Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-27

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was indicted IN the court OF general SEES
sions, and pleaded guilty. He was SEN
fenced to tho full penalty of five years in
Sing Sing prison.
At Pottsville, Pa, James Coyle and
his nephew miners, were instantly
killed by an explosion Of fire damp in a
colliery.
GeorgeW, Jones large barns at Deer.
field, Mass. together with two hundred
tons Of hay, grain and tobacco were
destroyed by fire. causing a loss OF
5000.
In q circular issued by the commercial
agency of Dun, Barlow 4 Co., of New
York, II Is stated that the failures in the
United States for the first nine months
Of 1877 were 6,265, with liabilities
amounting to $l41, 952, 256. For the
same time in 1876 the failures were
1850, and the liabilities 1856, 272, 800.
The circular says: "For tho first time
in many months do the figures in rela-
ton to failures afford any encouragement;
and, taken in connection with the I'M
proved business in merchandise which
the autumn months have thus far wit
messed, and the certainty that Il great
crop of produce is now being marketed
at good prices, the hope may be enter
tanned that the worst effects Of the de-
preston have been seen."
The corner stone Of new armory for
the Seventh regiment, N. Y. s. N. G., was
laid on Fourth avenue, near the Central
Park, New York, with Masonic cere-
monies. The orators of the occasion
were Mayor Ely and Hon. William NJ.
Evarts.
The business portion Of the village Of
GAINESVILLE, Onondaga county, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire. Three hotels,
the Episcopal church, post-of1icc, six
stores, the town hall. and fifteen dwell
ings were among the buildings burned.
Loss estimated at $50, 600 insurance,
$4,000
Suspicion was aroused against Moses
A. Snyder, teller in the Merchants Elk.
change National Bank, of New York, on
account Of his dissipated habits, and an
examination of his accounts led to the
discovery that he had stolen about 81, 900
of the funds of the bank. His arrest
speedily followed. lntemperance caused
his downfall.
s. II. Thompson Il Co., tobacco COM
mission merchants of New York, have
failed, their liabilities amounting to
about $250,00O. Their failure is the
largest that has occurred in the tobacco
trade for several years.
The United States Hide and Leather
Association held it's first annual session
in New York, and was called to order by
Hon. Marshall Jewell, Of Connecticut.
The differences between American leather
and that manufactured abroad, the tariff
on leather, and other important matters
affecting the leather business, were the
subjects Of discussion.
A young lady committed suicide by
jumping into the river at Niagara Falls.
The presidents of the four great rail-
road trunk lines met in New York
and determined upon M increase in
freight rates.
The cigar makers in New York, to the
number of ten thousand, struck for
higher wages, claiming that their de-
mands were justified by the better prices
prevailing in the market. At meeting
of employers it was decided to refuse to
pay the increase demanded.
A new law has gone into operation in
New York State, making it penalty to
interfere with railroad trains and under
it's provisions number of tramps were
arrested near Poughkeepsie for stealing
ride and assaulting brakeman.
A national convention of the honey
bee keepers of the United States was
held in New York.
A fire on West Eighteenth street, New
York, destroyed five-storv furniture
factory and number of other buildings
before it could be checked, causing a
loss of over 5000, 900, on which there is
partial insurance.
William NJ. Tweed testified before a
committee of New York aldermen that
he was bankrupt; that since 1871 he
had paid to lawyers and others 81 AGO.
500 that he had lost 81 ,206, $50 that
he was never at any time in his life
worth more than from $2,500,000 to
So, 600, 900, and that he could not realize
IS, 600 from the property now owned by
him. Tweed stated further that it had
cost him $50, 900 to escape from Ludlow
street jail that he had paid the money,
not to any official, but to those who
helped him to flee from the country.
A monument to Roger Williams was
dedicated at Providence, r. I.
At Philadelphia a huge financial con-
tract has been ratified by the sale of the
Empire transportation company's prop
erty to the Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany for 100000.
Forty thousand people gathered at
Schuylerville, N. Y, to witness the cere-
monies connected with the laying of the
corner stone of a monument to COM
memorate the centennial of General
Burgoyne's surrender. All the houses
in the place were gaily decorated, and
the roads were filled with wagons, car
riages and other vehicles. A number of
military companies from Hartford,
Conn.,, Bennington, VT, and elsewhere,
participated. Orations were delivered
by Charles s. Lester-the orator Of the
day - Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour,
George William Curtis, Hon. Lafayette
S. Foster, and others. A poem by
Alfred B. Street was recited, and the
corner stone was laid by the Masonic
Grand Master of New York State.
George T. Plume, a we'll known New
York broker, appropriated over 800, 900
of the estate of Charles A. Lamont, of
which he was an executor.
boatman rowing on one of the lakes
in Central Park, New York, discovered the
body of handsome axl faslisnably- dressed
woman. The corpse proved to be Mrs. Thomas
Otis Leroy, aged forty-one, residing in Fifth
avenue. She had thrown herself into the
water Intentionally.
Some time ago an advertisement in the
"PersGnal" column of the New York Herald
contained the following: " Beware of the
blackmailing crowd at Nos 81 and So West 25th
street" Whereupon Mrs. Robertson, who
kept boarding house at the places indicated.
sued the Herald for libel, and the jury awarded
her damages in the sum of 10000.
BY an explosion in the cartridge department
Of the Watervliet arsenal at Albany, n. Y,
John McKeever and Carneiius Carmody were
injured, the latter fatally.
Patrick Williams was shot by boy named
Thomas Owen at Lowell, Mass, and died the
next day.