National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-03-01
Miscellaneous Items.


with a ghost which haunts one of
the mills of the Stark corporation.
The appalition appeared to the
Waterman, and declared that the
mill would fall, 50 for the present IL
has been closed. as the more super
stitious of the operatives would not
work.
The UNDERGROUND hallway OF ,
LONDoN.-A New Norker writes
home as follows concerning the sub
terranean railway system of London:
"Not the least is their extensive
system of underground railways. 1t
is perfectly wonderful how they Jerk
the people about, at the rate OF about
fifteen miles an hour from one end
Of tie town TO another, and across
and around--stopping about once
eve v half mile, at some prominent
corner, at a station, from which You
emerge to the upper air, find your
self somewhere near where You
want to be. and miles from where
YOU were a half or three quarters OF
an hour ago. These trains run each
way. being double tracks, about eve.
ry ten minutes and morning ana
/ evening they often consist Of seven
or eight ears, holdin, thirty or for
ty people each. The ears are light
cd with gas-not the tunnels, cX-
cept at stationS-so that You can
read Your papers aud there Is no
smell OF smoke, or sense OF Suiioca-
ton. How they yentilate them 50
well | can hardly see
THE ROMAN BED TIlIit.--An i'm
menSe majority otincn III home heN'
er lighted candle. unless at early
dawn. And the custom OF Rome
was the custom of all the nations
, that lived around the great pond OF
the Mediterranean. In Athens
|, Egypt. Palestine, Asa Minor, every
where. the ancients Went to bed
like good boys, from seven till NM
o'clock. The Turks and other PEG
pie, who succeeded in the stations
and habits OF the ancients, ito 50 a
+ this day.
The Romans, therefore. who say
= no Joke in sitting round a table il
- the dark. went to bed rs the dark
ness began. Everybody did st
Old Numo pompillious himself wa
. obliged to trundle OIL in the darl
-. Tarquinius might be superb fellow
', but we doubt whether he ever saw
- farthing rush light. And though
4 may be thought that plots and col
- spiracics would flourish III such
- city of darkness, it must hc conSl'
~, cred that the conspirators themselY'
-. had no more candles than hone
ca men both parties were in the dar
u Governor Orr Of South Caro!il
- has lost the good will of the chiys
90 ry by coming ont in favor of neg
suffrage. At a recent public dlnn
lis at Charleston he was iuSulteG by Il
Of Mnynr nf the city. and at once L.
a. the table.
ne 1t is rumored that John G.. VIII
N, tier, the poet, is to he married in /
5. old age, to Philadelphia vido
with whom he has been in love
thirty years.
Sergeant Boston Corbctt. W
we shot the assassin Booth, is at Ore
or J.. l., where he is an active part
we pant in religious revival there.
SOUTHERN RESPONSES.-A Wa
-. ington dispatch of Thursday 81
- that Charleston papers declare Il
" the South will never accept =
Sherman BILL as they call The Il
ei Reconstruction bin in the shap,
tho passed the Senate, before the Ho
on. added the Wilson and Shellabar
! to amendments. The Richmond WI
as also, after describing the bill in
.tod probiouS terms, says:
sist THE States OF the South will
icer eide the question for thcmscl'
hat should the Sherman substitute
no come law, but for this State
OF can say that the present general
,ov. of Nirginians must pass away,
it their sons and sons sons, before
,or. will seek any representation Ill {
nor gress through such means, and
we're pecially such representation. \
Mr.. tary rule may be imposed on
ced every device of State torture !
ted. he applied, these will be the sh;
con. Of those who employ them, not
PISS but she will never confess a f.
hey hood, nor af1iX the brand OF inf;
sans on her own brow. Never y
ions NEBRASKA.-Ne II rask 4
cnts promptly decided tobccome the
Il q ty seventh State OF the Union, vi
,em. event will formally take place W
, ma. the President, having been ollici
was intor d, issues his proclamatio
Il in. the tact. The requirement mad
the the United States Government |
rh to NeorasHa' 'ha' Sie should ailei
hern CONSTITUTION ny granting lmpa
have suil,aSe, was u''Preeedchteo, p'
litter ought to have one good effect a
,toen present time. 1t will teach til
coded States that the Federal
crnment is no respecter of per
persons or sections. What it as
ono uliurtnr On far n il bau tLo >.