Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-08-25
NEWS ITEMS.


p,d,uy, w s,, Uver so'eny persons were
lican State convention, held at Augusta, was
called TO order by Senator Blaine, and Joseph
Drummond was selected to preside. Governor
Conner was renominated by reclamation. A
sccne OF confusion followed motion that tho
resolutions reported by the committee on reso-
lutions DO adopted, and nm amendment was
offered by J. \. Chamberlain commencing tho
southern policy OF the President while MIR.
O. A. Bontelle offered ono denouncing II.
Speeches for and against both amendments
were made by delegates; Mr.. Blaine spoke,
and upon his motion both amendments were
laid on the table The resolutions that were
passed expressed alarm at the consolidation OF
the South and alleged that free political action
was suppressed there; denounced tho Demo-
cratic House OF Representatives for refusing
appropriations to the army favored the purity,
integrity and independence Of the civil service
and protection to industry demanded the re-
sumption OF specie payments opposed any
further land grants or subsidies for railroads,
and affirmed that tho States OF South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana were fairly and legally
carried at tho November election for the
Republican State and national tickets, and that
" for the Democratic party now TO raise the cry
of fraud Ia both unmanly and dishonest" 49,.
The Georgia Constitutional convention adopted
a resolution in favor OF repudiating the pay
ment OF bonds issued under the reconstruction
government go. The Centennial Exhibition
OF last year was wound up by tho surrender of
tho government OF the bond for $500, 900 given
by John Welch and Frederick Fraley, and
signed by leading citizens of Philadelphia.
Tho bond will be placed in the custody Of the
Pennsylvania Historical society.
The first telegraph line has been opened in
China ...... After n prolonged and exciting
session the Virginia Conservative State conven-
ton nominated +. NJ. W. Holiday for governor
and General James A. Walker for lieutenant
governor. and adopted platform recognizing
tho obligations of the Slate debt and recon-
mending that the legislature endeavor to read.
just the same in manner just to creditors
and honorable to the State. SO. Senator Conk-
ling, of New York, returned home from his
European trip . Tho sale of number OF
French Republican newspapers has been pro-
hibited in parts of France and others have
been prosecuted and fined for containing ar
ticles and illustrations obnoxious to the admin
istration ..A railroad car filed with passcn-
gers jumped the track at Troy, Kansas. and
went over an embankment fifteen feet high.
Twenty-Five persons were injured, some OF
them fatally "A large fire in Waco, Texas,
destroyed property valued at $4,000, upon
which there il an insurance of $S0.000.....
The steam tug Lyman r. Lyon, towing on the
Black river. between Carthage and Lyons Falls
N. Y. caught fire Mt fonr o'clock in the morning,
and George Roberts, the engineer, and Charles
Highly, the pilot, were burned to death.
force or Unltcu SlNleS sOIlIeTb anu CltlAciis,
under command of Gen. Gibbon, surprised
camp of Nez Perces Indians in Montana and
almost surrounded them while they were asleep.
As soon as tho Indians had recovered from
their first surprise tn made fierce resist
ance, the squaws fighting as desperately rs the
men. Gen. Gibbons force being too small to
cover the whole Indian line in his attack,
large number of the savages got away and
concealed themselves in the surrounding brush,
from where they opened a calling fire upon the
whites, forcing them to assume defensive
position, from which the hosties attempted to
dislodge them without success. The fight was
kept up for some time, but tlength the Indians
retreated, having suffered heavily in killed and
wounded The whites had three officers, seven
teen soldiers and five citizens killed and about
forty-fve wounded. among the latter being
Gen. Gibbon -. AT jamestown, ~ T.,
boy named Anderson was struck by lightning,
while in the Sunday school OF the Swedish
Lutheran church, and instantly killed. An
old lady and two children were Frustrated at
the same time 90. Meetings Of workingmen
have been held in Philadelphia, Cincinnati and
other places, for the purpose of forming
State ticket was nominated, with L. II. Bond
for governor. ... The British steamer Eten
struck on the rocks off the coast of Chill and
was completely wrecked. large number of
persons probably one hundred-losing their
lives. About twenty of the survivors took
an English war steamer went to their assist
ance. but were unable to take them off on
account of the rough weather. Several of the
survivors on the rocks suffered so terribly from
exposure and want of food that they ended
their misery by throwing themselves into the
sea. Rev. c. Lazensby, a Primitive Metho-
dist minister. was drowned while bathing in
the river at Plattsville, Ont
In England the cattle plague is on the in
crease, especially in London and onvirons, and
the Cattle Plague committee of the House of
Commons have recommended that stringent
measuresbe adopted to prevent it from spread
ing further. The disease ID very infectious.
