National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-09-10
Miscellaneous Items.

According to the late official re-
port, there are only four hundred and
twenty acres of public land remain
ing undisposed of in the State of
Illinois.
A learned doctor, referring to tight
lacing, AYERS that il is public ben
eft, inasmnch as it kills all the fool
ish girls and leaves all the wise ones
to grow up to be women.
a certain Virginia town does not
allow old maids. VIII l girls reach
80, the young men draw lots, land the |
III ky ones make up purse FOR the (
victim.
The Michigan Central Railroad
Company have great project in
view-tne construction of tunnel
under the Detroit River, so as to
make unhrOken railway connection
between Chicago and Boston.
a woman IN one of the census
districts on Long Island, gave the
enumerator the names Of twenty of
her children, and then said she be
lieved there We're two or three more,
bur she couldn't just remember the II
names.
The following notice was found
posted on huge sized trunk at "a
railroad depot baggage smaShers
J are requested to handle this trunk
, with carcass it contains nitro glycer-
; inc, Greek iire,and two live gorlllaS.'
A law of Ohio cnactS that each
- railroad in the State shall when nee
:, eSSary to heat any of its cars, DO so
10y heating apparatus so constructed
that the fire III it will be immediate
;, ly eXtinguiShed whenever the cars
are thrown off the track and over
- turned. The same law provides that
!, ears shall be lighted by candles only
The Republicans are entering ac
G lively upon the campaign in Penn
e sylyania. Senator Morton of lndi
q ana, is announced to speak in Pitts
y burg ON the ID of September, an,
r. Governor Geary is to address sever
,e al meetings III the northern part o
l. the State.
.. Gov Senter of Tennessee, in Iii
- INTERVIEW says that he has no
~ come North to have any consultation
. with the President that the Ten
~ neSSee election was perfectly fair
~ that the new Legislature will d
-, nothing that the Republican part.
- can call revolutionary that onl
y" two men have been killed in tn
=" state since the election, and the
~ :" were men who voted for him, an
~ were killed 10y Stokes men and tina
~ the Senatorial question is rath,
H. mixed. and he eau say nothing pos
&c tive about it.
= Free trade is breaking out in spot
on at the West. \ league has bee
II, formed in Milwaukee. which in
n, cludcs many Of cur leading politi
of clans and business men Of the cit,
IL The Cincinnati Enquirer says ths
~ ~ 'the negro hold upon suffrage will |
He very slight and precariOus, and J
''e will soon lose it, if 10y a system
~ ~, rascality, he should temporariI
.S' obtain it,
IL
ty. Mr.. Seward has just returned fro
IN. Sitka to Oregon. He is very enth
SiaStic over Alaska.
Thirty men have left New You
for Halifax, it is supposed to Join
,ol. Cuban expedition fitting out at til;
jsh port.
ev- A lady in AShby, this SUNNI
WI picked thirty.seyen bushels of blu
Tue berries,in five weeks time, for viii
5 she received Sis.
ost The Chicopcc manufacturing co
,L, pany of Chicopee Falls, contempla
,,,,. the erection of new cotton III
lie next year, the foundation of viii
u,a will probably be laid this fall.
tho rzrrs-z
mn DEN. j. BRlrION will sell at Auction