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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09
RATES OF ApvERTIsINo.
The spinner.

sat and tpun before my door,
Ayouth along the road came straying
His hazel eyes deep smile wore,
And bushes on his check were playinp.
My glance was from the distaff won;
sat abashed and spun and spun.
In friendly tones, Good dayl" he spoke.
With 'imid grace approaching higher,
Startled was l. the thread II broke,
My ioolish heart leapcd HIGH and hlghey
The thread once more fastened on,
And sat abashcG, aud spun nun
He claspcd with tender touch m. ..ad.
And vowed none with it could compare
The very LOWEST in the land,
40 svan-whte, plump, and dainty fair.
Az with his praise my heart he won.
| ssi abashod, and spun and spun.
Upon my chair he laid his arm.
And praised he noly-wrourhten tbread
so near his mouth, 40 red, and warm.
How gently "sw'etest maiden" he said
The while he gazed my face upon.
Gsat abashed, and spun and spun.
His handsome face toward my own
Meantime he bent with glancep winning
It touch ID bv some odl chance unknown
NY head that nodded in the spinning
He kissed me, this audacious onel
sat abashed and spun and spun.
turned, reproof in earnest tone
Upon his forwardness bestowing
He claspcd me closer and. holder grown.
He kissed my face with bushes glowing.
q, til ne sister, -evary one!
l7t strange that now no more ] spunp
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09
Roads and Horses In Trinidad.

We had 10 commit ourselves, when W
turned of the royal road, b. one OF th,
old Spanish. Indian jungle tracks IN,
here is n recipe for making ono: lax,
Il railway embankment of avt rage steep
ness, strew it freely with wreck. riggiuo
and all, to initiate the fallen timber, root,
and lianes--a few flag stones and boul
ders here aud there will be quite il
place; plant the whole with the thickes,
pheasant cover; set field OF huntsmer
70 find their way through it, at the
points OF least resistance, three times q
W eek during wet winter; and II You
Nare follow their footsteps, you will find
4 5ery accurate imitation OF forest
track in the wet season.
At one place we seemed to be fairl y
stopped. We plunged ana slid down
into muddy brook. luckily with gra-
vel bar on which the horses could stand,
at least one by one, and found opposite a
bauk OF smooth clay. bound with slip
perry roots, some tea feet high. We
stood and looked at it, and the longer
we looked-in hunting phrase-the less
we liked it. But there was no altcrna-
tive. Some one jumped of and scram.
hled up on his hands and knees; his
horse was driven up the bank to him
on his knees, likewise more than once
and caught staggering among boughs
and mud; and hy the time the whole
cavalcade was over, horses and men
looked as if they had been brick making
fora week.
But here again the cunning of these
horses surprised me. On one very steep
pitch, for instance, / saw before me two
logs across the path, two feet and more
IL diameter, and what was worse, not
two feet apart. How the brown cob
meant to get over, | could not guess;
but as he seemed not to falter or turn
tail, l laid the reins on his neck and
watched his legs. To my astonishment,
he lifted foreleg out of the abyss of
mud, put it between the logs, where l
expected to hear it snap, clawed in front
and shutfled behind, put the other over
The second log, the mud and water
'plashing into my face, and then brought
he first freely ont from b tween the
ogs, and, horrible to ee-put n hind
me in. Thus di1 he fairly walk through
he whole, stopped moment to get his
breath and then staggered and scram-
'led upward again as if he had done
nothing remarkable. Coming back, by
he by, those two logs lay heavy on my
leart for a mil, ere | neared them. He
night get up over them, but how would
le get down again? And I was not sur
'rlsed to hear more than one behind rue
ay, 81 think l shall lead over.' But
icing IN front, if | fell, could only fall
nto the mud, not on the top of friend.
10 let the brown cob do what he would
etermined to see how far "A tropic
orse's legs could keep him up; and, to $
~ great Amusement, he quietly leaped \
he whole, descending FIVE or six feet
nto pool of mud, half binding Us for $
he moment, then slid away on his
aunches down ward, picked himself up, ,
nd went on as usual, solemn, patient, =,
nd seemingly stupid as any donkey. y
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

