National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-04-05
Prof. Morse Of New York is dead,

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on boiler, March 30th,
The Bangor Wing, in anticipa.
ion of biz trcslet this springi Is
preparing It's readers for terrible
calamity 10y rcpublishing an account
of the disastrous Hood OF lSij.
i The Staten Island Ferry Co, will
be made bankrupt by the awards
of damages against them IN culsc.
qucncc of the Westiield steamboat
disaster.
Navigation was open on Lake
ChanpIaIn last year the 18th of
March. This year, on the lst Of
April there il llrec feet of solid Ice,
aud no prospect that the Lake will
be open until past the middle Of the
month.
The steamship City OF Galveston
was burned at New Orleans March
29th.
DR.. Eaton, a promising young
physician Of Portsmouth, y. H.,
died of pneumonia, March Goth.
New Orleans has had q dcstruc-
tive food from the breaking away
Of the cmbankneHt of the rcsiryoir
Of the city water works.
No trains have passed over the
Lamoile Valley railroad. between
ST. Johnsbury and llardwick, for
some two weeks, owing to the snow
blockade, and one of the operators
on the line posted in his telegraph
office the notice, "Irain fourteen
days late"
"IIurrah! Sugar making has be-
gun in NcImont.'-H0St0H J0Wadt.
1t has begun on rather limited
scale, rs the sugar makers have TO
take take their trees into the house
to thaw them out 80 that the sap
will run.
A New Orleans Judge fined two
men $l.50,ach for fighting u duel
and shooting inch other.
Forty lousand pounds Of Califor.
MIA but WIS shipped to New
York It'd Boston last week.
VIII, ping cough is prevailing in
Randolph.
Charles Il. Pclton Of ludlow, II
years Of age, died on Tuesday in
thirty minutes after accidentally
swallowing a piece Of cyanide OF
potassium, which he carried for re
moving stains from his hands.
The English brig Natrona ar
rived at Boston on Saturday, hay
ing been l0i days out on her passage
from Newcastle, encounterng most
Of the gales which have swept over
the Atlantic this winter.
The barque Nmrod was burned
at sea OF Bermuda, March 10th,
and ten lives were lest.
A severe tornado accompanied
by thunder and lightning passed
Owe, the city of st. Louis March 30.
The market house Was demolished
and many persons injured, some ia
tally.
a rupture has occurred between
Italy and Uruguay.
Whites block in Concord, n. H.,
was destroyed by fire March 3lst.
Loss $4,000.
The reyolutionists in Mexico are
reported to have gained a victory
ever the government troops.
The British ship Republic, which
arrived ut Boston on Sunday from
, Liverpool, had been since Dec,
sd on the passage.
An immense mass meeting was
at salt Lake city March q, to OPP
pose the movement fer the admiS
sion Of Utah AZ a State of the I'm.
ion.
The California earthquake eX-
tended SO far that slight shock
was felt at salt Lake, Utah.
Snow in the mining camps in
Utah is l.. feet d,oa.
PORTLAND, Me-, March 81. 1t
began showing early tins morning
and the storm now continues with
considerable wind and deep drifts,
But one storm this winter has ex.
ceeded this in violence.
The manufacture Of iron rails in
this country has doubled in the last
ten years. Pennsylvania stands
first astothe amount manufactured
and Illinois second. One mill in
Wisconsin places that State fifth on
the list Of producing States.
Both houses Of Congress have
adopted al amendment to the tariff
bill, which entirely removes the du.
ty Oh tea and coffee. The vote was
very decisive, as well in the Senate
as in the House, 4 itmay be regarded
as the settled purpose of Congress
to pat hcse articles Of universal con
sumption upon the free list.
4 drunken man Jumped from a
tiain of cais on the Boston and Al
bany Railroad on Saturday. while
It was running at a rate of thirty
d miles an hour, and people on the
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