Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-07-19

The seventh annual convention
OF tho Sullivan Musical Association
will be held at Newport, commenc.
ing Monday, Aug. %, and c0ntinu-
ing four days, under the direction
Of Prof. L. .. Emerson.
Van eighty barrel whale was seen
between Hampton beach and tho
Shoals on Sunday, at least he was
rated about that by the man who
saw him elbow" higher than the
highest house.
Rt. Rev. William W. Niles, D
D., Episcopal Bishop OF New Hamp
shire, will ON account Of seriously
impaired health sail from Boston
for Europe to-day Saturday to he
a bsent several months. While he
is away the diocese will he in charge
OF the Standing Committee, Of
which Rev. Fl. A. Colt, d. d., is
President.
Experiments have been made of
late with carrier pigeons between
several points in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts and Boston, On
Monday FIVE birds were let loote at
Newton Junction, N. H., and(they
arrived at Boston in % minut{s-a
distance of 43 miles.
Mountain visitors will be happy
to learn that ED" Blodgett, the
popular conductor of the Passump-
sic railroad, is running one of the
trains between Bethlehem station
and Profile House. he takes -
old job on the Passumpsic at The
close of the mountain season.
The Crawford House at the
White Mountains, has been enlarg-
ed. Thirty.one new rooms have
been added to the previous large
number, and the dining-room has
been heightened thirty-fve feet,
making room for six additional ia.
bles, A new kitchen, seventy feet
long and thirty-five feet wide has
been constructed.
The Profile and Franconia Notch
railroad, narrow guage, has not met
the success it was hoped it would.
The trains have been off the iron
several times so far, and it will be
some time before they can run and
make their time with any degree of
safety.
A young man at Thornton's Fer
ry, on the evening of the Fourth,
being somewhat intoxicated, ran in
to a blacksmith shop and took down
a loaded gun. This he discharged,
the contents going through the par
tition of house joining the shop,
passing through the room and out
at a window, within six inches of a
little girls head who was sitting
there.
Last Saturday a singular pho
nomenon was observed by several
citizens of Wolfeboro. The water
of Lake Winnepesaukee within the
space of ten minutes rose about q
foot, and then falling back a second
time rose nearly as high. What,
makes the phenomenon still more
remarkable is the fact that the wind
was at the time blowing off shore
very strongly.
E. B. Hodge, of Plymouth, fur.
nishes some interesting facts con-
corning the State fish Matching
houses During the season there
have been distributed through the
different waters in the State AGO.
eco. California salmon, lis, 900 land
locked salm6G %, 600 Rangeley
trout, and $4,000 blue.back trout
from the Rangeley lakes.
B. F. Elliot, the missing sewing
agent of Littleton, who
was supposed to have been muir.
dered, has been heard from, having
written letter to his brother,
Charles Elliott. The letter was
written about three weeks ago from
Maine, and indicates that he wishes
to conceal his whereabouts, and the
fact that he is alive, as he is in ar
rears to the sewing machine COM
panies.
On Thursday, July 10th, Joseph
Buzzell paid the penalty of the law
with his life, at Concord, N. e., for
the murder of Susan Hanson, at
Ossipee. He has stoutly maintain.
ed his innocence all through his
trial and did upon the scaffold,
stolidly refusing to answer ques-
tions. A great pressure has been
brought to bear upon the governor
and legislature in this case but all
communication has been refused.
Governor Head has appointed
under the new military law the fol-
lowing gentlemen as members of
his staff F.: Major General Augustus
d. Aging, Nashua, Adjutant Gen.
of State and Chief of Staff Briga-
dier General John w. Sturtevant,
Keene. Inspector General Briga-
der General Charles II. Burns,
Judge Advocate General
Brigadier General George T. Craft,
Bethlehem, Quartermaster General;
Brigadier General Benjamin f.
Dover, Commissary Gen.
eral ; David L. Jewell, Suncook
E. Balch, Manchester !;
Winthrop N. Dow, Exter Frank
Q. Churchill, Lebanon, Aids-de-
Camp with rank of Colonel.
At q meeting of the directors of
The Institute of Instruction, at the
Fabyan House, last Friday even-
ing the Committee on Publication
we're authorized to publish as early
rs practicable a record of the pro-
aud distribute it among
The members also to publish in
tract form some Of the more impor.
sant essays and addresses delivered
before the institute for the past fifty
years. for the purpose Of dissemina.
ing in a cheap form educational in.
The Treasurer was di.
rected to prepare a circular and
send il to members and libraries,