THE RESULT OF STRIKE. 1T is esti
mated, says the ". Y. Erprese. that in
seven weeks New York city has lost fif-
teen million dollars from the strike
Some estimates make the sum twenty
million dollars. While labor has lost
five million dollars, weak employers
have been ruined. In some cases, the
spare earnings of seven months were lost
IN seven weeks of i'll temper and idle
ness. In the main labor has received
far more injury than capital, while both
have suffered as never before at anv one
time. May a better intelligence and
wiser men guide workmen in the future.
The effect of the effort which has failed
is thus stated in the Financial Chron,cle: ::
The men were persuade d by their leaders
that If instead of working GO hours
week, a million of men work As hours a
week there will be room for 30 per
cent. more workmen without depressing
the rate of wages. They would compel
ZOO, 600 men to effoct the same amount
of production to which 1000. 600 men
are competent, and they would lessen
the effectiveness of all the capital. the
machinery and the productive power of
the whole country to a similar degree.
Thus the nation would have to support
in industry equivalent to idleness, an
army of 200, 600 men, whose labor would
add nothing to the general stock of
wealth. Moreover, to accomplish This,
an Investment of 20 per cent more capi-
tai would be necessary, to provide the
requisite machinery, aud to keep this
influx of needless laborers to work.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

SINGULAR In many parts of France
aud Germany most extraordinary su.
perstitious mania is now prevailing like
an epidemic. 1t seems TO have Nrioin
ated on the French borders, near Wis
sembourg. but has spread widely
Thousands of people, many of them
educated and intelligent, profess to see
all sorts OF strange characters traced upon
the window panes of their houses. The
figures are usually of religious or war
like character. Nothing can convince
these people that it is deliision. In
most of the villrges the inhabitants SIT
for long hours during the day watching
their window panes for these mIraculou-
manifestations. while their fields are re.
naming uncultivated, aud scarcely a day
passes but some little village has It's new
apparition to publish to the world. To
ma matters worse, portion OF the
riesthood seem to be using this unheal-
thy excitement for enforcing the doc
trines of faith in the miraculous.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

GUNPowDEB. When was gunpowdeI
first invented Common tradition has
fixed the date at about the year 1867,
and the inventor us certain old English
iriar, known as Rodger Bacon. The
Germans claim the honor Of first discov-
cry for one of their countrymen, one
Bartholdus Schwartz, also monk But
Bartholdus made no hint of his discovery
until 1920, fifty-tbree years afterward,
so that Rodger Bacon must remain in
poss of the field until newer evil
dence crops mp. Bnt there is nothing
new under the sun. After all, Bacon
does not Law claim TO having discovered
gunpowder, only mentioning it as some
thing known in his time; and as the
worthy friar had studied among the
Spanish Saracens, it is not at al improh-
able that he drew tbe secret from one
Of their scientific books
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

A BLUNDRR.-A few days ago boy in
the employ of some Boston teamsters,
was sent by his employers to Stone wharf,
on Federal street, with horse to assist
some teams that were engaged h hauling
stone Instead Of going to that wharf he
wandered on to Porter's wharf, which is
occupied as temporary depot for dead
horses, and as the youth made the state
ment that the horse was to be left there,
the employees about the premises took
the proceeding AS matter of course and
killed the animal, preparatory to tran
sporting him to Spectacle Island. AS the
orse did not arrive at the Stone wharf
word was sent to the stand to know why
he did not come, and the youth was sent
to find his lost charge. He soon returned
with the bride of the defunct animal.
The firm valued the horse at 5000.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

Gan You.-In ajolly company each one
was to ask question; ifit was answered.
he paid a forfeit; or il he could not an.
swer it himself he paid a forfeit. Pets
question was, "How the little ground
squirrel digs his hole witt out showing
any dirt about the entranceY When
they all gave mp. Pat said. "Sure, 10 Won
see. he begins at the other end of the
hole" One of the rest exclaimed, "But
how does he get tberei' "Ah." said
Pa. "that's the qus-tion-ean you an
.wsrs it yourselfa"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

