Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-11-25
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


lssas 81 lsssrsss trsa usHs aaa Abroad
Ex-Gov. Alex. II. Sheppard, Of Washington
D. O., IL In AnAnoial endorsement, although
no claims lila assets exceed the liabilities b,
$500, 900, ...,.A hro ~ Hot Springs, Ark, do
stroyed tho Hale house aud two banking
houses. Losa, $4,000. 49,, Tho district o
iiackergungo, India, has been rsvsged by
Cyclone aud thousand native houses destroy
cd Tho town OF Dowlutkhsn WAS submerged
by . wsvo, and Eve Thousand persons are be
lieved to have persisted. The government
sent relief to tho desolato section ..,.,, Relic
works have been estabished in tho Hholspor'
district, India, where there were prospects o.
4 famine, and forty-Gve Thousand Of the In
hsDitants have been given employment
There Is now plenty OF grain in tho district
..., The khan Of Khiva, in consequence o.
the complaints Of his subjects, has offered Il
cede tho remainder OF his territory to tho Rus
sian government. -. Spanish immigrants ant
refugees have been ordered to quit Portugal
..... Georgia In harvesting fifteen to twenty
per cent. moro cotton this year than last,
Fears are entertained for tho safety Of thu
United States warship Franklin, returning
from vigo, Spain, with VIM. NJ. Tweed, who
WAS delivered to the United States y the
spanish authorities. Tho vessel has beel
forty.three days on tho trip, and must have
encountered the recent hu, ricane which swept
over the tropics -. Tho steamer Airing or
sunk At Cumberland island dam, in the Ohio,
and was y total loss. The steamer WAS valued
1T s24, 900 insurance, $4,000.
President Grants proclamation, following
the late election in the United States, contains
the following Should thore DO any grounds
Of suspicion Of fraudulent counting on either
side ii should BIO reported and denounced at
once. No man worthy tho Office Of President
should be willing to hold it IL counted in" or
afford to DO disappointed in the result, but the
country oannot afford to have the result faint
cd by the suspicion OF illegal or false returns.
500. The total officially reported admissions
| to the Centennial Exhibition were S,004,2l4
and the cash receipts at the gates were $3, GA,
Ss4.74. The number OF quests provided for
by tho temporary hotels in West Philadelphia
was 1864, 900. The smallest attendance to the
grounds was on May 10th, 1866, and the
largest on Pennsylvania day, September 28th
257, 1859; Of the admissions 55l, 1884 were on
twenty five. cent days. Ninety Thousand four
hundred and forty-eight people visited the
live stock exhibition. E. Tho electoral college
of the United States does not vote as cor
porstion, but each elector has one vote for
President and one for Vlce-President. In
case of the absence OF any eeotor, either
from death or any other cause, his colleagues
cannot cast his vote. In case supposed Mr..
Hayes had 1856 votes and Mr.. Tiiden 1874 II
ono Of the Hayes electors died, neither Mr..
Tilden or Mr. Hayes could be declared elected,
because neither would have received 1875 votes.
The result would be the throwing of the cleo
ton into the House Of Representatives.
On the opening day of the Centennial Exhi-
bition Philadelphia furnished nine-tenths Of
the visitors. There were 76, 172 paying sdmis-
sions, but the attendance fell next day to
14,722. snd the day after to 10.252. On the
sixteenth OF May it was only 1885, The high
est figure reached in that month was Hill,
on the thrteth, and the average for the
month was 1886. In June the highest at
tendance was 80, 1856, the lowest 20, 343, and
the average 26,756. In July the attendance
WAS 46, 900 on the fourth, and 81, 1876 on the
fifth Gu the thirtieth it WAS only 152O7. In
August the largest attendance was on Jersey
dsy-55, $780, the smallest was %, al, and the
average 33, Cos. On the first Of September
81, 1872 visitors entered the gates; ON the fifth
80. 200, and except on ono rainy day the total
never dropped below $4,000 thenceforth.
Connecticut day, the seventh, scored 64,O59
Massachusetts day, the fourteenth, 1877
New York day. the twenty-frst, III, GAL !; and
Pennsylvania day, the twenty eighth. brought
the enormous number Of 257, 1863 people within
tho inclosure. The average for the month WAS
higher, being $3.50; the lowest figure was
Ct, S65. and the highest, reached on Delaware
and Ma, yland day, the nineteenth, was 161,-
1885, Rhode Island day, the fifth, registered
$4,000; New Hampshire day, the twelfth, 101,-
BAL, and Ohio day, the twenty-sixth, 1872, 300
During November the attendance up to the
close waa 100, 600 day, the last day it being
176 OO0
The various rebelons throughout South
and Central America are languishing. ....
Within twenty or thirty miles OF Waterto.n,
N Y, two different attempts have been made
on separate railways to throw trains from the
track by placing distractions thereon, pre-
sumably by thieves who wish to rob the pas
sengers. 80. The emperor of Russia, in
speech to the people Of Moscow, in reply to ali
address, sid, in referring to the part taken
by Russia in tho Turco-Servisn war: ''Should
see that we csunyt obtain guarantees neces-
sary for carrying out what we intended to de-
mand from the Porte, am firmly determined
10 act independently. I am convinced that
The whole Of Russia will respond to my sum-
mons should consider it necessary and Rus
sia's honor require it," 800. Cardinal Simecni,
recently tho papal nunoio at Madrid, has been
appointed to succeed the late Cardinal Anto-
nelh az secretary of state to the Pope. Gen.
Gonzales is again in full power in Santo Do
ningo. . The Sherbrooke Meat and Pro-
vision Co. works in Montreal, Canada, were
destroyed by FIRE. Loss, $780, 900; Insurance.
s80, 900. -. The returns from all the counties
n Indiana have been received, showing Til
lens majority to be s, 42i ...... Returns from
our hundred cities and towns in Maine give
Hayes GA, $40; T.lden, As 993; Republican ma
ority, 1851 ... The Democratic majority
n North Ga, DINA ranges from II, 900 to 49, GOO.
There will be no change in the Congressional
delegation The official returns Of 233 towns
n Vermont give Hayes Al, 407 and Tilden 49,
$50. Hayes majority in the State is about
g, 900. Peter Cooper received 266 votes in
lew York city. :. More than twenty thousand
'eople persisted in India in consequence Of
he recent cyclone.
Francis Grappotte, convicted Of murder in
he second degree in Watertown, N. Y, hanged
himself in his cell the next night. go. Avery,
low in jail for completely in the whisky frauds,
IAN been pardoned by the President. -. Lord
Thief Justice Cockburn, head Of the English
judicial system, has thrown out the charge
gsinst the captain of the vessel which ran
Town the Strathclyde and caused loss Of life,
within three miles Of the English coast, for
rant of jurisdiction-thus overturniny toe