Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-01-13
JULY.


9. The Servian forces invaded the
Turkish territory ut three points, and on
the same day the Prince Of Montenegro
entered Herzegovina Mt the head OF IN
army.
4. Terrific storm in Iowa; forty-two
persons drowned in tho village Of Rock
dale.
0. Castle Garden burned.
10. Propeller st. Clair burned ON
Luke Superior; seventeen passengers and
ten of tho crew drowned.
49, Confidence committee agrees ON
Silver bill,
IA. Explosion on English war ship
Thunderer; thirty lives lost
10. United States House passed the
joint resolution to complete the WASH
ington monument.
90. Commodore Garnerf yacht Mo-
hawk was capsized in front of the club
house of the New York Yact. club, of
Sapleton, and four persons drowned. -.
The town of Albeuve, Switzerland, was
destroyed by fire.
2G. Death of Senator Caperton, Of
West Virginia, aged sixty-six. ., In
the Belknap impeachment case the SEN
thirds majority.
AUGUST.
/. President Grant issued proclama-
ton declaring Colorado State.
T. Senator Frelinghuyscn offered his
non-sectarian proposed amendment to
the Constitution.
Is. Entire business part of Westport,
N, Y, destroyed by fire. Both Houses
United States Congress passed n bill to
increase the cavalry force 2, 500 men, to
operate against the hostile Indians. -.
Congress adjourned sine die =. The
English Parliament was prorogued.
10. Death of M. G. Kerr, Speaker of
the House of Representatives
80. The New York Democratic conven-
ton, mt Saratoga, nominated ex-Gov.
Horatio Seymour for governor; owing
to the declination of its candidate, the
convention reassembled September ID
and nominated Lucius Robinson.
81. Murad Effendi, sultan of Turkey,
was deposed and his brother, Abdul
Hamid, proclaimed his successor.
SEPTEMBER.
4. The town of st. Hyacinth, Canada,
destroyed by fire; six hundred houses
burned and four thousand people rem
dercd homeless.
5. The Massachusetts Republicans re-
nominated Governor Rice.
G. Explosion of nitro-glycerine Mt He'll
Gate, New York city; three men killed
and seven seriously injured. .. . Charles
Francis Adams nominated by the Demo-
Gratis of Massachusetts for governor. -.
The Lafayette statue was unveiled i'll
Union square, New York city.
-. General Henry A. Wise died in
Virginia, aged seventy years.
10. Governor Chamberlain renomi-
mated in South Carolina.
II. international rifle match ut Creed
moor, which was won by the American
team by twenty-five points; in the con-
test were teams from America, Scotland,
Ireland, Australia and Canada; the Irish
team came out second, and the Scotch
third; in a subsequent match, Septem-
Der q, between the Irish and American
teams, the latter won by eleven points
49,. In st. James parish, Louisiana,
Robert Barnwell Rhett, ST.; died, aged
seventy-fve years.
II. The Turkish government ordered
all its commanders to discontinue hos
tilites until further orders; the object
of the armistice was to give the great
powers time for delberation upon terms
Of peace.
OCTOBER.
l. James Lick died, aged eighty.
7. Ex-Sultan Murad V. died, D.. In
the German bark Europa, undergoing
repairs Mt New York. a fire accidentally
breaking out in the hold, six worllmen
were suifocated or burned to death.
TO- Election in Ohio, Indiana and West
Virginia.
II. Explosion OF nur,ery of boilers
in Pittsburgh fifteen killed and large
number wounded.
II. President Grant issued procla-
nation commanding the South Carolina
rifle clubs to dispense within three days.
IS. Death of Francis p. Blair, ST., at
Crystal Springs, Md, aged eighty-seven
years.
. 81. Arrival of the whaling bark
Florence at San Francisco with the start
ling intelligence that twelve American
whaling ships of the Arctic feet had been
wrecked in the ice, with immense loss of
life.
80. Near Goldsborough, Pennsylvania,
coal train ran into Il passenger train,
on the Delaware, Lnckawanna and
Western railroad five persons killed
and thirteen wounded.
81. Panic in Chinese theater, San
Francisco, California, from an alarm of
fire twenty persons killed. =. "A terrific
cyclone in Eastern Bengal three large
islands were submerged, and 2l5, 900 lives
were lost The grand ship canal !
in Holland, connecting Amsterdam with
the sea, was opened with considerable
ceremony the canal is sixteen miles i'll
length.
6. Death of Cardinal Antonelli, aged
seventy-one.
NOVEMBER.
7. Presidential election.
10. Close of the Centennial Exhibi- |
ton.
II. The President invited prominent |
Republicans to go South and witness the !
count . . The principal portion of Perth
Amboy was destroyed by fire; loss 500
600.
10. The Turks were forming great
armies to resist Russian invasion. The
President pardons w. o. Avery. . Be
ginning of Del Vale Martinez case.
IA. Application for an injunction
against the State board of canvassers of |
South Carolina was applied for.
Is. War risks We're paid i'll England
on vessels in Russian ports. The .
Spanish steamer Montezuma was seized .
at sea by Cubans. . The common corn-
Gil at Savannah declared the yellow fever
at an end.
16. Preparations for war on vast
scale continued to be made in England, /
Russia and Turkey.
81. Torpedoes were placed in Russian
Black sea harbors :. Death of the Duke
of Saldanha. The Democrats of
Florida applied to the circuit court for
an injunction against Governor Stearns
and mandamlls to the canvassers to 60
on
%. Revolution in Mexico.
23. The car renewed his peaceful as
sllrances to the Austrian ambassador.
A Cossack army of 800, 200 men was ex-
pected to enter Servia. William NJ.
Tweed arrived on the Franklin.
"a. A revolution broke out in Lower