National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-06-02

ago.
The Hon David Atwood and Il. D.
IIolton, have been appointed Centennial
Celebration Commissioners from Wis
consin lI@
The Judges of Havana, have released
Capt. Dickson of the brigantinc Penni-
man, Notwithstanding the objections of
the accusers
JUDGE j. n. Granger, Recorder of the
General Post Office, and brother-in-law
Of the late Senator Douglas, has resigned
his position.
The Republicans of Maine will no
doubt nominate Gov Perham, and the
Democrats nominate Chas ". Roberts
for Governor.
ADvICEs from Buenos Ayres say: The
rpvagc of the yellow fever was dreadful.
The deaths from the disease have increas-
cd to 700 per day.
THE terrors of Paris are graphically
pictured In single line of cable in
which it is stated that some Of the ave
rues are crowded with hearsesa ~
DR.. CURTIS CHAPMAN, n Peckskill, N.
y, physician, % years of age, committed
suicide III wood near that village few
days ago, by taking prussic acid.
THE returns show that nearly every
town in Massachusetts which voted on
the question of licensing the sale of beer
and ale, voted ono" by large majority.
The Bonapartist cause is steadily pro-
crossing, and gains daily in strength and
Influence. It's agents are numerous and
widely scattered over every district in
France.
TT is stated in Boston upon official
authority, that enlistmcnts of men for
the support of the cause of the Emperor
Napoleon in France are being made in
America o.
MAYOR MASON, of Chicago, issued
orders for strict enforcement of the
law pertaining to the closing of saloons
on Sunday, which has hitherto been
dead letter.
EX-SENATOR Richard Yates is named
as one of the candidates for Congress
man at large in Illinois, in place of |
General Logan, who was elected to Yates
seat as senator.
The Postmaster General has appointed
Geo. A. Bangs, Special Agent of the De-
partment to superintend postal matters
with tho railway service, vice George
Armstrong, resigned.
The town of Palestro, Algeria. has
been sacked and entirely DESTROYED by
he natives, and the inhabitants, with
The whites in the town, have been cruelty
and put to the sword.
THE lifeboat belonging to Fort Niagara
get adrift during gale, when boat,
manned Ivy six soldiers and Lieuts. L.
t. Ashbury and J. G Morris, started in
our. hit, but their boat capsized, and all
we're lost
The late rains in Minnesota and Iowa
nave seriously iaterfered with wheat
sowing, though about two thirds had
been sown previously. Some fields near
he streams, and in the Mississippi Valley, [
ire covered with water.
In reply to a letter from a Western
Revenue Assessor, Commissioner Pleason-
.on decides that the salaries of city and
county officers are not exempted from
,eturn for income tax under the recent
decision of the Supreme Court.
A PASSENGER train on the Northwes-
'ern Railroad, nineteen miles from Nash
vile, ran off the track, and the engine
vas precipitated down an embankment !
" 100 feet in height. The engineer was
atally and the fireman slightly injured. :
The decision of the Internal Reve- .
Tue Commissioner in the New York Cen {
raj scrip dividend case, has been indefi- S
litely postponed, The transfer of the {
tevenue Solicitor to the Interior De I
artment necessitating a denomination {
I the yoluminous papers in the case. Ii
THERE is a blacksmith out in Iowa who .
as fairly % earned his bread by the sweat I"
his brow" He has worked on the
pen prairie for two years, without n
article of covering for his shop" and =
ow he has purchased fine farm and J.
ullt cosy house upon it with his earn
ngs. <
YOUNG man named Lafayette Shep- (
erd killed his mother and his sister with "a
n ak, near Newton, Jasper County. Ill. g
lie fed, but has since been arrested. He :,
rs several brothers and sisters, who are h
'o' uiiNtti uuutT SUSPICION OF q
ENG accessories to the murder. 1t is q
aid that Lafayette is insane n }t..4 r
AN insane woman rushed into a school @
pom Ill Virginia, a few DAYS ago, and $,
Did the affrighted teacher that she had k
cen sent to teach the children gymnas- l.
cs and, the teacher being afraid TO 81
bject, she put the children through W
eries of he most extravagant antics, o
[ter viii 1 she quietly departed p
The Democratic state ticket in Ken o
lcky is as follows: p. H. Leslie for II
overnor,. J. G. Carlisle for lieutenant
,vernor, d. H. Smith for auditor: J. 4
:. Tate for treasurer H. A. NJ. Hen \
erson, superintendent of public in u
ruction, +. A. Dawson, register of the W
nd office; J. Rodman, attorney Il
neral. a
A NEW IDEA.-The New Orleans Plea k
ne says "A half dozen of our best Iii
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