National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1866-01-05

Portland, Me-, last week.
q" Hanging by the neck until they
are dead . is now the PENALTY in
Mississippi for horse stealing.
The emigration from Georgia to
Texas is immense.
a negro man named Thomas
Brown was hung in Macon, for
burglary.
The Chief Of Police reports one
hundred and eighty houses of pros
titntion, and fifteen gambling houses
in Cincinnati
Nineteen thousand FIVE hundred
and ten acres of public land was
sold at ftumbolt, Kansas, land of
flee last month.
The editor of California paper
has been presented with a radish
about the size of a five gallon keg.
\ man was recently kicked to
death ny his wife at Elinburg, Pa.
Corn is selling in Alabama for five
dollars per bushei.
Eoxbury, Mass. has been annex
ed to Boston.
John Moran, who killed Mary FL
len kearney most brutally at Rox-
bury, Massachusetts, last year. will
be hung on the last Friday in Janu-
airy.
General Mcclellan is at a quiet
bathing place in Switzerland.
-Four hundred white emigrants
left Fortress Monroe the other week
for the North.
4 band Of Utah Indians have just
surrendered to General Carson.
Dog fights are the refined enjoy
ment OF two legged brutes and pup
pies,
The Indians within the territory
OF the United States number 295,-
IA.
The Indians on the Plains have
taken three thousand white scalps
this season,
The Mormon church is over 80
years OH. 1t was organized with
six members.
! The French army will hereafter
contain 1,25o,000 of soldiers.
In New Haven County. Conn. &c
unhappy couples have been divorc-
cd since the lst Of last january.
\ Western Bohemian repels the
gift of bottle of spruce beer on
the groundthat it is contrary to the
rules of the profession to tell a dol
lar and q halfilc for six and fourth
cents.
An English clergyman recent,
preached II sermon in what he sait
that the newspaper was a part o
Iile'S earnest self-culturc.
\ Buffalo paper has n remarkabl,
story 10 the effect that trout. meas
urln% four feet and a half in length
three feet around the body. ant
weighing seventy pounds. wa
caught in the lake fifteen miles from
DnHIIrk, not long ago, by MeSsrs
Johnson & BrothPr, OF Dunkirk. |
Is the largest trout ever caught il
: the lakes Of which there is any rC
cord-or the largest fish story know
since the days OF Jonah and III
whale; we are not at all certa
, which
\ Maine editor says that a pumr
: kin in that State, grew olarge thu
eight men could stand around j
/ This is like the fellow who saw Il,
: flock of pigeons SO Tow that he coul
o shake a stick at them.
T \ lady's absence was apologize
Il for at party the other might, hv
Il friend who said she was detaine
o by IN interesting little inciden
/ weighing just nine ponnds and
:. h2lf.'
!. REMoVALs.-No less than 90 {
- iicers out of ii0 have been remov,
I, 10y Mr.. johnson in the recess
Congress for no other reason tn:
their fidelity to the Republican pa
= ty. This is the result of the "iic
: ing out" process whici, Mr.. Johns,
= threatened when at st. Louis. RI
= people, however, have been so lit
" !, inclined to follow Johnson for q
- loaves and fishes, that he seems
:. have ut last concluded that it is II
- advisable to continue removals +
- political reasons. Certainly t Ii
Y eullotinc has rested for sever
u, weeks. He may be waiting, howe
= or. to ascertain the action OF &
- Senate upon the appointments ;
~ ready made.
80
n. vERMoNT.--rhe grand list
II. 1866 shows gratifying results, & "
il. An increase over 1865 of 5.22S
N. the number Of polls; of 1886
i'm thc ynlue Of rpnl estate. an