National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-03-05

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eign missions.
Nearly every county In Wiscop.
SIN Is IN terrible quarrel about its
county seat.
The season is so mild in Maryland
that the farmers have gone o p,ow.
ing.
The Wisconsin, papers state that
q WatertOn man has had live
snake in his stomach for twenty
years.
The President has pardoned two
more cOunterfeiters. 1t is doubtful
whether the country will ever par
don him.
Retribution comes to- the wicked
sooner or later. New York Is to
have DOOlittle.
Freemasonry increased in Eng.
land more last year than any previ'
GUS year.
4 Californian has buift IN sgri
cultural locomotive that runs thirty
nine pOws at once.
About thirty thousand persons
nightly attend the places Of public
amusement In New York.
The new river tunnel at Chicago
leaks.
Paris has a journal devoted to-
ballooning.
About million postage stamps
are used each day.
Illinois has struck the word'whito'
from her general school act.
The Tribune Association has in
sured Greeley's life for 100000.
\ fifty dollar greenback, splen.
didly executed and perfect in every
respect, except that the vignette of
Franklin has two buttons on his
vest, is in circulation.
A wag thus eulogizes his musical
attainments "I know two tunes
the one is Aud Lang Syne' and the
other isn't. always sing the Lat.
ter
A Texan negro was overheard
making an honorable apology in
this wise: 81 jes said, SambO, dat
you lied; dat is, jes said dat you
lied. Den Jim told me you said
you'd kill me, an said if you killed
me Id kin yOu.' The explanation
was satisfactory.
A Massachusetts, divine lost his
notes in a crack Of his pulpit. Find
ing their recovery impossible, he
said: my dear friends, l brought
my notes with me this morning,
have got them int, this provoking
crack, and can't get them ont; but
l will read two chapters in the book
: of job, which are worth two such
, sermons, if ! had them
Mr.. Mcpherson, Clerk of tho
House, is engaged on the life of the
late Hon. Thaddeus Stevens.
r. members of the New York
city firm which manufactured, and
a retail dealer who sold a danger
Gus article of kerosene, by tho ex.
plosion of which little girl was
fatally injured, recently, have been
held in $4,000 and $2500O bonds re.
spcctively, to await the action OF
the grand jury. A warning to all
dealers in the article.
A Buffalo citizen is making two
hundred dollar pair of boots for
General Grant. The subject is sug.
gcstivc.
p NelUcipedcs are to be made In
! Newark with double saddles for 3
lady and gentleman.
Twenty miles above Cairo there
. has been discovered splendid coal
seam, directly on the bank Of tho
: Mississippi, four feet thick and OF
unknown width.
Give your son trade and you do
more for him than by giving him
& fortune.-FIunklin.
IT a doctor in Mcriden, Conn.,, Wis
It its his patients on a velocipede.- II
IS is 81 gentle that he leaves it without
,s hitcling.
is Female outrage has been ruled
T. out of order in the Missouri Legisla
it turc. a resolution to submit the
|. question to the people having beer
d tabled by Il vote Of 50 to i3.
.e After the acQuittal of man II
IL Cincinnati, recently, one of the jury
n men arose and suggested that 9TH
". acquitted now be recommended t
of the mercitul consideration OF tn
II. court
or Granite, notwithstanding its ex
~. crcding hardness, splits rs straigh
ns and clean as chestnut stick. A
ed one of the granite quarricso OF Maine
cc recently. "A block was split out whiel
,,t measured 100 feet long, : II fee
wide and five feet thick. IL weigh
ed over 800 tons.