National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-07-28
General News Summary.

The Connecticut House has passed n
general railroad law 10y vote OF 10 to
81.
LARGE fires in the woods near Ottawa,
Ont, have destroyed considerable prop
erty,
ACCORDING TO DR.. Bryant, of LeXing-
ton, the Kentucky wheat crop has got
the itch.
PARIS is to negotiate loan for the
rebuilding of the monuments destroy d
during the siege.
A SERIOUS personal affair has occurred
at Bangatore, India, in which two British
officers were shot.
The loss of life by the explosion mt
Kidsgrove, England, is increased by the
death of several Of the injured.
MONEY is easy in New York, mt three
per cent. on stock collaterals and mt two
to three per cent. on governments
DURING the year ending June IL, 1871,
$40 patents have been issued, and oJ9
trade marks have been registered.
THERE was grand celebration in
honor Of the twenty-iifth anniversary of
the pontificate of Plus TX, at San Fran
cisco.
SISTER MONICA, lay sister Mt the
Convent of the Visitation, in Washing
years
A MAIL train on the Northern Railway
of France ran off the track near Cler-
mont. Six persons were killed and twenty
injured.
ONE year age Sumner County, Kansas
had not single inhabitant. Now it has
a population of 5000, and, Of course,
newspaper.
In an address at CRANKY, Gov. jewell
claimed that Connecticut has n greater
percentage of children i'll school than
any other State.
THREE more Cuban leaders on Cayo
Cruz, whore Covado was captured, were
surrounded by Spanish seamen and
troops and killed.
EUGENE HAINEs, nine years old was
drowned at Lansinburg, N. Y. His
brother nearly the same age, was drown
ed in July, 1870.
BROADER GENERAL William Magma
der, United States army, died in Wash
ington aged 65 years. He graduated ut
West Point in 1927
THE total imports at New York for the
past week were s., $50, 800 against ST.
$50, 22S the previous week, and "a ,563,-
80 for the corresponding week OF last
year.
DANIEL STYLES of Prescott, Wis, is
now in his 10Gth year, and has been a
Freemason for 80 years. The local pa
pers declare him the Oldest Freemason in
America.
SIXTEEN thousand of the Communist
prisoners Mt Versailles have been released
by order of the Government, but sixteen
thousand are still held, and will be tried
In squads.
IT is now considered certain that SO of
the ia Deputies chosen to the French
Assembly are moderate Republicans, and
will support the Administration of Presi-
dent Theirs.
A sAIL-BoAT. containing five persons
was capsized by squall il Boston har
Dor. and Geo. David, aged five years,
and VIM. Horning, aged twenty years,
were drowned.
A PARTY of negroes f. ID into the house
of Angus Red, a planter in Blrnwell
County, South Carolina, killing Thomas
A. Lowe, and wounding Red, his wife
and his mother.
The arrest of F. A. Shriester, of Gin
cinnati, on n charge of embezzlem emit, so
excited him that when brought into court
he burst blood vessel, and is not ex
pected to recover.
CHARLES Z. DETAIL who was lowering
Il boiler into steamer, at Portland Me-,
made n misstep and fell through the
hatchway, breaking his neck, causing
death Immediately.
BY the overturning of a row boat at
Irondequoit Bay New York, three per-
sons Miss Ella Leland, aged % years,
Miss Carrie Abel, age 10, and Keller b.
Byam, were drowned.
THERE is n struggle among the Ameri
cans in Paris to secure possession of the
Communist prisoners as colonists. Some |
want them for Colorado and others for |
Lower California and Arizona
The Spanish gunboat Neptune captured |
t e Cuban General FREDERICK Cavada
while he was trying to leave the island. |
He was taken to Puerto Principe for
trial. His execution is certain.
The coal tonnage for the week ending
on Saturday last amounted to 54l 1884
tons, and for the season to 5,629 ,522
tons. deficiency of 2,44S, 500 tons as
compared with the tonnage of last year.
DENNIS AHE, after rescuing his wife
and children from a fire in their board
ing-house in San Francisco, returned to
save his money, when he was overcome
by the smoke and persisted in the flames
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
has decided that woman, although for
mally appoi ted justice of the peace,
can have no constitutional or legal au
thority to exercise any functions of that
Office.
FIRES have been raging for distance
of 80 miles, around Port Elgin, Ontario
Great numbers of houses, and large
amount of crors have been destroyed.
The village itself was saved by a change
of wind.
THERE are in the Office of the Second
Auditor of the Treasury, $4,000 claims
for bounty, arrears of pay, &c, involv-
ing $4,000, 900 or S3,000,000 OF this
number about 49, 900 will probably be al
lowed.
FULL returns of the census of New
York City give grand total of 9i2, 292
as the population of this municipality
OF this number, 80. 800 are white, of
native birth AIS. GAG are white, of for
eign birth, and ID, 093 are colored
The primary elections on the 25th Of
June were favorable to Jnarez in tn,
WV Of MnxfnA