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Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-01-06

Christmas, In the superlative degree,
pervades the holiday number of Vide
Awake, Mrs, l.. q. Wilton opens II with
one Of the lovelest of this years Christ
mas poems. Opposite Is the irontispiece,
an engraving Of Raphael's Sistine Ma
donna. Edgar Fawcett and Mrs. s. NJ
Is. Platt are also represented by holiday
poems, "Children's faces" and "About
u Magician" II, r. Hudson furnished u
funny Christmas tale, "Two Days BE-
fore Christmas Margaret Eytingc's
"What Happened to tho Baby" is still
iunnier. But the "star" story is ellis
Travels In Santa Claus Land" II Is mag
niiieently illustrated by A. r, Waud.
with scenes In Santa Claus Land, "Santa
Claus and his Reindeer" appearing on
one of the pages. Mrs. Handy, of Rich
mond, Virginia. writes about "a Con.
federate Christmas Tree" while VIM. NJ.
F. Round opens his "Child Marian
Abroad" with Child Marian's jolly
"Christmas ON shipboard." Sophie
Mays serial, "Quinnebasset Girls" "opens
well. Notwithstanding Polly" who is
growing in character, Is still the same
good-ior-nothing boy in his daily prac-
tce. The Little Folks all over the coun-
try are represented by the letters which
they have sent with their dolls to the
Dolls Fair, as Christmas gifts to the chill
drcn in the hospitals. Only o.. per
annum, free of postage. Ella Farman,
editor. d. Lothrop Il Co., publishers,
Boston, Mass,
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In obedience to the mandate OF
the Supreme Court of Florida, the
board OF canvassers has recanvassed
the vo to of that state, and declared
the result. On the face Of the re.
turns as thus counted, the Demo
Gratis elect the Governor by 1916 ma
jority, and one Democratic Con-
gresham is elected. The same
count gives the Hayes electors a
majority of2O9. This narrows the
presidential contest by fully taking
Florida out of the list of disputed
states. There is no longer any
fair show of reason to cavil at its
four votes for Hayes. The same
thing is true of South Carolina.
That state is conceded to Hayes by
the Democratic investigating com
mittee. The only remaining foot.
hold for Mr.. Tilden is Louisiana,
and that state upon every legal
ground belongs to Hayes,
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VOrmOnt's Centennial,

That the year 1876, so soon to
draw to a close marks a century in
in the progress of the nation, has
been rather frequently remarked
during the last twelve month, but
that the year 1877, so soon to open,
will mark century in the progress
of the first State added to the orig
inal thirteen which at first compos.
ed that nation, is not so universally
known. The territory now known
as the State of Vermont was, one
hundred years ago, called the New
Hampshire Grants, the lands hav
ing been granted the settlers by the
province of New Hampshire. New
York at the same time, claimed ju
risdictirn over the lands, and hence
q controversy arose which brought
about determination on the part
Of the inhabita nts to set up State
government for themselves. They
accordingly met by delegates in con-
vention, at Westminster, on the 18th
of January, 1777, and declared them
selves an independent State. The
convention then adjourned to meet
at Windsor, June 4th, and still again
at the same place July I'd, when the
delegates formed a Constitution, or
gauixipg q temporary State Govern.
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A Terrible Railroad Disaster.

One of the most terrible disasters
OF the past year occurred on the
Lake Shore railroad, on Friday
evening of last week, about thirty
miles from Ashtabula, Ohio. The
Pacific Express train, six coaches
and two palace cars, drawn by two
locomotives, and containing about
ITO passengers, as near as can be
ascertained, arrived at that point
about eight O'clock, bound west.
ward, an hour late, and broke
through an iron bridge across Ash
tabula creek, falling to the ice be.
low, seventy.five feet.
The train was going at moderate
speed, and the engines had JUS
reached the further end of the
bridge, when the bridge, being an
iron structure, $50 feet long, gave
way, probably from the action of
frost on the iron, and without a
moments warning, the train was
plunged into the ravine below.
Almost instantly the stoves and
lamps set fire to the train, and in
less than five minutes, before those
who were caught in the tangled
mass of broken and twisted iron
and splintered timbers conld be
rescued, the wreck was enveloped
in flames. One hundred and ten to
one hundred and twenty persons,
crushed by the first fall, or drowned
in the icy waters of the creek, or
caught in the wreck and held to
the slow torture of death by the
flames, persisted in the disaster.
The killed seem to be mostly from
New York and New England.
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BUSINESS.

