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AGAIN FIRED ON.

Boston and Albany Passengers Hunt for
the Bushwhacker.
WORCESTER, Mass, Oct. 9-Another pas
senger train on the Boston and Albany rail
road was fired upon near Rochiale, last
night. This time buckshot were used and
several of them were sent through the roof Of
the baggage car. The passengers left the
train and joined in search for the villain,
but without success.
This is the fourth time within few weeks
that passenger trains have been fired into
within q fewitniles of Rochdale, and the rail-
road men are considerably excited Detect
ives have been at work in the vicinity, but SO
far without result On other occasions bullets
of No SO caliber have been used
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A Horse Thief,s TAKE.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Oct 9.-Joseph
Burns, who was indicted few years ago for
embezzling team at Huntington, was ar
rested on his releasa from prison in Illinois
last week by State Detective Pease and
Sheriff Crosby of Berkshire county, and
reached this city yesterday. He was taken
to the court house, where he pleaded guilty
to the indictment and was sentenced to four
years in the state prison by Judge Staples.
A similar Indictment awaits him in Worces-
ter county and an indictment for horse steal
ing in Berkshire county. On the way east
Burns confessed to having stolen twenty-one
horses in as mary counties in four or five diff
ferant states
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n Directory n

Post onlce.. Open = a. M to $50 p. m. Sun
days, to 1890 Mails north close 2.3o p M; South
a. m. and 8 80 p. m.
r A A m CHARITY LODGE, No 43, meets in Ste
vens Block, Wednesday. evening in which the moon
fulls MT. LEBANON r. A. c., No. H. meets at Mason
ic Hall Wednesday afternoon in which the fus.
BRADFORD Council No. meets Wednesday afternoon
in which the fus in months Of Sept. Dec. March
and June. 100 F CHAMPION LODGE, No. ~,
meets in Stevens Block every Tuesday evening Tror
TER ENcAMpMENT, No. n meets first and third Friday
meets in Union Block first and third Monday evenings
in each month. Royal Arcanum VERMONT
COUNCIL, No. 773, meets in Union Block SECOND and
fourth Monday evenings in each month. Waits
Vile Fire Engine Co. meets at Engine house
first Thursday Of each month s Of u RESCUE
DINsioN No. q meets in Union Block Friday even
every Thursday afternoon at o'clock. Public
Library. Brick School House. Open Saturday
afternoon to o'clock, evenings $50 to g. W re
meets Ist and sd Wednesdays v o'clock at G. A.
R. Hall, Union Block. T p s G meets every
Monday evening at o'clock at the Congregational YES
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err wintering In the Riviera shall not 6s
amenable to the now decree.
A sad story comes from Alabama Of how
four lives were sacrificed to the shotGhp
quarantine, as they could not fee or rsoe4vS
aid.
Rider Haggard married an heirsss snl
lives in fine old English manor, quaint ana
beautiful and full of artistic and ourious
things.
The Philadelphia Times says Mr.. Randall
Is improving, and there is every reason 70
hope for his ultimate restoration to active
public service.
William B. Smith, cashier in the Erie rail.
way freight-house at Mansfield, O., left town
with $4,000 of the companys money. He Il
also $7OO short in his accounts.
A Montreal dispatch says the snow storm
yesterday had the effect of OBTAINING many in.
coming vessels, while those in port were com.
pletely weather-bound up to nearly noon
George r. Carter, 'S8, who was elected
captain Of the Yale university crew for tho
ensuing year, has resigned, and George w,
Woodruff, 'S9, has been elected to fill the va
cancy.
The Berlin police have seized the remain
ing copies of the October number of The
Deutsche Rundschau, which contained the
extracts from the diary of the late Emperor
Frederick.
The British man-of-war Osprey has cap
tured off Mocha three dhows, having on
board 2O3 slaves. The captains of the dhows
and four of the slaves were killed before the
slavers surrendered
Mrs. John A. Logan is having her WASH
ington house extensively improved. She is
having gallery built in which she will place
her collection of articles connected with the
public life of the general.
The County Democracy of New York COM
pleted the Hewitt ticket by nominating
Michael c. Murphy for sheriff, James DAILY
for county clerk and Joseph l. Sanger for
president of the board Of aldermen.
Miss Emily Faithful has completed the
thirtieth year of her philanthropic work.
She received a portrait of the queen, bearing
an autograph inscription, as token of her
majesty's recognition of her services.
Count De Lesseps and his son are making
tour throughout all parts of France, and the
famous canal builder is lecturing on the bril-
liant prospects of the Panama scheme and in
viting subscriptions to his lottery loan.
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The Vermont Academy.