CosT OF THE HoosAC Tunnel. An Of
ficlal report, by the State Auditor to the
LIE gisIature of Massachusetts,, shows that
the cost to the state since it took pos
session up to Jan. /, 1872, is 81, 9S5,50l.
This sum includes what has been paid
on the original contract, 81 Az, sos. II
is estimated that it will yet cost for tt
railway from the west Lortal to North
A lams, Sl64, 635 for interest on loans,
premiums. commissions, etc, SD. .627,
509-a total of Sl2, 792, Sup to March
|, 1874. Some reductions from tins are
to be made for sinking fund, rents, etc. !;
amount not stated, but not very large.
This is, probably, the most precise esti-
mate yet made Of the cost of this great
work.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

MT. DESERT FISH uERMEN.--A cores
pondent who has spent some time at Mt.
Desert, says the island is mostly com
posed of rocks, and the scanty proper.
ton of earth Yields meagre supply
yellow stunted grass, while the farmer
tolls in vain to produce those harvests OF
corn or other cereals which fill the gran
aries in more favored lands. The means
of communication, too, are difficult the
roads are obstructed with stones they
pass over steep hills into deep ravines,
rarely ever finding an easy level, so that
the mountain torrents and the frequent
storms of rain make gullies along and
across the way Thus, if we find it
rough to travel from place to place in the
summer time, what must be the hindran-
ces to the people of the island when the
wild storms of winter fill the roads and
ravines with enormous drifts of snow.
when even the houses themselves are
buried in snow, and when it is a labor of
days to cut pathways to and from their
houses and barns When nature so
rudely interposes til Sc almost insur-
obstacles-for it must he re-
membered that nearly all the "school-
ing Is done in the wlnter-time--it is
that the children get any edu-
cation whatever. Yet by reason of these
very distractions these people have be
20 ne self-reliant, hardy, and enterpris-
ng. Those who have but little give
much, and I have always found these
ISLANDERS, although shrewd in their deal
ngs and saving in all ways, yet kind
learted and hospitable.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

THE MODEL AuCTroNEER.-The Club
Room has this hit: The late George
Robins was famous for his genius in the
direction of putting his u Jtion wares. On
one occasion he had made the beauties OF
an estate so enchanting that be found it
necessary to blurit by fault OF two. least
it should prove too bright and good for
human natures daily food. But there
are two drawbacks to this property"
sighed out this apostle OF the mart. the
litter of the rose leaves and the noise Of
the nightingales"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

SUFFERING ANTIooH.-One OF the man
earthquakes which have devastated u
once noble city of Antioch, the sixth
corded by the historian. occurred in
526, and destro ed $50 600 persons
were gathered here in celebration of
OF their great festivals; in 1922 one
ter of its population were killed.
an2 Tiberias, in Galilee, were overt
in 1887, and it seems probable tha
convulsions, traces of which may b, \
in the depression Of the Jordan
and the Dead Sea, will continue 2.
these Bible lands until there shs
Q new heaven and Q new earth.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

prudent Kentucky father, with a
manageable daughter. found it impos-
sible to keep the beaus from the house,
SO he furnished her with a music box
which plays Home, Sweet Home" at
10 o'clock PM, precisely. The beaus
are all gone and the house closed mp in
Ave minutes after
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

STEALING CHILDREN. The detestable
practice appears to be prevalentinJ Japan
of purchasing and selling young children.
From this n still more horrid practice
has grown up. Chinese traders have
gone to Japan and, for tritling sum.
purchased young girls from thcir parents
IN order to bring them up to a life of
infamy. To so great an extent has this
practice been conducted that the follow
ing rather n1ld notification he's heen
issuel from the japanese Foreign Office ::
"You came to our country tor the pur-
pose Of trading only, and expecting
great privileges but we are informed
that some Chinese have bought japanese
children. and sent them to China for the
purpose of taking them slaves As no
one likes to sell his own child, ii is GER
tain that other peoples children have
been stolen. We regret this, and are
very angry about It. You have resided
a long time in this country under the
Government protection, hut instead of
doing good for our country you have
done much evil. If any such wrong-do-
ing occurs again, The Government will
not spare. beware, Chinese
GAIMusHIo."
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

The purest JOY is unspeakable; the
most impressive prayer is silent, and the
most solemn preacher at funeral il the
silent one whose lips are cold.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

