go. The Turks were
routed near Ragusa by the insurgents under
Gen. Peko. The Turkish loss was consider
able.
SchOOlrO0m Tragedy.
A remarkable schoolroom tragedy &C.
CURED in Maine. It appears that Miss
Lucy Parks, q young lady, perhaps