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

STA; sixty-eight persons killed and nifty
four wounded.
10, General Gordon Granger died 9
Santa Fe, aged fifty years,
IA. U. >. House passed the Pensio
bill; 800, 553, 500
% Railway collision near Huntington
England; thirteen lives lost.
20. Centennial Appropriation bill pass
oil by U. s. House by vote OF LAG
1876.
20. U. 3. House repealed the law in
creasing postage on third class matter.
49, Congressman Starkweather, Con
nectieut, died. . Francis Deak, reforme
and statesman. died in Hungary, age
seventy-three years.
FEBRUARY.
9. The proposed Constitutional amend
mcnt (sixteenth), providing that "n
person who has held on may hereaite
hold the Office of President shall eve
again be eligible to said office" was de
feated in the U. s. House, failing of |
two-thirls majority; tho vote stood Ia
to 106; the amendment to the amend
ment, extending the term to six year,
after 1881, and the minority substitute
providing for one term of six years after
1885, were previously considered, ant
did not even secure majority vote.
4. Fire damp explosion in the Jabii
colliery, st. Etienne, Belgium; one hun
drel and sixty-six miners believed tc
have been killed
s. A gallery in Cincinnati fell during
u Sunday-school festival, killing twelve
and wounding from fifteen to twenty
persons.
z. The U. s. House passed the bill
repeating the Bankruptcy act, by a vote
of ITS to So. Rear Admiral String
ham died in Brooklyn, aged seventy
eight.
8. Destructive fire in New York; loss
about SO, 100000.
10. Reverdy Johnson died in Balti-
more, aged eighty years.
-. Explosion in n colliery i'll West
Pittsburgh; four killed, several wounded.
II. Collision of the Hamburg steam
ship Fradcona with tho Glasgow steam
ship Strath-Clyde in the English chan
mel; fifty persons drowned.
49, Charlotte Cushman died in Bos-
ton, aged sixty years.
The U. s. Senate passed bill amend
ing the acts for refunding the national
debt July IA, 1870, and January 20,
1871, so rs to increase the amount Of
bonds hearing four and one-half per
cent. interest to $500, 900, 600, and to make
them payable after thirty Gnstead of
fifteen) years.
MARCH.
9. The United States House passed
resolutions of impeachment against w.
w. Bclknap. secretary of war. The
ground of impeachment was the charge
that General Bellsnap had profited by q
post-tredership appointment General
Balknap had already resigned his posi-
ton, and his resignation had been ac-
cepted by the President.
Z. The Home of the Aged. in East
Brooklyn, was partly consumed by fire !;
eighteen old men burned to death.
8. The United States Senate voted
against admitting. .Pinchback to seat by
Il vote of twenty-nine TO Twenty-Five.
Alphonso Taft confirmed MS secretary of
war. The President nominated r. H.
Dana, Jr., as minister to England.
10. The United States Senate passed
the bill admitting New Mexico as a State.
IL. The British ship Eumenides, from
Port Royal for Greenock, capsized at sea.
The captain and twelve Others were lost.
%. The British House of Commons
passed the Royal Titles bill, styling
Queen Victoria Empress of India. The
bill was passed by the House of Lords,
April 10.
90 The Ohio Republicans appointed
delegation to support Rutherford j.
Hayes =. e. Governor Ames, of Mississippi,
resigned his Office.
80. The dam of the Great Lynde
brook reservoir, near Worcester, Mass,
gave way. Few lives were lost, but the
damage to property was immense.
APRIL.
g.. State election Democratic victory
in Connecticut.
4. The formal presentation to the Sen
ate of the articles OF impeachment against
General Belknap took place on the
seventeenth, the day fixed on which the
process against the late secretary was
made returnable, General Belknap's
counsel interposcd the plea of non-juris-
liction. OF Cape Malea, on the South
coast of the Morea, the steamer Agri-
GENT, from Pirmus for Italian ports, col
lieling with the English steamer Hylton
Castle, sank, and twenty-nine persons
were drowned.
5. A fcrryboat capsized on the Dee, at
Aberdeen. Scotland. Thirty-two persons
. Rhode Island State election;
no choice by the people.
10. The United States Senate passed
he House bill providing for the substi-
tuition OF silver coin for fractional cur
rency; the bill was signed by the Presi-
lent on the thirteenth. "A. L. Stewart
lied, aged seventy-three years.
10. The United States Senate passed
The new Postal bill, relating to third-class
postage.
Is. President Grant vetoed the bill
fixing the Presidential salary at $25, 900
per annum.
In the United States House, the bill
o transfer the Indian bureau to the war
apartment was passel-l39 to "a.
III. Opening OF the centennial EXhlDl-
ion at Philadelphia.
II. Boiler explosion on the steamer
Pat Cleburne, six miles below Shawnee
own, on the Mississippi river nine per-
IONS killed, including the captain.
10. The Greenback national conven-
ion at Indianapolis, Ind, nominated
Peter Cooper, of New York, for Presi-
lent, and Senator Booth, of California,
or Vice-President.
rs. The United States House passed
,he bill for the payment of the Alabama
claims.
90. The United States Senate, by
majority, decided that it had jurisdiction
IN the Bell1nap impeachment case.
80. Great fire in Quebec nearly 500
houses burned.
81. Abdul-Aziz, the sultan of Turkey,
was dethroned his nephew, Murad
Efendi, was proclaimed sultan the de-
posed sultan committed suicide on the
fourth of June.
10. In the United States House bill
was passed providing for the issue of $10,-
200, 900 silver coin, in redemption of an
equal amount of legal tender !; also bill
for the additional issue of $780,
700, 900 in silver coin.
rs The national Republican conyen-