National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-03-17
Summary OF News.

THE United States Mint coined In.
year s22, 257 $40, gold, and sl,757, %;
silver
The vital statistics of New York cit
for the week past shows $50 marriage,
40 births, and 300 deaths.
OSE hundred thousand dollars is th
sum which the heirs of Gen. Lee ask In
Gle sam for the Arlington estate.
A TELEGRAM from Mansello states tina
a Prissian corvette has captured tw
rich French prizes in the Pacific
WILLIAM G. Gibbs, Governor O
Rode Island from 1891 to 1924 died n
Newport, aged eighty-four years.
OFFICIAL returns show that during tn
month of January the French lost So
pieces OF artillery and $4,000 men.
LAST weeks balance in the Unite,
States Treasury Currency, S1S, 1SG, GOO
Gold, 80, S43, 900 Certificates, S3l 300,
coo
IRE State Senate of Missouri, has
passed n bill exempting the property OF
n wife in executions levied upon her nus
band.
An expedition has left San Francisco
for the Cocos Islands, under the direction
OF spirits, to seek for treasure buried by
pirates.
The Republicans of the Fourth Con.
necticut Congressional District, nomina-
ted George Coffing, of Salisbury, for
Congress.
THERE has been violent gale all along
the coast = the United Kingdom. Six
APPS nre ashore near South Shields, and
several lives were lost.
OFFICIAL returns from the Department
of Nord, show that the Monarchical
candidates polled 5000 and the Re
publieans AZ, 900 votes.
A FIRE occurred at Buffalo which de-
stroyed the offices of the Ere,i0g Post
and Conrier, and several stores, and oc.
n loss of 100000.
Gov. Randolph, of New-Jersey, has
signed the resolutions ratifying the
fifteenth article amending the Consti-
,ution of the United States.
JUDGE Emmons died recently near
Colorado. He has been a printer, sol
her, sailor, journalist, politician, lecturer
lawyer, and circus agent, all in 20 years.
AT the election in Syracuse, n. Y, the
Democrats elected Francis + Carroll |
Mayor by 1874 majority. The Republi-
ans elected five out of eight Aldermen.
IT has been ascertained that the I'M |
naum of Muscat was slain in recent |
,ottln Ha will ,,r,,1olI,r L., Ill
~ Synd Torkes, who was victorious over
lim.
DURING the present Congress there
nave been introduced in the House 3,O42 |
)ills and 500 joint resolutions, and in the I
senate $40 bills and $40 Joint resolu-
ions.
An enterprising Louisianian is reported
o have insured his life and then hired a
nan to assassinate him. thus circumvent-
ng the clause vitiating policy in case
# suicide.
ACCORDING to the published returns of
he revivals which have prevailed in
very county in New York State. over
0.000 persons have professed religion
his Winter.
\ GERMAN physician, Dr. Hertmuller,
las discovered that in the country
nwedded women live on an average
light to ten years longer than wives and
lothers of families. 5
The Joint Committee on Finance of l
ie two houses of the Virginia Legisla- q
Ire has determined on plan for the {
ayment of interest on what is known as t
le old debt of the State. Il
The total present strength of the Brit !
h army including regular troops and I
zeal militia is estimated at 200, 900 men. !
his estimate is, however, exclusive of |
lie British force in India. J.
A YOUNG married couple, stopping at !
l Indianapolis hotel, blew out the gas. =
n Irish porter, attracted by the odor, y
we'd their lives, and the happy bride :,
Dom gave him dollar. :,
Music has not hitherto been regarded W
a part of the curriculum at the West 81
'int Military Academy, but recent de- tC
lopmehts snow mat the Tyre has not cl
en- altogether neglected there. W
A PHILADELPHIA paper maliciously nc w
scs contemporary of cutting off the
llskers in the picture which once did III
rvice rs Il portrait of Dickens, and b.
blishing it as a true portrait of Hanlon, 81
e murderer. OF
The democrats of the Fourth district =
Texas have nominated for Congress a.
dge John Hancock. The present u
ember is Edward Degener, who is the u,
publican candidate for reelection. VI
A GENTLEMAN travelling in Ireland said IN
"A very importunate beggar, You have pt
1t all your teeth The beggar quickly al
swered, AN it's time | parted with c,
|, when I'd nothing for nm to do" ac
THE London Telegraph has dispatch 10
I'm Saarbuck which says all the Ger.
IN wounded capable of rejoining their
yiments are being sent to the front ~
ere is large assemblage of troops at ~
logne. al
ste
)NE DAYS WORK in Cincinnati is set II,
vn MS follows Chas. Patton killed IN III
house of i'll repute man named od 81
ark shot and killed, and n builder 90
ned Henry robbed of $4,000 by 'our mr.
hwav men. r. r.
HERE are ten agricultural schools in m,
gium, six in Baden and one or more ba
Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Spain and pc
frugal and even Greece and Turkey Sa
row following the example of more MS
'anced countries tn,
TIE Jury failed to agree in the Con- no
ssman Bowen bigamy case, in Wash an
ton, after being out all Wednesday plf
hit, and were the next morning dis on
rged. They stood eleven for convic- les
l and one for acquittal no
NAPOLEON has received notification not mo