Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-07-22
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

most determined and bravo OF hostile Indians
who has never made treaty with the govern
ment. -. Extensive piano frauds In selling
inferior instruments ~ those Of we'll know
manufacturers have been discovered, Gen
Santa Anna, tho noted Mexican, has just died
In his seventy-eighth year...... Ex-SpeakeI
Blaine is still confined TO his bod most Of the
time. :. Massachusetts, has disbanded thirty
companies Of her militia. $50. The disaster 81
Rockdale, Iowa. was caused by the breaking Of
dam, which was unable to hold tho amount
Of water which fell heavily for three hours
The village, containing two hundred inhabi'
tants, was built In ravine, and the food ca.
ried of every building except tho mill, and
forty-two persons are missing, many Of whose
bodies have been found miles away. The
storm did great damage to crops In tho central
part Of the State also, and Afteen persons arc
reported killed in THAT section.
A bill has been introduced In Congress to
enable the President to accept the services Of
volunteers from tho far Western States, to be
used against tho Indians. ..... Later accounts
Of the Sioux massacre show that COL Rono's
command narrowly escaped sharing the fate Of
Clusters, ~ they had been surrounded and
fighting the savsges for twenty-four hours,
when relieved by Gen. Terry. Twelve hundred
Indians loft the Rcd Cloud agency to join Sit
ting Bull ...... The Servians defeated the
Turks and captured the town Of Rachka, and
Bslins ...... Senator Morrill, has qualified o.
secretary Of the treasury ...... The vacant
senatorship from Maine has been offered to
Mr. Blaine. .... A four year-old daughter Of
J. Wiley fell into millpond at Ashburnham
Mass, when her sister, aged eight years.
jumped in after her, and both were dlowned.
..... Tho Centennial commission, by vote
Of thirty to nine, decided not to open on
Sunday.
Gen. Sheridan, in letter to tho War do
partment, says: think 1t premature to think
Of asking for volunteer cavalry, with tho ntten-
dant expenses. Gen. Terry will havo about
two thousand men. Gen. Crook will have
fifteen hundred men, and l send him Gen.
Merritt's eight companies Of the Fifth cavalry,
four hundred strong, which will mako him
over two Thousand strong. We are all right.
give US little time. deeply deplore the
loss Of Custer and his men. fear it WAS an
unne cessary sacrifice, due to misapprohe
and superabundance of courage, tho latter
extraordinarily developed in Custer. %. Gen.
Sherman thinks the Sioux Indians opposed to
Ger. Custer and Reno numbered from twenty
Ave hundred to three thousand. It is believed
that the Indian losses in the engagements
were fully five hundred. IA congratulstory
letter from the emperor of Russia reached this
country too late to be presented to the Presi-
dent by the Russian minister on the fourth of
july, and has since been presented. The en-
peror cordially congratulates the American
people, in the person Of their President, and
prays that the friendship Of the two countries
may increase with their prosperity. He con-
cludes embrace this occasion to offer you
at the same time the assurance Of my sincere
esteem and Of my high consideration. $50.
The eastward bound train on the Missouri
Pacific railroad, two and one-half miles west
OF Otterville, No., few minutes past ten
O'Clock at night, was stopped by distractions
on the track, and at the same instant dozen
or fifteen men appeared with terrific yells, and,
pistols, dashed through the train,
robbing the passengers and the express Of
$4,000. All the robbers were masked, and
the attack was one OF the boldest on record.
...... James G.. Blaine has formally accepted
the United States sonatorship, rendered him
by Gov. Conner, OF Maine. The vacancy thus
created in the House Of Representatives will
not be filled until the regular State election in
September.
party Of masked men overpowered tho
guards Of the Jail at Nebraska City aud aesas-
sinated murderer named Hank Dodge, who
was to have been executed in few days. .
The propeller st. Clair was burned on Lake
Michigan, between Ontonagon and Houghton,
but one Of the eighteen passengers and four
Of the crew Of fourteen eecaping alive. ....
Gen. Clusters army comrades propose to erect
. monument to his memory. go. Owing to
he unprecedented depression Of trade, the
Scotch mill owners propose reduction OF ten
per cent. in the wages of the employees. .....
The cotton crop is generally reported as being
favorable. The large tannery Of Lane,
Pierce & Co., at Sandbank, Oswego county,
n. Y, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $100, 900;
insurance, $4,000. A drummer in one of
grounds was killed by lightning while on duty.
80. Forty-one deaths from the excessive heat
we're reported at the coroners Office in New
York in one day. -. AT picnic near Eldred, |
Pa, an old boat in which party were rowing
,unk, aud VIM. Bream and his bride Of few
lays were drowned in each others armr. A
7oung man named Vance went to their rescue
md was also drowned.
Mr.. Pratt, commissioner of internal revenue, |
las resigned. -. The President asked for
md received the resignation Of Postmaster
General Jewell, and appointed Assistant Tyner
% the position. Tho surrogate Of New
York has dismissed the petition to set aside
he will of A. T. Stewart ..... Tho comm, ttee
appointed for the purpose formally rendered
he candidacy for the Presidency 10 Gov. Til
lon, who accepted in brief speech, putting
pecial stress on the necessity for political re-
orm. .....A terrific thunderstorm extended
'ver the Middle and New England States, the
lghtning striking In numerous places, killing
everal persons and doing considerable damage
o property ...... The king Of Italy has sent a
letter to this government en- its
entennisl.
The mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co.,
n their statement fer the first six months OF
876, give the number Of failures for this period
n tho United States as 1900, with liabilities
to $1Os, AIS 429. In ths first six
months Of 1875 the failures we're 1858,
nth liabilities amounting to $76, 600 0OO. In
,anada the failures for the first six months of
S76 were 1853, with sl2, 694, 2S6 liabilities. In
he first quarter Of the year the failures in the
no United States were 2 SO6; in the second
uarter, 1,794. The agency says: "Ths
MARKED decline in failures for the past quarter
lords some encouragement to the belief, now
cry generally entertained, that we have seen
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