National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-01-06
General News Summary.
ONE-sIxTH of the female population of
England works out OF doors


EIGHT Of the foreign diplomats a
Washington are married to American
wives.
An affectionate Nevada wife has givel
her husband the pet name of "tearinl
grizzly" .....
The quickest time made by canal
this season, was from Buffalo to New
York in Is days.
Four of the Verdi Pacific Railroad
robbers have been convicted Mt Washot
City, California.
REPoRTs of the sugar crops Of Louisi
ana continue favorable. The damage by
frost is not 50 great as was feared at first
THE total quantity of land granted tc
the Central Pacific and the Union Pa
cific Railroad Companies is stated at "a,
SCI, $50 acres.
MASKED men have lately been com.
hitting iiendish outrages in Sumner
county, Tenn. A Vigilance Committee
is talked Of
-Four persons were instantly killed and
several others injured by the falling OF
II new building in West Thirty fifth.
street, New YORK.
HrGH ALLAN has purchased the North.
ern transportation Company's propellers
and will run them between Chicago, Mil
waukee and Montreal
| DURING the last fifteen years the ex-
! pense of the contested election cases in
Congress has been more than quarter
Of million of dollars.
\ CHICAGO woman who has met with
an accident which renders her a cripple
for life, advertises for husband who has
been sinilarly afflicted.
AN SG the French volunteers is a com
She is Polish woman, and fought III
the Polish revolution.
A RAID was made upon the milk deal
ers of New Orleans, last week. and forty
seven of their number arrested for sell
ing an adulterated article.
A Western woman says in letter
that her sex will never rest contented
until their sins are treated as leniently
ITS are those committed by me
A gentleman named Brown once OBJ
served in company that he had toasted a
lady for twelve months, and yet had lit
tie hopes of making her Brown.
BISMARCK has invited the cooperation
OF the United States In connection with
other maratlme powers, for the eXtinc-
ton of piracy i'll Chinese waters.
There are 202 manufacturing establish
ments in the city and county of Albany,
\. Y, which use a capital of s., 634 600,
and pay -, 295, 236 per annum in wages.
PRoGREss at lloosac tunnel during
November East end, 133 feet; west
end, 63 feet of brick arch west shaft,
1870 feet central shaft, both headings,
l6 feet.
4 TERRIBLE railroad accident occurred
on the North Midland Railway, near the
town of Barnsley, England, by which
fourteen persons were killed and twenty
wounded
\ VERDICT of one cent damages was
awarded in the Court of Common Pleas
of Louisville, in the libel suit of George
Onmacht against the CoWier-Jow2tai
Company.
THE total value of the river commerce
of the towns and cities on the Ohio are
estimated at SIS, 5,00O,o00 per annum.
In this vast sum Cincinnati figures for
Sl69 JO6, 900.
OPTICAL returns of the election in
Missouri, show the total vote cast to be
l67, 40, of which Brown received l03,.
373, and McClurg 63, 3i7, being a major
ity for Brown of 40,03S.
jeremiah Dunn, convicted of man
slaughter in the third degree, in having
killed James Logan, otherwise known as
Logan No 2" in New York, was SEN
fenced to four years i'll States prison.
A LEVY Of six men in every one thou
sand throughout Russia, has been or
dered to rei lace the men lost to the army
in consequence of the shortening of the
term of service of the conscription of
1871.
A NEw mineral fertilizer has been
discovered in Lnbon, n. II. 1t is a sill |
iceous rock, which, when pulverized, is !
said to be equal TO the best guano, and !
only costs n quarter Ns much. Immense
beds of II are discovered
THERE were l,i75, COO bushels of In
dian corn raised in Vermont in 1869, |
with an average of "a bushels to the .
acre, raised on 43, $50 acres, which was
valued ut 81. 40 per bushes the
total valuation of the crop S2,O65,OOO.
\ REvENGEFUL laboror at Turkey Hill,
near Derby, Conn, recently beat his
wife's brains ont with pickax, because
the wretched woman had given testi-
mony against him short time previ-
I 4 L.. 4 e., off
Apleasing incident occurred at we'd
ling in the Univcrsalist church at New
Haven, Conn, Wednesday evening. As
the doors were opened to admit the bri-
lal party, dove flew in and alighted
near the happy couple, and remained MS
A spectator of the ceremony.
In Boston the other day, respectable
citizen imprudently yawned in the pres
nnce Of n policeman. The latter inter-
preted the yawn as IN insult to his dig
nitv, and the offender was arrested and
while the officer was pun
shed for his outrage bya merely nomi-
nal fine. ....
A young man in Kennebunkport,
Maine, who had circulated slanders
a1out respectable young ladies was
brought to his knees by a letter from
lawyer. He hastened to sign paper
saying that he was liar and slanderer,
and by paying costs further proceedings
were stayed. ... ...
Some boys at Fort Dodge, Iowa played
European war. The Prussians burn
ed haystack behind which the
:" French " had taken refuge, and dis.
lodged them. The owner OF the hay
stack says he doesn't know much about !