National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-08-18
General News Summary.

CONGRESSMAN Eugene Wilson Of
Minnesota is Democratic candidate for
Governor,
A NATIONAL Commercial Convention
will be held in Baltimore on the 25th of
September.
"SATASrA and" Big Tree have been
sentenced to he hanged on the last of
September,
! WISCONSIN, Democratic Convention
will nominate State officers mt Madison
August 23d.
BosroN estimates the value Of its
public school property at about six mil
lions Of dollars.
The City OF New-Orleans is very
healthy. There are no indications of
the yellow fever.
WHILE Cincinnati family were at the
theatre their servant giil stole two wagon
loads of furniture.
A LETTER from Lyons France says
there is no demand for foreign labor in
that city and vicinity,
NONE of the bids for the Kansas In
dian lands are above 81 per acre. They
range from II 80 to 81.
The late Duke ofAnhalt has left his
daughter the Princess Frederick Charles
of Prussia, n legacy of ~, 100000.
The Massachusetts State Labor Re-
formers hold their Convention at Lowell
about the LIST September
CALLAo news contains the announce
ment of the election of the Church can
didate for President in Chill.
RoBERr S. Hunt, n butcher in Sacra
menio, Cal, died from the effect of "A
bite on his neck by blow-fy.
Thomas McGIFFIN was hanged at
Greenyille Courthouse, Virginia, for the
murder of Constable Drummond.
SOUTHERN Wisconsin will only have
one-half of an average crop OF wheat.
Rye, oats, barley, and corn are good
A RECENT live stock census of Great
Britain shows 9,235, 052 cattle, 32, 1877
7S3 sheep and lambs, and 1850, 100 pigs
The census returns show that the
number of persons of Chinese birth III
the United States year ago was 63, l96.
IT is estimated that about 5000 ship
wrecks occurred last year, and about
1000 of them on the coast of England.
WHOLE herds of cattle near Council
Bluffs Iowa, are becoming totally blind,
and no cause can be assigned for the ca
lamity.
The only French prisoners now re-
naming in Germany are four officers
and 800 privates Imprisoned for various
otlenses.
FROM January to July permits for the
building of one Thousand nine hundred
and tifty-five buildings were issued III
Baltimore.
The editor of the indianapolis SenH-
mel, was arrested for alleged perjury, III
swearing to false accounts as Indiana
State printer.
RAMON AMADoR, vi ~ murdered Henry
Hiscock, hunter in California in order
to get possession of n fine rifle, has been
sentenced to be hanged.
The Pope, in his reply to the address
of the Roman Academy, expressly dis
claims "any inherent power i'll the Pa
pacy to dispossess sovereigns,"
The total number of Chinese arriving
at San Francisco during the quarter end
ing on the 30th of June was 2,S69, OF
whom only twenty-nine were females
TIE total receipts Of Internal Revenue
for July amounted to $l4 236,057 09-a
falling off of nearly $7,000,000 rs com
pared with the corresponding month |
last year.
BARON RoTsHscHILD of London has
presented his jockey, Tom French, who
won the late Derby races for him, the
sum of e 900, and besides allowed him
IN annuity of G20O.
The Bonnet Crevasse, Louisiana, cut
a channel two Thousand two hundred |
feet wide, fifty feet deep in the centre at
hundred square miles.
The discovery is recorded of small
planet, the one hundred and fourteenth
in the group of asteroids, hy Prof. c. II.
f. Peters, of the Litchfeld Observatory,
Hamilton College, Utica.
The number of Assistant Assessors
If the Internal Revenue Service III
Massachusetts Rhode Island and Con
necticut, on July |, 1870, was l5i. The
luluDcr HOW tIlIlo,Ntu Is Jo
The Indiana Democratic State Central
Committee adopted resolution that
Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks is the unani-
nous choice of the Indiana Democracy
as their candidate for President.
A MEETING of delegates from agricul-
tural societies, embracing every section
Of the United States. is to he held in
Nashville on Oct 3, the object being the
of an Agricultural Congress
THE Republican State Central Com
mittec OF Illinois has called State Con
vention to meet at Springfield September
20, to nominate candidate for Congress
nan at large, and for other purposes.
RUSSIA has given in her adhesion to
he international Telegraph Convention
If Vienna. This rings the Russian
ines to the Amoor and the Dead Sea
inder the operati IN of the terms of that ,,
Convention.
FRtNcH journals state that the advices
rom Algeio are alarming. The insur-
rents are burning the forests and com /
hitting horrible atrocities. The natives |
# the province of Oran have Joined i'll |
he instruction.
THE Post-o :ice Department has estab- |
shed =, 407 new offices and di>contn- i
led S5i offices, making net increase {
n number of offices created during the |
ear. |, 300. There are 30045 offices in t
e United States. d
MORE disturbances in China are re- a
'orted Canton is the scene of the new (
aid on foreigners. A British gurboat v
as been dispatched from Hong Kong a
0 the aid of the Europeans and Ameri- t
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