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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01
Destroying Greenbacks.

A correspondent, who HAS witnessed
the destruction of lot of Uncle Sam s
money, tells how it is done, as follows
There is considerable degree of cere-
mony attending upon the burning of the
notes, although they have already been
cancelled and reduced to the value of
waste paper. The representatives of the
offices and the agent of the bank whose
notes are to be burned go down into the
cellar of the Treasury building into a
small room resembling prison cell more
than anything else. The furnace resem-
bles an oven and is set in the wall 1t
has an iron door which is fastened with
three padlocks. Each lock will only
open to its own key. The gentlemen
acting as representatives of the offices
before mentioned each have a key, and
each in turn unlocks the paddock which
his key fits. The boxes containing the
money are opened by the secretary S
representative the messenger ia attend
ance sweeps back the ashes of yesterday s
burning, piles shavings in the furnaces,
throws in a package of notes as first
offering, closes the furnace door, and
the fire begins to roar. The door is
opened again, and package after package
of notes is thrown, mutilated notes, and
the charred relics of the Chicago disaster
ase tossed in. There is a species of ex-
citement in throwing money into the fire.
There is dash of recklessness in it which
is fascinating to sober minded persons
accustomed to economy. | know of no
better way to ease ones mind after being
forced to look twice at every penny be-
fore spending IL than to be allowed to
participate in the incremation of that
money god which has been tormenting
you. You have your revenge on your
self for your enforced niggardliness and
on the dire necessity which has caused
your straits. 1t is almost celebrating
to toss 100000 that doesn't belong to
you into the flames. Nothing equals it
except perhaps Artemus Wards self
sacrifice in sending his wife's relatives
into the army.
After all the money is thrown in, the
door Of the furnace is locked with the
same ceremony with which it was I'M
locked, and the money is left to burn
alone.
Once upon a time the draught in the
furnace used to burn Treasury notes and
fractional currency was so strong as to
carry notes up the chimney, whence they
would fly short distance in the air and
fall into the court yard. 1t was discovered
that these were picked up and used again
as money, so measures have been taken
to prevent any such occurrence in
future.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

A case illustrating the absurdity OF
expensive burials has recently attracted
some attention and stimulated few
leading articles in London. A poor
brick layer who had the misfortune to
lose his wife, contracted with an under
taker for "a funeral. Toward this sum
he paid 81 10 shillings in cash coffin
was sent home and the body placed in
it. The widower had agreed to get his
landlord to guarantee the balance of the
expense, but he failed to do so, the
undertaken refused to complete his con-
tract and the corpse and coffin were
actually left for eight days in the poor
mans only room. Being informed OF
the scandal, Mr.. Flowers, magistrate,
sent for the undertaken, who still de-
clined to bury the body unless paid the
balance in advance so that the Court
called in a parish officer to complete the
interment-a parish funeral being Just
what the unfortunate brick layer dread
ed. The London Telegraph remarks that
If the funeral expenses had been about
one-half less, there would have been no
trouble and no pauper obsequies. A
foolishly extravagant custom sent the
workingman TO the parish, to say moth
ing of his previous sufferings, which, if
he CHANGED to be man of any feeling,
could not have been small
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01
News Items.

