National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-04-19
Items OF Interest.

THE rindcrpcst has wholly disappear
ed from Belgium.
THERE ARE now in the prisons OF Yer
sailles twenty-five communists undeI
sentence OF death.
A TRUE bill has been found a3ains
the Tichborne claimant, charged will
forgery and perjury.
A SPANISH steamer has landed ,00(
men at Santiago de Cuba, to reinforce
the army on that island.
Gov. GEARy, Of Pennsylvania, has
signed the bill permitting persons nc
cuscd of minor crimes to testify in then
own behalf.
The Pope has refused to receive the
sum OF money offered to him by the Ital-
ian government. When he wants none y
he will receive it only from the Catholic
world.
THE National Democratic Committee
will meet in Washington in order to
adopt measures to secure the organiza-
ton Of the Democratic party for the
Presidential campaign.
THERE is no truth whatever in the re-
port tclegraphcd from Europe tIat
Queen Victorlas visit to Germany was
the precursor Of her abdication in favor
of the Prince OF Wales.
The coal owners OF South Staffordshire
in England, have granted the demand Of
the men for the nine hour system. Ii
the request had been refused, at least
10000 men would have struck work.
Jos. Is. AGNEw, who recently died in
Appanoose Township, Hancoc' County,
H.. at tho age of fifty eight years, is
said to have been the person who fired
the Niuvoo temple at the time OF the
Mormon war.
INQUIRIES have been instituted by the
Spanish government in regard to the case
of DIR. Howard, who was recently sem
fenced to imprisonment in penal settle
ment by the Spanish authorities in Cuba.
In the meantime DR.. Howard will remain
under good treatment at Cadiz.
The Green Mountain cheese factor
at Peru, Vermont, worked up 406,230 |
pounds OF milk in "a working days last |
year, making 57141 pounds Of green
and 80, 124 pounds of cured cheese.
This was at the rate s. GO pounds of milk
to one pound of green cheese, and 90 |
to one pound ofcured.
VERY sad story Of parental cruelty is
reported from Poughkeepsie. An in
quest was held on young girl who died
of exposure, according to the verdict.
If the testimony is credible she was used
most cruelty by her father, who horse
whipped her, threw her into a creek,
and otherwise brually tortured her
A CIRCULAR is issued in London IN
wiling subscriptions for As, 900 shares in
the Great Western Telegraph Company,
which proposes to lay telegraph cable
direct from England to New York and
thence to the West Indies. The shares
are twenty pounds each. The total cap
ital of the company is fixed at Gl, $780,
000
Two young colored men fought duel
with small swords in New Orleans, not
long ago, and one was slightly wounded
in the breast One is the son of an in
ternal revenue assessor, and the other
Il son of Custom-house official The
quarrel grew out of testimony given be-
fore the Congressional Investigating
Mn. j. G. GILMORE who was murdered
by highwavman, had recently been in
with Hon. Horatio
King, OF Washington, and wrote ~
feel distressed this morning by reason Of
uncommon. / have dreamed
for four successive nights of beng muir
lered. Ihave vely little faith in dreams,
though this is so singular"