The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1890-08-22
Tuesday. Aug. 10.

Tuesday. Aug. 10.
Queen Victoria prorogued parliament,
The steamer Alacoe is ashore on Cape
Race.
Eleven houses and stores were burned at
Winona, Ill.
A Lynn. Mass, woman was poisoned by
a spiders bite.
Charles Gibbon, the novelist, died at
Yarmouth, Eng
The Cunard steamship Samaria has
broken her record.
Congressman Lodge is to take the stump
for Speaker Reed.
A Hazelton, Pa, man was burned to
death in his house.
The Martha's Vineyard Methodist camp
meeting has begun.
A Georgia manufacturer was murdered
by discharged negro laborer.
A convention of stone masons has been
called to organize national union.
The mercury got down close to the
freezing point in Manitoba Sunday night.
The Georgian, the largest foreign
steamer afoat, was launched at Belfast,
Ire.
King Charles Of Roumania is seeking
an Austrian archduchess for his adopted
son.
There is to be national rowing regatta
in England to determine the champion.
ship.
Erenchmen are to make the attempt to
reach the North Pole by means of an air
ship.
A prominent business man Of San Fran
cisco was probably fatally shot by foot
pads.
The new officials of Argentine propose
to place the finances on a solid working
basis.
The Lynn, Mass, police are afraid the
strike in that city may lead to some acts
Of violence
The novelist Blanche Willis Howard
was married lately at Stuttgart, the cap
ital of Wurtemberg, to DR.. Teufel, court
physician.
Wednesday, Aug. 20.
DR.. Lorimeris suffering from softenine
of the brain.
The treasury will redeem $4,000, 600 Of
IL per cents. Immediately.
Twelve monks lost their lives in the fire
in the Mt. Athos monastery.
The Catalonia, at Queenstown, reports
meetinga number Of icebergs.
The seamen's strike at Melbourne
threatens to stop shipping business.
Smallpox prevails to an alarming extent
on the Mexican side of the Texas border.
The sub-treasury in New York redeemed
one of the new $1,000 silver notes in gold.
The excessive rains have made this a
most disastrous season for English farm
ers.
The treasury department is expected to
take action for the relief of the money
market.
David Christie Murray, the novelist, Il
said to be with Robert Louis Stevenson
in Samoa.
Mail service between Melbourne and
San Francisco is expected to cease in
November.
A terrible plague is reported among the
Newfoundland.
A custom house guard in TIE City of
Mexico murdered their lieutenant and
deserted in body
Officials of the Chicago and Illinois and
Ohio and Indiana coal railroads are pre-.
pairing for strike.
Scotch merchants have little faith in
the story of an American syndicate trying
to corner Scotch iron.
Senator Hearst's colt Tournament won
the Omnibus stakes at Monmouth, after
dead heat with Chaos.
Judge Stein of Hidalgo county, Texas,
was murdered by the wife of his predeces.
sor, who had been unseated.
Vice President Webb says the New York
Central railroad will spend 100000 to
win the fight with the strikers.
M. P. Handy of Philadelphia, it IL
will be appointed consul gen.
eral to Cairo, vice Eugene Schuyler, de-
ceased.
The terms of treaty of peace between
San Salvador. and Guatemala have been
and hostilities have been sus-
pended.
{ Mr.. Sturgeon thinks that Stanley in
bearing his testimony to God aud prayer
,ould have been wrought by thousand
Town grade discourses.
Emperor Francis Joseph's birthday was
with great heartiness through
nut the Austrian empire. Emperor Will
am Of Germany was among those who
autographed congratulations.
{ Mr.. Ruskin's friends are greatly excited
because they are not admitted more freely |
% see him during his sickness. They |
,lain1I that the people who live with him
re keeping his real condition from the |
world,