Forty thousand sheep persisted by the
recent sandstone in Los Angeles County
Cal.
Coz. ESTRADA, of Cuba, son-in-law OF
Gen. Aguilern, has been captured ana
executed by the Spanish authorities.
So greatly has the health of Queen
Victoria improved during the past week,
that the proposal of regency is no
longer discussed.
Early Eason was sentenced mt Mem
phis, by Judge Flippen, to be hanged on
the Goth OF December for numbering
Edward L. Cole, last spring
Orders have been issued that clerks
in the L. s. Internal Revenue Bureau
must pay their board and washing on
demand or leave the public service
The woman-women are to have n
10th, 18th and 18th of January, for the
purpose of getting Congress to declare
that all women are voters.
AN attempt on the part of the journey
men bakers of Valencia, now on strike
for higher wages, to prevent the intro
dnction of workmen and bread from
adjoining towns was frustrated by n
body of Spanish cavalry
The amount annually expended on
alcoholic drinks in Great Britain is Eos,
600, 600, which is fifty per cent. more
than the entire disbursal of the Govern.
ment, and exceeds the total revenue from
exports of textile fabrics by over $780,
100000
The international numbers LOCO, 900
members in France, who pay | sou a
week This amounts to 100, 900 francs
year In England there are 10000
members, of whom 10000 are in Lon
don. M. Richard calculates the whole
in Europe at 1900, 900.
AT the end of the first half of the cur
rent year there were in the various in
sane asylums of England and Wales
81, 474 lunatics, of whom 1906 were
members of the established church, T.,
099 were dissenters, 2,S35 Roman Catho
lies, and ,635 no particular denomina-
ton
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

"Only one framed house in all New
Sweden |" :" For goodness sake, how
then are they made ?"-writes a cores
pendent of the Boston Post from the
Swedish Colony in Maine. Mostly OF
hewn timber, neatly dovetailed together,
with partitions, ceilings, and floors of
evenly-planed cedar plank. The dwell
lings erected by the State were OF round,
peeled logs, laid one upon another but
these the Swedes found rather chilly
and dsagreeable upon the advancement
of cold weather, and improved them by
hewing both the inside and outside wall3
filling in the spaces with moss, and then
closing then up with matched strips of
cedar A matched board ceiling over
head was the next addition, with double
plank, smoothly. planed floor underfoot,
making them both warm and neat, and
to present much the same appearance as
those built of hewn timber. They are
all story and half high, with square
pitched roofs. giving ample room for
chambers, and in dimensions extensive
enough to admit one large general front
room a good sized bedroom, and con
venient pantry upon the ground floor.
l. ne WlnuOWS are Sllill, "itH Httic P"i'N'
Of glass, and the only outside door opens
directly into the front room. The interior
walls of nearly all the houses have been
prettily papered by the thrifty house
wives, and with the spotlessly clean
floors and ceilings look by no means UNI
attractive. Tables chairs, cradles,
tic-bedsteads, and tn usand and one
useful and ornamental art cles appear ON
all sides, happily constructed by Swedish
diligence and ingenuity, from curiously
twisted roots and bits Of board pretty
patchwork quilts, plump white rullled
pillows, white covered rustic stands hold
ing the family Bible, and walls hung
round with sketches from the same,
make up the neat attractive appointments
of every bedroom. From open pantry
doors CLEAN occasional dishes of glass,
odd china cups, antique pitcher, and
heavy silver spoons while upon the
brightly polished stoves sing merrily the
shining kettles.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

SINCERITY. Give us sincere friends,
or none. This hollow glitter of smiles
and words - compliments that mean
nothing - protestatious of affection as
solld as the froth from champagne-in-
vitations that are pretty sentences, ut
tered because such things are customary
are all worthless. There is no need of
them. 1t is proper to be civil and cour-
teous to the most Indifferent stranger !;
but why assume friendships outward
show when no reality underlies it :?
When one feels friendship, the object Of
that sentiment cannot suffer, and leave
our hearts ntroubled-cannot be SLAM
dered, leaving us unframed.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

SPUNKY GIRLS - The Galesburg
(lllinois) Register is responsible for the
following Four of our Galesburg
ladies have been among our farmers col
Letting for the Chicago sufferers. In
their travels they came upon farmer
who told them that he had lot of pota-
toes i'll the ground, and if they were a
mind to dig 'em they could have all
they wanted" The offer was accepted,
and the ladies, who knew their customer
jumped nimbly from their light spring
wagon, each with a spade in hand, and
set to work. The farmer stood aghast.
surveying his new field hands with I'M
disguised amazement. They gathered
about twenty bushels, and went back
yesterday for more. Before noon to-
day, the last of that patch will be com
ing into town in that spring wagon.
Bless their dear souls. how we wish we
were permitted TO give their names.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01
Muslngs.

