National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08
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SWIM" W.
MIX is 10 be sold by ale and beo
measure in Maine,
THERE are 1899 patients in the Virgins
Asylum for colored lunatios.
MAIsE proposes 10 abolish solitary
confinement in her States prison
The California Assembly refused, by
vote of - 10 80, 10 exempt journalist
from jury duty,
The bullion product OF Nevada IN 1871
: exceeded S22 900, 000-nearly equal to
the gold product of California,
THr voluntary subscriptions to the
French fund to pay the indemnity 10
Germany amounts to 1900, 600 francs.
SOUTHERN Illinois reports hattering
prospects of an abundant fruit crop,
especially apples, pears and cherries.
Gov. CALDWELL, of North Carolina,
has offered S35, 900 Tor the capture OF
Lowery and his gang, and yet there are
no takers
A PUBLISHED letter from Charles ID.
Hilderbrand, the Missouri outlaw, con-
veys the unpleasant news that the report
Of his death was false.
The Vermont Legislature, at its last
session, fixed the election of Congress-
men in that State, this wear, for the first
Monday in November.
THE mistake" of druggists clerk
caused the death of the wife of Col. J. NJ.
Thornburgh, young lady very highly
esteemed, in Nashville, Tenn.
The National Labor Convention at
Columbus, nominated David Davis, of
Illinois, for President, and Joel Parker,
of New Jersey, for Vice President
The National Engineers Gift Enter
prise" eliminated in Milwaukee, in the
arrest Of President Charles ID. Smith,
who bailed himself out and left for parts
unknown.
A VERY competent authority present
ia the Prusslan dominions during the
war, estimates the number of men called
to arms on the German side during that
period at n million.
A LETTER from Londonderry, Ireland,
including one half of a three ponnd ster
ling note, to pay Sl5, income tax left
unpaid by the sender, was received by
Treasurer Spinner.
ENCOURAGING reports from the diamond
fields continue to reach Capetown.
Diamonds were selling at auction Mt a
decline of % per cent. on the prices re-
ported by the previous steamer.
THE Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention to nominate candidates for
State officers and Presidential electors,
and to select delegates to the Democratic
National Convention, is to he held in
Reading on Thursday, May 30.
A SPECIAL despatch from Rome to the
american Register says General Sherman,
Colonel Audenried, and Lieutenant
Grant, previous to their departure from
that city for Naples, had pleasant inter
view eff an hour duration with his Holt
ness the Pope.
The Auditor of Ohio has decided that
when sexton resides, as Waterman, in
the basement Of n church, the whole
building must be taxed, the State law
providing that church building must
be exclusively used for divine worship
to be exempt from taxation.
IT is report that Boston landlord re-
Trained from collecting rent from one of
his tenants for sevelai years, that he
might avoid payment of the income tax
thereon, and that by the recent failure
of the tenant, he has lost the entire sum,
to many thousand dollars.
Two soldiers, named McCargue aud
Mavanaugh, inmates of the National
Asylum, at Milwaukee, were found dead
in a ravine in the woods back of the |
asylum barns. They were nearly blind, |
and have been missing for more than IA
month, and until the past few days have
been covered with snow. The thaw de-
veloped their whereabouts.
IT has been generally supposed that
the guano deposits in the Cincha Islands
were the excreta of birds, but now DIR.
Habel and Professor Edwards suspect
that they are made up of the bodies of
decayed animals and plants, most of
when are of marine origin. This sup
position rests on the fact that the
anchors of ships moored near those Is
lands frequently bring guano to the
surface.