National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-04-14
FacIs and Inncles.

In Siam, China, the Baptists have 80
missionaries and 10 churches.
{ There Is merchant in Chicago who
! has his life insured for $3.50, 600.
\ The nearest an old bachelor gets to
{ the matrimonial harness IA sir single.
a Massachusetts is TO have State Tenn
t perance Convention Mt Boston, May 30
A oyster weighing three pounds is on
: exhibition in the window of a Newark
q saloon.
BY accidents in the woods this Winter,
Maine has lost more men than by dis
asters at sea.
, Very nice sugar has been made In
, Warren County, Iowa, from the sap OF
the box elder.
A couple of first cousins married in
I Lynn, Iowa, and ten Of their twelve chill
! dren are cripples.
r The prospect ofa large crop of peaches
> during the coming season throughout
New Jcsey are said to be good.
Capt Loments, an inslrgent recently
executed at Cienfuegos was married
just before he was led out TO execution.
During the Winter the range Of the
thermometer has varied ms much as "a
degrees in New England within twenty
four hours.
Fifty Chinese have arrived Mt Baton
Rouge to work in the cotton factory of
the Penitentiary.. One hundred more
are coming.
The Secretary of the Treasury is en-
gagged in perfecting plans for calling in
very soon large amount of the five
twenty bonds.
The early fleet of fishing vessels from
! New Bedford this Spring number only
ninety, against one hundred and forty
six last Spring
Edwin F. Batchelder, of Mansfield
Mass, has made his will. giving all his
property, some $4,000, to the Ameri-
can Bible Society
A white boy asked young negro what
he had such short nose for p? II
spects so it won't poke itself into other
peoples business
The Pennsylvania boiler-plate manu-
facturers held a meeting, and decided to
advance the price of plate-iron three
eights of a cent per pound.
A Philadelphia machanic claims to
have invented an apparatus for indicat-
ing when n car-axle breaks. and support
ing it till the train can be stopped.
An economical fellow says when his
stockings wear out he sews up the tops
straight across, and puts them on his feet
the other way, thus making good mt.
At Montana the Indians are learning
tricks from white men. They are setting
al vNla N
woods, and compelling the travellers to
A man wanted friend to discount n
note eff / advance this, said the
lender, will You pay your note punctu-
ally ?" II will on my honor" replied
the other, the expense OF the protest
and ALL "
Within eight hours of each other,
there died in Providence n mother and
daughter, aged resper lively eighty-one
and sixty-one, who, during the sixty-one
years of the daughters life were never
separated for longer period than five
weeks.
The peculiar effect of fear is exempli-
fled in the fact that Mrs. Alfred Acker
having died suddenly in Montgomery
county, Penn, hired man in the house
was so afraid he might be accused of
her that he hanged himself
in the barn.
The latest thing in waterproof cloaks
consists of long loose sack reaching
nearly to the bottom of the dress, and
furnished with hood and deep cape,
which extends across the back and is
sewed into the shoulder seam, so as to
form graceful, flowing sleeve.
A st. Louis paper published long
article opposing the annexation of San
Domingo, because of the frequency and
severity of tornadoes there. The same
day East st. Louis was visited by tor
nado whose unusually destructive effects
have been described at length
One of the candidates in Concord, n.
H.. believing he was elected told an ale
dealer to treat everybody who came in at
his expense and went home The an
of the result showed un-
expectedlv that he was beaten by seven
votes His successful opponent gener-
Dusly offered to foot the bill
In reply to young friend leaving n
town because some things in it were not
Exactly to her taste or content an old
adv of experience said my dear,
when Won have found place where
everybody and everything are always
pleasant and nothing whatever is disa-
rreeahle. let me know and I'll move
here too"
A petition presented to the Detroit
Aldermen on Tuesday read Instead
IF talking of grand park or boulevard
he undersigned, most respectfully ask
hat the Common Council might first