BELLOWS FALLS, VT, Oct. 10.-The exer-
cises dedicatory of the new general school
building of the Vermont academy at Sax
tons River was held last night and addressed
by Rev. DR.. Judson of New York. The
building is of brick, four stories high and
substantially built, and lately finished at a
cost of $4,000 There are three similar
buildings. the others being used as boys dor
mitory and girls dormitory. Besides these
there are kitchens, an armory hall and prin-
cipal's dwelling, making one of the most COM
pletely arranged and successful schools in
New England. 1t is under the direction of
Professor H. M. Willard, formerly superin-
tendent of schools at NeAton, Mass.
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ALICE HOYLE AGAIN.

Rum0r That She Has Denied Her Story
Told the Grand Jury.
WEBSTER. Mass. Oct 18-It is rumored
that Alice Hoyle, who gave the most fmpor-
tant evidence before the grand jury against
McQuaid and Cowie, who are soon to be tried
for the murder of Lila Hoyle last summer,
has declared that her story was untrue and
that she will not appear against the defendants
in their approaching trial. 1t is also rumored
that another important government witness
will also decline to testify against the prison
ers. If these rumors prove true, it is feared
the government will hardly be able to secure
n conviction
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Boston, Oct 9.-Gov. Ames has appointed
as one of the additional members of the state
police allowed by the act of 1888, Joseph
Halstrick of Boston. He is a war veteran,
and served with distinction in the Thirteenth
Massachusetts under Col Leonard. For the
last three years he has been a senate messen-
GER His record includes the saving of four
lives. The governor has also appointed to
similar positions Maj. Daniel Webster Ham
mond, chief of police of Haverhill, John L.
Knight Of Springfield end Capt. Frederick
M. Merriam of North Adams. These are all
yetAranS
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BOSTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Brighton Oct. 0.

Brighton Oct. 0.
Prices of beef cattle y 100 bs live weight-Extra
quality So 1906 5O first quality $5 75016 sec
ond quality 81 1905 8a1f: third quality S3 76N
e.: poorest grades Of coarse oxen, bulls etc,
$303o2.
Swine-Western fat hogs are costing landed at
the slaughter houses, 63407c U n live weight.
Watertown, Oct. 8. ~
Prices of market beef-Extra STG1T IS; first
quality S6D6 is: second quality S5Qt5 80; third
quality $4Ql45O
q each: extra 81 25lS5 or, from 2LS6 So {
D; spring lambs 41f05l4c p b.
Veal calves 2lS@bAc p b.
Swne-Western fat, live 6N01c; northern
dressed hogs &c y n wholesale
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They Were in Rebel Prisons.

WORCESTER, Oct. 5.-The New England rebel
prison survivors met in this city yesterday
afternoon, and held short business meeting
at which the following officers were elected
President, G. NJ Smith Of Worcester; vice
president, H. T. Dudley of Whitinsville; Sec
retary and treasurer, William Jubb, of Fitch
burg; executive committee, Edward Linds-
Icy of Worcester, Albert Moore of Gardner,
j. P. Sheahan of Dennisville, Me. In the
evening George H. Ward post of the Grand
Army gave them a camp fire, which was at
tended bv a large number.
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MURDER, OR DISEASED
Epilepsy Of the victim the Defense In the
Browning Trial.

&PAoPSy VI tho vICLIm tine O0IOnBO IN tu0
Browning Trial.
PROVIDENCE, Oct 6-The trial Of William
Browning for the murder Of his wife, ANNIE
In the town of Lincoln on June last, was
begun yesterday In the court Of common
pleas.
Examination revealed the line Of defense,
which was that the wife was not sufRocatsd
by strangulation, bat that she died from
epilepsy, Of which aflictton shs had for time
suffered. It was also intimated' that this
would be trial In which great deal Of ex-
pert testimony would be offered to show that
death from epilepsy would have produced
just the condition found at the autopsy, the
finger nail impressions being caused by the
sufferer Of the attack. Counsellor West sue
ceeded in getting from the medical examiner
the admission that he found traces Of liquor
In the body, and that he did not find in the
lungs the ecchymosed signs generally found
In them In cases of suffocation.
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THE BARRY B0LTERS.
REBELLlO is NEW YORK KNiH0Ts OF
LABOR PLOTTING.


