National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-02-14
Items or Interest.

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All the cavalry horses at Camp Doug
lass are down with. the horse disease.
Mice among the matches produced
q FIRE that destroyed house in Belle
Plain, Ill. lately. '''t"
There are at the present time 2o4 ves-
sells engaged in the whaling business
hailing from American ports. ~
Arizona Territory is not only free
, from debt, but has balance OF cash in
the treasury amounting to $40, 900.
A seven.foot kangaroo in Australia
had battle with three men, three hor-
ses, and four dogs, and whipped them
all. l.,...
Seven thousand four hundred and
ninety-seven Chinese coolies were i'm
ported into Havana during the past
year. '''
Men from the scene of the fight with
the Modocs say that the squaws took
part in the battle. One soldier Was
killed by squaw. tsr.m b. aI'
A Hartford paper says "the dull
quality Of the gas enables the gas com.
pany to declare brilliant dividend OF
twenty-five per cent" ...
A true bill has been found against
Robert Bowles, in the Central Criminal
Court of London, and his triaLis ex-
pected at an early day.
A dispatch from Bordeaux says yes.
sci, supposed to be British, went ashore
on the CO It near that city, and all ON
board are robably lost. ad
l. g. Io~ ko1 9th tIra
aid of policeman, waylaid funeral
procession, and stopped it until his bill
for the coffin was settled.
The Cortes' committee on the aboi-
tion of slavery in Porto Rico has declar-
ed in favor of granting owners an aver
age indemnity Of $3.50 per slave.
Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi, is
now living with his third wife, and
children can exclaim "My
father is Senator from Mississippi"
The Balances in the U. S. Treasury:
Currency, 1924, 465; coin, 1854, 1876, S57,
$24, TAI ,000in coin certificates;
special deposit Of legal tenders, $780,
OSO, 900. ... 4.
The price OF coal has again risen in
causing the suspension OF
work at many of the iron furnaces, and
the market for English Rail-
road Securities.
The bill abolishing the franking
privilege after the LIST of July next,
with the Senate ateamendments, was passed
by the U. S. House Of Representatives
by the extraordinary vote of 143 to AZ.
A sweet little boy only eight years
his little heart-walked into
she scene of teachers examination at
0swego, last week, and .bawled ont =
9 Annie, your feller is down to the
tousc.'
An English newspaper, speaking OF
he large amount of coal imported from
he United States, thinks it probable
hat system of iron steam colliers will
larry United States coal to all parts OF
,he world. H'nH fr 31.
A bill has passed the Indiana Legis-
ature providing that transient visitors
from other States not be granted di-
vorces unless the alleged cause Of COM
plant was q legal ground for divorce in
the State where it occurred.
John Hunt, at Cairo, H., placed the
butt of his rifle on the ground, with
the muzzle leaning against his breast,
when his powder-horn fell on the ham
Iner in such a manner as to discharge
the weapon, killing him instantly.
The colliers on strike in South Wales
ire much incensed at the proposition to
IMPORT coolies to supplant them, and
several owners OF mines have received
letters threatening them
with assassination if the coolies are i'm
ported.
Some questions very naturally sug-
gest themselves to an inquiring' mind.
An amateur farmer wonders "why, on
all this fair earth, the ground is spread
bottom side up, so that it must be turn
ed over with plough before crops can
be raised" ..,.-r.tr
Mr.. Charles Town Fowler, q London
reporter who died lately, had given his
attention during thirty years singly to
the writings of fires. He pursued his
peculiar line of reporting with so much
that, it is said, he literally
lived upon q fire engine. ,.- aG ..l'
Captain Jack, the Modocs chief, pre-
serves regular military discipline, and
drills his men every day with the assis-
tance of persons well acquainted with
military tactics and ambushing, and
who are supposed to be renegade whites
who have become their allies. t
The Mayor of Detroit says that he
pulled down the smallpox flag from
tenement owned by him " to conserve
the public peace" explaining that boys
around it and dared =
each other to scale the fence and ap-
proach the house on which the flag was
A New Orleans woman, who was told
by a "Voudou priestess that her
daughter, recently buried, would revive
on the third day, went TO the tomb at
the time designated, had the coffin
opened, shrieked, and clasped her living,
frantic child in her arms, realizing that
she had come just in time. ...
The Carlist insurrection in Spain is
formidable proportions. The
Paris Union says their lines extend
through the Northern provinces of
Spain from Cape Creux to Corunna, and
that thew are flourishing in numbers,
arms. and resources. Mail communi-
cations haze ceased between Spain and
Paris for a whole week. rrs
Japan has recently taken two impor-
tant progressive steps, which Indicate
that the recent report of conservative
reaction among the rulers of that En-
pire is untrue. The first of these steps
s the decision to create an elective
of two Houses, and number
ng 600 members, by which step, for the
first time in the his " of Japan, the
people will have W. e in public affairs.
The second step is the issuing of de-