National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-05-19
L.eneraI News Summary.
SrAR-oAzEns can now SEQ ON pleasant
evenings five great planets.

CANADA is expecting large number
Italian immigrants this season
In Buffalo famil, has recently los
seven children in four days, from scarle
fever.
A PouaHKErpsIE lady has been badl,
poisoned IN the hands by wearing greer
kud gloves.
Gov. LINDSAY, of Alabama, has los
three Of his children By death since
November last.
TuR smallpox, which still ravages il
London, destroyed 25, 06l lives from 1Sit
to lsIp in England.
The crcvasse in the Mississippi Ieve,
at Bonnet Carree, La, is now 200 fee
wide and very deep.
BUFFALO gnats are killing large nun
beers of horses, mules and cattle along
the Mississippi River.
FIVE children were poisoned at Coving
ton, Ky, 10y eating poke root" 1t il
thought they will recover
THE once celebrated Elevated Railway
in New York City, was sold by the
Sheriff, TO satisfy creditors.
| AHAhLEN NIhfENs tiit i1u'IlH Vi utllt
County, Washington Territory, while
collecting; was murdered and robbed.
A CITIZEN of Montreal is under arrest
| for refusing TO tell n census enumerator
the ages of his two unmarried daughters.
DEPUTY CASTELAR, announces that he
will introduce motion in the Spanish
Cortes demanding the dethronement of
the King
MOSQUITOES are so plenty this spring
near Memphis, that steamboat pilots have
mistaken swarm Of them for tempest
breeding clouds.
The Dakota Legislature held a special
session, and transacted some important
business before it was discovered that the
session was illegal.
REPORTS from Albany and Washington
confirm the fact that new comet is
observable. The comet is simply tele-
scope one of average brightness.
JosEPH DIoS beat Rudolphe in San
| Francisco in three ball French carom
game, 800 to 472. There was constant
wrangling throughout the entire game.
IL California there are eight wooden
mills, with fifty eight sets of machinery ;
in Oregon and Washington Territory,
eight more, with twenty-five sets of
machinery
Hon. BENZ +. WADE, declares that he
is not candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor of Ohio, and
that he could not accept the office if it
were rendered him.
LINNEHAN, convicted in San Francisco
of robbing Chinaman, and sent to
State Prison, was released under decree
OF the Supreme Court that Chinese testi-
mony is inadmissable.
The Versailles Government has paid
the first installmenl of the war indemnity
500, 900, 900 francs, and that the German
troops are, in consequence, evacuating
the forts north and east of the City.
A STAGE was attacked by Apache
Indians sixty-five miles east of Tucson.
Arizona, ana the driver, Mark Robbins
killed and horribly mutilated The stage
was burned and the mail destroyed.
NEW cattle disease has appeared in
Mercer County, Ill, The animals live
but few hours after the attack, and so
far every attack has been fatal One
man has lost twenty three head in three
or four days.
Four fishing schooners belonging to
Gloucester, Mass, were probably lost
with all hands, forty men, in IA severe
gale on the Banks. This makes a total
of six vessels and sixty-three lives lost
the present season.
OVER 100000 cords of bark have
been peeled in the hemlock regions of
Ulster county, n. Y, the past season.
This has compelled the telling of 1,000,-
0o0, 900 feet Of lumber, three-quarters of
which will be left to rot upon the ground.
AN army commissary, just arrived in
Chicago from the plains, got drunk and
gambled away So, AGO in Government
funds the first night Next day his wife
called at the faro bank in tears to get
money enough to leave town, and was
given 800.
MICHAEL GERMAN and Robert Dettis
We're killed near Westminster, Penn,
while standing under tree during
thunder storm. They had sought shelter
there from the rain, when the tree was
struck by lightning and both of them
were instantly killed.
DURING thunder storm ball of
electricity struck the ground near the
entrance of the Hoosac Tunnel, Mass,
and, following the iron rail into the
tunnel, exploded several charges of nitro
glycerine, blowing four workmen into
hundreds of pieces and fearfully injuring
tive others.
A BILL was introduced in the English
House of Commons to abolish the game
laws. In the course of debate thereon
1t was stated That ga tenth part of the
surface of Scotland, or 1000, 900 acres
of land, has been reserved rs deer
forests, and the population exiled to
make room for more"
A MAN in Peabody, Mass, had been
treated for more than year for paralysis
Of the throat, and was for some time un
able to take any other than liquid food |
At list, to the great establishment of him /
self and friends, the Cause of his trouble .
was revealed by his coughing up an up
per set of false teeth, which he had swal-
lowed in his sleep Is months before.
The teeth were missed at the time, hunt
ed for, but never found, and nobody |
had suspected the place of Their CON
cealment.
TIT FOR TAT Once in company with |
a young lady, wishing to show how good |
a housewife she could be for any young