National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-03-10
General News summary.

THE subscriptions in aid of Franc
foot up $40, 900 in both New York an,
Boston.
Ex-EMpERoR Napoleon has issued
proJ imation 10 the French people il
reference to the elections.
The Department of the Seine Inferi
cure is sad to have already paid %, 800,
600 of francs to the Germans.
Ir is reported that an Immensely ricl
silver m ne has been discovered in tn,
Bradshaw district Of Arizona.
The Hon. VIM. H. Barnum was nomi
mated for Congress by the Democrats %
the Fourth District of Connecticut.
Con. Thomas u. Chickcring, Dr.
Hiram Cove and Eben Wright, promi
nent citizens of Boston, died there lately.
ADvIcEs from San Domingo state that
Cnbral has been driven to the Haytian
frontier, and that his troops are in bad
plight.
A BILL has passed the Pennsylvania
Senate making taxable females over
twenty one years of age eligible as school
officers
Our Of two car loads of hogs shipped
from Lafayette, Ind, to Indianapolis,
only ten arrived alive, all the rest being
frozen to death.
Con- Walter Dwight, Republican, was
chosen Mayor of Binghampton n. Y,
over b. n. Loomis, Democrat, by n
majority of S72.
The planters of Mississippi, almost
without exception, say they intend to
put in more corn, and raise more stock
feed the present year
A DWELLING in Northampton township
near Doyleston, was burned, and two
children burned to death, and the moth
er dangerously burned
A man was recently informed just be-
fore his marriage that his bride had fall
en- heir to $500, 600, but he let the cere.
mony go on Just the same.
A conscience-stricken individual in
Lowell Mass, transmitted to the Ma
tioI Al kevenue Office one day, S90-taxes
due and not heretofore paid.
The bill to modify the usury laws was
killed in the New York Assembly by n
vote Of 3S to g., after having been the
subject of prolonged discussion
The English House of Commons voted
u dowry of E30, 200 to the Princess
Louise, and an annual allowance of G6,
coo, The vote was unanimous
The latest novelties are evening shoes
for ladies', which are made with gilt heels
and a very great deal of gold embroidery
over the instep and gilt caps to the toes
TELEGRAM from Bombay says the
steamer General Outram, from Cochin,
bound to Bombay, has foundered in Il
cyclone in the Indian Ocean, and that all
lives were lost
The New-Jersey Senate has ratified
the Fifteenth Amendment. A committee
of four has been appointed in the Senate
i'll reference to the removal of the State
capital to Elizabeth
LEONARD CHoATE, known as "the
Newburyport, Mass, fire-bug," was sen
fenced to the State Prison for life, for
committing numerous incendiary acts in
Ncwburyport and vicinity years ago.
PRESIDENT Grant minated to IA Sena-
tor that proposition had been received
from England for an immediate settle
ment of the Alabama claims, and that it
was wholly satisfactory.
The Middle Tennessee papers speak
despondently of the coming wheat crop.
In the first place, not more than half the
usual quantity was sown, and now n
very poor crop is reported.
A NEw-loRK broker, residing at
Elizabeth, N. j., has offered five acres
of ground and S25,0O0 toward building
n new State-housc, if the capital shall be
to Elizabeth from Trenton.
THE Auditor of the New York Canal
Departm mt, in answer to resolution
Of the Senate, says the money borrowed |
for canal purposes in 1870, was 81, 1911,
S36 40, on which the interest is now be- |
ing paid.
A DISPATCH from Belgrade says the
Turkish Government is concentrating
large force of troops ON the Roumanian
frontier, and announces that they will |
remain there while the Treaty of Paris
OF 1896, is observed.
For the last eleven months ending
'ov. 30, 1863, the excess of imports over
exports in the United States, was So
555,6 while in 1870 the excess was
1870, 1l6, showing an improvement
over 1869 of 500, 644, 994
THE engagement at Najaza, Cuba, is
announced in Havana Seven
LYNNE insurgents were killed and fifteen
aiken prisoners, and the Spanish loss
was two killed and eleven wounded.
Five hundred identified with the Repub-
ic have surrendered
AN accidental explosion of powder oc-
'ured in the asphaltum coal mines of
Richie County, Va, by which three men
were killed and several shut up in the
nine. The fate OF the latter is vet
unknown. The explosion was caused by
.he ignition of n keg of powder.
SOME German soldiers on outpost duty
near Paris, had with great trouble CON
rived to set up Christmas tree. They
we're all grouped joyously about it, when
I shell from the city dropped in their
midst, and exploding, killed three and
wounded a considerable number of
hem.
A BAND of 800 masked men, on horses.
iook ten negroes from the Union Comfy
$. c. jail, shot six of them. hanged
.wo, and spo,ed of the other two in
some unknown manner. The negroes
we're accused of murder and arson. and
he pIeteNt for Strengthening them is that
hey were To be removed TO Columbia {
Under writ of habeas corpus.
A DAY or two since the kee,pr of n