National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-04-28
General News summary.

NEW YORK had quite snow storm
April 2,
CINCINNATI packed nearly million
hogs last year.
THERE are over ajo, 900 freemasons in
the United States.
SWEDISH papers are advocating emf
grafton 10 this country.
4 MAN was arrested in Indiana three
yoars ago for murder and has never been
tried
TruI we're two suicides in New York
one 'ny, caused by depression OF
,..I'.
Mo. I the new loan is taken by hol-
ders of fye-twcnties, and in exchange for
the latter.
TwrSTY.oSE thousand fish traps are TO
be set in and about Narragansett Bay
this season.
PHILADELPHIA has shipped G,55G, 263
gallons of petroleum to foreign ports
since Jan. !.
DELAWARE sends out promises of nm
abundant peach crop. The trees are full
OF blossoms.
The last returns give Boston, Mass.
population OF 25O,526, of whom 81
9S5 are foreigners.
A DRUNKEN man in Syracuse, Kansas,
recently froze fast in n gutter and was
drowned in six inches of water.
The colored citizens of New York
celebrated the proclamation of the XVIII
Amendment by parade and speeches.
Jones and his wife agree grandly on
one point she thinks more of him than
any one else in the world, and so does
he.
REPORTS from almost all sections of
Southern Indiana represent the growing
wheat crop very promising ot the pres
ent time.
The Apprentices Library Of Phila-
dclphia contains 10000 volumes, and
over 1900 books were loaned out du-
ing the past year.
WILLIAM II. MCPHERSON, the young
est brother of the late Major Gen. J. b.
Mcpherson, has been killed by kick
from vicious horse, in Clyde, Ohio.
CONGRESS granted to Phebe Scofield,
the widow of revolutionary soldier $50
per month from June 3, 1867, on which
day she attained her hundreth year,
WASHINGTON reports are to the effect
that Senator Allen c. Thurman is an
open and nvowed candidate fo, the Demo-
cratic nomination for the Presidency.
SENATOR Pool, OF North Carolina, has
written home that he think. iIx-Gov.
Vance will be admitted to ., at in the
Senate next December, if not before.
A CLERGYMAN in the West seeks dam
ages of journal Which publshed re-
port of his lecture, . Mind and Matter"
under the head Of "Wind and Water"
The profits of The N. Y. Heruld alone
must be half million yearly, which
would make the value of that establish
ment somewhere from four to five mil
lions.
The fire at Truckee, Cn'., destroyed
almost the entire city, involving 100
buildings, including all inc business
PORTION of the place and the Chinese
.arter.
MINNESOTA, which IN 1867 imported
wheat for food, in 1867 raised 100000
bushels, and exported two-th. :. of this
amount. Now she raises some 1S,00O,-
100 bushels and sends II, 900, 900 bushels
to market.
The Detroit papers have discovered II
new method of driving away the organ
grinders. Every day or two they have a
small paragraph like this "Organ-
grinders in Memphis make about ten
dollars day"
JOSEPH HOLLAND, of Claremont, New
relates that he and forty five |
Of his associates signed the pledge of
total abstinence forty years ago that
he was the only one of the number who
Kept it, and he is today the only one
dive.
In the English House of Lords, the
bill lcgalizing marriage with deceased
wife's sister, previously passed by the
House of Commons, came M for final
disposition. After long debate, in
which Lord Penzance argued strongly
in its favor, the bill was rejected.
The Philadelphia Mint will redeem
ach kind of United States copper, nickel
md bronze coins, when forwarded in
wen sums of $50, or any multiple of
$40. Copper cents prior to 1857, MCKEE
copper cents from 1857 to 1864, and
'ronze cents since 1864, must come
eparately.
A COMPARATIVE statement, which had u
'een prepared at the Internal Revenue l
)ilce, showing the receipts from the :
everal sources of internal revenue, now ,,
ubject to tax for the Joint eight months l
or the present and last fiscal year, shows
decrease Of S10,310, 1873. There has
zen q decrease on spirits of So, 1874, SIT,
nd on incomes of $4,7S2, Soc Tobacco
hows an increase of 81, 1878, 536. '