National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-08-12
GENERAL ITEMS.

IHE Emperor OF MOROCCO IL gong 10
arm his troops with the needle-gun.
FoRrY-FoUR THOUSAND women are en-
ployed os outdoor laborers i'll England.
THE Prince and Princess of Wales have
decided not to visit Ireland this year.
A WISCONSIN man and Bostonian are
going to roll Il match at ten-pins
CHICAGO women want women police
men.
BIsMARcK beer is the popular beverage
in st. Louis.
A PETRIFIED forest has been discovered |
in Lake County, Gal.
The grasshoppers are despoiling Spring
field, Mass, gardens
a COUPLE of Texan women are raising
twenty-five acres Of cotton.
The peace between Paraguay and
Brazil has not yet been signed.
OVER six hundred Germans in Chicago
have volunteered for the Prussian army
The harvest i'll Oregon, this season,
exceeds that of any former year.
HARRIS is the name of an experienced
highway woman i'll London
HE Chinese only pay their physicians
when they are in perfect health.
YALE COLLEGE last year spent 81. .647.27
above its income
CARS propelled by rubber are to be in
troduced III Baltimore.
IT is estimated that 900 immigrants
per day are settling i'll Minnesota.
IN Virginia the oak is said to be diving
ont, and the poplar succeeding.
Connecticut manufactures are stopp-
ing ON account of scarcity OF water.
AN Office has been opened in Montreal
to obtain recruits for the French army.
ST. Louis has dime faro bank for the
benefit of poor gamblers
GALVESTON, Texas, is to put 500. 900
worth of shells upon her streets.
/ A WOMAN in Cedar Falls, Iowa, only GS
years of age, has 125 descendants.
The French Government now require
passports for all persons entering or leav-
ing France
FIVE hundred Cinnamon are on
their way to Virginia, where they will he
employed i'll railroad service.
GIN. Il. MCKEE, of Kentucky, has re-
married his first wife, after being divorced
twenty-five years.
/ KENTUCKY expects the world to con
sumo %. 600 hogsheads Of her tobacco
this year.
The Hon David a Wells has invita-
tions from three Congressional Districts
TO become their candidate
GRAssHoPpERS are doing good deal
6 la, ,,,, 4
Mass.
A NOVELTY for shoes is the metallic heel,
which is screwed on aud can be trans.
feired from one pair of shoes to another.
The debt OF the City of Boston is
S12. 6O2, $50, IN increase of S3. 3.65j O4a in
two wears.
The number of Chinese in the United
States nj the end Of 1859 is estimated MT
10000
Ice is now four times the price OF coal.
But next winter the boot will he on the
other foot
FUsILEEE named kraus shot the first
Frenchman who has been killed in the
war
EVERYTHING combines to secure an cx-
tensivc growth of all farm and garden
products in Michigan.
MICHIGAN is the only state that has
built up university from the grant of
Congress.
The largest civil township III Indiana
contains two hundred and twelve square
miles ; the smallest has only -four.
4 POPULAR theatre is to he built in St.
Petersburg. the price of admission to
which is not to exceed ten cents.
IN China. visiting cards are square
pieces of red paper, the name being
printed in one corner
Ir took S97. 80 to send telegram from
the Germans OF Cincinnati to the King OF
Prussia.
A CINCINNATI gentleman offers to con
tribute 800 in gold To Prussia every week
during the wat.
NEARLY two millions OF Germans have
emigrated to this country during the last
twenty years.
FIFTEEN thousand head of Texas cattle
are at Schuyler, Nebraska, awaiting trans.
poltation eastward.
The school directors ut Malcolm. Iowa,
dismissed teacher for twisting little
girls neck till she tainted
4 vERrrABLE Polish Countess is keeping
, II watering-placc hotel Mt Seven Springs
Mountain, New York
FHry-oNI cases of accidental drown.
ing have been reported in New England
/ papers within the past ten days.
STRIPED linen waists ARE worn velN
! much with black and colored silk skirts
, and are very stylish and becoming
. THE latest fashion for gentlemen is to
{ them to wear scarlet ribbon tied in tn,
. buttonbolc. in the place of u bunch %
flowers.
o 4 LADY ut SautOgn appeared ut one %
e the hops wearing II necklace of sapphire
. and diamonds, which was valued ut ter
3 thousand dollars
, Tur Cincinnati T,mrS thinks Prcsiden
= Grant is irving to concilntc the Chimes,
e by appointing Frcc-IinP Huyson Minis
y tor to England
. Guns Foo, II wealthy Chinese mcwhnn
:, is now at Saratoga He attends the hop
:, in full Chinese costume, with the additio,
=, Of y ring md pin.
. MISS LAvtSM RyBrRN OF Washington
:. County. Va, has been displaced ~ post
4 mistress, ON account of the "disounliilca
y ton Of martinRc.
q As Eastern paper suggests that tn
I. fishes tampcr with the Atlantic cables
\. which may account for the doubtful odn
" of somc of the war rumors.
VI Is San Francisco the Jews have vote
ss 10 - 10 abolish the old custom lo