National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-06-23
Summary Of News.

POPULATION Of ONO, 2,ooo,'"'
The session of Heligoland to German.
is spoken Of,
Tur hop crop of England has received
damage from blight
TIM losses by the floods in Antigua
Peru, exceed 81 900, 600.
Tnr schools of Connecticut cost TIN
State VI ,62l 1888 last year.
A LOUISVILLE man has left England
with $500 sparrows for that city.
RICHARD SMITH, II wealthy New Yorker
poisoned himself in Springfield, Mass
HAILsroNEs weighing two to three
ounces, fell in Quincy, H., on Wednes
day, -.
The Ohio Democratic Convention vii
it is said adopt the Vallandigham plat
form.
The Prussians have paid the indcmni
ty for the British golfers sunk IN The
Seine.
EIGHTY millions of bushels of coal m,
said to be shipped annually from Pitts
burgh.
THREE Presidents have died IN
office, George Clinton, Eldridge Gerry
W. II. King
COUNTERFEIT twenties on the Mer-
chants National and the Bank OF New
York are calculated.
CREAM pufis poisoned Louisville
family on Monday, but all its members
are now out of danger.
The iron-mills of Pittsburg, Penn,
have, in the past six years, increased
their capacity fully twenty-five per cent.
The capital invested in vessels on the
Mississippi Riverand in the cargoes they
are constantly carrying is 81 ,50O, 600, 900.
The Democrats of the Third District
OF Texas have nominated Col. ID. G..
Giddings of Washington county for
Congress.
THERE is n family III Vermont consist
ing of five sisters, who are all over ninety
years old, and Of three brothers all over
eighty years Did
Born branches of the Massachusetts
Legislature have passed the new bill
organizing State Police. 1t is to num-
Der seventy men.
A CALL is ont for a Pennsylvania State
Labor Convention in Danville, MUntour
County, on Tuesday, June u, to form n
State Labor Union.
BEN SAWYER, colored, was hanged at
Evansville, Ind, for the murder of his
wife. He manifested no emotion, and
died III ten minutes.
The Derby stakes, amounting to about
E6, 600, were, after the race, presented
by Baron Rothschild to Wells, the jockey
who rode the winner.
The Maine Republicans will hold their
State Convention in Portland, on Thurs
day, June 20, and will, probably, re-
nominate Gov. Perham.
The British House of Commons was
dis. osed to pass vote of sympathy for
the Versailles government, but was
checked by Mr.. Gladstone.
WIN. j. BROOKS, a resident of Wash
ington aged thirty-three, while in the
presence of his aiiianced, suddenly drew
"A pistol and shot himself dead.
The ladies of Boston are to hold
great Fair in December next in aid of
lllt tDp'lttN loI VIC pre-
ven ion of Cruelty to Animals.
THE California Republican State Con
vention, to nominate candidates for State
and Judicial officers, is to be held in Sac
ramento on Wednesday, June 2S.
MIR. LESLIE, Democratic candidate
for the Governorship of Kentucky, is
stumping the State, jointly with Gen.
Harlan, the Republican candidate.
BELGIUM expresses its horror of the
Paris Commune by refusing to recognize
any of its members who may escape into
Belgian territory as political refugees.
THE Rhode Island Commissioners have
removed all restrictions as to admitting
cattle into that State from Albany, as it
is thought danger from disease is ov, :.
The U. S. Senate has confirmed the
of James r. Partridge, of
MARYLAND, to be Minister Plenipoten-
tiary and Envoy Extraordinary to Bra
iii.
CHARLES EACKER, the murderer of |
Thos. f. Burdick, was executed at
Fonda, N. Y The crime was committed
III tut Jun VI ouiN, Ic'o; anu 'duhtu All
intense excitement.
The German Reichstag has approved
he additional clause of the postal treaty
between the United States and Germany,
the rate to two and half
groschen five cents per half ounce.
The complete returns of the vote on
he question rs to whether malt liquors
shall be sold in the different towns and
cities of Massachusetts, show that of the
}39 cities and towns, only 176 polled a
vote on the question.
AT the time of the explosion of the
tug boat b. b. Jones, at Port Huron,
Michigan, crew were at dinner The first
engineer and six other men were killed,
md two others badly scalded and
bruised. There is no reason to hope for
heir recovery.
The American and Foreign Christian
Union, which has greatly increased in
Importance and usefulness during the
asst six years, is now threatened with
disruption, caused by existing
roubles among the members of the
Board of Management.
,