The grass that il under me now
Will soon be over me, sweet
When you walk this way again,
shall not hear your feet,
ior may walk this way again,
An' shed your tears like dew
They " II be no more TO me, then,
THAI mno are now to you
~ am white falcon, hurrah
My home in the mountains 40 high
But away DER the lands and the waters,
Wherever please, can fly.
wander from city to city,
dart from the wave to the cloud
And when am dead shall slumber .
With my own white wings for a shroud J.
know little rose,
And o but were blest,
Could but be tho drop OF dew
That lies upon her breast
"Rut ! dare not look 80 high,
Nor die u death 40 swcet
II IL enough for me to be
The dust about her feet u
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01
Symptoms of Catarrll,

Indisposition to exercise, difficulty of
thinking or reasoning or concentrating
the mind upon any subject, lassltude,
lack of ambition or energy, discharge
falling into throat, sometimes profuse,
watery, acrid thick and tenacious mu-
cous, pernlent, offensive, &c In others
dryness, dry, watery, weak or inhamed
eyes, ringing in ears, deafness, hawking
and coughing to clear throat, ulceratlons
death and decay of bones, scabs from
ulcers, constant desire to clear nose and
throat, voice altered, nasal twang, often
sive breath, impaired or total depriva-
ton of sense of SINE and taste, dizzi-
ness, mental depression, loss of appetite,
indigestion, dyspepsia, enlarged tonsils,
tickling cough, difficulty in speaking
plainly, general debility, idiocy and in
sanity.
All the above symptoms are common to
the disease in some of it's stages or com
plications yet thousands of cases an
nually terminate in consumption or in
sanity and end in the grave without ever
having manifested one-third of the
symptoms above enumerated.
No disease is more common or less
understood by physicians. The proprle-
tor of DR.. Sages Catarrh Remedy will
pay $500 reward for case Of catarrh
which he can not cure. Sold by drug
gists, or send sixty cents to r. " Pierce
M. D., 1873 Seneca street, Buffalo, n. Y,
for it. A pamphlet free. Beware of
counterfeits and worthless limitations.
Remember that the genuine has the
words "R. V. Pierce, NJ. D., Sole Pro-
prietor, Buffalo, = Y" printed upon
the wrapper; also has DR.. Pierces por
trait, name and address on his private
government stamp upon each package.
57o
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

CHICAGO. The actual money sub
scribed in all parts of the world for the
benefit of Chicago amounts, SO far as is
known, to about $3,000,000. OF this
sum the Relief Committee has received
about one-half, or say 81, 100000. With
this million and half of money they
have CARRIED on the work of housing,
feeding and clothing from 10000 to 40,
600 people since the 9th of October,
aided by the contributions of provisions
and goods which have also been made.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01
Financial.
lNYEsrMHNr sEcuRITIKs.

Jay COOKE 4 Co. re now selling, and recommend Al
Mortgage 7.3O Gold Bonds Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company bearing Seven and Three Teth'
per cent gold interest more than per cent currency
and secured by first and only mortgage on tho entire
Road and equipments. and than Ell, 900 Acre,
of Land TO every mile of track or 500 Acres of Land tt
each A. 600 Bond The highest current price will bo
paid for U $. FiyeTwenties and all other marketable
Securities received in exchange Pamphlets, maps and
full information as well the bonds themselves will be
furnished on application by JAY COOKE 4 Co, Phila-
dephia, New York and Washington, and by most Bank
and Bankers throughout the country
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

Lille Kosbrook, Of Linn County,
Ohio, deserves a place here. Last Sep
TENDER while her father was sick, she
took the team ana a corn-plough and
ploughed large field of corn over for
the last time, and then applied the team
to Kirby self-raker and cut forty-acres
of grain--all alone. Besides this she
helped to stack all that grain, pitching
it in one way herself She also took the
Kirby apart and put it together again
with ease.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