A scolding wife in Milwaukee dislo.
Gated he, iavbons while "g,ying 1t to "
her husband.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09

CUSTOM STILL HoNoRED. In many
parts of the North of England Says o
magazine writer the old Danish super
stition still prevails of the village girls
going out on the midsummer morning,
when the cuckoo changes the note which
it had maintained since April, to ques-
ton the bird as to their future marriage.
According to this ancient custom, the
simple maidens kiss their hands in salu-
tation to the mysterious little soothsayer
of the meadows, and say each in turn /:
'Juckool cuckool
How d'vou dop How d'yon dor
How long must tarry
Before marry"
The bird replying, sings ont "Cuckoo"
as many times as months mot years, it is
to be hoped will elapse before the
wished.for event is to come off
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-09
Life on BlackWell's Island.

The " Y Heyald tells what one of it.
reporters heard and saw on recent
visit to Blackwell's Island. In the fe.
male department of the Pepitcntary,
one Of the prisoners said "There is
usually enough to eat, sch as il is but
arrah musha TAT stuff it is. 1t isn't fiji
for pig, except the bread. > They have
bread and horr1d coffee for breakfast a
chunk of bread and soup for dinner, and
bread and black coffee for supper. Ii
any refuse to work al til institutions they
are confined in a dark cell and put on
bread and water for twenty-four hours,
and sometimes for forty-eight hours.
None of the males at work on the Island
could be seen, owing TO the close watch
kept upon them by the keepers. The
reporter conversed with some who had
been discharged, however. He was told
that some of the prisoners could do about
as they like if they are known in the
right quarter, which was thus explained
You are arrested and locked up at
station house with niggers and bummers.
YoT'n send out by the doorman, if you
have dollar to pay for it, letter to
your alderman or some good friend of in
tluence. If it reaches him, when you go
TO court next morning you'll find the
judge ''nbsent by sickness" and the
alderman on the bench. The ''cop" will
take you before the dummy Justice
and make his charge. The alderman
will give you hail Columbia ; tell you
you are an internal scoundrel who ought
to be in Sing Sing, but as you are man
OF family he'll send you to the island for
a week
The bill of fare was described as being |
Every bad" Visitors generally v are not |
permitted to go through the Penitentiary
even should they have an order from the
Commissioners, unless by feeling some
of the pet prisoners. All you had to do
the reporter was told, was to put fifty
cents or dollar in the hands of one of
the prisoners they keep about the office
to receive donations. l tell Won them
fellows are a set of politicians put in
there to make money. I've given them
mo ley often and lave no trouble. If
you pay for 1t you can send whiskey or
anything else to prisoner.
Arizona citizen., 1872-10-26
Military Items.

By General Orders No. S6, War Department, of October ?, First Lieu tenant Geo. F. Price was promoted to captaincy in the Fifth Cavalry, to date from August go, 1872; by the same order Edward L. Reyes was ap- pointed a Second Lieutenant i'll the same regiment (Troop O, to date from July 27, 1872; also Orlando L. Wiet- ing was appointed a Second Lieu tenant in the Twenty-third Infantry Company K), to date from July 30, 1872; also First Lieutenant V. M. C.. Silva was promoted to be captain in the Twenty-first Infantry Com pany B), to date from July p, 1872 i; also Second Lieutenant William l.. Sherwood, to be First Lieutenant, to date from July p, 1872, vice Silva, promoted, Company E), same regi- ment.
Arizona citizen., 1872-10-26
A GENERATION BACK.

