Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-03-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS



inseresssss Items frsn HsAs aad Abrea
Joseph Eneas, well known New York fruite
mas run away from his Brooklyn home, aft
contra nlng debts to tho amount Of $50, 90
gage: -. From. November LIST TO Tebrual
2stn there wore 81, 578 hogs packed In Oincl
nau-a decrease Of S9,7S3 from tho numt,
PACKED during tho same period last year :.
nnrlng February the public debt was decrease
S2,01O,42906. Tho total debt now stahds
e2,Wa6ia,7ssbs. The coin IN tho treasur
whom the khodivo OF Egypt has made governc
OF the Soudan> promises to abolish slavery |
that district and open 1t for exploration -,
Ono hundred and eighteen young men wef
graduated from the New York College OF ply
sicians and Surgeons ,... Tho Harding papc
miii, at Franklin, Ohio, considered tho finest O
throwing ono hundred hands out of employ
ment. The loss was over 100000 ....., Joh
Mccall. who murdered "Wild Bill" In tn
Black Hills, was hanged at Yankton Dakota
He died calmly, after expressing himself salts
fed with the business Of his sentence. =, Tn
supreme court Of the United States decide
that State Legislatures can fix freight ant
passenger rates for railway companies. Th
viii open tho door for vast amount OF legis q
ton on the subject,
The second hstalment of immigrants FOL
New South Walos, consisting of 100 men, womer
and children, sailed from New York A
starving Now York bcggar woman was fount
TO have 81 400 in bank .,.. One man wa.
Killed and four fatally injured in Huntington
Ind, by the explosion OF the boiler IN kochei
d Bakers sawmill. The building was complete.
y demolished :. United States troops have
been Withdrawn from the support Of the Pack.
ard government in New Orleans. Only in case
the state authorities prove incompetent to pro.
tect life and property will the United States
troops interfere :. The coal schooner James
a. Croker has been given up M lost, with the
eight men on board. 49,. Edward Thomas, a
colored convict in Auburn On. W prison, mur-
dered fellow prisoner two years ago and has
Just paid tho dread penalty the law inilicts. lie
was hanged in the prison and died of sufroca-
ton, his neck not being broken by the fail.
Julius Levy shot his wife fatally and then COM
mitted suicide in Memphis, Tenn. Although
married but few weeks, they had quarrecd
almost necessarily, and at the time of the
tragedy divorce proceedings had been COM
menced Tho horse distemper (cerobro
spinal meningitis), which swept or so many
animals year or two ago. has broken out in
the vicinity of Now York city Weldon,
who attempted to assassinate Gov. Packard in
New orleans, has been bailod in the sum of
70, ..... .Oregon's crop prospects are UNI
usually good.
Since the installation of Gen. Diaz as prosi-
dent of Mexico ex-Chof Justice Iglesas hasgiven
up the contest as hopeless. He will immcdi-
ntely sail from this country for Mexico
The remains of the Fenian Col. John O'Ma-
honey, after being exposed to the gaze of his
adherents in the principal towns of Ireland,
were consigned to the grave in Dublin. The
funeral procession was composed of fully one
hundred thousand people. 49,. The assistant
secretary of the treasury has issued tho forty
frst call for the redemption of ive-twenty bonds
OF 1865, May and November. The call is for
l0,00O.00O, of which $7,OO0,OOO are coupon
and 81. 900 900 registered bonds. The princi-
pal and interest will be paid at the treasury on
ana after the third day of June next and the
interest will cease on that date. Frank NJ.
Baker. convicted of bgamy on three differ
ont counts in Rochester, N. Y, was sentenced
to five years at hard labor for each count. -.
Inc schooner Margaret and Lucy. Capt. Wichs,
went ashore near Barnegat, and was n total
wreck. The eight men on board all persisted.
The Patapsco g,.ano company's works in
Baltimore, Nd, were destroyed hy fire. Loss,
Slo0,00O. .Lcggatt, Hudson and Buffers ex-
ten i've tobacco factory in st. Louis was burned.
Loss, $50, 900
Thos. Cnsick, dissolute man of New York
CITY, kicked his drunken wife TO death while
both were under the influence of liquor .....,
Japanese government troops captured four
steamers from the insurgents of Satsuma. ...
