National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-01-31
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War is imminent between Japan md
the Coreans.
Whole herds of cattle were caught II.
the storm in Minnesota, and weref frozen
to death.
The ship Chillingham Castle, on her
way from Shields tS Malta has been
wrecked with twenty-six persons on
board.
The National Educational Society is
TO hold its thirteenth annual meeting mt
Elmira, on the fifth, sixth, and seventh
days of August next.
A youth at Fall River skated into an
other The other day with so much vigor
that he burst blood vessel in his head
and died the next day.
A st. Louis paper laments because of
the prevalence of the idea that 1t is
more genteei to sell shoes for SO aweek
than to make them for SO.
The boiler of the steamer Julia ex-
ploded near Eufilla, Ala, scalding thir-
teen persons. Two of them were killed,
one mortally injured, and another has
not been found.
Ossin r. Dodge is the defendant in
suit for divorce, in st. Paul, MINI. lle
is fifty-two, and his wife twenty-eight;
and She alleges brutal treatment and
marital infdelity.
The st. Louis Democrat says that
"the actual cost of sewing machine
that retails for $50 will not exceed SIS
the rest goes to pay for patents and
close corporations.
A Chinaman who had become snow
blind while working on the Central Pa
cifc Railway applied at San Francisco
police station for official permission to-
have himself shot.
A country paper in Minnesota wants
to know who swindled the Indians out
of "such an Internal cold country ms
Minnesota is, and who deluded the
white people into it. d"
The Emperor of China is reported as
highly incensed against foreigners,
owing to the dastardly attempt of some
unknown parties to assassinate HIM by
means of explosive candles. ...f
It is announced in France on high
medical authority that the milk OF COWS
affected with the foot and mouth dis
ease " commonly proves fatal to infants.
even when mixed with nine parts of
healthy milk.
Famine fever has again appeared in
London. 1t is now probably a contin-
uation of the outbreak i'll 1862, when,
having disappeared from the kingdom
for thirteen years, it suddenly revived
and lasted through the two following
years, dying out in 1871.
Three men from a wrecked brig in
Apple River, N. b., were drowned in
smooth water within cables length OF
the lighthouse a few weeks ago in the
absence of any life-saving apparatus,
the Government having refused even to
supply the light-keeper with boat.
One of the Berlin papers lately con-
tained an article on England 1t con-
siders the invasion of Khiva, certain
negotiations between Prussia and Por-
tugal, and the threatened annexation OF
the Sandwich Islands by the United
States as 50 many direct attacks on En-
gland
In the Catholic churches of the towns
md villages of Poland it is an everyday
especially during Lent, to
see women lying flat on their faces in the
middle of the church with their arms
stretched out so as to form cross dur
ng the whole service, long sermon
included.
In Lutterworth, England, two days
before Christmas, three clergymen, sit
ing as magistrates, sent woman 70
7ears old to prison for seven days for
he crime of having "broken stick
rom farmers hedge, thereby intiict-
ng damages to the amount of one
A young couple in Wisconsin were
% thoroughly bent on matrlmony that
hey rode twenty three miles in an open
wagon when the mercury stood seven
cen degrees below zero to obtain GER
ificate. They froze ears, hands and
eet. Still they joined their frozen
lands.
A farm of 1000 acres, in connection
With Danzig, in Prussia, has been irri-
,ated by the sewerage of the town,
which has 100000 inhabitants, the re-
ult being fine crops of rye-grass, pota-
oes and beet-root of enormous size.
he land before was partly forest and
'artly sandy desert.
A Boston gentleman who could not
galtz offered young lady S400 if she
would allow him tohugher iust's auch
s the man did who had just waltzed
Nth her. 1t was a good offer, and
howed that money was no object to
i'm, but they put him ont of the house
o hard that his eyes were quite black.
A lover once wrote to lady who had
elected him, saving that he intended
o go "to some secluded spot and
,reathe away his life in sighsl' to which
he lady replied by inquiring whether
hey were to be medium or large size.
he man has not since been heard
rom.
The Mississippi basin, which has but
ne natural outlet-that by the mouths
f the Mississippi-is a great fertile re-
,ion of 2,079,254 square miles and
population of 22,55i, ,211. 1t produced
n 1871, /, ,035, ,094, ,5S4 bushels of grain,
.0l1 1886 bales Of cotton, 22S, 713.SH
,ounds of tobacco, and contained 6o5-
~, OIL head of live stock. 't
A medical correspondent explains
hat "embolism, y of which the Emperor
lied, is a coagulation of the solid parts
,f the blood into clots, which block up
he heart and arteries. These plugs are
allied emboli, and by blocking up tho
.rterial courses give rise to fatal coase
lnences. They are dependent upon
,revious disease of the system.
A short time ago correspondent wit
iessed the arrival of batch of com
nunists convicts at Rochelle. There
vas Paschal Gronsset, rather thin now,
rearing a tall hat, carrying 'hree or