Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-04-14
NEWS ITEMS.
What 10 Deins In the OId Werid and tke
New.


Whit 10 Doing In the Oid Wsrid ana 'h
New.
Tho present consul general OF the Unite,
States to China, has preferred charges agoins
his predecessor in Office, Hon. George +. Sew
ard to the effect that when he held the post h
liberated pirate and murderer for bride o
$1,000 49,. Secretary Of War McCrnry ha
ordered homo tho two companies OF regular
stationed in Alaska, for tho past two years
whore the mon have suffered keenly from tn
extreme weather. There was no duty for then
to perform, and 1t cost nearly 100000 pc
regarding the Chico (Gal.j Chinese massacre
lay tho crime at the doors Of the Labor Union
composed OF white mon. The chiefs of thu
ORDER called Council Of Nine, delivered com
maAds, which were implicitly obcyed. ...,. Th'
Reading railroad Of Pennsylvania has required
oil its engineers to withdraw from the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers, on account Of
the arbitrary acts OF that organization. The
company will form an aid association for the
benefit OF its employees 80, Some OF the grea
freight lines running into Now York having
violated the contract Of December last, bittei
strife and cutting Of prices is now tho order OF
affairs. A fire at Cohoes. n. Y, destroyed
three buildings on Mohawk street, occupied by
paper box makers and other firms. During the
conhagration, falling walls killed man and
q woman. 80. Six New York firms are now en-
gagged in the business OF exporting beef to Eng
land, and DO an immense trade, where, two
years ago, not pound of American meat could
be disposed Of.
The Grant House, Wheeling, W. Va, was
consumed by M ncendiary fire, at loss OF
100000, on which there was partial insur-
ance Many of the guests narrowly escaped
Australia are delighted at the break of the
drought, which threatened their entire crops.
.,.... While Revenue Collector Patterson, with
posse, was raidng illicit distlleries at Watauga
county, n. c., they were fired on and two of
the posse killed and the collector wounded. 80.
A $4,000 fire at Cornwall Landing, N. Y, de.
stroyed Mead and Taft's planning mill and
three other buildings. ... Near Walton, KY,
a colored man named Parker Mayo attempted
to commi a criminal assault upon tho person Of
q nine year-old daughter of William Murray,
The child was seriously injured. The next day
he attempted q similar assault upon farmer s
wife residing in the vicinity. The morning
after his body was found hanging to the limb
of tree about n mile from the town. ..... The
cotton factory of j. d. Colony y Sons, at Mem
senville, n. H., was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000. .....A dam on Pennington river, at
Rainbow, Conn.,, was swept away by spring
freshets. No other damage was done. -. The
executor of the will of the late Roxana Childs,
of Utica, N. Y, has dispensed the sum of $780,
st72s for charitable purposes, according to the
requirements Of the testamentary document
90, The quickest trip ever made across the
continent by a freight train is just reported.
Twenty cars laden with silks, teas and other
Chinese and Japanese commodities, designed
for European buyers, made tho distance from
san Francisco to New York in ten days ....
A large mass Of snow. becoming detached from
tho summit of hill near the Belts Cove copper
mine, Nova Scotia, swept down ard buried two
houses. One man and five children were taken
ont dead from the ruins.
The European coptesting powers have signed
the much-talked of protocol, but peace is doubt
full Notwithstanding $50. Spring freshets in
Nova Scotia have washed away large quantities
of logs MS well as number Of mills and
bridges. The government of Colombia, South
America, claim that in less than a month the
rebellion in that State will have been crushed
out, meantime brisk lighting is taking place..
fire in Barre, Vt, consumed the factory of
tho Stafford & Holden company. Loss $780,
0 O; insurance, 10000 ~ The towns of
principal business houses by fire. The loss in
the first mentioned place amounted to $4,000,
and in the latter to $50, 0G0 The population
OF st. Louis is put at sol, 4S9, by the last direc
tory. ....A tenement house in Rhineclif, n. Y,
was destroyed BY fire, and Mrs. Peter Burns
and four of her children were burned to death.
