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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08
The VagabOnd Sage.

An old man of very active phvsiog
nomy, answering to the name of Jacol
Wilmot. was brought to the Police Court.
His clothes looked as though they might
have been bought second hand in his
youthful prime, for they suffered more
from rubs of the world than tne proprle-
tor himself.
"What business %
None. I'm traveller"
vagabond, perhaps ?"
You are not far wrong. Travellers
and vagabonds are about the same thing
The difference is that the latter travels
without money, and the former without
brains"
Where have you travelled ?"
"All over the continent"
8 For what purpose ?"
Observation "
What have you observed ?"
a little to commend, much to cen
sure and great deal to laugh at. -
Humph what do you commend 2"
" "A handsome woman who will STAY at
home an eloquent preacher who will
preach short sermons; good writer
that will not write too much and a fool
that has sense enough to hold his |
tongue"
What do you censure 2"
A man that marries girl for her fine |
clothing; youth who studies medicine .
while he has the use of his hands and .
the people who will elect a drunkard to
office"
What do you laugh at o.
" laugh at man who expects his
position to command that respect which
his personal qualifications and qualities
do not merit"
He was dismissed.-HeyaH
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08

WILD BEASTS AND SNAKEs.-India is
not quite such a pleasant place to live in
after all, if we may judge from the statis
ties recently issued by the Calcutta gov
ernment, of deaths during the three wears
ending 1869, from wild beasts and snakes
in India. Bengal leads off with IA 7S7
deaths from snake bites, and 6.74I from
wild beasts. Madras counts 76O from
snake bites, and SSS from wild beasts
Northwest Provinces, 2,474 and 2. I6S re.
spectively. Central Provinces, 1861 and
1,347 Bombay is more moderate. the
return being 5SS deaths from snakes and
liS from wild beasts while British Bur
nah seems the safest place of all, there
only having been % deaths from snake
bites-but here we think there must be a
mistake and 10Y from wild beasts.
Once u Week
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08

How They DO IT.-The Gazette o.
NdpteS publishes details of a tragedy, on
board the Vittor Pisani, which ma,
convey to some people more correct
notion of "decimation" than perhaps
some of them nave at present
"A murder had been committed on
board. but the criminal had not been
discovered. Capt. Lovera di Maria call
ed nll the men on deck, and after cues
tioning them one by one, without result
he announced that he regretted to be
Obliged to have recourse to an extreme
measure prescribed by the code for YES
sells Mt sea. The crew. he said. must be
decimated Immediately. There rames
were put into an urn and drawn the
tenth was ordered aft, his eyes were
bandaged, and firing party drawn up
for execution. The commander was
about to give the order to fire, when a
seaman, native of Sardinia, stepped
forward and confessed tie crime. A
lrum-head court-martial was at once
formed, and the murderer was con.
temr "a to death and shot instanter
SIX theirs, 40 were proved to have
leen accom- ices, were sentenced TO
EN- years imprisonment and kept in
rons in the hold"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08

WHAT They THOUGHT. Washington
served two terms as President of the
United States, and when he finally re-
tired from Office to the quiet of Mount
Vernon, the Philadelphia Aurora thus
spoke of him =" If ever a nation has
been debauched by man the American
nation has been debauched by Washing.
ton. Let the history of the federal gov.
ernment instruct mankind that the mask
Of patriotism may be worn to conceal
the foulest designs against the Liberties
of the people"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08
Grecian Brigandage.

Goor Greece seems to be perpetually
gong from bad to worse Large sums of
money are spent yearly there for the sup
preston of brigandage yet the brigands
increase, and are scarcely ever brought to
justice lntwo years forty-seven persons
are known TO have been murdered bv
these outlaws, twenty-one wounded, and
nineteen released on ransoms, while of
the fate of i07 others, known to have
been captured by the robber bands moth
ing has been asceI tained whatever Six
OF the ransomcd persons had to paw. ae-
gregately, about one hundred thousand
dollars, which is said to he more than the
cost of all the Greek Missions and Lega-
lions abroad. The roads are affirmed to
be not so good as they were in the davs
OF Pericles, AMI the srmy is shamefully
miNmanaged aud it would really seem
that things could not be worse if the bri-
gands had entire control of the whole
country, instead of, MS now, a considera.
BILE part oft Mr. Wat on, who succeed
ed Mr. Edward Herbert as British Secre-
tary of Legation at Athens, has Just pub
lished an account OF the state of affairs
there, which Is dark indeed. He says
that Greece is hopelessly insolvent and
hopeIesSly ill-governed. Athens itself is
4 beleaguered city, the number and au-
iaclty of the brigands making it quite |
Unsafe to venture into the enyirons. and |
lie annual expenditures fthe government
or seven years, have greatly exceeded
he receipts. There seems to be hardly
ray OF hope for Greece, unless some
trong, daring man should arise to
caieve the patriotic work of reform. and
ven such an one, were he Pericles him
elf, could hardly change the degenerate
pirit of the people.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08

