Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-02-17
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


Ut Of charity, was attended by m immcn,
throng OF fashionable society people dressed
great elegance. The net receipts were betwec
slO, 900 and $4,000, -. Two members Of
band OF train wreckcrs have been arrested
Missouri. Their plan was to throw train frol
the track aud rob the passengers during I'll
consequent excitement ID. T. Hill, treasure
Of tho Seaboard and Roanoke railway, has di,
appeared from Norfolk, Va, and Is reported I
DO defaulter to large amount -. The OF
GERS OF the defunct Security Life Ins. Co. G
New York were indicted by the grand jury an
arrested for embezzlemont and perjury,
Patrick Dolan, residing with his sister an
mother near Dorp Staten Island, while out @
his, right mind, killed his mother with clu
and beat his sister in shocking manner ....
The khan OF Khiva has applied for formal CON
plcte incorporation Of his territory into tn
Russian empire. ....,A terrible suicide is n
ported from La Crosse, Wis, where a yonn
woman confined in the county Jail took liv
coal from the fire and deliberately set fire to he
clothing, being so frightfully burned rs to caus
death few hours later. 49,. The families o
the men killed on the steamer Moctezuma
sci2od at sea by the Cubans, have made recla
nation upon tho Nicaraguan government 10
damages on the ground that II Nicaragua ha'
not given the steamer protection she woul'
have fallen into the hands Of Spanish gunboa
and the murders averted. The owners Of TIN
cargo put in the same plea for damages ... TIN
public debt statement for February LIST show
the total indebtedness to be 50, 900, $40, 579.2
coin in treasury, SS6,4776S0.36 ; decrease O.
debt during January, $1,000, SG9.7l.
The controller of New York city gives til,
municipal Indebtedness as S149, 1857 ,557.79. 49,.
Coy. McCreary, of Kentucky, has recognized
Mr.. Nichols as governor of Louisiana by n re
QUESTION upon him for the return of forgcr
......T The annual report o. the chamber OF
commerce for the fiscal year ending June 80
1876, shows that while the aggregate value Of
the foreign commerce of all other ports of The
United States except New York exceeded that
New York lost over 800, 900, 900, making a de.
crease in the foreign commerce Of the whole
country exceeding sS1 100000. The value OF
the domestic exports of breadstufs from al
other ports was 1914, 200 592 against 800 $3.50, 96e
from New York ; of provisions, S29,36l ,S1S
from other ports against $55, 0i2, 1873 from New
York; Of tobacco and manufactures Of tobacco,
vi, 500, GS2 from other ports against Sli079,'
0SS from New York ..... A shipload of colonists
have left New York for New South Wales to
settle there under favorable terms offered by
the Australian authorities. $40. John f. Cham
berain one of New York prominent gamblers,
has filed petition in bankruptcy. The liabili'
ties amount to over 1915, 900, while the assets
aggregate but few thousands.
Part of II train Of cars were thrown from the
track of the Western Maryland road near Cane
town, Nd, by wreckers. No one was injured.
..... Minnie and Annie Striley and Nellie Voor-
huse, aged five, eight and ten years, were
drowned at S0lem Mass. by breaking through
the ice, ,,.. The report of the librarian of the
free Apprentices Library, New York city, shows
there are $500 volumes on the shelves and
That 10000 books per month circulate among
the members With the imDetuS giyen Ia
the current of the Mississippi by the recent
freshets, the sand between the Eads' ictties
has beon washed out as predicted, and there il
now depth Of twenty to twenty-five feet ....
The round house of the Pennsylvania railway
company at Trenton, n. j., was destroyed by
fire, with eight locomotives and several cars.
The loss is put at 5000. 900 James Flood
detected his wife in the room of q German in
one of Now York's low tcnements, at seven
O'Clock in the morning and attempted to break
in the door, whereupon the woman gained ac-
cess to the street through another door, and
ran screaming, partially clothed. with her in
furiated husband close at her heels. The cries
Of the woman aroused the neighborhood, and
every window was crowded with spectators just
Is the husband caught up with the woman and
plunged sharp steel instrument into her bare
breast, killing her. The murderer escaped be-
fore any one could intercept him "A fire III
Marvin Co.'S safe establishment i'll New York
lid 800, 900 worth of damage. The gas collect
ID in the cellar exploded during the conhagra-
ion, injuring a number of tiremen.
