National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-22
items Of Interest.

bushels Of -four day
Sr. LOUIS claims an increase OF 4o,ooo
in popuhtion since the last census
Ak Illinois farmer has just finished ms
busking. He had only 100000 bushels
of corn. :,
Tur total sum contributed by England
towards the Chicago relief iund was
E1G2 900.
THURSDAY, April 4th, Fast Day in
Massachusetts,, by the Governors APP
pointment.
Tur coal beds of Missouri are said TO
cover nm area 200 square miles, mostly
in the northwest
DURING 1871 there were soventy-siX
horses in this country that trotted their
mile in 9 80 on less.
THE Wisconsin Assembly have passed
a hill recurring scholars and teachers OF
public schools to be vaccinated.
A TWO legged being at Knox College,
Illinois. covered dog with tnrpentine
and set fire to him few days ago.
A PHILADELPHIA ward official is under
arrest for selling the official record OF
the election in 1871 for waste paper
THE Grand Duke Alexis goes to Rio de
.Jancrio direct from Havana, and thence
to China via the Caro of Good Hope
A YoUNo man in ncaster, Penn, mas
been fined for uttering two oaths, the
penalty being sixty-seven cents Tor EACH
THE population OF Montreal proper;
according to the census recently taken
/ r H.. q
THE sentence of death on Domingo
Giral, n member of the Cuban Chamber,
has been committed to imprisonment
for life.
ALLEN w. Thurman, son OF Senator
Thurman, of Ohio, lost his left hand by
an accident with a patent corn-husker,
few days ago.
THE Waterloo Cup, won last year by
Lord Morgan's famous hound Master Me
Gmth, was won this year by Mr.. Brgg' S
Bed Of Stone.
CAPTAIN BENNAM and four sailors Of
the schooner Minnie Bel, were drowned
while attempting to land freight at Point
Sal, California.
Two of the Paris communists were con-
victed of incendiarism. One was SEN
fenced to death and the other to imprls-
onment for life.
The Federal Council Of Switzerland
has sent secret agents to watch the move
ments of Italian revolutionists on the
Piedmontese frontier.
THE revolutionists in Mexico have sus-
tanned defeat mt several places. 1t is re-
20 ,,k 1no1 lint hng
quilted the country in disgust.
A MOVEMENT is on foot for all work
men in France to labor one hour extrf
and devote the proceeds to liberatina
the territory from the Germans.
, THE French Assembly rejected n pro
posal to build n temple to Jesus Chris
us testimony to belief in God, neces
=, sary for the national regeneration.
4 SEVERAL cases of cholera have occure,
g among the forces of Gen. Bourchires
h now on their return from "A victoriou
h campaign against the Looshias in India
T. A WISE writer in Washington pape
: declared that every imposter, "if he b
. only shrewd enough" can dupe til
= New York public, which nobody cal
q deny.
n A HoRRIBLE trunl. mystery has turned
' mp at Wheeling, West Va BY the acct
e dental breaking of IL box at the railroa,
Il depot n mutilated human body was dis
n closed.
v THE Pottsville Miners Journal esti
y mates the total product of bituminou
h coal in Pennsylvania in 1871 at s, 456, 20
e tons The anthracite product was II,
, GS5, sol tons.
/: So fatal has mining become in tn
> coal districts Of England, that one per
g son in every three who are engaged il
: it is said to die annually. This is
i fearful percentage.
IT is reported in Paris that the Frenc
o government has demanded of the Amer
. lean government instruction relative
y the French arms affair but the repol
v IS not well founded.
y EMANUEL SHAFFNER, of West Hanover
~ Penn, has been convicted of the murde
: Of his first and second wives, and job
- Sherlock, by poisoning. motion wi
. be made for new trial.
r. ANDREW j. CARNEY, it is said, is abou
d to institute legal proceedings agains
d William M. Tweed for the recovery G
!. S2O,0o0 for frescoing, plastering, an
n Identifying the Metropolitan Hotel.
Our of forty light National banks i
d Boston nineteen are shown to be def
D cient in their reserves by their reports {
February q last. Of the fifty one Ne
Is York banks twenty-four are deficient.
A FARM is advertised for sale in Farm
ington, CT, for no portion of which an
:, deed was ever given, it having RENAME
!, in the same family for 232 years. eve
. s:nce the original purchase from the IL
dams.
l. IT is stated that the earnings of I'll
m united railway companies of New Jerse,
for the year 1871, were three millior
A. above expenditures, a sum sufficient
pay interest upon the bonds and a div
Of dend of ten per cent. to the stool
~ holders.
THE Erie President hauled down h
he flag. with very little show OF fight an
V the war is over. Jay Gould rendered h
resignation General Dix, the new Pre-
O. ident. and the newly elected board :
o. directors are now complete masters of I'll
field.
OF THE village of Greenbush, near A
X bany, was the scene of a terrible TRACED
Samuel Fargue, dissipated fellow, sh
r = his wife dead attempted to shoot h
he bv hacking his throat with rusty o
in knife.
gh President BAEz is again powerful