National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-10-27

upon these lectures was, we are I.
sorry to say, small, as they were We, {;
ry instructive and delivered in
manner to render them interesting,
being illustrated with a French b
model Of the human body, charts, I
skeletons, sc. II there had been Il
a negro minstrel performance III b
stead of interesting and instructive I
lectures. the Hall would have been Il
packed full.
This characteristic of the town
does not speak well for Bradford, u
in the matter of taste and culture. y
OXFORD, n. Hon Wednesday
night of last week, MyrOn Phelps of H.
Oxford, who has always been Grip. ;,
pie, and obliged to go with crutch. 10
es, in getting into his wagon his y
horse started, and he was thrown so u,
so as to break one of his legs above
the knee.
freeman Whitman had his right I'll
hand caught in tlIreshing machine, til
and the thumb and first aud middle
finger torn of, leaving but two
| fingers. ''
The inhabitants of Oxford have Vi
raised about fifty dollars in money
for the sufferers by the fire in the
vicinity of Green Bay, Wis, and y,
they will fill several boxes with 80 -.
clothing to go on the special car y
We understand that Piermont
also will furnish a handsome supply 81
Of clothing, blankets, &c. in
Lebanon, \. H., contributed ) 1000 til
for the relief of western sufferers.
Nearly 5000 were raised by the til
citizens and students of Hanover. 10
in three days, for the relief of the ,n'
suffering III Chicago. ba
James l.. Woodward, son of John Nv
Is. Woodward of this town, a part. -, -,
ncr III the firm of Keith Bros. 4 Y,
Co., of Chicago, looses heavily by IS
the fire, and is dangerously sick
with typhoid pneumonia. His ia. "a
tier has gone on to Chicago.
Culver Hall, the building for the
Agricultural College at Hanover, is OF
to be lighted by gas, and supplied
throughout with water. 1t has
$1,000 worth of apparatus. A gas 'Ii
house is being built east of the vii or
lage. his
a two years old colt belonging to at
Harmon Rood of Brook field, was ert
recently found dead in the pasture, pc;
having been, doubtless, gored by ow
the cattle.
Look out for your insurance. The wa
names of thirty four suspended Fire an,
Insurance companies will be found mo
in another column. cro
ing
p. p. Ripley, ex-publisher of the mo
Orange County Eagle, has purchas-
ed the Edward Wilson farm in Ran.
dolph, and copy of Greeley's mo
what | know about Farming" and vii
is prepared for business. tim
Rice Davenport OF Williamstown, {
raised forty-siX bushels of clean ret,
handsome wheat this year, from Oct
one acre and fifty two rods of ground. sor
That "Panther" has been seen 4
again in Orange.-this time 10y Phi con
10 q. Camp and his hired man. serl
They say it is four feet long and don
two feet tall. A hunt was organ
zed but. the ''varmint" was not &
found. boil
bciI
Jacob A. Spear of Braintree, lost hill
some fifty or sixty bushels of apples wit
~ a night raid upon his orchard. upp
abo
Miss Mary J. Lyon of Williams abo
own, has just completed a bed.quilt and
If the pattern called 1.-The poor ,;h,
mans quilt" or ''hard times" which han
IFS 1886 pieces in it.
Some infamous rascal poisoned nm.
he horse of John Cain, editor of last
he Rutland Courier, on account of
ONE petty malice. T.
job
Two large black bears recently pon,
inferred the woodshed of Alonzo dedi
,utler of Woodford. He had no
rearms, and the bears left when ii
hey got ready. take