National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-03-31
General News Summary.

n little boy in Montreal, a few days ago.
MORE than hundred bills were in.
troduced in the U. s. Senate in one
day.
THERE nre thirteen railroads terminal.
ing on the Illinois shore, opposite st..
Louis.
The ship Mistress of the Sea has
foundered in the Ocean. Seventeen lives
were lost
The proffer of Englands mediation is
accepted in the dispute between Egypt
and Spain. .-r-, .,--,
The British Government deries all
knowledge of secret treaty between the
Gar and Prussia.
TMMoDERArE laughter killed an Indi-
ana man last week 1t brought on hem
orrage of the lungs.
ORDERS have been given to place the
Belgian army on Il peace footing. and
disband the militia.
A. c. MARKHAM is the Democratic
candidate for Senator in the With Dis
trict of Connecticut.
M. THEIRS offered the Prnssians an
other million of thalers to keep Metz,
but the offer was refused.
MAINE offers to every able bodied male
Swede a farm of 100 acres and exemption
from taxation until 1876.
The Republican Convention of Rhode
Island, renominated the present incum-
bents to all the State offices.
THERE are COG grain distilleries regis
tered in the United States. They can
produce 67O, ,945 gallons day.
A BILL to incorporate the Boston Base
Ball Club has been defeated in the Massa-
chusetts Senate by vote of II to 9.
A FARMER was instantly killed by light
ming in Mehard county, ILL.,, last week,
while sowing grass-seed on his farm.
A RIOT occurred at Meridian, Miss, in
which Judge Bromlette, white man,
and eight or ten negroes were killed.
The Nebraska House of Representa-
tives has impeached John Gillespie, the
State Auditor, as well as Gov. Butler.
SOMEBODY asserts that more than half
the Hotels in this country are kept by
natives of New Hampshire and Vermont.
AN exchange, in counting up Con-
gressman Bowen's wives says there are
yet thirty five more Staues to hear from.
JOHN WADE, convicted of the murder
of his father in Camden, N. j., was
sentenced to be hanged on the 10th of
April. .
W. d. FOSTER, has been nominated by
the Republicans for Representative to
Congress in the Fourth District of Mich
igan.
IT is now stated that there are over
100 feminine lecturers in the country,
and the number is increasing every
month.
A THOUSAND workmen have struck at
Newcastle, Eng, because the masters
refuse to pay them weekly, instead of
fortnightly.
AN old man, John Ashford, and a
young man named Slattery, were killed
i'll drunken brawl at the close of, the |
election in Aurora, III.
ROBERT THOMPSON and another man,
whose name is unknown, were found
dead at lime-kiln near Philadelphia,
where they had gone to sleep.
THE fortified cities of Luneville, Nan
cy, and Belfort are left to France.
Longwy, ThiOnville, Metz, Saarbruck,
and the iron districts will go to Germany.
M. ROTHsCHILD promises to pay the
French indemnity to Germany within "A
year, by which the German army of oc-
will be got rid of at the end of
that time.
A PHYSICIAN, called to attend young
lady in Missouri, was told by her that
her parents had not spoken to her during
.he past five years, although they occupy
the same house.
HIRAM Pool, who killed Perkins
Adams in Tuolomne County, CAL, last
and was acquitted was assassin
tied few days ago, near the spot where
Adams was killed.
DURING the year 1869, in transporta-
ion of 90,000,000 of people over the
French railroads, there were but two {
leaths from accidents, and but one in
ury in every 10000 travellers.
POULTRY ofall kinds is now cheaper in !
Boston than it has been at this season
or many years. Good turkeys sell for !
8 and % cents, chickens Mt II and % =
ents. and frozen lots still lower.
The Kansas Legislature has passed !
ill staying execution on persons con !
icted of murder until the Governor |
igns the death-warrant. This will vir- !
ually abolish capital punishment.
THE BRITISH Commissioners proposed
hat Secretary Fish should be President i
f the Joint High Commission, but he S
eclined, and after discussion it was de- v
ided that there should be no President. v
A PRIVATE letter received in Washing :
On contains the announcement of attacks I
y Indians near Florence, Arizona, on :
hree distinct parties of immigrants, and "
ne murder or capture of all, within two
'eeks. $
The Democrats of the Fourth District
{ Michigan have nominated Col. VIII II
am M. Ferry for Congress, to fill the q
ncancy caused by the election of Hon. c
homas w. Ferry to the Senate. Wilder g
J. Foster is the Republican candidate. is
A YOUNG woman, not more than twen- oi
years old, starved to death in Roches- W
r, n. Y, last week. She had always
riven hard to support herself after be-
g deserted by a worthless husband, and
as too proud to let her poverty be 81
lown.
A WHOLE family named Walker were &C
und dead in their house near Elgin, lis
l., few days since. The father and
other had given laudanum to their 81
ildren and then taken it themselves for N
e purpose of going to another world
gether. Ir