Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-05-24
State News Items.

bans butter market, Tuesday, ther
was q larger attendance than usua
and q considerable quantity deli,
cred. There were no common or 10,
grades offered. Extra fne sold 9
ten to eleven cents fancy grade
sold at thirteen cents per pound.
The eighty.fourth annual NEE
ing OF the General Convention {
Congregational ministers an
churches of Vermont will be hel
at Burlington, in the College stree
church, commencing June 10th, O
two o'clock P. M.
John Denison, assistant postmas
ter ut Brandon, has been suspend
ed from Office by special agent O
the Post Office Department, on the
charge Of stealing from the mails.
L. Robinson has sold the Mem
phremagOg House back to the rail
road company. President Ray
mond says he is going to put TIN
house in the best Of order and j
goin to fill it, too, with summe
boarders.
Arrangements have already bee
completed for grand temperate
mass meeting at Lyndonville OF
the coming national anniversary
The railroad fare will be placed a
excursion rates. Eminent speakers
are to he present and all temper
ence organizations are to partici
pate.
The kitchen range in the Weldon
House, st. Adams, exploded a,
about five o'clock Wednesday after.
noon and was blown to atoms.
Nelson Eddy, chef cook, was in
jured, but not seriously Mary Con
molly, the order cook, was severel y
injured,in the face and eyes. The
hotel was filled with smoke, and
there was great CONSERVATION
among the guests, but the prompt
use of the hotel apparatus extin-
guished the fire before the depart
ment arrived.
Laliberit, the till-tapping barber
of Burlington has been taken to the
House of Correction to serve a term
of one hundred and thirty days, his
father having failed to pay the fine
and costs in the case. He can't
steal there, unless, perhaps, he fol-
lows the fashion adopted there of
ate, and steals asOay.
Mr.. e. A. Bump of Brandon,
while standing with Hon. j. M.
Dyer near the frame of the new
Lake House, in Salisbury, which
vas to have been raised Wednes.
lay, was struck by a chimney,
which fell without warning, and
unconscious. A physi-
Ian soon reached him, but he lived
,nly two hours. He was a promi-
15nt mechanic of the place ana an
Upright man. Mr.. Dyer sprang to
,atch a letter he had dropped
which was being blown by the wind
ust at the moment and so saved
lis life.
DR.. Middleton Goldsmith has CIV
N his medical and scientific library
o the Rutland County Medical aud
Surgical Society.
Tom Cree, who, the officers say
uined the Poultney national bank
With $4,000 of forged papers,
vrites from Aurora, Ill.,, denounce-
ng the statement as false and ma
icious, a miserable devise to cover
lp their own mismanagement. He
.dmits that he Ows the bank for
money but challenges the
Ulcers to prove him guilty Of forg-
~.
A fire in West Rutland, caused
" a defective fue, broke out on
he 9Th in the house Of Richard
Iane, entirely consuming his house
nd those of j. Il. Manley. Henry
1orham and James Harmon.
'hree barns, connected with the
bove property, were also burned.
here being no fire engine there,
ne was sent from Rutland on
pecial train or the loss would have
cen greater. Loss from $4,000
, SIS, 600; insured.
The tenth annual session of the
ermont Baptist Sunday-School
will be held June 4th
nd 9th at Vergennes, with Pro-
ssor William F. Sherwin of New
TX, N. j., as general conductor.
A bear three feet in height, six
ct in length aud weighing 800
ounds, was pursued and killed by
lrties in the vicinity of Starks-
bro, Thursday of last week. He
i'd been killing and feasting on
leep.
1t is reported that a resident OF
" recently made application TO
e government for a grave stone
r himself and asked to have the
70 and time left blank. The man
,ver was a soldier, but supposed
Ie stones were furnished to any