National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-02-18

Mark Twain has married Miss |
Olive Langdon, of Elmira, n. Y.
Hon. Luke =. Poland has been
appointed one Of the Regents of the
Smithsonian Institute.
1t is positively stated that the
Queen of England is soon to give
up all active participation in public
affairs, and submit the question to
Parliament OF appointing regent.
Some people in Lafayette Co., who
had not forgotten the bitterness Of
war times, took a noted bushwacker
named Bill Childs, the 0ther day,
and hung him to the rafters of his
own barn.
II. S. Hefiin, member of Con-
gress from Alabama, was found in
his own room almost suffocatcd by
gas. When brought to, he said he
tried to pinch the light ont, but
found that somebody had stolen the
wick
The young women of Lewiston,
Me have formed society rledging
themselves not to kiss any man
who uses tobacco; and the young
men have pledged themselves not to
look at young woman WHO wears
false hair.
The Tennessee legislature is ask
ed, bv a petition, to make drunken
ness misdemeanor, punishable with
Imprisonment. Drunkards are get.
ting mp contemplation, claiming
that the headaches they have the
next day are punishment enough.
A CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS
The following advertisement for the
recovery of a red calf was actually
published in a paper of Columbia
County, Pennsylvania, in the sum
mcr of 1863:
LOST.-A Calf Ret. His two hint
, legs was White. He was a she calf
Everybody that catches him glib
tree Dollars.
FORT EDWARD MHLINER. i
$ seems that the Fort Edward millin
= er was not such a deceitful mink
+, after all. A distinguished lawye
= says that she certainly has had let
e ters from England informing her o
1 q beQuest. and that the subject ha
/ been aiuded to in the London Time
e the editor conveying the opln
e ion that the will was genuin
t and that Miss Gray would recelr
I the money. Her friends conside
S the chances small, however, an
It meanwhile the milliNer plies he
II trade with unwoutcd cOntentment.
>, Latter advices from the Red Ri'
- er country say that the rebelllo
: is not SQuclchcd, nor is Relic i
- Jail; on the contrary, the Kanucb
- and half breeds ale as lively and ;
=, defiant as ever. As an indicatl0
:, of Relies spirit, it is stated that a
:, ter listening to propositions of con
,f citation by representative OF I'll
- Canadian government, he detiantl
:. offered to his followers a reSolutio
y proposing measures for the estsblls
70 ment of an Independent Legislator
nv which was adopted.
. TIE FIRST oNE.-We learn the
it is an impression that Gen. Was
q. burn is not the first Governor vi
g has died while in Office, as was sta
q. ed III our obituary article on Tue
st day morning. This misapprehc
ID sion grows out of the fact that on
n. before the duties of Governor hi
W dcyolved on the Lieutenant Go
~. ern0r, but that occurred from {
i. fact that the people or Legislatu
y failed TO elect Il Governor. In Is,
u. when the existence Of two polite
RI, parties prevented an election by t
Is people, and when the General j
r sembly, after trial of three wee
10 in Joint committee of the House a
ST council to elect Governor, aba
y, doned the effort, and Licutcna
70. Governor Silas II. Jenuison,
rs Shorpham, took the POSITION of \
q, ing Governor, and performed t
.at duties thrc 'gh the year. Rutla
m. Herald.
Iat IN DEATH THEY ARE NOT DIV
be ED.-Our readers will recall the 5
as calamity on the Long Island IA
he road, a few months ago, 10y whi'
nut among others, a young physician
by Brooklyn, DR.. OreStus Pray,
Of occullist OF much promise, was
'cr stantly killed at the same time W
be- his mother and uncle. He lief
Ne young wife, the daughter Of Il
it'll DR.. Lawrence, Of Marblehead, Ma
ra. (formcrly Professor in the Theol
re. zeal Seminary at East Winds
we Comm The circumstances were
he. culiarly anccting. This young h
It'll. band and wife, whose acquainta
began in Germany. were tendt
attached to each other, and be-
t'of life with the taireSJ prospects
cis. happiness. She had just elias
:, to her bosom her iirst.born chill,
The blow was overwhelming,
pfi' from it she never recovered.
hicf soon sank into u decline. Dun
Non the summer she visited her par,
ror. on the seashorc in MaSsachus,
~" aud the change-the fresh air
lon' new scenes, ut first brought |
Will something of the former color &c
al. cheeks, but the finger of death
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