WINTER is now fairly upon us, and thu
teams are fastening to the lumber
woods in various parts Of the country
Our advice TO every man who goes to thu
woods, be he captain, cook, teamster, OF
any other man, is TO take along good
stock of JoHNsoN's ANoDyNE LINIMEN1
and PARSONS PURaATIvE PILLS. Many
months Of labor lin the aggregated may
be saved by this precaution.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

ALL Ours. -Mr. Spillman had just
married second wife On the day after
the wedding Mr.. Spillman remarked
81 intend, Mrs. Spillman, to enlarge
my dairy" You mean our dairy, my
dear, )" replied Mrs. Spillman. " No, .
quoth Mr.. Spillman, q intend to en-
large my dairy" "Say our dairy, Mr..
Spillman. No, my dairy" Say
our dairy, say our" screamed she,
Selling the poker. "My dairy ! my
dairy - yelled the husband. "Onr
dairy our dairy " screamed the wife,
emphasizing each word by blow on the
back of her cringing spouse. Mr.. Spill
man retreated under the bed. In pass
ing under the bedclothes his hat was
brushed off. He remained under cover
several minutes, waiting for lull in the
storm. AT last his wife saw him thrust
his head out at the foot of the bed
much like turtle from its she'll What
are you looking for?" exclaimed the lady
am looking for our hat, my dear, "
said he
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

UpoLpno WOLVES CELEBRATED soHiEpAn
ScHsAPPs.- immense popularity OF the world
ren owned AROMATIC ScUIEpAM ScHsAPPs Of Udolpho
wofe New York. has resulted in frequent attempts
OF late, at countcrfeiting by persons who wish 70
nd sale for an inferior article This wonderfui IL
uretic has been pronounced, by thousands OF the
leading physicians In the oountry, as the purest
medicinal restorative offered for sale. Put up in
quart and pint bottles. and for sae by all Druggists
and Groccrs
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

CAST THEM OUT.-If there are any
dlsases which deserve the name demoniac.
Dyspepsia is one of them. 1t racks and
tears the system like a veritable fend.
and renders life burden. The medi-
clnes of the dyspensary will not expel it.
Cast 1t out with DIR. WALKERS VEGE-
TABLE VINEGAR BITTERs. There is no
form of Indigestion or liver complaint
that can withstand this potent tonic and
alter tive. The newly discovered Cali
lorna roots and herbs from which it is
prepared are of more value to mankind
than all the gold of the Pacific States.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

WHAT Is II Some Western newspa-
peEs talk about mysterious, but fearful
enemy, which is destroying flocks of
sheep about Manitowoc, Wis. Nomarks
of violence can be discovered save a small
hole behind the cal, from which the blood
has been sucked. The prevailing idea is
that it is the work of vampire.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

| Arrest Decay.
When plant tree begins to decay it must need.
die 1t cannot be revtazed But is not so with hu
man beings human ruin be repaired strength.
ened restored, though brown leaf or withered blad,
of grass be made green again In the autumn
OF life in its winter, when nature seems 10 be
giving way under the pressure of years it still posi-
bic to retard the progress of decay and lend to age
more than its wonted vigor. As Of promoting
this object Hostetters Stomach Biters is unqueston-
ably the potent Of all restoratves 1t will not
make the old young but it will prevent essen or sooth
the nfrmites which the usual Accomplishments of
the decline of life. For debility and lack Of nervous
power from whatever cause arising it is the medicine
that of all Others before the world best desc the
name of specific. In purity in nvigorating properties
its adaptation weak stomachs and feeble organ,a
TONS it has competitor the toncs of the phar-
macopoeia, nor among proprietary remedies Besides
its strengthening principle possesses Alternative and
regulating properties of the highest order and as an
ant-blious medicine far preferable any of the pre-
partitions containing mercury. Time has shown that
for physical decay, debility dyspepsia bilious
disorders, and intermittent fever Hostetter Bitters is
remedy without rival This is the season of the fall
of the leaf let remind the old the feeble the sicky
to nvgorate and regulate their systems with this great
vegetable tonic and Alternative
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

