Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-06-30
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by the fall Of an unfinished railroad bridge
over the Connecticut river, during q storm,
u woman was killed, q sheriff was MORALLY
wounded, and several other persons were
fierce attack upon tho outposts Of Kars, but
were defeated with heavy slaughter after q
three days fight go. The vote ut the election
in Georgia resulted in majority Of ton thou.
sand In favor Of holding convention Ia amend
tho Constitution OF the state 49,. The school
dredth year Of the adoption OF the American
flag by . demonstration ut the Academy OF
Music, at which appropriate music and com-
mcmoratve addresses made upthe programme
49,, Stage coach robberes have become 30
extraordinarily frequent In Texas that they
will DO made the subject Of q special report to
Washington. banker named dirndt, In
whose hands many OF tho poorer classes In
New York had placed sums Of money, more or
loss large, to forward to their friends In
Europe, absconded, from the city with their
tho navy visited Brooklyn, n. y, and inspected
the navy yard. -. The United States treasury
has discontinued the issue OF small notes for
the present 500. At this years graduating OK
crcises Of the cadets Of the United States Mill
tary academy ut West Point seventy-six dipo-
mas were awarded,
At Belvedere, N. j., a mill dam suddenly gave
way, aud fishing party on the pond above
were procptated through sluce-way. -Four
porsons-three ladies' aud male companion
were drowned, and two men received fatal i'll
| juries 80. The Lord Mayor Of London pro-
scented the honorary freedom OF the city to
General Grant in a gold casket -. There was
u large attendance ut the State Grecnback con-
vention held at Skowhegan, Maine. Rev. II.
T.. Munson was nominated for governor, and
platform was unanimously passed calling for
tho repeal OF the Resumption act Of January
IA, 1875, Two incendiary fires occurred at
the Shaker village ut New Lebanon, N. Y, but
both attempts to burn the place were discov-
Buffalo, n. Y, Jacob Dodd's slaughter house
was struck by lightning and burned. Three
flremcn were injured and the pecuniary loss
was 100000. Four men were hung for
murder on June 49,: At Newman, Ga, Stephen
Brinkley was executed for the murder OF his
Orleans George Morris, colored, was hung for
the murder Of Sarah Jones, Il quadroon, and
Adrian Eveque, who shot and killed Richard
Turner, expiated his crime on the gallows,
both the murderer and his victim being col
ored and Harry Adams was hung at Dayton,
Ohio, for the murder of n soldier named Null
haren in February, robbery being the lincoln
tive to the crime. e. Reports from the Southern
States on the condition Of the cotton crop
show that it il lower than in the past two years,
but better than in 1874 ...... Two miners were
fatally crushed by falling wall in mine near
Scranton, Pa 49,. Mrs. Norton the English
nuthoress, died in England. She was married
for the second time last March, at the age Of
seventy.
On Saturday evening three five-story brick
tenement houses on Twenty-thrd street, New
York, containing over fifty families, began to
shake and trembe and show signs Of falling.
The police were summoned and the inmates
were rapidly driven out of the insecure build
ings, and the last had hardly gone when the
three houses toppled in with thunderous crash
and left nothing remaining but huge mass Of
bricks and timbers. ... The death OF the Rev.
J. 3. q. Abbott, the historian, took place at
Fairhavon, Conn, at the age of seventy-one.
