National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-04-16


beat Of the heart betwixt this
world and the next.
Fortune smiles on those who roll
up their sleeves and put their shoul-
ders to the wheel
The Appleton Post, (Wis.) says
that salt mixed with a little butter
sells readily there at thirty five
cents pound.
a Norwich doctor has been i'm
ploring Grant i'll poetry to quit
smoking. Grant replied in prose
that the position of physician 20 the
White House was already filled.
a verdant old lady in New Jer.
sey thinks the ice crop will be good
| this year, because there hasn't been
much frost to injure it.
A Buffalo policeman smelled fire
and sounded an alarm. He found
it in his coat-tail pocket, where he
had deposited Il lighted pipe.
As births, lJ marriages and "a
deaths were returned to the Town
Clerks in Ludlow. for the year 1868.
In 1861. there were 81 births, Is
marriages and - deaths.
Gould Ruggles for several years
Conductor on the Rutland railroad
has become the proprietop of the
Fitchburg hotel, ,at Fitchbur &, Mass.
and will soon become the landlord.
A Ku-l<lux catfish was caught at
Nashville the other day. He wore
seymour md Blair Badge in his
stomach, along with doublc-b -bladed
knife, an iron door.key, four ounce
phidl and sundry other decorations.
EX- Mayor Williston of Syracuse,
congratulated GovernorelecJ Jewell
Of Connecticut, by telegraph, and re.
ceivcd from him the following reply:
"Many thanks; Connecticut propo-
ses hereafter to stay i'll the family"
The Postmaster at New neXing
ton, Perry county, Ohio, is described
as druggist and dentist keeps
grocery. dry goods, boot and shoe
store; is IL silversmith, jeweller,
painter, cabinet maker, and when
times get little dull, gets out Il
patent for some invention.
a Memphis Jury, having found a
man guilty of numbering Il citizen,
who is alive and we'll, are deIibera-
ting whether to rescind their YER
diet or LET the convicted man Kill
the citizen.
Judging by the reports and csti.
mates made by our contemporaries,
thcre will be a "plcntiful lack" of
maple sugar this scaSon--probably
not more than half the produce of
an average year.
The Portland Argus says that
matters have all been arranged.
and the New England Agricultural
Society's and the Maine State fairs
will be jointly held i'll Portland i'll
September next.
The house of Jonathan Brown OF
Eden, caught fire few days ago
from a lighted candle coming il
contact with the bed clothes, whlcl
were nearly ruined before the fire
vas discovered.
I 4 female recently paraded the
streets of u Western town exhibit
ing, above a pair Of pretty ankles, a
skirt upon which the indclible brand
of the miller was still visiblc:-
"Nincty-siX pounds, extra supetlln'
warranted"
Gen. a. p. Blunt, formerly of tho
9th and 18th Vermont regiments
and more recently depot quarter
master of the regular army at Wash
ington, -. c., has 10y special orde
from army headquarters been a.
signed to duty at Charleston, 5. {.
a young man named Lincoln, o
Charleston, disposed of forged note
payable ut the National Bank o
Derby Line, at the bank in Charles
ton, to the amount of 5000 or $40
last week, aud escaped before tn
forgery was detected.
A soldier is still walking his beg
rs u guard before the house of e,
) Secretary Seward, where he va
placed Immediately after the Hssai
: Sination of Mr.. Lincoln and the II
!, tempt on Mr.. Stewards life. VI
f Seward is gone but the sentinel n
mains at his post.
s A PENNSYLVANIA girl thinks th
50 advertisement OF agricultural SOC
4 ctics are the commentaries on III
management of their fairs. Loo
at the premiums She says, "ior II
; fastest trotting horse, so; for th
y next fastest, 80; for the best teaI
I of work hors y, So; for the best loa
Of bread % cents
), The Hearth aud Home, altlioug
+; a success at the start, improves I
tt every number 1t isunqucstlonabl
the best thing IN It's peculiar ilclt
e which is sufficiently indicated by il
i title. and it shond be IN every hom