New YosK, Oct. 10.-Michael Breslin,
treasurer of that faction Of district assembly
Forty Nine, Knights Of Labor, which has
possession Of Pythagoras hall, and Thomas b.
Barry, ex-member Of the general executive
board, will address mass meeting tonight
at Cooper Union.
The topic chosen by Breslin is "The
division in district assembly Forty-Nine and
the machinators of the Home club exposed.
Barry's will be: 1.-THE dry rot in the Knights
of Labor; it's origin and causes Why the
membership Of the order has fallen off from
7O2 900 in 1885 to 250, 600 in 1885,"
This. taken in connection with Barry's re-
cent resignation from the general executive
board, is regarded as significant, and it is
said he has Joined hands with the professional
committee which organized shortly after the
Minneapolis general assembly adjourned,
and with the seceders from district assembly
Forty-Nine All these forces will be repre-
sented at Indianapolis and they hope to be
Joined by other discontented members there.
The Pythogoras hall delegate will knock at
the assembly's door but does not expect to be
admitted. It has been arranged in that
event to meet in another hall and organize
new order, probably resurrect the Improved
Order of the Knights of Labor. with Barry
as master workman. In this it is expected
to secure the adhesion Of all the radical ele-
ments in the present organization, which
have always been inimical to Mr. Powderly
and his conservative course.
Those at the head Of the opposition claim
that the order is now bankrupted and that
there will be no general assembly at Indian
apolis unless the districts pay the travelling
expenses of their delegates. They say that
Mr. Powderly is writing an address to the
districts asking them to do so They further
assert that Charles H. Litchman, the former
secretary of the organization, is going there
with blood in his eye and will try to take the
scalp of the man who stood by him through
thick and thin-T. V. Powderly
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New Bedford Fishermen Com plain.

New BEDFORD, Mass, Oct. S.-Fishermen
in this city complain of the action of Fair
Haven authorities in reserving to the fisher
men of that town the scallop beds in what is
known as the "cove" and in the waters Of
Acushnet river above the bridge, particu-
larly in the last named place. They also say
the New Bedford waters have not been pro-
tected by the board Of aldermen Of this city.
and are now open to Fair Haven fishermen.
They propose to call on the authorities to
take protective action.
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HARTFORD, Oct 10-The supreme court
decides that the Continental Life Insu.-
ance company is legally dead, because of the
annulment of the charter. The Connecticut
attachments are accordingly vacated and the
property released. II b supposed that sim
liar action will follow with the suits brought
in other states. The released property goes
to the benefit of policy holders.
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CONDENSED NEWS.
Thurstlay, Oct. 4.

r. Thursday, Oct. 4.
Wilkie Collins Is seriously sick.
A New York Central train was derailed
Floods have interrupted passage on Swiss
railroads.
I A prisoner committed suicide by hanging in
Salem jail.
Yesterday was wild day in the Chicago
grain market.
The president has approved tho sundry civil
appropriation BILL
After abanquet at Munich, Emperor Will
lam departed for Vienna.
Professor Gefticken is to be tried before the
supreme court at Leipsic.
The American Board wants $75O,OOO for
foreign missions this year.
The cold wave has made the outlook more
encouraging at Decatur, Ala.
It is reported that propeller went down in
Lake Michigan on Monday night
It is said that six inches of snow fell in
some portions Of Upper Canada Tuesday
night.
Col. ]. ]. Daniel, prominent citizen Of
Jacksonville, was one Of the yellow fever
victims
Union Pacific net earnings for August
were $l41, 1872 less than for the same month
last year.
The steamer State of Georgia, which left
New York Sept. 20, has not yet reached
Glasgow.
Shipman, Barlow, Larocque 3 Choate
made good $112,664 of the losses by Bedell's
forgeries.
The murderers of Mrs. Howes were found
guilty of manslaughter and sentenced for
fifteen years.
The Montreal Star lectures the Canadian
politicians for causing the growth Of annexa-
tion sentiment.
Vice President Smith of the Vermont Cen
tral railroad was married to Miss. James Of
Ogdensburg, N. Y.
The Irish athletes were entertained at q
banquet by the National Irish Athletic asso-
citation at Boston.
Two supposed Americans have been ar
rested in connection with the Whitechapel
murders in London.
One thousand men are thrown out of work
by the action of the sugar trust in closing two
refineries in Brooklyn.
The resignation of A. A. Carleton from the
general executive board of the Knights of
Labor is not yet accepted
ThetStal assessment in Boston of both sexes
TO S1Se for school committee Is 146.460. Ths
total number Of women assessed is q, ,270.
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No Trace Of the Cashier.

