National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-02-10
News Summary,

HE Mexican AUTHORITIES are III ihNor
OF annexation to the United States,
MINNESOTA has |, 0s7 miles of railroad
in opcration, and al built since 1861,
TWENTY German vessels are laid up
Mt Annoy, China, on account OF the war,
Lor NJ. MORRILL, is elected by the
Legislature of Maine, United States Sen
ator.
lr has been estimated that f500,O0
will be required to properly revitual
Paris.
Ir is expected that by April next every
British soldicrin India will have II Snider
rife
The Democratic Convention Of Con
necticut renominated the present State
officers
The Prussiaus put one French officer
in close confinement for every ten men
that escape,
GLOUCESTER District Mass, estimates
the produce of the fisheries for the year
at 50, 724, 800
JUDGE Byron Paine, of the Supreme
Court of Wisconsin, died after painful
illness oil several weeks.
FoRTY-rIvE deaths have now resulted
from the explosion of Messrs. Ludlow.
factory, near Birmingham.
The Prince of Wales has accepted the
Presidentship of the Royal Agricultural
Society of Ireland for 1871.
LEVI Salisbury is elected United States
Senator from Delaware to succeed his
brother, the present Senator,
THE total foreign imports into the
United States, for the year ending goth
June 1870, were Ss462, 377, 5S7.
TuE total outstanding debt of Nilsson
ri, is $40, $50, 600, and SIG, l22, GOO is on
account of eighty-six railroads.
ONE thousand five hundred and seven |
tv-fve divorces have been granted in
England during the tast twelve years.
GEN. John +. Watrous, of Deep River
Conn, was killed by the accidental dis
charge of a companion gun while hunt |
ing.
AT large dinner party the other eve
ming in New York, the tablecloth was .
of heavy white silk, edged with point
lace.
The I asst RESORT. A young lady had
brought libel suit against her mother, /
as the only means left to get mother |
in-law.
A BALTIMORE physician's family of
eight persons was poisoned, it is thought .
maliciously by a servant. No deaths re-
suited.
THE average salary of Methodist .
preachers in Rhode Island has increased
the past twenty years from 1850 to
Sl,0l5.
THE Ways and Means will report a bill
for uniform tax of 50 per gallon on inn
ported whiskey, brandy, aud gin, in the
United States.
Hon, i, T. Frolinghuysen was nomi-
mated for the L. S. Senate by the Re
publican members of the New Jersey
Legislature.
LIE three robbers of the Central Pa
ciic Railroad Express Train in Nevada
have been sentenced each to thirty years
in the State Prison.
IT is thought that fifty EIGHT lives We're
lost by the burning of the steamboat 7,
l.. McGill on Sunday night on Shoe
Fly Bar, in the Mississippi River.
CAPTAIN EYRE, formerly of the British
steamer Bombay, has finally been dis
charged from the service of the PENN
sula and Oriental Steamship Company.
The aggregate receipts from all sources
Of inter al revenue IN the L. S. for the
wear 1870 amounted to SlS5, 235, SG7,97,
against $3.50, 03o, 344, 90 received in 1896
The Senate Judiciary Committee have
decided to report in favor of Messrs.
Hill and Miller as duly elected Senators
from Georgia. SO Washington despatch
says.
KING William telegraphs to Queen
August from Versailles that the number
Of prisoners captured in and since the
battles of lie Mans has increased to fully
10000. ,
The ice CROP is splendid throughout i
the North and West. The Erie Ice ,
Company of Buffalo have already packed ,
EN- thousand tons, from nine inches to |
l foot in thickness, of crystal clearness,
GENERAL Won Werder was seriously at {
lacked by four French corps in his posi-
ion south of Belfort The battle lasted s
nine hours, and the attack was victori- ,
,usly repealed at all points. The Ger {
nan loss was only 300. G
THE German loss in the battle with l
Zen. Chanzy is officially stated to be III {
officers, and 3, 202 men We're killed and 6
The French lost besides {
heir killed and wounded, twenty-five I
thousand unwoundcd prisoners !
Ir is estimated that there will be re-
Iuired 5000 reams of uncalandered ,
PAPER, 1000 reams sized and calandered d
printing paper. LOCO reams of map pa =
Der, 30,5C0 reams of writing paper, for
y. s. Post Office blanks and l,500
cams of tinted paper =
The schooner Enterprise, of Eastport, /,
las been seized in British waters for r
making use of the British flag and regis :
er to evade the law. The Captain of q
he Enterprise says he took 100 600 her II
ings to the United States last week, and @
vas preparing nets to fish again. I
WHILE THEY are hunting wild cats in I
and bears in Michigan, they O
re having "sport " in looking after /
,acks of large grey wolves in Illinois. '
they come close to the settlements, and Il
re not particular what they devour so I
hat it is alive when they seize it. h
THE class of men who go into politics "
5 shown by the following list of the h
81 members of the Maine House Of Il
There 40 farmers, 20
awyers, % merchants, 5 doctors, 2 cler-
.ymen, and editor The Speaker of W
he House is lawyer, and the clerk c.
eacher n
The Titusville Heralds monthly oil W