National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-01-13
General News Items.

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SCARLET fever Is raging Mt Cleveland
Ohio.
A POUND Of watch-springs IL worth
81, 100
SIXTEEN Iowa counties are trying liquor
prohibition.
NILSSON collars are neat, pretty, and
fashionable.
SAN Francisco has u law SUIT conduct
ed by go lawyers
BELFAST, Me, has just celebrated Its
I Tooth anniversary.
Tm Mexican Congress has passed the
Tehuantepec Canal bill.
MopnRs brides are sensibly discarding
white satin bridal robes.
The Oxford hat retains it, popularity
among young gentlemen.
The Chancellor scarf is en regie both
in New York and London.
TIp-rop House, Mount Washington,
is nearly buried under snow.
BLUE coats and brass buttons for eve
ming costume are no longer in vogue.
The man that was saved from the
wreck of the Cambria has become insane.
A TON OF honey has been sent to mar
ket this year by a bce-keeper at Taunton,
Mass.
The damage done in Thionyille by the
bombardment is estimated at 10000 900
francs,
The custom Of exhibiting bridal pres
ents ut wedding receptions is no longer
general.
A NEGRO man was torn To death by
dogs near Raleigh, North Carolina, the
other day.
FREDERICK EsTEMEYER was killed in
st. Louis the other night, by a blow on
the left ear
INDEPENDENCE Hall, Philadelphia, mar
rowly escaped destruction by fire the
other night.
A SWISS engineer has discovered a
mode Of tolegraphing 10y the transmits
s'1n Of sound.
VERY rich veins OF petroleum have
been discovered near Heide, in Hano-
yer, Germany.
GRANITE goes from Portland to St.
Louis by water, all the way around by
the Mississippi.
LocKErs suspended from the neck by
brigh' colored ribbons are fashionable
among the ladies'.
The City of Boston paid sd, 2S5 du-
ing the year for bathing 1897 l4 men,
women and boys.
- 10,
wards of $4,000 widows and 10000
fatherless children.
ONE thousand five hundred and seven
ty-four registered letters were stolen
from the U. S. mail last year.
SALT LAKE advices say that the Mo-
have and Piute Indians are on the war
path to the number of 400 to 500.
THE census of Indiana, just compile
ted, shows total pop lation of lob,
CTS, an increase in ten years of 305, 247.
THE Democratic candidate for State
Senator in the Philadelphia district of
Pennsylvania has obtained his certificate
of election.
EVERY officer and soldier in the Ger
man army has whistle with which to
perform the different calls and to give
warming of the approach of the enemy.
In Baltimore, Ludwig Moser, former
ly letter carrier, was sentenced to twelve
months imprisonment for opening let
ter which he had for delivery to another
person.
A CONTRIBUTION OF 10000 francs has
been imposed on Lorraine in compensa-
ton for the losses inflicted on the Ger
man merchant navy by the French men
of-war.
A BRAVE conductor on the railroad
near Wilmington, Del, recently jumped
a child from the track, Mt the imminent
risk of losing his own life.
SHERIFF JACKSON, of Trinity County, |
GAL, has been indicted for collecting the
Chinese miners tax, in violation of the |
Fifteenth Amendment. He was arrest |
ed by the United States Marshal.
THE complete census returns show the
population of Wisconsin to be 1,055, |
500. The returns also show 1928
dwelling houses in the State, and 200,- |
66S families. White males sos, 1874
colored people Of both sexes, $500 !; |
blind, 208 deaf and dumb 314 insane,
sol idiots, 255.
A SINGULAR DISEASE is puzzling the
physicians of LCwndes County, Ala
oaIna. The patient is taken with spasms
1t regular intervals-say once or twice
lay--but has no fever, and except slight
,rostration IA 'n ,ility, is apparently in
'verage heiu.n. The spasms or fits
,how no signs of congestion, the eye be-
ng perfectly clear and the pulse moder-
.te. 4 negro woman died Of it in
Hayneville, and two other cases have
been reported.