The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-09-28

Monday, Sept. -.
Kennedy defeated Ten Eyck in sprin
race on Lake Quinsigamond.
Secretary Fairchild and wife have lef
Washingto for months vacation.
The fortification and army appropriation
bills have been signed by the president.
Discharged employees of the Pittsburg ant
Lake Erie railroad lose their suits against
the company.
Teemer has posted $500 at Pittsburg to
back up his claim to the championship.
The Socialistic Labor party Of New York
York is to nominate candidates for national,
state and municipal offlces
Clarke Of Dorchester, Mass, won the
twenty-flve-mile road race Of the Chelsea
Cycle club in lh. SO 1-4m. Bailey brothers
rode twelve miles on a tandem in 1h. l-4m
The Ohio and Mississippi has engaged in
the rate cutting war prevalent in the west,
and announces round trip rate Of s0l from
New York to st. Louis, good for fifteen days
The citizens Of Allegheny City have petit
toned the courts to restrain the natural gas
companies from charging exorbitant rates.
The price Of gas is now beyond the price Of
coal
Some Of the Indian agents profess to be-
Heve that the Sioux will sign the treaty,
while others are confident that they win not.
John Grass, one Of the chiefs, holds that the
Indians should receive e1.25 per acre for tho
land.
Mrs. Cleveland and her party are now
pleasantly established In : log cabin by the
waters Of Lake Flacdd. AdirOndacin On
Sunday they spmt the forenoon quietly be-
tweeN The csbin and IL hotpl. In tha after
noon they atfanded scrv1ocs N &hs chapel
DR.. Rosman and wife Of Brooklyn and Mrs.
Lamont are Of the party.
Tuesday Sept. e5.
Two Irish priests were sentenced each to
sdx weeks imprisonment.
The Mexican railway was serious sufferer
by the recent severe storm.
Fish are reported very scarce off the Green
land coast and in North bay.
The Texas notorious "lone highwayman"
was shot and killed by woman.
George Hosmer offers Joyce five-seconds
handicap in three-mile sculling race.
w. S. Hobart of San Francisco paid $780,
600 for two Lexington mares and filly.
L. C.. Prindle, editor of The Bridgeport
Morning News, was assaulted by citizen.
Bismarck considers the published abstract
of Emperor Frederick's diary apocryphal
DR.. w. G.. T. Shedd has spent forty years
on a work entitled "Dogmatic Theology"
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has recovered
from the effects Of her recent Newport driv-
ing accident.
Rev. Sam Small, the evangelist, has been
nominated for the Georgia senate by the At
lanta Prohibitionists.
The number of names on the voting lists in
Boston is about 1749 larger now than it was
at this time last year.
A conspiracy has been discovered in Chi
cago, having for its object the marriage Of
innocent girls to Cinnamon.
The badly decomposed body of man was
found in Plymouth, Mass. A rubber stamp
in pocket bears the name John Murphy.
The centennial of the old Essex bridge was
celebrated in Salem and Beverly by an illu-
mination, salutes and the burning of fire.
works
Senator Sawyer of Wisconsin will retire
from public life at the expiration of his
present term in 1898. He will then be u
years of age
One million spindles in Lancashire mills
have began running on short time, the mill
owners object being to defeat the American
cotton ring.
The Wagner Car company has been sys-
tematically robbed by its conductors during
the past three months. The amount taken is
estimated at $50,0O0.
Some New Brunswick overseers of the poor
were condemned in court for inhuman neglect
of a girl who gave birth to child in the
snow in Madwaska county. The baby died.
A eunuch in the sultan's palace was hanged
in Constantinopole for killing comrade The
chief eunuch and eight other eunuchs have
been exiled for having neglected their duties.
Mr.. Bradlaugh incurred an expense OF
212O0 in his contest over the oaths bill, but
his friends have come to his aid, and more
than $1,000 has already been subscribed to
reimburse him. He has accomplished his
purpose, and will rever again be required by
law to take the oath.