and too much caution cannot be used to pre-
vent its appearance in the United States. .....
A party OF twelve or fifteen men entered Rio
Grande City, Texas, from Mexico, and attacked
the Jail, MORALLY wounding the county at
torney and two jailers and severely beating
another jailer and woman. They next liber-
ated two desperate criminals imprisoned in the
Jail, and the whole party then retreated
across the Rio Grande river into Mexico. A
party of United States troops, with two Calling
guns, pursued the raiders. but did not come up
with them, and the American commander, Col.
Price, requested the mayor of the Mexican town
of Camargo to apprehend and deliver mp the
culprits. Colonel Joyce, imprisoned under
Grants administration for completely in the |
st. Louis whisky frauds, has been released after
two years Imprisonment by Judge Krekle of
the United States district court, who was Of
the opinion that Joyce s sentence Of three years
and half was illegal and that he had served
the full time for which he had been sentenced.
Henry Morrelli, while performing on the
trapeze at a theater in Washington, d. c., fell
and broke his collar bone. The Maine |
Democratic State convention met at Portland
and nominated j. II. Williams for governor. |
affirming and adopting the platform and prin-
ciples of the National Democratic convention |
at st. Louis in June, 1876; declaring that the |
reversal of the verdict Of the American people, |
electing Samuel J. Tiden President of the |
United States, was the most monstrous politi- |
to prepare and submit for ratification an
amendment to the Constitution which will rem |
der its repetition impossible. =. The American |
rifle team for 1877 to compete in the coming |
international match, has been chosen as fol- |
lows: Il. S. Dakin, captain; Fl. s. Jewell, l. l..
Bruce. G. L. Bydenburgh, with l.. L. Hepburn
and T. E. Lamb as substitutes. ....A train
loaded with exc,lrsionists for Bennington, VT,
was run into at Hoosic Junction by freight
train and one passenger car was wrecked and |
six persons were more or less seriously injured.
49,. The New Jersey Greenback party, in con-
vention at Trenton. adopted resolutions de-
nouncing the bondholders and Wall street
capitalists, demanding the repeal of the re-
sumption act, denouncing contraction, advo-
eating larger Issue or GreenDackS and the
RECOMMENDATION of silver and expressing gym
patty with oppressed labor. General Thomas
d. Hoxie, of Passaic, was nominated for gov
ernor. .. The British Parliament was pro-
rogued on August IA by the queen, whose
speech referred to Russia in terms of defiance.
The whaling schooner Edward Lee, hailing
from Provincetown, Mass, was fired into by an
unknown gunboat on the first day after her
arrival in the port of Cayron on the south side
of Cuba. The gunboat is believed to be Span
ish, and our government will inquire into the
affair -. While number of men were work.
ing about new oil well at Smiths Ferry. Pa.
it suddenly began to flow, throwing oil over
their persons. The gas generated was set on
fire, and the flames communicated to the men.
W. L. Rayl and Charles Ammon died in few
minutes John Rayl and William McReady
were fatally burned and John Clinton and son
were severely hurt q. :. The Prohibitonist
party of New York convened at Utica and nomi-
mated candidates for the fall election. Their
ticket is headed by Henry Hagner, of Brooklyn,
for secretary Of State. They also pissed reso-
lutions condemning the sale Of intoxicating
drinks and demanding the suppression Of the
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