The steamship George Washington, running
between New York and st. Johns N. b., stop
ling at Halifax, was crushed in by ice Off Mis-
AIKEN Point, Cape Race, and sunk with all on
BOARD. Pieces of the wreck and fourteen bodies
we're washed ashore. Whether there were two
II eight passengers is unknown, as changes
we're made at Halifax. The crew numbered
wenty-three men. most of whom belonged in
New York. The vessel carried full cargo of
undries. Her sister ship the George Crom-
veil, has not been heard from since she under
ook the same passage, January 3D.. The
american ship George F.. Manson and the
British steamship Ambassador coided off the
oast of India and the latter vessel being of
ron, sunk, carrying down twenty-five of her
rev. The Manson had to be put in 4 dry dock.
...:. ID. d. Barrett, an attendant employed in
he Northampton (Mass.) asylum, was found
lead. having been killed by some of the luna
ic.-it il not known by whom. ..,. .Midhat
'asha has been dismissed from the grand
izcrship Of Turkey and ordered TO leave the
ountry. $50. Thomas r. Agnew. a prominent
Jew Yor, grocer has been adiudged bankrupt.
lis liabilities are put at SSS4,O D, and his assets
I si5j000.
Gov. Stafford, of Arizona, IN a communication
D the legislature, criticises the Indian warfare
4 carried on by the regular troops, and says
would take twelve years to subdue the saw
ScS, Judging from the final results Of the past
ear. He proposes to employ border men and
indian scouts who can follow the savages into
heir own quarters and speedily reduce them
, submission Unless something is speedily
one the settlers in southeastern Arizona will
c obliged to vacate their homes as the Apaches
re committing depredatons daily. .....B. s.
icock, postmaster at Southington, Conn, has
cen arrested for and confessed to robbing the
nails. He has held prominent place in
1ciety ....., The Manchester (Eng.) chamber
commerce complain that whereas Manches-
n formerly exported large amounts of cotton
lbrics to the United States, she il now obliged
} import her cottons from the latter country.
-. The smallpox is increasing in London,
nglaud. One hundred and three cases oc-
lrrcd in one week ..... According to the tes-
mony of the general superintendent of the
AXE Shore road, eighty persons were lost at
le Ashtabula bridge disaster and sixty-nine
,scued. -. Rear Admiral James Alden died
San Francisco of cerebral congestion. aged
years ...... Richard T. Taylor
sshier of the First National bank at Franklin
ld., Is Il defaultcr to the amount of 100000
-Four men were buried in an iron mine in
cnsingervlle, Pa, by caving earth. and three
them were instantly killed.
Investigation into the affairs of the broken
INK at Franklin, Ind. develops the fact that
ASHER Taylor had been embezzling money
II years past, and falsifyiug his books to cover
3 rNscalitieS. The total amount embezzled
'ots up Sli0 000-being the entire proceeds
the institution. Chicago spcculations en-
llfcd the money. ..... The Susquehanna Coal
D. lost five buildings ut Nantcoke, Pa, by au
cendiary fire. Loss, 80, 900. . The ins,,r-
'nts III Cuba have recently destroyed five i'm
'rtant plantations by fire ,.... An explosion
the Fass colliery near Baton, England,
He'd ten men ..... In the latter part of 1876
e Russian government arrested twentv-one
NJ Z men and eleven yonng women, students
a university, for displaying rod flag i'll
ribcd Union and Liberty They have just
,on tried, and all hut three have been sen
need to penal servitide or transportation -.
he British steamer Ethel, bound from Bilbao
II Newport Wales. went ashore on Lundy
land and became a 10 al wreck. Nineteen
rsOns were drowned. 80. Henry b. Smith,
ID. LID, professor of theology, at Union
died in New York city. He was
I'll known AS an eminent theological writer.
-. The British vessel Arminta arrived at
'ooklyn, n. Y, from Calcutta, short four sea-
ell, who We're washed overheard in a cyclone.