Two sons of J. Q. Greene, of Hopkinton, r.
were drowned while sailing. 49,. BY the burning
of the Bateman House at Kansas City, Pa,
Mrs. Blteman with her four daughters and one
son, were burned to death. The father was
also severely injured in attempting to rescue
his family. A guest registered as N. Brown
also persisted. Six of the boarders were injured
by jumping from the Windows. IA sandy
ing INTO the rapids at Niagara No clue as to
ms identity could be obtained. -. Mclaughlin
defeated Bauer at wrestling in Utica, n w..
a plratlcal schooner is reported as cruising in
tho West Indian seas. Several Spanish mer
chantmen have been overhauled. =. Five hundred
thousand dollars was lost by the burning of the
iive-story iron building in st. Louis, occupied
by the wholesaling firms of Simon Gregory
and Clafin, Allen q Co. One life was lost in an
adjoining hotel, which was burned.
The Count de Chambord denies the stories
regarding his REIMBURSEMENT of claims to the
throne of France, and says he is only awaiting
the proper moment for direct personal action.
49,. The seyen-story buildings in Bond street,
New York, occupied by the Gorham manufac-
turing company, Robbins & Appleton, of the
Amevican watch company, and host of smaller
jewelers. and siyersmitha, were completely de-
stroyed by fire, notwithstanding the desperate
efforts of the entire fire department. The
flames originated in the basement in some M
known manner, and although contested foot by
foot by the firemen succeeded in creeping from
story to story until both of the immense So
called iireproof c liiices were wrapped in flames
and the heavy safes of treasures on each floor
fell crushing through into the basement. carrying
down all the heavy beams, and permitting the
walls and iron fropt to bulge outward and finally
crumble to the earth. The total losses amounted
to nearly 81, 900 900, which were partially COW
cred by insurance. .....A conhagration at Eos
toria Ohio, destroyed Leonard's opera house
partially insured. ~. d. Edgerby's drug
store and grist mill at Lee, N. H.. were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $4,000; insurance,
1000. -. Alexander Blackjack, president of
The San Francisco Canning and Oyster COM
pany, defaulted with funds and stock of
the company amounting to $4,000, but was ar
rested in New York while attempting to sail for
Europe. Before his dishonesty became known
ne had succeeded in inducing young book
keeper in San Francisco to forge his employers
name to the amount Of s'l1 $40, with which to
speculate. The young man was detected 49,.
Joe Coburn, the pugilist, was sentenced to ten
years imprisonment at hard labor, for attempt
ng to XIII New York policeman by shooting.
49,. John Q. Hoyt. well known New York
speculator has failed with liabilities amounting
% Sl.730, S26.25 and assets footing up only
$40, 900 ... DIR. Gurdon Buck, one of the
1est surgeons of the country, died at the age of
seventy.
The annual report of the Union Pacific rail-
way company shows that the gross earnings
'or 1876 We're Sl2, $685. 5S "a and the expenses
80, 26s, 2l1.2o, leaving margin of s7,61S,64
"a. The company also sold 125,9O5 acres of
and at an average of 1898 per acre, realizing
1913, 54O.S2 e. j. Il. Beads, secretary of the
california Stock Exchange, has absconded,
aking the books and papers of the Exchange
md stocks to the value of $4,000. Some
'ther officers of the board are suspected ....
Andrew Mckinney, a railway operator in
New York, and an associate of the bankrupt
'ohn 9. Hoyt, has failed, with liabilities
amounting to 81, 979, 500. "a and assets of $780,
1876 81. Montana dispatches recite a num-
,er of murders by the Indians The loss by
he Bond street fire in New York footed up
81 ,66l 900 ..... he New York Legislature !
passed bill to prohibit the selling of pools at
horse races "A dispatch from Winnipeg,
states that Sitting Bull has arrived
It Wood Mountains in British possessions,
having with him one thousand horses and
mules captured from the United States troops.
49,. Turkey has forwarded circular to the ,
,ther powers declaring that Russia has been in
lirectly waging war against Turkey and is now
nstigating instruction in Bosnia Matilda
Heron. the famOus actress of M CT papnro tion