National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-04-21
News Summary.

is ten million dollars,
TnE r,lsh 10 the South Africa diamond
mines sill continues
GnEAr BRITAIN pays tax for over a
eleven million dogs.
No more German troops ARE to leave
France ior the present,
YEsuvrrs is still sending up two col
umns of ashes and smoke.
SUBSCRIPTIONS 10 the new L. :, loan
have rcgchcd fifty millions,
IN the New York market about s,00O
/ bf rrcls Of shad are sold annually.
CALroRsIA's State prison had $50 in
matcs during the month Of February
The result OF the elections to the Span.
ish Cortcs is favorable to the new govern
ment.
The insurgents of Paris have fired on
the people, 30 persons being killed on
wounded.
THREE Prussian officers were married
to three French ladies at Amiens a few
days ago.
BANCROFT will resign the office OF
United States Minister to Prussia, and
g. to Italy.
MENoTTI GARIBALDI has been appoint
ed commander-in-chief Of the insurgcnt
Nationals.
MACE and Coburn, are without con
ecalment, training in New York for their
coming fight.
REpoRTs from San Domingo say that
Cabral, has had a success capturing one
of Bacz forts.
In New York City the small pox is
steadily increasing, and new cases are
reported daily.
The Indian scarcs on the frontier are
said to be groundless, and no troubles are
apprehended.
THERE were 537 deaths, II st'' births,
rs marriages, and 365 births "a New
York last week.
SoME Germans have attempted to open
shops in Paris, but the mob compelled
! them TO close again.
The schooner Quickstep capsizcd in
PASSPORT harbor. The owner and his
brother were drowned.
LORD Lyons telographs to the Govern
ment that he is confident of the early
restoration of order in Paris.
The American Minister, the Hon.
George Bancroft, las received an ova-
ton from tbo pdnrle Of Berlin.
THE Eng sb i!on." g Commons, sus-
toincd Il Ministry uu ar1ous clauses of
the Arm, Bill hy ~ 'itics.
THE Havana journals prytest against
the reported negotiations for the sale Of
Cuba and Porto Hlco to the United
States.
PIETRo SALINI made balloon ascen-
sion from Messina Sicily, on the 18th
of February, and has never been heard
of since
GEO. =. RowELL, the wcll-known adj
vertising king, commenced bis business
career in the advertising department of
the Boston Post
ONE of the amendments of the Def
cheney bill appropriates $200,0 600 for
means of saving life and property on the
New Jersey Coast.
In n proclamation the Central Repub-
lican Committee Of France resign its
| functions and yields to the newly elected
Municipal Government.
An accident occurred to railway train
filled with jnter'ned artillerymen return
ing to France, by which twenty-five were
killed and seyenty-two injured.
WHILE the Germans in Bucharest were
engaged in celebrating the birthday of
the Emperor, they were attacked by a
mob and several persons were injured.
The Pennsylvania Legislative Commit
tee on the coal question recommend the
application of the English system of
arbitration to the Anthracite coal mines.
AN old pcdlar who has travelled over
New Hampshire for thirty years past
has this winter, for the first time, kept
his cart upon wheels, never putting it on
runners for single day.
THIRTEEN thousand nine hundred and
forty-two feet of tunneling have been
completed through the mountain at
Hoosac, and eleven thousand and eighty
nine feet remain to be dug through.
A RESOLUTION was adopted in the Ca
madam House of Commons removing the
duty on salt peas, bran, barley, rye,
oats, Indian corn, buckwheat, and all
grains, and on Indian meal, oatmeal and
-four
IT y stated in well-informed Washing
ton circles that the JOINT High Commits
sioners are proceeding in such n manner
as to warrant the belief that they will,
before many weeks, come to satisfac-
tory conclusion.
WILLIAM VAN DOVER, the Ellenville,
n. Y, incendiary, has made full confess
sion, and duplicates fifteen members of
his hook and ladder company in the
firing of many buildings in Elenville,
during the past winter.
The cost to the United States govern
ment Of the occupation Of Alaska, accord
ing to Major Tidball, is 50, 3SS month,
besides supplies, and is divided us follows:
Army, 50, 900; navy, S3,5SS revenue
cutter, 81, 200 and custom house, 800.
The constltutionality of the California
State law imposing IA tax upon China
men, is to be argued in the Supreme
Court of the United States. The Cir
cult Court Of that State has decided
against and fined the sheriff who levied
it 500,
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