Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24
General New Items.

Eaton.
Paf. Baxter, Professor of Flo
c,tion ut Harvard College, was
:, tfowned friday at Cape May while
] swimming. :.
/. American exhibitors at the Paris
9 Exposition have been very success
/, FIJI. The United States agrlGultu'
raj exhibit has received q aipIo'na
and the United States eauca.lona
exhibit a gold medal; while Amer
can nyhibitors of agricultural I'M
nInments have carried off eight out
Of eleven objects of art offered by
the Agricultural Society OF France
for exceptional mention in agrl
Fcultural implements.
King Alphonso of Spain has de
cided to erect a magnificent basidi
Lea over the tomb of his late Queen
and will appropriate $4,000 a yeal
to the purpose.
The yellew fever seems to be
gaining ground rapidly in the
southeast, and help is already call
ed for.
Hoedel, who attempted to assas
sinate Emperor William, was be
headed last Friday.
The sixty.eighth call for five
twenties has been issued. Five
millions more are wanted, on which
interest will cease November 16.
The Sultan of Turkey is obliged
TO have 800 suits of clothes a year
The never wears the same garments
twice.
2 A cloud. burst at Austin, Nevada,
Thursday of last week flooded the
business part of the town involving
loss of 100000.
1t is said a body Of American
soldiers have recently crossed the
Rio Grande into Mexico in pursuit
of thieves.
English telegraph clerks, of both
sexes, are hereafter to be officially
designated "telegraphists," by or.
lder of the Postmaster General.
During the year 1877, 1175 per
sons were killed and 1905 injured
by railroad accidents in Great Brit
ain.
Insurance against storms, a Ger.
man practice is getting a foOthold
in the West. The st. Paul Hail
Insurance Company has just paid
$4,000 in Carver county Mimi, fol
Ida mage to crops.
The citizens of SuncOok, N. FL.
are naturally much excited over the
four large fires which have recently
destroyed $3.50. 900 worth of prop
1erty in that town, and are vigorous
" engaged in attempting to ferret
out the incendiaries. One of the
supposed rascals has been arrested
and now languishes in jail.
1t is reported that the Pullman
Ear Company is "out' to the extent
of 100000 through the defalcation
of Charles w. Angel, its secretary.
The loss will in no way embarrass
the company. Angel has fled, but
vigorous measuers will be taken fol
his apprehension.
The New Hampshire Legislature
adjourned on Saturday. Before the
adjournment a valuable gold watch,
chain and seals were presented to
IthnSpenker of the house in speech
coraiaRv praislng his efficiency as
presiding officer.
A terrific powder explosion oc-
cured near Pottsville, Pa, Satur.
day, where a magazine, in which
some HOO barrels of powder were
stored, was struck by lightning and
blew up with fearful violence. A
party of picnicers near by were
struck by timbers and stones and
three of it's members were killed
and many wounded. Glass was
broken and ceilings shaken down
at a distance Of a dozen miles, and
some $4,000 worth of damage is
reported by the disaster.
Population is pouring into Kan
sas at an almost unprecedented
rate. During the year ending la st
month about two million acres of
government land were taken up,
and the increase of population is
estimated as high as 100000.
There is more government money,
paper and coin together, in circula-
ton in the United States now than
there was in 1873 before the panic
more than three times as much pa
per money as there ever was at any
time before the war, and the amount
per capata to the population of the
country is considerably more than
twice as great as it was at the be.
ginning Of the war.
4 genuine devil fish in fresh wa
ter streams is rare enough, but the
Alexandria (Mo.) Commercial re-
ports one captured in the Fox river
1t that place, with a body II inches
across and a dozen or more legs,
armed with claws, attached to its
lnder side, besides the ugly eye dis
in gushing an octopus.
John Randolph's famous estate
# Roanoke is to be sold on the I'd
IrOy.
Tie Philadelphia Press remarks
hat "the only sbloated bondholder
1earney will kill this year is Ben.
Butler"
A grand temperance convention
5 to be held next Tuesday, Aug. 81,
n q grove near Perkins Landing, ,
}. O.. on Lake MemphremagOg. ,
The bin allowing women to vote
4 school meetings has become a s
NV in New Hampshire. This is {
he first substantial legislative vic
Dry by woman suffragists in New 7
,ngland. c
d. Moody has rented a house q
| Baltimore and will move there
Ictober |, to rest and recuperate. 9
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