National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-05-05
Summary OF News.

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VIGILANCE committee is threatened in
Hamilton, Nevada, unless the courts
execute the laws more promptly
ApvIcEs from Peru state that the
inundations lad subsidized, and that the
earthquakes had done no damage,
The fund for the benefit Of Doc
Simmons family, amounting to w57o
was formally presented to the widow
CHOICE cuts of beef are two and one
half cents at Fort Griffin, Texas, and
mich COWS are leased out for their board.
COMPUTING the population Of Massa-
chusetts at AT ,G54, one person in every
47.sl was married during the year 1869.
ST. MARY's MISSION, town Of four or
five hundred inhabitants, % miles from
Topeka, Kansas, was entirely destroyed
by fire.
A RESIDENT of Chicago, named =. A.
Leonard, shot and instantly killed DIR.
S. f.. Scanland. The cause was domes-
tic trouble.
ADvioEs from the Argentine republic
say the war had almost ended. The in
surgents had been completely routed in
the interior.
The Ninth Regiment, Of New York,
will visit Boston on the 18th Of June.
1t will be received by the First Massa-
chusetts Regiment
CAPT FOWLER and his mate Turner OF
the bark Madawaska have been fined
81, 900 each in Portland, Oregon, for
severely beating seaman.
RETURNS from all parts of Wiscon-
sin indicate that Hon. w. L. Lyon
(Rep.,) received 10000 majority for
Justice of the Supreme Court.
GEORGE II. OSBORNE, first mate, wash
ed overheard from the schooner Hero,
now at Halifax, is supposed to have been
the missing Earl of Aberdeen.
The Independence Beige says Favre is
going to Berlin to accelerate the conclu-
sion of peace, and reassure Bismarck OF
the early restoration of order in Paris.
THREE hundred and forty-tive women
in Massachusetts, gave birth in 1863 to
COG children. Three hundred and thirty
nine had twins and six had triplets.
GEORGE w. CHADWICK, convicted OF
altering a United States bond of the
denomination of $4,000, was sentenced
to the penitentiary in N Y, for ten years.
The city of Newark has organized an
association to test the validity of the In
come Tax. Many leading men of both
political parties are members. A similar
association has been formed in Chicago.
FROM all parts of Northwest Missouri,
Iowa, and Wisconsin, come the most en-
couraging reports Of the growing wheat.
1t is stated that the crop promises to be
one of the most abundant that was ever
produced in these States.
A WOMAN of Pisa, in Italy, Pipons
Cetilll by name, has been condemned fol
the murder of her husband and has con
fessed to the poison of her father, hel
tw6children, and her husbands mistress
all in the last six years. She is 40 years
old.
THE wool interest of California is get
ting to be something immense. Last
year that State produced 20, 600, O0C
pounds, or 5000, 900 pounds more than
all the British American Provinces, and
nearly one third of all clipped in the
United States.
GoNERNoR HOFFMAN of New York, has
signed the bill regulating the licensing
of druggists clerks. 1t will have bene-
fetal effect by preventing mistakes in
putting up prescriptions, particularly
the clause which compels doctors to
write in full the ingredients of every
prescription.
THERE was golden wedding in Ken
lucky, at which were present twenty
guests who witnessed the marriage cere-
mony fifty years ago. The average age
of these twenty persons was seventy-one
years, six months. They included the
gentleman and lady who acted as grooms-
man and bridesmaid.
The London Spectator snappishly says,
while referring to Senator Howard s
resolutions about British possessions in
America Canada may cede herself if
she likes, after obtaining her independ
ence by proper parl' amentary address to
the throne but England will no more
cede her than the United States will cede
Maine. Santo Domingo may sell sub
jects, but Great Britain has not yet de-
seconded to that level
IF the French war indemnity is to be
divided on the same principle as that
which has been applied to the other ex-
actions, North Germany, not including
Hesse, will receive 1915 millions of
francs Bavaria, $50 millions; Wurtem-
berg, 240 millions Baden, 1870 millions;
and Hesse, 105 millions. This will be
equivalent to "a $40 thalers for each in
diviGual in the population, and 173
thalers for every family in Germany.
The association organized in California
last year to make practical experiment
in growing tea, has met with encouraging
success About fifteen per cent. only
of the plants imported from Japan sur
vived the voyage, but large quantity
of tea seed terminated readily, and the
young plants are thrifty and promising.
OF course the growth of these latter will
require some years extra time before
crop can be produced, but if the shrub
is destined to thrive well on this CONT
nent, stock raised from the seed is likely
to prove the hardest and best.
RUMoR prevails at Havana which is
generally credited, that the volunteers
in the neighborhood of San Juan de les
Remedies roasted man alive, first run
ming stake through his body. 1t is
said that the volunteers were caught by
Spanish officers while engaged in this
act of cruelty. This outrage has greatly
incensed the people, and many murders
on both sid, have resulted. An Ameri-
can gentleman stopping at a hotel one
day in the beginning of the week, heard
of two volunteers being murdered in
their beds in single night.
THE Rome, n. Y, bank burglars, who
were convicted at WATERFOWL, attempted