Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-02-26


Saturday, Feb. 20. 1876.
TUESDAY was q day of Convel
tions. The Indiana Republican
nominated Hon. GodlOve s. Ortiz
now minister to Austria, for Cover
nor, and Col. Robert 8. Roberts 70
Lieutenant Governor.
A Greenback Convention assem-
bled in New Haven, Conn.,, abou
200 delegates being in attendance
Speeches were made denouncing tn
resumption act, and urging that tn
preenback should be made a full lie
gal tender. A fearfully long serie'
OF resolutions were introduced; 81
long in fact, that there is goot
chance for resumption before they
can be read to the end. A commit
tee was chosen to call State Con
yention to nominate u State ticket
on a greenback platform, and dele
CATION was chosen to attend the Ma
tional Greenback Convention in In
dianapolis, May IS.
The PrOhibitionists of Rhode Is
land met in convention at Provi
dence and nominated for Governor,
A. G. Howard, and for Lieutenant
Governor, A. G. Chadsey.
The Democratic Committee met
at Washington at nom. On the
fourth ballot st. Louis was selected
as the place for holding the Nation.
al Convention and the time fixed
was the Oath of June.
The new Pavilion hotel in Mont
pelier, which cost with furniture
100000, was formally opened on
Tuesday evening, by a levee, ball,
and supper. There were present
over $50 couples and the festivities
were kept up until six o'clock in
the morning. The list of notables
in the Argus contains the names of
Col. John q. Stearns and wife,
Charles Jones and'wife, H. B. Ste
vens, of Bradford. w. II. Gilmore
and wife, of Fairlee, and several
others from this vicinity. The
house was splendidly decorated
and flowers and hanging plants
were profusely scattered around.
In closing its account of the "open.
ing" the Argus says:
Vermont has never seen the like
of this "Opening," either as to the
number in attendance, 230 five dol.
lar tickets being sold, the locally
noted people making up that atten.
dance, the wide extent of territory
from which they were gathered,
the richness of the toilets and at.
tractive appearance Of the ladies,
the perfect order that prevailed
Notwithstanding the large number
present, the hearty local good will
evinced by the general turn out of
the village people, and the express
ions of satisfaction given utterance
to by all of those who participated.
The Office OF the Collector Of In
ternal Revenue for Vermont, Off
cially designated as the I'd District
of Vermont, was removed from st.
Johnsbury to Montpelier on the
18th inst, in accordance with the
request of the Commissioner Of In
ternal Revenue.
Collector Q. S. Dana has organ
lied his force of Deputies as follows:
Geo. A. Hunt Of Brattleboro, Dep
uty for Windsor and Windham
counties: Thomas q. Robbins of
Rutland, Deputy for Bennington,
Rutland and Addison counties; 4.
B. Taft of Burlington, Deputy for
Chittenden, Franklin and Grand
Isle counties; w. H. Galbraith of
st. Johnsbury, Deputy for Caledo-
MIA and Essex counties; p. Dana
Deputy for Orange, Washington
and Lamoille counties, located at
the central Office, Montpelier. /
MASONIC BALL. Mt. Lebanon :
Lodge, No. 80, f. & A. NJ, Laconia,
will give a grand ball at Folsom's {
Hall, on Thursday evening, March Q
2. The arrangements are in the .
hands of gentlemen who never fail j
in what they undertake to do, which t
is a guarantee that this will be the
ball of the season in that section. n
just as we 60 to press, we are
surprised by the painful <
intelligence that our contemporary n
of the FREEMAN died this Wednes. g
day. morning, about nine o'clock. a
for some months confined .
TO his house by a painful disease 7
(of the kidneys), our latest intelli- Il
gence had been that he did not en- +,
tirely abandon the hope of getting S
about again. Mr.. Wheelock was d
far too we'll known to the people of e;
the county, and, indeed, of the
state, to need an extended notice at ri
our hands. Born in Eden, Lamoille IN
county, in 1925, he entered a print n e,