National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-06-09
Summary OF News.
GOLD in New York iii.

coast defenses in anticipation OF iofe'gi
war
The ringleaders Of the February revol
in Huyti have been condemned and exc
cutcd
CHARLES W. STEEL, aged TO- wa
drowned in the Connecticut River neal
Hartford.
The telegraph connecting Mexico
with the United States is rapidly APP
proaching completion.
The President has nominated JOIN
NJ Francis, of Troy, N. Y, to be Min
lister Resident to Greece.
MONEY is easy in New York at three
to four per cent ON governments, and
at five per cent. on stocks.
The Grand Duchess Maria Ferdo-
rowna, wife of the Czarwitch of Russia,
gave birth to n son in St Petersburg.
JOHN SoMERs, n conductor on the
Southern Pacific Railroad, was crushed
to death between the cars at Gilroy, Cal.
The exports of specie from New York
last week were 81, S0S,S70 since Janu-
AIRY, 1871, the exports were S25, lab, 056.
DR. MoRREL, the physician who gave
evidence il favor of Prince Pierre Bona
parte ia the Victor Noir trial, has been
assassinated.
HoRsEs and cattle fed on brewers
grains are diving in New York, and strych-
nine, used in making wElskey, is said to
be the cause.
IT i. estimated that the Bonnet Care
crevasoe will cause an actual loss of about
5000 hoysheads sugar and $50, 600 gal
Ions molasses.
THE loss in production by the strike in
Fall River, Mass, WAS more than Sl,250-
00O--the distinct loss TO the operatives
about S375,0 600.
CONDUCTORS and drivers on street cars
in New York receive from two dollars to
two dollars and quarter per day, and
work twelve hours.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
| ordered the payment of S242, 1873 to
the State of Pennsylvania, on account of
the war indemnity
A VIRGINIA paper tells tough story
Of an otter chasing a flock of sheep, and
turning to attack a full-grown man who
came to their defense.
The official figures sent to Versailles
of the number of French prisoners in
Switzerland, now returned to France,
give them 81, 500 men
SAMUEL ALEXANDER (colored) of Boston
savagely and dangerously wounded his
wife IA white woman) with a razor.
Alexander is in custody.
THE supply of live cattle in the Paris
market has fallen off to such an extent
that the capital would again appear to be
in danger of starvation.
THE colored population of the United
States, according to the last census, is
nearly 5OOO, 600 being gain of over
nine per cent. since 1860.
The new Government of the Territory
of Columbia has been inaugurated.
! Frederick Douglass was elected Vice
President Of .he Council.
| A WOMAN advertises in the Nashville
papers for her children, saying that she
had twenty-sevcn, and knows the where
abouts of only three of them
THE convent of Sacre Cnur has been
visited by the Paris mob. The ladies
superior made their escape disguised rs
servants /; the cash box was pillaged
The steamer Isaac p Smith exploded
her steam drum at Baltimore. Several
persons belonging to the boat were
severely scalded and otherwise in ured
DURING last week the U. s. Treasury
paid out Ss3, 572, $50 il Gold Interest and
sold, in addition, $2,UC0,00O Gold. The
Office received for Gold Customs 50, $685.
007.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomi- |
nation of John NJ Francis, of Troy, to be
Minister Resident of Greece, in place
of Mr.. Tuckerman, recalled at his own
request.
A RUMoR of n flibustering expedition
from some American port, communicated !
by the Secretary of State for the Colo
MES, has caused great excitement in
Australia.
The Prussian navy is henceforth to
become the property of the United En-
pire. Military schools and establish
ments will likewise be made Imperial
institutions.
A LARGE fire in Wilmington, Del, de-
stroyed a number of locomotives and the
pattern SHOP and locomotive round house
of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad.
The first shipment of Texas cattle was
made from Baxter Springs, Kansas, last
week, over the Fort Scott and Gulf Rail
road to Kansas City, being portion Of
a herd driven from Texas
THE fishery provisions of the treaty of
Washington are very strongly condemn
ed III the Provinces. Hopes are enter
tanned that they will not be ratified by
the Canadian Government
THE Common Council of Chicago, has
ordered that the tax levied on the grave
of Senator Douglas be paid out of the
general fund, and the sale advertised by
the collector to be discontinued. i
THERE were S,092 births in Boston
last year, 3, 492 marriages, and COOS
deaths. There was an excess of 224
males over females in the births, and an
excess of 10 males in the deaths.
THE English ship Queensbury was
struck by swordfish, whose sword pen
ing leak which necessitates the dis
charging of the cargo at Kingston, ia
maica
The ship City of Quebec" Of Aber-
deeH, from London bound to Quebec,
wa wrecked at Dead Island, New Found
land, on the night of the Sth of May
She was total loss, and all her crew
are drowned.
The sugar crop for the District of
Santiago de Cuba is only about 1900
hogshea1S, against AZ, coo in 1870. The
Havana papers claim that the decrease in