National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-09-08
News Summary.


marriages, III births, All deaths,
$40.
The schooner Columbia and yacht
Gracie won all the prizes Mt the Boston
regatta,
SECRETARY Boutwell, has withdrawn
the and 4. per cent bonds Of the U.
S. Loan.
TWENTY-FIVE dooths from cholera &C.
CURED in Koligsberg, Prussia, on the
litb inst
J. G. BANCROFT DAVIS, has been APP
pointed Agent for the United States on
the Alabama claims.
The shike Mt Newcastle continues,
and many of the striking workmen are
emigrating to America.
TIE steam-tug q. II Starbuck ex-
ploded her boiler near Staten Island,
N. y, killing one man.
THE directors of the Southern Pacific
Railroad of California have reelected
the old Board of Officers.
The potato blight has developed to an
alarming extent in ireland, and it is
feared that the crop is almost ruined.
The balances in the T. S. Treasury at
latest report were: Coin, $50, 076, 900
currency, 81, 524, 900 certificates, S1S,-
1000.
DURING the week 9Sl pension certif-
Gates were issued, rs follows Invalids,
1868 widows, III navy, 10; war of
1912, 43l.
OFFICIAL returns from eighty-three
counties in North Carolina show ma
iority of 10, 23l, against Constitutional
Convention.
TrR Virginia Republican State Cen
trail Committee has decided to hold a
Convention on the 9th Of September,
in Richmond.
The next Legislature of Kentucky will
stand as follows ; House, SO Democrats,
Is Republicans Senate, 30 Democrats,
3 Republicans.
KING Victor Emanuel has appointed
General Couat Louis Frederic Menebrea
nbiier on the part of Italy in the case
of the Alabama claims
THE President has appointed Wiley
Edwards and w. B. Spooner Commits
soners to the One Hundredth Aniver-
sary of American Independence.
AN East Frankfort, n. Y, man heat
ont the brains of his wife because she
refused to decd her property to him.
He afterwards concluded to hang him
self
THE next State election in Vermont
will be held in September, 1872 The
present State officers were chosen for
two years, and elections hereafter are to
be biennial.
THE Arno river having been swelled
d a flood by the melting of SHOWS III
the Apprentices, has overlooked its banks
in many places, causing great destruc-
ton to the crops.
A DESPATCH from Gumbinnen, East
Prussia, town sixty miles east of Kon
says the cholera has appeared
in several districts on the German side of
the Russian frontier
The saloon-keepers, gamblers, anu
roughs who usually congregate along
new railway lines have been driven by
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company
from the line of their road
FRANCIS Smith, convict in the Cali
fornia State Prison at San Quinten, who
had a balance of two years to serve of a
term of eight years, committed suicide
by jumping into IL vat of boiling water.
OFFICIAL returns from 80 counties of
Kentucky give Leslie, Democrat, 119.
40; aud Harlan, Republican, 82,645
The 10 counties to hear from will proba.
bly, increase Leslie's majority to nearly
10000.
A BUFFALO cattle drover, who had s,ld
all his property was robbed of the entire
proceeds, So, 500 in bank bills, at the
depot in IngersoH, Canada, whittier he
had gone, intending to settle there per-
tackled party of Chippewa Indians,
who were accused of stealing, near Lake
Darling, and killed two of them, The
Har lwicks delivered themselves up to
the authorities. ,-rr
A NUMBER of New nglanders have
leased a farm in Powhatan County, Vir-
ginia, with the int 9ntion of devoting it |
exclusively to the raising of goats. They
have made a beginning with 1000 goats. |
and expect to increase the number to
10000.
A HEAVY typhoon at Kobe, caused the
loss of 400 lives. Several vessels were
also wrecked, including the Pride Of the
Thames, and the Captain, two mates and
the steward were drowned The damage
TO property is estimated at half mil
hon dollars.
The Ooroner's jury in the Westfield
investigation rendered a verdict of Grim
inal negligence, and warrants were is
sued for the arrest of President Wander
bilt, Superintendent Braisted, and Engi-
neer Robinson.
THE September Conventions will he
held rs follows On the It'll, Republi-
can OF New Jersey; l4th, Democratic of
Massachusetts Goth, Republican of Hi
nois, and of Minnesota 9th, Republi-
can Cf Massachusetts.
+ PROFESSOR AIKEN has reported that no
traces of metallic poison have been dis
covered Ivy him in the stomach of the |
late Edward Wharton. So that the
charge against Mrs Wharton of having
poisoned her own son falls to the ground.
THE premium list for the Mississippi
State Far is filed with liberal offers for
all department of agriculture and COM
merce. There re several thousand dol !
lars IN premiums for the ordinary and
special products liberal premiums for
Flooded horses are allotted, and the !
Jockey Club Association give liberal
purses for racing stock. The fair will |
open on the 23d of October, and con
tinue one week.