FALL RIVER, Mass, Oct. 6.-No trace of
A. E. Bosworth, the missing cashier of the
Stafford mills and the Beattie Zinc company
has yet been found, and his friends are in
clined to the belief that he has committed
suicide
The experts engaged upon the books have
unearthed discrepancy of $500.
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Unable to Tell.

Yes. that was SO. For years ! suffered
severely with scrOfula: sores broke out all
over my body. and am unable to tell one
half that suffered. was not able to oh
tain relief until / used Sulphur Bitters,
which completely cured me.-C b. DALE,
II AllstOn street Boston.
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Illegal Voting in Maine.

LEWISTON. Me-, Oct. 9.-Deputy United
States Marshal B. F. Andrews arrested s. A.
Wilson and his son, Charles Wilson, yester-
day, for alleged illegal voting at the Septem-
Der election It is said that both supposed
they had legal right to vote. Maxim Beau
lieu, a police officer, was also arrested,
charged with not being legal citizen, having
received naturalization papers when he had
no right TO them. The prisoners were taken
to Portland
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Worcester,s A126. .Q0O Armorx.

WORCESTER, Oct. 9.-The city council last
night designated sl25, 900 as the amount the
city is willing to expend for an armory, un-
der the act of the last legislature
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That Tired Feeling

Affiicts nearly every one in the spring.
The system having become accustomed to
the bracing air of winter, is weakened by
the warm days of the changing season, and
readily yields to attacks of disease, Hoods
Sarsaparilla is Just the medicine needed.
1t tones and builds up every part of the
body, and also expels all impurities from
the blood. Try it this season.
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After the Aattle.

BosToN, Oct. AFTER somewhat serious
encounter, the officials of Quincy and the
Boston water board agree that the question
of the right of the latter to lay pipes in the
Quincy streets shall be settled in court.
Gangs Of workmen employed by the two
cities had tussle over the trenches yesterday
in which the Boston gang won by superior
force.
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The First Line of Battle.

Palamedes of Argos is said to have
been the first commander who ranged an
army in a regular line of battle placed
sentinels round a camp and excited the
soldiers vigilance by giving him watch
word. Boston Budget.
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Water for London.

The annual consumption of water in
extinguishing fires in London is about
100000 Of gallons. The cost of the
metropolitan fire brigade is rather over
e1O0,0 900 a year.
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Matertown,s Suicide is Mary f. Crafts.

WATERFOWL, Mass, Oct 10-John L.
Crafts, milk dealer. who resides on High
land avenue, Somerville. has identified as his
daughter, Mary F., the suicide found here the
other day. Mary bad oftentimes shown
signs of melancholia, and during the past
year there have been noticeable irrational
acts on her part MH. Crafts thought she
had wandered away and was with friends.
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The Utah Home.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-The conferees on
the general deficiency bill have agreed to the
apprupriation for the Utah home
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j. b. PICKETT, JR.,
.4Ik0,mey und cOWmseIlOs' ut Lar,
Notary Public, Collections promptly made. Union
"'0'A' Bradford, Vt.
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j. H. JONES, NJ. D.,
Hours until a. M, ? to p. m. Saturdays until p.
m. Office at residence opposite hotel
Bradford, VT.
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Jowitt Guilty of Manslaughter.

PROVIDENCE, Oct. g. = James Jowitt,
charged with the murder Of Arthur Craven,
was found guilty yesterday afternoon of
manslaughter. Sentence was deferred till
Saturday
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Fire in Skowheean.

SKowHEGAN, Me-, Oct. 4.-The works of
the Fibrate Manufacturing company, this
village, were gutted by fire yesterday. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, including build
ing, machinery goods manufactured and in
process Insurance on machinery, $4,000
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som~.sne Poisoned HIs Cattle.

HARTFORD. Oct 10.-Timothy O'Connell
of Colchester has had six head of cattle
poisoned, five dying within three days State
officials are investigating the case. The
Aoisoning was apparently malicioua
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Friday, Oct. 8.

