Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1880-10-23
State News Items.

funding of the entire indebtedness
of the town, at four per cent, there.
by making a saving to the town of
upwards of 81 200 year.
Lincoln will celebrate its centen'
NAL November 10.
Senator Morrill,, who was recent
ly reported i'll at Paris, has recover
ed and is now travelinging Switzer-
land.
The Waite case has been continued
without bail, the prisoner having none
to offer.
An engine on the Conn. River rail
road, formerly named the S. M.
Waite, has been repainted and the
name left off.
The freshman class in the Univer-
sity of Vermont at Burlington, num-
bers %, two of them women.
The late census of tho town q
Randolph shows that there are fou
persons over 80 years and less thar
100; AZ persons over so and less thar
90; 14S persons over 20 and less thar
80, and 1914 exceeding the common
age of man.
Freight conductor Grover, on the
Valley roilroad at Bellows Falls thu
9TH inst, was thrown from the top Q
a box car, by the collision. of a couple
of cars and was thrown dow
on to a platform car and from
there to the track. One wheel passed
over one foot, but he caught hold of {
brake beam and held till the train wa
stopped. One shoulder was out Q
joint and some other bruises but nj
bones were broken in his foot.
South Royalton celebrated the
Tooth anniversary of its burning
by the Indians Saturday, there be
ing a speech by ex-congressmaI
Dennison and display of old relics
Some 25 descendants of familie!
which suffered by the burning were
present.
An engine and several freight
cars we're wrecked on the Passamp
sic railroad near Derbey line Sat
J urday, by passenger train run
ming into freight train.
The Rutland county court has
! Just adjourned, after accomplishing
an unusually large amount of bust
ness for a four. weeks session. The
: usual II applicants for divorce
came up smiling, but more of then
, were sent bach unsatisfed than
usual. Judge Ross intimated thai
persons were to be held to th
strictest compliance with the lay
: before divorces would be granted
p About the usual number of liquo
, fines we're imposed, and there wa
no such stampede among tn
dealers as at the last grand ilr,
: term when Judge DuntOn presidct
FORGETTING bail is no longer an cas-
b. way out of a liquor prosecution
/, Cox against Eayres, the superir
tendent of the house of correction
Cox was found guilty in liquo
8 prosecution, and by the law ha
: "a hours to procure bail. Insid
of this "a hours he was committe
q to the house of correction and III
: der the regulations his beard wa
shaved off. The result was viz
: lent sore throat, his condition b,
: ing critical for day or two, an
: after that was confined for wee
: or so. He sued for damages, bu
the jury refused to give them, find
/. ing that he waived his privilege {
the time of commitn ent.
In the United States circuit cou
at Rutland, Judge Wheeler presidipI
l the jury returned a verdict in the cas-
e of Blackman Z. Rrownell VS.. th
D Troy and Boston railroad company
I $1,000 In favor of the plaintiff. Tb
q plaintiffs wagon was RIM into som
time since by locomotive of the dc
PENDANTS at railroad crossing i
Pownal, and the suit was to recove
3 for damages arising therefrom. tn
jury found that the engineer of tn
/, locomotive failed to sound the usus
danger signal.
Bradley Barlow, manager of Til
, Southeastern railway has purchased
|, q new road, now building betwee