800. The sudden death is announced Of ex-
United States Senator Pratt at Logansport
Ind. 80. An abandoned woman named Lizzie
Murphy was beaten to death in New York by
her companion, Mary Simmons go. An uproar
was occasioned in the Chamber of Deputies at
Versailles, France, upon the reading of the
declaration announcing that message had been
sent to the Senate by President MacNIahon in
forming it of his intention to dissolve the
Chamber The speakers in favor OF the gov
ernment were vigorously Kissed and yelled down
by tho opposition fraction. whose speakers in |
turn were treated in similar manner by the
government party, and the rage of both parties
became 10 violent that collision seemed inevi-
after fierce denunciatory address. "A scat |
fold in tunnel in Bergen Hill N. j., suddenly |
gave way and seven bricklayers ut work upon |
it were thrown to the ground, distance of
forty-tive feet. Of the seven two received fatal |
injuries and the others were hurt more or less |
severely "A wealthy farmer of Old Town,
ILL.,, named Hendricks. over fifty years of age, |
shot his wife dead in q fit of drunken rage and |
followed up his crime by committing suicide. |
1.-The firm Of Rindskoff Il Tenny, wheat |
brokers and spectators Of Milwaukee, Wis,
have failed. Liabilities between 100000 and
$3.50, 900. 49,. Mr.. James Russell Lowell has ac
cepted the Spanish mission. Senator Roscoe
Conkling has gone to Europe .....A About forty |
clergymen, from all parts of the United States,
have gone to Scotland as delegates to the Pres
byterian convention at Edinburgh.
Nicholas Mitchell, dairyman, was fatally
stabbed by Edward Harvey, truck driver dur
ing an alteration in Baltimore. 49,. The Bashi
BazouLs have been committing all kinds of
depredaions on persons and property in the
vicinity Of Con, tinople .... An entire class
Of students i'll l4laceton College was suspended
for tormenting some of the other students. go.
Letters have been written by Postmaster
General Key and Mr.. DeFrees, the public print
or, reiterating the civil service views Of the
President. go. Two men were arrested at De-
catur, ILL.,, for trying to pass counterfeit money,
and it was found they were members OF a well |
organized band of horse thieves and counter
feiters, numbering over one hundred and fifty
persons, whose operations for the past two
years have extended all over the Western
States. -. The British case before the fishery
commission at Halifax consists Of claims for
damages from the United States in the sum of
nearly fifteen million dollars 49,. The anniver-
sary of the battle Of Bunker Hill was generally
and appropriately observed in Boston.
Secretary Sherman wrote letter to the
syndicate appointed to place the new loan on
<hn, rlya NJ 1orin fIa
payable in gold. The letter was written with
the approval of the President and cabinet.
Much excitement was occasioned among the |
Hebrews of New York by the refusal Of the
managers Of the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga
acting under orders from Judge Hilton, mana
rooms to Joseph selgman a well-known
banker of New York: The French Chamber
OF Deputies censured the ministry by o vote Of
1863 to 153..... Nicholas Fish, son of ex-Secre-
tary Fish, has been appointed to the Swiss
mission ..... Military officers have been at
tached to the American legations in Russia and
Turkey to observe the operations of the war.
...... William II. Vanderbilt was reelected
president of the New York Central and Harlem
railroads -. An outbreak among the Indians
Of Idaho and Oregon resulted in the killing of
u number of whites and the reported slaughter
of Col. Perry and half his command of one
hundred troops, who had gone to the relief of
the settlers .... The engine baggage and two
passenger cars of a train ten miles west of
Washington, Iowa, plunged through bridge
twenty-five feet high, and n number of persons
were injured, though fortunately not danger
ously. IA number of business houses in
Burlington, Iowa, were wholly burned or badly
damaged by the flames. Tho pecuniary loss is
about 1925, 900, and there is Ill insurance of
about $3.50, 900. 800. The committee of investi
cation appointed to examine the affairs of the
bureau of engraving and printing at Washing
ton made report exposing number of abuses
and making several recommendations.
fire that broke out in u boiler shop in st.
Johns, N. b., spread with great rapidity and
soon the whole business part of the city was in
flames Hundreds of houses, stores and lumber
yards were destroyed, aud number of lives
were lost All the public buildings. newspaper
Offices, three principal hotels and three-fourths
of the city were destroyed. causing loss of
over. fifteen million dollars John D. Town
send counsel for William NJ. Tweed, published
q long letter, addressed to Attorney General
Farchild, of New York. commenting severely
upon that gcnteman's use of the statement Of
Tweed which WAS recently returned to the |