National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-27
Items Of Interest.

SEVEN men persisted in the hnrbor OF
Yarmouth, England, by the sinking OF
the smack Peto.
The steamer G. X. Hall was lost IN
storm in the gulf with all on board ex-
cept Otto Llsson.
Iur President has appointed John
Morrissey, Jr., 10 II third lieutennntcy
in the revenue service.
The richest citizen Of Boston is said
10 be Augustus Helnenway, whose whole
estate is valued at S2,sOo,O o0,
Mrs. HAET, the mother Of seven chill
dren, was burned TO death in San Fran
cisco, her clothes taking fire from kero-
sene lamp
A MAN who has been in jail for eleven
wears under sentence OF death died Mt
Philadelphia. The warrant for his exc
cuton had never been signed.
THERE are twenty suits against the
Staten Island Ferry Company pending
| in the city court of Brooklyn for damages
occasoned 10y the Westlield explosion
The Grand Chapter OF Royal Arch
MasSns, previous to adjournine, at Bal
timore, elected 10 meet on the first
Tuesday in December 1874, ut Natchez,
Miss.
TIM sentence vi death passed upon
the gallant Russel 10y the Versailles court
martial has been confirmed by the Court
of Revision, 10 which the case WIS sub
mitted.
/ Tar progress of the cholera in Tu key
! has been checked, and the alarm which
was felt concerning the spread OF the
epidemic eastward and toward Europe
and the west is subslding.
From experiments made On the West
ern Plains, it appears that hansplanted
trees ps well us those grown from cut-
tings on .9ed, are thrifty. or the seed.
hngs the ailanthus, the black lctst, and
the Usage orange have proved the most
successful.
4 BILL for legalizing marriage with IA
deceased wifcs sister has reached Its sec
ond reading III the Auckland New Zea-
land Chambers also one for making
two-thirls OF II jury in civil service
causes carry II verdict against the minor
ity
-. w. % IH'"Ei.3 icuhu'i VI WV
/ Cincinnati CO,amerciai, who shot and
killed his daughters seducer in Mem
phis, Tenn, not long ago, has been
placed under $1,000 BAIL and will, it is
said, be acquitted when tried before the
Courts.
A SHARP newspaper war is in progress
in London on the subject of literary
piracy. The correspondents are very
severe on the Harpers and other Amori-
can publishers of British productions,
and an international copy right is univer-
sally demanded.
SWEEPING reforms have been adopted
by the japanese government. At one
fell swoop they have abolished the
daimios aud annexed their territories
thus destroying at once an aristocrae,
and religion. The Mikado alone nov
relSns paramount.
SOME Texas attle-drovers at Abilene
Kansas, spent their time in compelling
the business men of that place to trea
them to liquor. Finally disturbance
occurred and in attempting TO guel
it, City Marshal Wild Bill wounded
one of the drovers and accidental,
killed another.
The strike of the engineers at New
castle, England, may be considered n
, at m end. Only matters of detail re
main to be settled. The employers hav,
agreed to the nine hour system, which
will be carried into effect on and afte
the I'd of January, 1872, and the mel
have promised to work nine hours and {
half until that date.
THE aggregate State debt, rs last Off
cillaly reported of all the States hut
Mississippi, West Virginia, Nebraska,
and Wisconsin, which have no outstand-
ing obligations, is given by the Chicago
Mercantile Journal as $344, $50, 1880.
Virginia has the heaviest, SAT 800, 500.
96.-part whereof, however, belongs to
West Virginia-and Oregon the least
S106, 1888.