National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1866-11-16

y street railroad III San Francis
co pays negro woman 500 for
ejecting her from one of their ears.
Michigan makes Republican
gain of 1900 over the vote of two
years ago. Over one hundred Dem.
ocratic strongholds were swept away
by the Republican, legiOns.
An "old observer informs the
Maine Farmer that APPLES and
pumpkins never flourish well the
same year.
PoLITICAL.-Iti is stated that about
all the Irish who voted in the Chica.
go election put in straight Repub.
lican ticket.
\ YEAR or NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
fully compiled statistics show that
10000 lives are annually destroyed
by intemperancc i'll the United
States.
100000 men and women are wear
ly sent tn prison in consequence OF
strong drink.
10000 children are yearly sent to
the poorhOuse for the same reason.
800 murders are another of the
yearly fruits of intemperance.
400 suicides follow these fearful
catalogues Of miseries.
100000 orphans are brqueatIled
each year topublic and private char
ity.
, 100000, 600 are yearly expended
TO produce this shocking amount of
crime aM misery. and as much morc
is lost from the same cause.
The London Times thinks the reh
els of the South ought to vote, but
that the working men of England
should not have that privilege.
LoNG ABsTINENCE.-Melviu Wath
F., worth, of Bennington. lost his dog
! Il month ago, and found it, after
+ twenty-five days, in pit ten feet
+ deep. where it had lived. and almost
r died, on roots and gruhs. \ pretty
D long abstinence from food
e The Attornoy-Gencral has decii
: ed that claim agents can collect So.
}, dierS bounticS under the recent law,
thus OVerrulin. the decision OF n,
War Department.
The policy which Nr. Johnson is
GIVING To make. is an assurance
l. policy. In fact its aSsurauc. i n
1t most striking feature.
Thanksgiving in Ohio il appoint
ed for Thursday. November 29.
e Mr.. Peabody has given another
h half million dollars to the Peabody
- Institute at Baltimore.
=. NEW YORK, Oct. 3l.-Thc ft.elinc
n OF Indignation against the Britfsh
o. is most intense.
n \ large amount of money is b.
D. ing collected and recruiting for the
n FcMan army Is quite brisk.
, \ little daughter of No!ncy Allen
/ %! iWncr, Me. less than two wears
~ Old. fell into a brook a few day,
:, since and was under the water ten
minutes. when She was rescued. in
!. IN insenSlblc state, by her sister.
!. Proper applications soon restored
n The child.
- W hen John Morrissey goes &c
!; Congress he will probably give somt
;, instructions to Moses" III the mys
!. ;erics Of Fare, tPharaoh.l
IL On Saturday morning TWO broth
- crS named Baker were ont shooting
is IN Colchester. Conn. One of then.
raised his gun to tire at a bird. when
his brother stepped in front of hin.
e amt received the whole charge
m causing almos; instant death. bul
n not before he had time To exonera,e
y his brother from any blame.
y ArPoiNTED.-lIenry A. Fleet
wood has been appointed Postmas
ter AT St. JohnSbHry, rice Emerson
IS Hall, resigned.
I \. ii. STEPHENS OPPOSED To
II I II Il CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
he MENr.-NilIedgeriHe Ga. Nor. A.
n Hon. y. II. Stephens. in privat,
n letter to a gentleman in this city
Il incidentally alluaes to statement
published in Northern journal re-
>; garding himself and his brother, il
Il the matter of the Constitutions
a. Amendment, and characterizes it a
= utterly without foundation. HI
thinks the Legislature should reject
" the amendment.
re NApoLEoN's HEALTn.-Thc Pari
tc correspondent of the New Iorl
y Itmes-who is understood to he {
Iv medical man-says in his last let
ii ter:
Strange stories continue to Gil
culate about the Emperor's health
'. But there appears to be no other sc
T. rious grounds for these stories tina,
u. peoples fears. Nevertheless Hi
IL Majesty is not exactly well. and h,
takes great pains to conceal the fact
at His case would probably be hes
e. described by saying that he fall
m easily i'll. for his symptoms are no
always the same. Sometimes il i
Reconnaissance very vulgar com