SAVINGS, hard-earned, should he care
fully invested. For frst.class Rmlroao
Bonds, paying you good interest, write
to CHARLES w. HAssGER, No. 7 Wall
Street. New York.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

Good morning." said a printer in
search of female compositors. Have
you any daughters who would make
good type-setters Z" "No, but / have
wife who would make fine devil, -
said the monster.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

HE PUREsT and sweetest Cod-Liver
Oil in the world is Hazard & Caswell's,
made on the sea-shore from fresh, Sc
lected livers, by Cas,oeA, Hazard C Co.,
of New York. 1t is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken it
prefer 1t to all others. Physicians have
decided it superior to any of the other
oils in market
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

HIS IDEA OF IT.-Ghe Chinese mer-
chants of San Francisco have given 81
300 in aid of the Chicago sufferers. In
one case merchant addressed one of the
collectors as follows "Me leadee in Al
ia, Mclean man town all same hat gone
-burnee up. Mclean man wantee dol
lar. Sometimes poor Mclean man
strikee Chinaman with bilks Chinaman
no care. How nlu ,hee dollar you wantee?
Hundred dollar Alec light. You not
find enough monsy, Gomez me again ;
give another bundled.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

AN ESTABLISHED REMEDY" B,oTn S
Bronchial Troches" are widely known as
an established remedy for Coughs, Colds,
bronchitis, HoWsenesS, and other troubles
of the Throat and Lungs.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

BAD enough to look and feel bad your
self: but no excuse for having vour
horse look and feel badly when for a
small sum You can buy SHERIDAN S
CAVALRY CONDITION POWDERS, which
gwen IN grain two or three times a
week, will make him look and feel well.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

MARRIAGE is one of the great blessings
of the world j. Monroe Taylor's Cream
Yeast Baking Powder is another.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01
CHICAGO and its Destruction.

full and com history of Chicago her past presen,
aud future With graphic scenes incidents and tull de-
han editors Of tn Chicago TcibnHs. With 400
pages, and SO illustrations. II is now ready for
Agents Wanted. S Ss and s ssos t 'G-
tory Union Publishing Co.. Chicago, H., or Phil Pa.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01

Coop NEWS FOR INVENTORS. Hon. NJ.
ID. Leggett, the Commissioner of Pat
ents, in recent opinion reviewing and
revising one of these erroneous decisions,
places before the examining officers, and
the public in general, some very inter
esting and instructive information upon
the patentable novelty of inventions.
The gist of the whole matter is tersely
stated by the Commissioner in this one
sentence The test of invention is the
result attained. In other words, if an
improved result is produced. or if the
public is supplied with better article,
or If the same article is produced in
cheaper, or quicker or better manner.
then patentable novelty exists, even
though the devices are old by which the
improved results are attained.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01
EG ETIN +
Arrest Decay.

By its use you will prevent many of the diseases p
vaing in the Spring and Summer season.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1871-12-01
A Boston Dog Story.

writer tells very remarkable story
about pair of English bull terriers that
he owns and prizes very highly. He
says, that one day last week he had oc-
casion to go from his house to Portland
street, a good mile, for the purpose of
paying a small bill. Arriving at Port
land street with the dogs, he met the man
he wished to see, Oh the sidewalk, and
there paid the bill, at the time dropping
twenty dollar bill on the curb stone,
though he knew nothing about it till his
arrival home, some two hours after
ward, and after calling at several places
on his way home. Finding this 500 bill
gone, he took his dogs and started back,
calling at the places he visited on his
way home. On reaching Sudbury street
he called his dog jess, showing him
$40 bill, looked about on the ground as
If hunting for it, and told the dog to
"smell it out" The dog then started
off with his nose to the ground in front
of his master, and pushed round into
Portland street, where they had been
before, and where the bill was paid, he
stopped, poked about the dirt with his
nose and in a few minutes ran up to his
master with the lost $40 bill in his
mouth. That looks like very tough
story, but if truthful men are to be be
heved then is this story true.