National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-07-30
Miscellaneous Items.

Florida has admitted a negro to |
the bar.
So great has been the clanship of |
Scotland, that $50 surnames repre-
sent 5000, 900, or One-half, of her
inhabitants.
The Mississippi river is higher
than at any time this season. and
within two and a half feet of the
high water mark of 1861.
An Ohio Democratic candidate
declares that the national debt is
ten thousand dollars more than the
peOpis can ever pay in gold
A young man named Powell was
struck deaf and dumb while mock
ing deaf and dumb person on the
cars in Tennessee few days ago.
An illustrious individual remarks
that Mrs. Stanton is the salt, and,
Anna Dickinson the pepper, and
Miss Anthony the vinegar of the
Female Suffrage movement.
The porgy fishing has been very
successful along the Maine coast
this season. A full average seasons
work has already been accomplished
and still the work goes bravely on.
The editor of the Waterbury(Ct.)
american telegraphed the other day
to Colonel A. II. Fem, lat Plymouth
Send us full particulars of the
food Fem replied: You'll find
them in Genesis
A snake sixteen feet long and
proportionately large, which has
been aflrighting people near CO.
lumbus, o., was dispatched last
week by two boys whom it had chas-
ed for half a mile.
The Boston Post says the lessons
the Democratic party has learned
ought to be protted by, and points
out the new path-a liberal plat
form, living issues, prudent speech,
and right nominations.
The democrats of PENNSYLVANIA
have nominated Asa Packer for
governor. He is the richest man in
the State and one who spends freely
for party purposes, which fact alone
recommends him for the position.
All the domestic bees near Louis.
vile have disappeared, leaving their
hives full of honey. The cause of
this extraordinary exodus is a mys-
terry. In circuit of twenty five
miles all the hives were deserted
about the same time.
Jennie June sums up an article
on the woman question in these
words: The modern wife, who de
mands everything but gives nothing
in return, is libel upon woman
hood, and has a claim upon nothing
but liberation and contempt
a passenger train on the Connec-
ticut River railroad ran off the
track at Holyoke, Mass, last Sat
urday, and the engineer had a leg
broken, and the fireman and a
brakeman were slightly injured
The engine was complete wreck.
The Treasury officials say that if
the receipts keep up as at presen. the
end of the month will show another
very remarkable and satisfactory
reduction of the public debt. There
never has been time when collec-
tons have been so regular and re-
turns so prompt as now.
A strip of land thirty by two hun.
bred feet, and covered with trees, is
gradually sinking from the surface
of the earth, one mile south of Fort
Wayne, Ind. The supposed cause
is asserted to be an underground
lake or river wearing the earth away.
1t creates much interest among the
citizens.
A Bishop who loves the weed once
dined with Admiral Farragut, and
, after the dessert rendered bunch
of uavanas to the sailor, with the
invitation: Have cigar, Admiral ?
NO, Bishop said the Admiral, with
quizzical glance, Il don't smoke
| swear little sometimes
A ten.inch columbiad gun has
been placed on the spot where Gems.
Grant and PembertOn arranged the
terms for the surrender of Nnks-
, burg, an inscription dcnoting the
fact being engraved upon it. The
marble monument which was orig.
inally thcr" had been hacked and
married By vandal relic. seekcrs.
, In the central, western and north
crn parts OF New York State the
apple trees are literally loaded with
fruit. So great Il crop has not been
known for "A number of years. The
| peach trees in New Jersey are load.
| ed. and in Delaware the limbs are
unable to bear the burden of the
, fruit which is upon them, and are
breaking down.
+ A pious old gentleman congld II
lated an acquaintance upon rccov-
cry from recent sickness, and inquir
! ed who his physician was. 'Ncll,
: replied the convalescent, 'Dr. Jones
; brought rue through 'No,no, sale
l his friend, God brought you out o
u your illness, not the doctor 'Wcll
e maybe he did, lut | am certain The