National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-01-27

FLORIDA wants more oGeucS, Nnu Is
taking means of alluring them thither.
1T Is rumoured III st. Paul that Ricl,
Of Red river notoriety, has been poi
soned.
Tnn accrued interest on the Pacific
Railroad bonds, to January, amounts to
over IS, 100000.
A PRIVATE telegram from st. Paul says
that Senator Window Of Minnesota will
get the long term.
A VERMoNTER sues neighbor for SO,
O0O because he brought malignant small
pox into his family.
4 PRussIAN column recently lost 300
men by drowning in an attempt to cross
the Loire on the ice.
THERE are $4,000 bushels of potatoes
stored at Poultney, n T., awaiting Il
rise in the city markets.
THERE will be fifty.three Sabbaths IN
the year being Sundays.
FIrTY-NINE newspapers in towns and
cities on the Pactic coast have persisted
during the present year.
The machine for making ginger snaps
lately invented, has capacity for max
irg 800 snaps per minute.
No more killing or selling Of quail in
New York State from january |, until
the Goth day Of October next.
The Arfisan, from Philadelphia for
Bremen threw overheard 900 casks Of
petroleum during the voyage.
In the Maine Legislature Chas. Buff
fam is President of the Senate, and L.
r. Smith Speaker of the House.
THE United States Treasury will sell
100000 of coin and purchase So, 0O0,-
600 Of bonds the present month.
IN the Delaware Legislltur Charles
Gooding was elected Speaker of the Sen
ate and Scwell c. Biggs Of the House.
CINCINNATI has built twenty eight
steam vessels during the year just past,
with an aggregate tonnage Of ll,GlS
tons.
AN attempt will be made in the Penn
sylvania Legislative this year 10 pnss an
act for the revision of the State consti-
tuition.
II is reported that the Prussian cavalry
cent SHOWS and frost, US the horses are
smoJ th-shod.
The official returns to the Secretary of
State of Indiana, show that the average
Democratic majority on the State ticket
at the late election was 1854.
A CATALOGUE OF the University of De
seret contains the names of tifty-six Of
Brigham Young's children of both sexes,
who are pupils IN the institution.
The State of Maine is paying about
three-quarters of n million OF dollars
annually to support the common
schools, which is about IS a scholar.
New counterfeit $40 bills on the Far
mers and Manufacturers National Bank
of Poughkcepse, are in circulation in
Pittsburg, Penn, and Philadelphia.
The Duke of Aosta, King of Spain,
has landed at Cartagena. He was re-
ceived with enthusiasm by the people,
and departed soon afterward for Madrid.
The ice-boat Chesapeake, used for
breaking up the ice in the harbor Of
Baltimore, burst her boiler few days
ago, killing one man and wounding sew
eral others.
IT is stated that the French prisoners
confined in the fortresses near the Rhine,
conspired to revolt and escape on Christ
mas Eve, but the project was discovered
and defeated.
The Senate Committee on Guber-
Material Votes of Maine reports that
Sidney Perham has 81, 901 votes. and
Charles ". Roberts 45, 733, and there
were 3S scattering.
TIE United States steamer Saranac,"
which left Honolulu, s. /. , for San Fran
cisco four months age has not been heard
from since, and there is much anxiety
concerning her fate.
THE West Wisconsin Railroad Com
pany was one of the first to pay its
January interest in full. Such prompt /.
ness is worthy of note in these days of
Railroad reputation.
The stoppage Of distilleries is common
the country over. Illinois whiskey fac
tories are nearly all idle, as are those OF
Kentucky. One year ago that branch of
the business was brisk.
ORDERS have been sent to Fort Scott, .
Kansas, to remove settlers from the Mi .
ami Indian reservation. This includes .
about $1,000 acre of land, on which .
9, 900 to 1000 settlers have made valuable .
The statistics of the wool trade Of San
Francisco for 1870 show aggregate re-
ceipts of about twenty million pounds.
The average price has been about twenty
cents, making the wool clip for the year
worth S4,000,000.
KING Victor Emmanuel has entered
the city of Rome, His reception was
most enthusiastic. The city was illumi-
mated. The King appeared on the bal
cony of the Quirinal Palace, and was
cheered by an immense assemblage.
A LETTER from an officer at the Ger
man headquarters has been published in
London, IL states that the project of n
war upon Great Britain was planned out
rs exactly that of a war against France,
long before the present struggle begun.
THE intensely cold weather causes
fearful mortality among the German
wounded. Nearly all the occupants of
ffty-six carriages filed with soldiers
in the assault on Belfort, were
frozen to death before the train reached
Chatenois.
The New SPANISH Ministry has been
completed as follows: Serrano, Presi-
lent of the Council. Martas, Minister
IF Foreign Affairs. Montero Rios,
Minister of Justice Beranger, Minis
er of Marine. Sagasta, Minister of the
rnxo,;or TrlIao Minister of Public