National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-09-22
News Summary.

tIohulA IoStiilhSter IN uclhultef
in $500
THE DEMOCRATS have u majority OF
two in the California Senate.
The anniversary Of the downfall OF the
Empire was celebrated In France.
A CONVENTION of Methodists is called
in Syracuse for the 9th of December.
THE stenm-tug Osprey has been lost
off Dundee. Six persons were drowned.
G. c. Bowen announces himself M n
candidate for Governor of South Caro-
lima.
FATAL cases Of cholera have occurred
at Dantzic, Elbing, Altoona, Coblentz,
LEIPZIG, and Vienna.
Two men were suiiocated by foul air
arising from n blast at the bottom of a
well in Hudson City, n. j.
TWELVE vessels have been wrecked at
Hong Kong by n typhoon, and five
vessels ut the Bahamas by hurricane.
THE official returns of the vSte for
Governor in Maine give Perham 40, 500 ;
Kimball, 39,7Si, Majority for Perham,
9,SlS.
A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred
in northern France. Ten persons were
instantly killed and an immense number
injured.
Ir is stated that since the annexation
of Stmsbourg to Germany, %, 900 vi the
inhabitants of that city have emigrated
to France and America.
A WESTERN woman who careessly
wrapped n pie in some poisoned hy-pa.
per, nearly caused the death of the poor
neighbor whom she charitably wished to
crafty.
Ar meeting OF the Board of Trustees
and Overscers of Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, Me-, Gen. Chamberlain ac-
cepted the office of President, rendered
him last July.
A HALF-BREED Mohican murdered
young girl in Norwich, Conn, because
She refused to marry him, though he
had wife living. The murderer after
wards committed suicide.
ARTHUR ARNOLD, the Communist, be-
fore making his escape to Switzerland,
acted for fortnight as druggists
clerk at Batignolles, and sold medicine
to officers of the Versailles army.
Gov. WARMoTH of Louisiana, has
issued an order suspending George f.
Bovee, the s. ,retary Of State, and APP
pointing +. j. Heron, formerly United
States Marshal, to discharge the duties
of the office.
Two bodies supposed to be of the men
who robbed the Southern Express Mes
senger, on the train near Moscow, some
weeks ago, are reported to have been
found hanged, near New Madrid Mo,
II few days ago.
THE French Government are Mt a loss
to know how to dispose of their Com
munist prisoners. They have 10000
of them, and think that it will be nee
essary to discharge 1880 of them on
account of inability to try them.
THE third trial of George Vanderpool.
on charge of numbering his partner at
Manistee, Mich, three years ago, closed
by the acquittal of the prisoner. On
the first trial he was found guilty, and
on the second trial the jury disagreed.
A DISPATCH from Gumbnneu, a town of
East Russia, 66 miles from Koinigsberg,
says that in the small village of Chino
chon, With a total population of 40. |
there have already been 70 cases of
cholera, 46 of which terminated fatally.
THE bark Ermandine has capszed in
% gale near the English coast, and ali on
board were lost The brig Peacock cap
sized off Shields, and the entire crew |
persisted. fishing schooner foundered |
in Pentland Firth, and five persons were
drowned.
NOTICE is given from the Treasury
Department that principal and accrued
interest of the first series of Five twenty
bonds of 1862, amounting to 500, OO0,-
900, will be paid on and after Dec |,
next, and that after that date the bonds
designated will cease to draw interest.
The Democratic State Convention of
Massachusetts have nominated "a full
State ticket, as follows; For Governor
John Quincy Adams for Lieutenant
Governor, 5. O. Lamb; for Secretary
OF State, Luther Stevenson for Treas
urer, Levi Haywood for Auditor, Phin
cas- Allen Attorney-GeDeral, VIM. W.
Warren.
DR.. HUNTER, of Cleveland, has deter
mined to secure the 100000 offered by
New York to the inventor of a canal boat
which shall do away with the necessity
)f using horses on canals. He has made
A boat which is propelled by plate of
vulcanized rubber, which works on the {
principle of fsh's tail 1t has been .
tested successfully at Buffalo, and will
soon start with cargo Of coal for Roch-
ester.