National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-01-06
Summary of News.


mates that he has killed 1900 deer will
rifle.
LYNN elected six women in tho School
Committee.
KEso is the great gambling game OF
New York City now.
THEY have been having unusually cold
weather in California.
SEVERAL French ports are to be bloc
caded by the Prussians,
THERE are more than 5000 post-oiii-
ces in the United States.
EVERY year 10000 Canary birds are
brought to the United States,
NEGOTIATIONS are pending for the
cession of Guiana To Holland.
Mr. CATAcAzY, the Russian Minister
to the United States, will be recalled.
SALT LAKE. Cry, by the new census,
has 49, inhabitants, against S,236 i'll
1850.
REAR-ADMGRAL SAMUEL l.. BREEsE, one
Of the veterans of tho United States
Navy is dead.
ALL the stock Of the new American
Steamship Company, at Philadelphia,
has been taken up
AN order was received in Gardiner,
Me-, recently, from New York parties,
for GO, 600 baseball bats.
BOISE CITY, Idaho, has a ;.uail society,
whose object is to improve the breed OF
fowls, wild and domestic.
CONGRESSMAN Roderick II. Butler, OF
Tennessee, was arrested, having been
indicted Mt Washington for forgery.
Tur Rodo,, oho,,ohnr hns ratified M
Federal treaty looking to the annexation
Of the State to the North German Con-
federation.
Mn. HEYpmoH, of Wythoville, Va.
has invented "A six-barrel gun which may
be fred four hundred times u minute,
by simply turning crank.
The latest reported balance in the
United States Treasury was, fractions
aside, Currency 1913, 600, 600, Coin 800, =
600, 900, Coin Certificates 500, 0O0,O 900
RECENT dispatches from Europe in re-
lation to the Eastern question are regard
ed by the Administration as foreshadow-
ing BeHcihi AuioPo'i h"i "i'iih OLA
months.
IT is said that one Of the first acts of
King Amadeus will be to give one half
of the appanage Of the crown, amount
ing to some $40, 0O0,0 to the Spanish
treasury.
The Club of the Canadian Unionists
of New York, have taken measures look
r II, 81 Tnnn1o 10 h.
United States, and manifest considera-
BILE interest on the subject.
THE lerte en- mdsse in France some time
III preparation, has now been ordered
within the next ten days. Somewhere
between two and four millions of French.
to men are ordered assemble in camps OF
instruction.
A DESPATCH from Marseillies says
Russia will denounce the treaty for the
closing Of the Dardanelles, and adds tina
the United States, who never recognized
the closing Of the Straits, will act in con
cert with Prussia.
PRISONERS assert that the losses Of the
army of Prince Frederick Charles during
it's combats with General Chauzy hav,
not been less than 1000 men, and that
the villages in the neighborhood arc
filled with wounded.
The farmers of Mississippi are to meet
in convention next month for the pur-
pose of agreeing upon some plan by
which they may be enabled to cooperate
with each other in developing the agri.
cultural resources of the State.
A NEW printing machine, which has
Just been patented in England and Prrs-
sia, prints railway tickets on both sides,
perferates and numbers them consecu-
lively by ono process, and does all this
at the rate of two hundred a minute.
IT is said new ocean cable is to be
laid in August next between Rhode Is
land and Wales. The capital of the COM
pany is to be three millions and quar-
ter of dollars, three millions of which is
to be raised in England, and the rest in
this country.
The Prlssian Government declares
that the great powers of Europe con-
cerned themselves in the Luxembourg
matter in the face of plain violation
of neutrality in favor of the French.
Prussia, therefore, reserves to itself full
freedom for her future course.
AN apology has been sent to Capt.
Wells, of the United States steamer
for the accidental shot re-
ceived by that vessel few days ago
from French iron clad, which was us
ing her guns to intimidate Gen. BRAND,
the French commander at Havre, who
had ordered a portion of tho squadron to
Cherbourg,
PETICoATs are now made of paper
printed in such colors us to initiate the
fashionable textile fabrics usually worn
rs such garments, or stamped in open
work with such beauty and delicacy as is
hardly attainable with other material and
each is sold Mt n moderate price of fif-
teen cents. Table-cloths, cretonnes, and
chints, and even shoes, which are said to
be durable, are made of paper
A SHARP CORRESPONDENCE has been
going on in the London papers with re