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shall send bills to all subscribers
who are in Arrears, whether for q
part of a year, or one year or long,
or, and hope to have an early set.
Element of them. We intend soon
to get a directing machine, which
will print the name Of the snbscri.
Der and the date to which he has
paid on his paper each week. In
this way all subscribers, and their
neighb0rs and ViSitors, can tell to
what time the subscription is paid.
In making out a new list of sub.
scribers we have dropped quite a
number of names of persons in
Arrears, to whom we have sent bills
and duns, and from whom we have
had no response. Such accounts
are now in the hands of an attorney
who has received instructions to
collect them, without expense if
possible, but to collect them some
way.
With many thanks to our kind
patrons who have aided us pecuni-
arily, and in the way of correspon.
dence, we commence the New Yea r
with a determination to make the
OPINION q live local newspaper,
second to none in the State.
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VERSIiIRE.

VEHSHlRE.
In school district No. 5, the sum
mer term was taught by Miss Lena
Howard, of Thetford. Scholars
present every day and not tardy
Nettie Church, Elias and Mary La
throp and Byron ClOugh. Present
every day but two: Sarah Avery,
Alice Fletcher. Not tardy: Carrie
Church, Lizzie ClOugh, Lila Mat
toon, George and Everts Brown,
Freeman Church, Milo Hood and
George Avery. The fall term was
taught by E. W. Goodhue, of Yer.
shire. Present every day and not
tardy: Mary Lathrop, BERTHE Rich.
ardson, Everts Brown. Present
every day but two: Carrie and
Nettie Church, Lizzis Clough, Car
rie Godfry, Isaac Bickford, Frank
Abbie Fuller, Archie and
Edison Hill, Byron Clough and Elias
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Henry M. Poland, one of

Hon. Henry NJ. Poland, one OF
the new Republican members of
Congress from Missouri, is 40 years
old, a native Of Plymouth, VT, and
has many friends in New England.
He graduated from the Chandler
Department of Dartmouth College
in 1857, and is the first alumnus of
that institution that has been sent
to Congress. After graduation he
emigrated to Wisconsin and read
law. When the Rebellion broke out
he went to the war as a member of
the Third Wisconsin Cavelry. and
was afterward Major of the Eighth
Vermont Volunteers. After the war
he removed to Missouri, where he
has a high rank as lawyer. Ma
jor Poland is gentleman of decid-
ed ability and has shown long fidel.
ity to Republican principles.
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ment, till an election could he held,
which was ordered for March 18th,
Il77S. The State Immediately ap'
piled for admission into the Union,
but this was denied until 1901. New
ertheless, tho organization under
the name of the State of Vermont
dates from the year III, for dur
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people living there were an indepen'
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joying all the functions Of II State.
except a representation in the Con
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the same eventful year, the impor.
tant battle of Bennington occurred,
in which the Green Mountain Boys,
under Stark, with his brigade from
New Hampshire and n regiment OF
Berkshire County militia, signally
defeated a detachment of Bnrgoynes
army sent to capture the military
stores at Bennington. This brilliant
success led, in short space of two
months and one day, to the com
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atOga, which decided the contest in
favor Of American Independence.
1t is this event Of the Battle of
Bennington which Vermont prOpos.
es to remember next year, by the
commencement of a monument to
the memory of John Stark and his
gallant band; and in this good
work the present generation of Yer
monters invites the co operation of
New Hampshire and Massachusetts,
as their fathers did in that one hum
dred years ago. They have, as an
earnest of their endeavOrs, tender
ed by their Legislature just adjourn
ed, the sum of $4,000, as their fair
to the contemplated
structure at Bennington. The Gov
ernor of the State is by the act ap.
propriating this money specifically |
directed to invite, in the name of
the State, the States of New Hamp-
shire and Massachusetts to unite
with Vermont in this work. 1t
would seem eminently fit that the
three States which furnished the
troops that won the decisive victory
at Bennington should join in plac-
ing there some suitable token com
of their glorious deeds.
We look for a cordial response from
our own State, which still keeps
proudly suspended over the door of
Ter Senate chamber the spoils sent
Ter by Stark himself from the field
If Bennington. New Hampshire,
;oo-if we may venture a sugges.
ion of this kind to a sister State
which bore the "brunt of the fight"
md came off with the largest share
# the honors of the victory, can ill
ford to neglect the opportunity so
gracefully offered to heartily join
n perpetuating the name she most
lelights to Boston Globe.
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ORANGE COUNTY COURT.