We are apt to think the present times Are sadly out of joint; To sigh. and then toward ages past The reverent finger point. Of model husbands, model wives, Say we. there was no lack Of manners, moral pride, ard worth A generation back. The girls were modest, neat, and fair, The boys were brave and true They abored on, rom sun to sun,
 With joys and pleasures few;, The children went to bed at dark,
 And seemed to have the knack Or being seen, and never h' ard A generation back. And thus it is from age to age,
 And thus twill ever be: The scenes enacted long ago
 Wi partial eyes we see; Our offspring m the years to come
 Will tread the b aten track, And praise the conduc, of their slres A generation back.
Arizona citizen., 1872-10-26

ably endorsed by General Hov T! Gov Mccormick and Supt Bendell, who all chanced to bepresent. These officers all think such protection neces- sary not only to save crops, but to prevent the beginning of actual war.
 A company under D discreet officer, with authority to summerily arrest and hold for punishment all Pimas found trespassing upon the fields, gardens or other property of settlers, may save collision which will other wise be inevitable, and which once begun, may lead to struggle be- tween the settlers and Pimas, which will be a costly matter for govern ment to suppress-not to speak of the sad confusion 1t must make in an inn portant part of Arizona.
 In this connection, # may be said that the trouble began III permitting numbers of the Pimas to live. as they now do, off their reservation. Their plea was lack of water to cultivate their lands within the reserve, but il is not sufficient excuse for their tres passes on either private or govern ment lands open to settlement. They should be made to return, and then i government IS convinced they have insufficient water, and an extension O the reserve Is impracticable, the Pres id4nt's favorite plan of removing then and the Maricopas to Indian Terri tory, might be executed.
Arizona citizen., 1872-10-26

As we say on the frontier, Henry Ward Beecher has level head, and ill June last he wrote as follows:
 General Howard, who certainly will not be accused of undue lack of phi lanthropy, has come to the conclusion, ii the last reports are correct, that the Apache question must be dealt with by the strong hand rather than by the glib tongue. As we long ago pointed cut, there must be unity and consistency in the course of the Gov ernment toward the numerous and treacherous tribes who are chased under the name in Arizona. Pow VOWS with Chiefs do no good n such Q case. since there are no Chiefs whose authority is respected among them We rust that General Howard s re- port will set the matter at rest, so far as sentiment is concerned and that General Crook will be allowed to proceed with the strict enforcement of justice and order upon [; ds and whites' alike
Arizona citizen., 1872-10-26
The Campaign ln Arizona.

Much as 1t may shock persons ig- norant of the character of the Apa- ches, the course now being pursued by Geneial Crooks troops in Arizone is the only one calculated to bring them to terms, to teach them finally that murder and pillage are unproftable and to give peace to the brave and industrious settlers who are trying to develop great resources for the benefit of the whole country. The temporiz- ing policy, so long followed, has en- couraged the savsges to believe they could stay and rob with impunity, and the long list of their unofending vio- tims far outnumbers the list of In- dians killed in battle Now that the war Is carried into their mountain re- treats and rancherias, they will obtaIn new ideas of the power of the enemy they have so long condemned, and will ere long be glad to sue for peace in earnest, and to accept the guardian ship of the Government.-TS San Fran cisco Bulletin
Arizona citizen., 1872-10-26
SOMETHING NEW.

we dic III itCcipI Ol Guc 1OllOWihS letter, and as the best way to elicit the information sought, we publish it:
 47W. ADAMS ST. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, l
 September 2S, 1872.
 ARIZONA INDIANS.
 About 700 years ago, the son of one of the Welsh Princes, viz: Madawc ap Owain Gwynedd, and 8 number of bis fellow courtrymen. took to some ships built by themselves and sailed westward, and it is supposed now that some tribes of the present h. dians are their descendants.
 Two or three Welsh travellers state that they have met with Indians at different times that have spoken @ kind of imperfect Welsh, and they re- tained some traditions that their fore fathers were Brythones (Britons), and other incidents tended to show that in all probability these are Welsh h. dians; and some correspondence has appeared on the subject some time since ill the "Baner ac Amseran Cy- wrn" newspaper-the leading period ical of the principality of Wales, pro- jecting the idea that if such is the case, it would be 8 good object to send Welsh missionaries among them, pre- suming that they would listen more to some people from the same country as their fathers than to others, es- recially when those could speak a language they (Indians) knew some- thing of before hand. And if mis- sionaries could succeed to evangelize and civilize the Welsh Indians, it is more than probable that through them they might extend the same blessings to the remainder of the h. dians. I have undertaken to collect as much information as possible on the subject, and the British Consul here has promised to aid with what as- sistance he can give. Almost all know at present, is that the said Welsh Indians are for the most part in Ari-