National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-02-02
Items OF Interest.
rHr Dnke de Persigny Is dead,

j Hf SlNilsn hONcfnmcHI uhs utclutt
To retain Valmaseda in Cuba.
MAINE has 225, sos children between
the ages of four aud twenty-one years.
TuR address 10 the Crown has passed
both Houses Of the Austrian Reichsrath
EXTENSIVE strikes ARE in progress in
Charlero, Belgium aud Stuttgardt, Ger
many,
THE number ~ Roman Catholics in
ht Europe is liS,00),0O0, of Protestants,
7l,OOO, 600, and of Jews 4, 100000
The Red Republicans are becoming
active in Lyons. The opposition to the
tax on raw materials is Increasing
A MONTREAL man offers 10 bet 80, 900
on George Brown, Of Halifax, against
any single sculler who may compete with
him.
THERE are five thousand one hundrr
and nine postmasters in this country
whose salaries are at lels. two hundred
dollars each.
IT is said that in Paris alone there are
, three hundred thousand children be-
tween the nges of seven and Thirteen who
{ go to no school.
THE quality # the tobacco crop is
thought To be th" best ever produced IN
the Connecticut Valley, and that is say
ing good deal
b In 1850 the Jesuit body through on
: the world was little in excess of four
thousand. At present there are nearly
nine thousand members
The Dutch Reformed Church was the
first organized in the United States. an.
tedaing the German Reformed fully
century. The foundations of the latter
were laid about the year 1920.
A STRIKE occurred among the compost |
tors engaged in the printing office OF
Stnttgnrdt, Germany. Some 300 per-
sons left work, and the language used by
them leads TO fears Of disturbances.
The ex-Empress of the French has /
sold her iewelry to a celebrated finn of |
jewelers. in London for 800 600. Curl |
ositv is excited rs to her reason for |
requiring 80 large sum of money Just |
| now.
Mrs. MARTIN wife of the man who |
died at Cleveland from trichina spiralis, |
also died from the same disease. The |
hoy, aged years, is in a critical condi- |
tion, aud the girl, aged years, it is
believed, will recover.
IT is pointed ont by the Paris Temps
that there are from Il 900 to 10000
Communists prisoners 1t he hulks still
Whiting to be brought before the courts
martial although seven months have
already elapsed since the fall of the Com
mune.
I To-, tc1o Il,
that the Mordaunt divorce case is to be
re-opened with the convalescent Prince
of Wales as correspondent. 1t is also
affirmed that the Duke of Edinburgh is
to be core spondent in another similarly
disgraceful suit
THERE is still house standing in
Greenland, N. H., which was built in
lG3S, and Is consequently 233 years old.
1t is two-story brick building, with ,
high gable ends. IT is 80 feet in length
by 20 in width. The walls of the lower
story are eighteen inches thick
A YorNG girl named Green, seventeen {
years old. made her way from Beliot, to
Clinton, Wis, where live her mother and I
sister. As soon as her mother heard her
daughter was i'll town, she made com |
plant against her daughter rs II vacrant, c
and the girl was sent to Jail for ninety |
days. .
The paper is to The people what n t
sign-board is TO the traveller The paper l
tells who is in business, and where to y
trade, and the sisn-board tells the name
OF the place and direction. Then. if Won i
want people to buy of you, tell them c
through the paper where you stay, and v
what you have.
MEMORIAL was presented IN the u.
). House showing that the consumption
OF distilled spirits is two or three times
greater than the product returned for \
taxation, with consumption not less |
than 100, OO,0 gallons per annum. It a
IS assumed as not possible nor probable n
hat the product is only $4,000, 600 i,
BEEF and mutton are scarce and there. II
fore dear. One of the cqu,es of the IA
scarcity of beef is the great destruction A
OF fasturage and consequent starvation /,
of cattle by the severe weather of last d
month in Kansas, Nebraska, and Mis- ll
souri, The cause of the scarcity of sheep =
is the high price of wool. ful being u
10th to part with their sheep until they 81
have been sheared q
JOHN BEvER, who separated from his =
wife a year ago, and has since threat !,
med her life, went to her house at st. ~
Cloud, Mimi, and drove the children "
out. He then seized his wife by the w. y,
hair and dragged her into Il back room, "
where he literally cut her head to pieces s..
with hatchet When arrested he made
no resistance, but said he came there to ~
kill her and had done it, p