The Chinese bureau in the San Francisco
custom house is closed.
The surrender of Cashier De Baum was or
dered by Canadian judge
Directors of the New Zealand bank have
absorbed the surplus Of 100000.
Emperor Williams visit to Austria causes
mutual expressions of good feeling
The Hall torpedo is not abandoned Fur
ther trials are to be made at Newport, R. I.
DR.. Leonard, Greenback candidate for gov
ernor in Indiana, declares for Harrison and
Morton.
At Napa, Cal Gold Leaf broke the worlds
record for pacing by three-year-olds, making
mile in 2:15
Long distance telephoning has been estaD-
lished between Portland and Philadelphia, by
Boston and New York.
The Ninth Massachusetts regiment made
good impression in New York yesterday, and
was reviewed by Mayor Hewitt.
The conductors and drivers of the North
Side, Chicago, will probably strike Saturday
to enforce their demands for shorter hours
and better pay.
A boiler exploded yesterday morning in the
residence Of Ezra w. Chapin of Northboro,
Mass, completely demolishing the house and
causing loss of about $25. 600.
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Young Spectators Of Orange FIeec,

ORANGE, Mass, Oct. 9.-The failure of w.
H. Ingram & Co. of New York victin.zed
the young laboring men Of Orange to the
amount of about &3OOO
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Wednesday. Oct. 10.

|
Two New York newsboys were burned t.
DEATH
The two chief street car systems of Chicago
are tied up.
Four German war ships have been ordered
to Zanzibar.
Three lines restored rates from st. Loui,
to New York.
The collapsed Traders bank of Chicago
makes poor showing of assets
King Otho of Bavaria is sinking deeper
and deeper in his religious mania
Ex-Queen Isabella Of Spain has returned
to Paris. She will give receptions during the
winter.
Emporer William has summoned Co mt
Herbert Bismarck from Pesth to Styria BY
telegraph
The proposition that Emperor Francis
Joseph crown himself King of Bohemia
causes a sensation.
1t has been decided to greatly increase tie
strength of the German expedition for the
relief of Emin Bey.
The senete has passed bill correcting the
error in connection with the time Of meeting
OF presidential elector1
Superintendent Fry Il made general MANA
ger of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road under the receivers.
The senate tariff bill will not be passed this
session. Practically the session of the senate
will end in about ten days.
Premier Floquct has decided that foreign
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Saturday, Oct. 6.

Crimes are on the increase in Havana
There was 100000 fire in Little Rock,
Ark.
A woman died in dentists chair in Paw
tucket r. l.
The Virginia tobacco crop has been greatly
damaged by frosts.
Owing to cold Mr. Blaine gives up his
Michigan appointments.
Bloodhounds are to be used to hunt down
the Whitechapel murderer.
Five men were fatally burned by gas ex-
plosion in a tunnel at Cleveland.
The next meeting of the Americanist con-
gress will be held in Paris in 1889.
It is not believed in Washington that the
president will indorse Governor Hill
Rowe defeated Temple in the first of tho
three wheel races for the championship.
The entire population Of Ramsey county,
Oak. are reported to be on the brink Of
starvation.
M. de Blowitz reports that bloodthirsty
new international society has headquarters in
New York.
In collision ON the Rome, Watertown and
Ogdensburg railroad two men were killed and
two badly injured.
The New York Sun pronounces the senate
tariff bill the surer, safer and moro practical
BILE remedy for the danger Of an increasing
surplus.
At Medina, O., Mrs Mary l. Garrett has
been sentenced to be hanged Jan. 25 next for
the murder of her two imbecile stepdaugh-
tiers last November.
Capt. R. H. Pratt, chairman of the Sioux
Indian commission, says there is no longer
any doubt of the Indians and the govern
ment coming to terms.
Violent storms have prevailed on the North
sea. Several fishing smacks which have ar
rived at English ports report the loss of
sailors who were washed overheard.
The Mexican rains have completely ased,
and all the waters are receding. Official fig
ures to date state that the losses throughout
the country by the cyclone and floods exceed
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X. NJ. HARVEY,
.akI0zwey amt COMuSeIIoa' ut Lar,
Master and Solicitor in Chancery,
West Topsham, VT.
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BRADFORD SAVINGS BANK & TRUST CO.,
collections. and does general banking business,
Bradford, VT.
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JOHN H. WATSON,
.4kko1wey Nna CONvSeIL01 at Lar,
Master and Solicitor in Chancey Collections prompt
ly attended to.
Bradford, VT.