The woman succeeded in pitching feather bed
safely threw her year-old child, but the flames
overlook her before she could rescue the other
children in the same manner. One child jumped
to the ground from u height of twenty five feet
and escaped. Several Others in the house mar
rowly escaped death LII il now satisfac-
toriiy settled that A. Oakley Hall, ex-mayor of
New York city, who had been missing for two
weeks or more sailed for Liverpool from Bos-
ton on q freight steamer, though the causes
which led him to thus take himself Off surrep-
titiously are completely in the dark.
The southwestern part of Chicago was flooded
and great damage inflicted, owing to the heavy
rains and the melting snow. .Monroevie, Ohio,
has lost at least half its business interests by
fire. Loss, SIS, 900; partially insured. During
March the mints coined $S, 443. 900 in gold and
silver. -. Great rejoicing was INDUCED in at
Charleston, S. G., on the reception of the news
that President Hayes had decided to withdraw
the Federal troops from the State house at
Columbia. 49,. The debt statement for March
shows the total Indebtedness, less cash in the
treasury, to be $2,074, GA, 1916. Ga reduction
during the month of S14, 107, 016.41, which is
principally due to the destruction of bonds
held for the payments of awards under the de-
cision of the Alabama claims commission. $50.
Seven thousand additional heads of families
have been added to the list of ADMINISTRATION
people employed by the English government in
the Madras district, India ..... AT concert
held in New York city. music was transmitted
from an instrument played in Philadelphia, by
means Of telephon,e,,,every note being clearly
-. The brig Roanoke, from
for Porto Cabello, encountered
terrible storm at sea and filled with water,
driving tho three passengers and crew of nine
men to the deck, where for three days they
suffered INDISPENSABLE horrors from thirst and
hunger one of the passengers mind giving
way under the exposure and he jumped over
hrl -,
pieces, and all on board were drowned except
one seaman, who was picked up two days after
ward in u famished condition. .....G. Smith
Carman, one of the loan commissioners of
county, N. Y, decamped leaving some
$4,000 of the fund intrusted to him unac-
counted for. He stated in letter to his wife
that he had gone to Australia, with no inten-
lion of everreturning.
Owing to the dissensons among the Repub-
leans of Fremont, Ohio the home of pres-
dent Hayes, they could not agree upon any
and so held popular election
the candidate receiving the highest number of
votes to be recommended for the position. -.
The full history of the escape of VIM. Boss. |
Tweed has been published by Hnper's Weekly |
from memoranda furnished by Tweed himself |
rom which it appears that when in Ludlow |
street Jail he made the acquaintance of bank |
put him safely on Spanish soil for certain |
,um. Mr.. Tweed, after much hesitation, ac-
'epted the proposition and bound himself to |
,bey their orders one OF which was that not |
person, even bis own family, should be made |
acquainted with the intended fight. On the |
,yenng agreed on. Tweed slipped away from
lis keepers in his wife's house, at exactly eight |
o'clock. and went to The front steps where he
yas taken in charge by men, who made them
elves known by Il concerted signal who drove
liln TO the water front in covered grocery
wagon. Thence he was rowed to the Jersey
hore in small boat, from which he was
gain transferred in a covered wagon to an old |
rouse few miles back on the high bluff,
yhere in the disguise Of wig and shaven face,
ie quietly lived for three months in plain
light Of the city -his mind occupied With the
ccounts published in the New York papers in
with his escape The great p1it for
s6, 000.0 0O was at this fine being argued. and
wing to the sickness of Chag. O'Conor. the
ounsel for the people, Mr.. 1weed's attorneys
lad high hopes of defeating litigation. Tweed
ally read the papers comments on the case,
nd began to think of returning TO his old
ZONE, but when Mr. OConor unexpectedly re-
overed. the "Boss lost heart and again made
Preparations for leaving the country. After
wo weeks spent in a lishelman's hut on Staten
Stand in comDanv with two Ieiyprers he em-