Hon. TIMOTHY p. REDFIELD, Chief Judge.
Hon. HON. H znSxs NJ DG TpAn Associate Judges
THURSDAY, Dec. 90.
The testimony in No. 81 is closed
at 2:3O o'clock and is argued in the
afternoon.
In State v. Joseph Abbott the re-
spondent is brought into court and
plead guilty. This is an informa-
ton filed by the States Atty, charg-
ing the respondent with the crime
of burglary in breaking and enter
ing the store of VIM. b. Marston in
Chelsea in the night time of Nov.
81, 1876 and taking therefrom a
small amount of nickel coin. Gov.
Martin appeared for resp't and made
an appeal to the clemency of the
court. Sentence, three years i'm
prisonment in the States prison.
Friday, Dec. 90.
No. 80. Eliza j. Whitney vs.
IOwn of Sharon. The charge of
the court was delivered this morn
ing and a verdict returned for the
plff. to recover SS67.5O damages
and costs AT the last trial of this
case in June, 1875, the verdict was
over $500. Clarke and Gambell
for plff. French, Rowell and Farm
ham for deft.
No. "a. Harriet e. MeNiece ps.
Eben g. Weed was next tried. This
was an action Of SANDER. The de.
fence was that the words spoken
were true, aud that they were spo-
ken in good faith in the ordinary
course of business, and constituted
in reality privileged communica-
ton. The testimony closed to-
night.
Saturday, Dec. 30.
No. "a was argued and given to
the jury this forenoon. Verdict for
plff. to recover $67.50 and costs.
Gambell and ROwell for plff. bar
vey and Clarke for delt.
MONDAY, January |, 1877.
No. As. Bates Brothers V. l.. L.
Church. Action of assumpsit. AT.
ter the jury were drawn it was
found that the plff. had filed no
of his claims and the
delft. insisting upon the enforce
ment of the rule the case was con.
tinued the plff. taking no cost of
the term. Gleason and ROwell for
plff., Hebard and Farnham for def.
No. 6S. TOpn of Tunbridge as.
Richard Smith and Others. This
was an action on constable's bond.
The defenceS were various. One
was that the bond was not properly
there being seals to only
a portion of the signerS' names.
The trial lasted through the day
and all day Tuesday.
Wednesday, Jan. 3.
No. 6S is given to the jury at
noon and at night they returned no
rerdict. They came in once in the
afternoon disagreed and were sent
,ut again. Hebard and Rowell for
or plff. Clarke and Gambell for
left.
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The Vermont State Teachers
Association will hold it's annual con-
vention in Bennington ON the LIST
and I'd of February. The occasion
bids fair to be one of unusual inter.
est.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-01-06

Hon. N. L. Sprague, Jr., of
Brandon, has given the Farmers
and Mechanics Club of Brandon
the entire amount voted him by the
late Legislature, to reimburse him
for the amount expended in build
ing the Vermont State headquar-
tiers on the Centennial grounds.
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DIE D..

In Bradford, Jan. Sd, Eunice Haseltine, wife
of Elijah Smalley, aged SO years.
Montpelier papers please copy.
In Plernont, N. H., Dec. "a, James Rober
son, aged 70 years.
In Permont, Dec. II, Nancy Chan dler, con
consort of the late Calvin Chandl er, aged 80
years.
In Piermont, Dec. II, Mrs. David Foster,
aged about IS years
In Lebanon, N. H.. Dec. 30th. Lewis R.
Morris, Esq. aged GO years, II months.
In Newbury, Dec. 18th, Miss Lucinda Kent,
aged 6S years.
In NewburysAJaa. LIST, Byron w. Pike. aged
Is years.
In Donaidsonville, Conn, Dec. 28th, very
suddenly of oppoplexy, Mrs. Hannah c.. wild
ow of the late M. w. Fyler, formerly of
Bradford, Vt.
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SOUTH NEWBURY:

SOUTH NEWBURY:
Mr.. Editor: The item from this
place published last week in regard
to the mail, was entirely erroneous
and uncalled for. The mail has been
regularly received and delivered,
and we think no one has occasion to
find fault. ].
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TUNBR1DGE.
The dwelling house of Mr.. Or
ange Hopkins, with all of his house
hold effects was entirely burned the
10Th of Dec. The cause of the fire
not known. Mr.. Hopkins is an old
man, about 70 years of age. He
was absent from his home at the
time his house was burnt.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-01-06

Henry M. Gray, prominent
citizen Of San Francisco, died late
Iy at the age of about forty years.
He was q graduate of the Chandler
Department of Dartmouth College
in 1859. The deceased leaves a
widow, the only daughter of Rus.
sell Smith of Hanover, N. Fl.
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MARRIED.

Iu Corinth, Dec. 3lst, by Rev. ID. Fifeld, j.
+. Merrill, Esq, and Miss Mary Heath. all of
COrinth.
In Bradford, Jan. LIST, by Rev. L. II. Elliot,
George Green and Susan Kimball, both of
Topsham.
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