National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-11-08


the famous Miss killmanSegg's gold !
EN- spoon. On Il smaller scale was
was repeated the stony of that Min
nesOta wood sawyer who accumula-
ted half a million in halt year.
On paper all these towns were mag
niticlent. Their superbly lithograph-
ed maps adorned the walls OF every
place of resort. The towns might
be composed of twenty bnlldlngs,or
it might not contain single habita-
tiOn. In most cases, however, he
would find one or two rough cabins,
with perhaps a tent and an Indian
canoe on the river i'll front OF the
"levee.7 Anything was marketable.
Shares in interior towns otone or
two shanties sold readily for a hund-
red dollars. Ways proposed an act
of Congress reserving some land for
farming purposes before til" Whole
territory should be divided into city
lots Towns enough were started
for state containing four millions
OF people.
UNREAL. REAL ESTATE.
W. ,,;,,; uo. onoo -
leading and thriving town. Now
the erratic stream had made dcpoS-
its in front, until large buildings,
formcly on the bank, were one third
=. ,,iIas,hn'.a and nnon undrrIyinr
~ ;aI,'ai' -'i.'' '''' ,a ,';,,ai ,,,o. f,.t cnf
= ,;', 80, N','t',' ;,t, ,,'a % oi+,. seal ocrn.
- ~ ..'',,ai ''o i'S ,ino,la ,,n,,
i''' ', '''o''l 'e,' - M .hn 81 i''. n.'
nno. d....,.1 and thoir ouf.r. walls
falling 4 family in the lower part
of the town were at dinner when the
groupd beneath them began to trrm-
Die. At FIRST they Thought it an
rarthouakc. bat il proved a water
quake. They He'd toa safe distance
and saw lnr>r. Garden and an acre
Of land slide into the cucroaching
element ONE might contract to
.rll lots Lercaud deliver them in 1t.
Louis 1t was a flight OF fancy to
call such property real estate.
At II. Joseph tue river ofl7''litI'I
nov ed III llouN o' / 'l9u >'',C'' ~ -"
II ram aiDH@ / o"' ~ H'.' Wv ,n'e'
Nehln9 lahu mao 'uS"ti''"''"' -
non resident "Ho purchase" l'N co
lots soon "lJef Tue citA was I''u out
returned III 1915 to look ai'cr 'he'I''
lie supposed them some" mere N
the ned OF the S'ieaiil' o"' i''u 'le
/ curiosity to ascertain ny survey
They proved to he on tlIt oti'ef sue
oil Ihe iNer' /" H'""oo' N''l'N"N
KANSAS COURT, 1871.
Once an attorney Tor the def lSe
tool, his cigar from his mouth. and
behind Il huge pun ofsmoke objected
10 certain testimony on the other
side as inadmisSiblc. The justice
cravely replied:
THE court >uStainS the objection.
and rules that the question cannot
be asked at this stage ofhcgante.'
The inference was that the court
plaVed poker.
ppE.ENIPTfoN.
,,-a..o,,otod.,ua stol,ed ont on,
w.; '''', oud nftn,ratn,uiu,
y y va, Hu;n.I,ra - ''I,, 1nnt ont boards an,
~ ,t'''''',':''' ,t.'l ,,,,,, o,1b I'm
'''t,' ~, Il 4 .'''i' ','I' I,tnr n,hnn yr wen
i' & lev "Ivna ,,1, 10 '",v o,,'. .IweIlirgs' SOM
va, ~ :" ';'N ,,,,,,1,.'I y, taI n,,.,io,
''i''' ~ - '''r tl,nn,I IIn iii
, away 'N''H U''' " ,'',I rarto,. ,
, "oG 'I;.,,,r ,t", Tnt"?,1st,"dina The fort
. ,i1n',., oiIin,, ,,l,;oh lis onn;Iity cast m,
,'oi'"'9 Ia,.o mrnf,nnJ n',;' risnrct for th.
r lh"o,,J m", IinernIator who not only oI
/. t,inod so much valuable lumber t,
.i';' ,'''iG" ~ I"t f,rnI if nlrcadv deli,
''o' I,''-, I.I,,.t,',n;Ia, i; tho intn,inr VIII,
,ho WV 'o'',,oI.ns ,',', ~ % rf hanlino were emo
:. mons # must have enabled hi
). ~ LniId =, n,lntial mansion but II
{. oxuo,.;,uco was q mdicrouS Sati
l. ,,nnn tl,. ,ncieut local fiction ,h
/. nyr,., mans bouse was his castle.
- Er,n snch , school must ha,
n ,.,,du,t,d tbo -----th Kansas |
is ,a"t,, Which orouired rare rcput
r. t;on tnr ,,Iuulering duripg the rcb,
lc ION number of Kansas regimen
n. mareLin" tb,onph Missouri. rcyeI
"I M 1bnnSclvrs mnon tbeir old cl
ii. mics. Inf this had unapproachal
rd "nuins fn,.l hinder. which the caI
n. g,aria. n..d T., illustrate with reu
is ino Nmc,ienn cyarrcration. One
~. 49,, '', ,'n uns In an Arkou,
'n.''' g" aann,,l n,,icnr fnund I
40 'dHl lp"Gh 7'''' 80 ~ -, =,