Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1878-08-24
Western and Southern states.

ing Massachusetts, making open-air addresses
| to the workingmen.
Western and Southern States.
The total number of deaths by yellow fever
at New Orleans, up to the 18th, was 1876.
Alabama has been carried by the Democrats
| by 80, 900 majority.
An old family feud in Edgefeld County, s.
| g., eliminated in a desperate encounter at
Edgeefeld' during which BROKER Toney shot
| and killed Thomas Booth and James Booth and
| was then killed himself. One other person was
MORALLY wounded and six more were injured
more or less severely. Governor Hampton,
twho was attending political meeting near by,
ordered out company Of State militia, and
there was no more fighting after the soldiers
reached the scene Of encounter.
There have been over 100 cases Of yellow
| fever at Grenada, Miss.
One-third of the town Of Shasta, CAL, has
| been destroyed by fire. The portion burned
streets Of the place.
| Four men entered the express car on train
running between Omaha, Neb., and Kansas
City, Mo-, covered the conductor and three
other persons with revovers and robbed the
safe of ct, 1000. They then compelled the con-
ductor to stop the train and disappeared in the
darkness
A case of yellow fever was reported in Mem
phis and great excitement ensued, 1900 per-
sons at once leaving the city. A Memphis dis
patch says CDR Brown secretary of the
Memphis board Of health, has returned from
Grenada, Miss. He reports the fever there
perfectly appalling. He saw seventy cases in
one day, and never saw such distress as exists
there. He saw mother and two children sick
in one bed. The fever is among all classes and
scattered over the whole town. They need
doctors, nurses and dlsinfectants. The bust
ness houses are closed, and many Of the people
have left the town. Twenty-seven nurses have
gone from Memphis to Grenada, and more will
probably CO." Another dispatch from Grenada
asks for orange leaves and nurses, and says
the situation there is fearful-worse than in
Memphis in 1878. A vessel landed in Louis
yilIe Ky., having several cases of the terrible
malady on board.
Six COW boys found a band Of eight Indians
on the Nueces river, Texas, and sharp fight
ensued, resulting in the killing Of four Indians
and the capture of another One Of the COW
boys was wounded.
The end of the Oregon Indian war is an
nounced with the surrender Of Oitz, the sur
yiving medicine man, and party of sixty
Indians.
Wilson Childress Fountain. Banks, Octave
Lauve and Aaron Carter, all colored, were
hanged at Donaldsonville Louisiana, for the
murder of an aged white storekeeper, named
Narcisse Arrieux in 1876 the motive of
the crime being robbery. All except Lauve,
who showed abject fear, met their fate with
frmness and protested their innocence to the
last.
Up to the fifteenth 700 cases Of yellow fever
and 1874 deaths from the terrible scourge had
been reported in'New Orleans.
The Michigan Prohibitionists have held
convention at Detroit and put State ticket in
the field.
The President has accepted the invitation of
the Minnesota State Agricultural Society to be
present at its annual fair which will be held at
st. Paul.
Under law passed June 10, 1875 two thou
sand claims for horses lost by enlisted men in
the late war have been filed, and large numbers
Of other claims have been presented.
An editorial in the Washington Republican
saws the government is determined to stop the
raids on the Mexican border at all hazards, and
that it is not improbable that there may be a
conflict with the Mexican forces.
The August returns to the department of
agriculture show an average condition Of the
cotton CROP in the ten cotton States Of ninety |
five per cent; decline Of four per cent.
Acknowledgement Devens has sent to the |
secretary of the interior an important opinion |
in certain case to the effect that when letters
patent for mechanical invention have been |
applied for and taken out Jointly in the names |
Of several individuals, they are void il, as |
matter of fact, only one Of them was the |
inventor. If such case the letters patent |
cannot be made valid by any act Of the in |
dviduals or of the patent Office.
e Foreign News.
The Austrian army OF occupation in Bosnia |
has had fight with insurgents which lasted |
eight hours, in which the latter were eventually |
defeated, losing 500 in killed and wounded |
and 700 prisoners.
The session Of the International Monetary
Conference opened in Paris. NJ. Leon Say
was elected president on the motion of the |
Hon. Ruben E. Fenton. After the nomination
of secretaries and the delivery of short ad-
iress Of welcome by the president, Mr.. Fenton
briefly explained the objects Of the conference.
He thanked the Powers who responded to the
appeal of the United States. He hoped the
men taking part in the confer
ence would facilitate the accomplishment Of a
work which would further the pacific interests
of the world.
II was announced in the British Parliament,
the other day. that the English fleet would
leave Constantinople when the Russian Gov
withdraws its forces.
On account OF floods and loss of crops great
suffering exists in India. In Cashmere, the
Maharajah is taking energetic steps to relieve
the sufferings Of the people. who, in many
narts OF the country are subsisting upon herbs,
weeds and unripe fruit
The London Daily Ne,os says: Delaney, the
Eenian. convicted in 1867 and sentenced to inn
,,risonment for life. will be released upon a
ticket. of-leave on the 25th of September next.
Adyices received by mail from the west coast
NJ Africa saw that great mortality prevailed
here, particularly at lagos, where nearly
auarter of the European population died Of
fever and dysentery during the two months
ending July 4.
A military tribunal at Port au Prince has
nassed the death sentence on nine persons who
! ne prisoners. and upon thirty-two who are in
Gems. Tanis Solomon and Chew
aler included.
property embargoed during the instruction
in Cha is being restored to the former
owners.
During disturbance at Ottawa, Ont, be-
tween a faction known as Union men and
orsnge Young Britons many shots were fired,
several houses were wrecked. and number OF
narsous wounded. number OF arrests were
naae. the streets were crowded with excited
PEOPLE and the police had their hands full
order.
President Alcantara, Of Venezuela, has
proken up another revolutionary plot by the