National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1866-07-13

special dispatch from MONTREAL mas
the following:
.sTbe bill introduced into Con
cross for the admission of the Brit
ish Provinces into the American
Union has aroused angry feelings
in Government circles and gener-
nj feeling against any such step
The Commissioners appointed 10
ascertain the damage done in the
late Fenian raids. report that III liie
East it will amount TO from Slo,ooo
to 80. 900, and in the west iioh'
$4,000 to 100000.
Eprrn,,rN's RIOT.-Puldskl, Tenn,
.Iuh,6--The negroes on a plantation
rof9snd to work and were ordered
off nv the Freedmcn's Bureau Su-
4 nprintendent. They were armed
and resisted. One of the negroes
was killed.
SUIcIDE.-The Burlington Free
Press states that Mr.. VIM. II. Stone,
formerly a resident in that city,
committed suicide at Port Henry
Iron Ore Company, on Monday
last. in a state Of temperate insanity
resulting from malarial fever con
tracted in California, he took his
life by shooting himself through the
head and breast with a pistol.
The Montreal Witness argues that
there should be public ovation to
welcome the returning heroes from
the Fenian war. This sounds very
much like George the Third, pro
claiming a national thanksgiving
when the Revolutionary war ended.
The excuse that he gave was that
he thanked God that it was nc
worse.
A LADY IN LUCK.-The Hartford
Courant says that lady of that
city has recently fallen heir to the
INN rnse fortune of S35,00o,000, by
the death of some relative i'll Eng
land.
CURIosITY.-Mrs. Eliza Davis, o
Holland, has crab apple tree, which
this spring produced large Whit
rose. 1t grew out with cluster o
ample blossoms and was III ever
respect pcl'fect.-Ne'cpdrt LJpreHS.
FIRE.-On Tuesday of last week
some careless rogueS set fire to
slash near South Barton Station b,
longing to the coal company, WhlcI
in its burning. destroyed about 10
cords of wood. ready for dellvcranc
to the Il. X. Co.-BdrtOR StdRddTt
MURDERS AND ACCIDENTS /
BROOKLYN.-Netc York, JHty 81
Brooklyn yesterday Il man name
W. Noltz,a painter ,dellbcrately fire
a loaded musket into a group {
children. killing one and woundin
two. The child killed was Nillial
Lehman, ged six years. Ill
wounded children were Nillial
Mantum and Charles Badget. Vol
was arrested.
There were - accidents fro
powder. \ German named Foil
deliberately shot a policeman dea
in his (Folks') yard yesterday. viii
the officer was eXpostulatlng VII
him for threatening to shoot son
ball players whose ball had bee
accidentally Knocked into his PREF
Uses. Folks and his wife were d
rested.
The public fire works here we
postponed from last evening un
this evening, on account OF {
heavy rain squat.
An exchange says there are NJ
living in the town of lsleboro. NJ
two sisters, Wealthy and Nab
Thomas. the latter OF whom Ii
reached the ripe old age of one hu
bred and four years, the form
eighty. The elder is able to re
and sew without the aid of glass;
while the other is entirely blind.
The Presidents message, and t
manner in which it has been
ccived by Congress and the Uni
party throughout the country.
minds somebody of the lines:
"'Icant marry you, my pretty maid
Nobody aNcd YOU, sir,' she said
General Sherman seems to la
very poor opinion of Canada:
ON Il recent visit to SanduSkN, Oh
the question g. Canadian ann
lion being discuSScd-he said:
1--WE don't want Canada: but
we should, a campaign of five d;
would bring it,"
INFORMATION WANTED.--lni
nation is wanted of one ID. Mari
who was last heard of in Lamo
county, Vermont, about the first
June, where he was acting as az
for Laroy's mirror of the bible.
formation given ut this office, %
thc Montpelier and Cabot stage
yer, will relieve nearly distrac
i'ricnds.-CdlCdOnidn.
WELL SOLD.-AarOn III. SIN
of Danvillc, sold his Morrill, ho
Familiarity known Us the "Dany
Boy" to Geo. NJ. Stevens of ia
lea Plain, for $500; and if
"Boy" trots in 2.33 the present $
mer, Mr.. Stevens is to pay an Il,
tional S5OO.--Cdicdonidn.
a STARTLING SToRY-A II,
ish outrage was pcrpctraicd ON
I'd instant upon Il discharged Fee
nj soldier living near Calves