To THE GRAvt--What mighty pro-
cession is marching toward the grave
during each ear At the usual estimate
during a year, more than SO, 900, 600 ~
the worlds population 60 down to the
earth again. Place them in long array,
and they will give a moving column Of
more than thirteen hundred to every mile
of the globes circumference Only think
of it ponder and look upon these as.
founding computations What a spec
tacle, as they move on-tramp, tramo.
tramp. forward upon this stupendous
oead march
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08

PRACTICAL CHRIsTIANITY.-Mr Spur-
geon, the Noneo'sfo,mist says, tells the
following story of the conversion of a
servant girl: When she was asked,
Are you converted !" she replied, al
hope so, SIR" "What makes you think
that yon are really child of God p"
well, sir, there is great change in me
frem what there used to be-" "Wbat is
the change ?" II don't know, sir, but
there is change in all things. But there
is one thing, / always sweep under the
mats now"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08

HE AssAssINATIoN.-As told in the
British House of Commons by Mr.. Glad
stone and Colonel Sykes, the story of
Lord Mayo's assassination is substantial
ly the same as was told in the cable dis
patches. The assassin was q convict
named Shier Ali. under sentence of i'm
prisonment for life for murder, and had
been cut off from communication with
his Mohammedan brethren in India for a
time. Lord Mayo had in
spected the convict settlement at Fort
Blair, and was On his way to the pier at
which he had landed when the assassin
broke through the guards surrounding
he viceroy and stabbed him twice in the
Dack.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08
4 Bill from ENGLAND.

England, according to Punch, has made
out quite bill against the United States.
Among the items charged we note the
following For encouraging the Fenians,
and putting Canada in dl cad of a Fe-
nian invasion, one half penny. For al
lowing Mr. G. F. Train to be out of n
lunatic asylum, six pence. For the use
of the works of ancient English authors
from VIM. Shakspere downwards, and
for calling them American authors f1,-
000,0O0,00 For piracy on modern Eng
lish authors, and for not calling a great
many of them American authors f1 ,00O,-
0OO,O00. For spelling great number of
decent second-rate English actors, and
sending them home with the idea that
they were keans and Kembles, seven
shillings and six pence. For outraging
humanity by not annexing Mexico, and
putting an end to its atrocities, FL, Co.,
100000
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08

IRoN STATISTICS. The Financier'
gives the following statistics of the man.
ufacture of iron i'll the United States.
taken, doubtless, from the report of the
Iron and Steel Associations Product of
pig iron in 1871, 1850, 900 tons, namely.
made with anthracite coal, $4,000 tons /;
with raw oal and coke, 600, 600, and
with charcoal, 3S7, 600 number of per
sons employed in the manufacture, 40.
600; value of the product. for transpor-
tation, must therefore deduct, for trans
portatios, commissions, profits, insur-
ance, taxes, &c, at least twenty. five per
cent leaving foc labor and materials
$50, 600. 600 or, for 800 days, $500, 600
per oay; that is TO say, SLAB per day
for each OF the 140, 600 men.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08
RATES OF ADyERTIsInu
Along the Hudson.

NWHS tHt uuuSOus
II was in the evening gray
Late wended slow my way
BY that calm and silent river,
Rolling smoothly down forever.
As wandered on alone,
Oyor shrub and over stone,
snddoning fancy seemed to say,
Gloomy spirits crossed this way"
Der the leaves, crisp'd, old and dun.
To and fro the shadows run,
And where'er turned my eye,
shales Of spirits lowered nigh.
Silent AMI IN thoughtful mood,
Near The laving ebb stood,
Watching, waiting thinking DER
Friends upon distant shore
Gazing on tho vapors where
All aro md seem'd peopled air,
Something in this heart was moved,
Which one CLEAN Of solace proved.
But tho dark buc waters rord,
And tho mystic vapors told
q. the shadows on my breast.
shadows mover finding rest.
Hearts, once true, soemd turned 10 stone,
Ard my woes densc, darker grown
And my soul, m monotone,
Wopt and walled "Alono- -alonoi"
Then turned 10 momory's bier,
Wlcrc my hopes lay cold and scar
Whore each thought Of lifc's young bloom
Prcss'l me downward to the tomb.
But what made me suffer more,
When thought on friends of yore,
could feel no mostened eye:-
had drained them with sigh.
Oh, why this soul Of longing hopes,
Why this gloom through which it gropes,
Why this fear, and doubt, and love,
II there is no balm above2
On my ear, from vale and glen,
Came the shouts of living men.
But my fancy, chiding, said
" They are voices of the dead"
Oh shadows, which are spirit land
You charm and hold me whore stand,
And while breathe and see that breath
feel a strange. and subtle death.
Hugh F. MDamoe.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08

The QUEsTIoN.-The present position
OF the dispute between the United States
and Great Britain affords considerable
satisfaction to our government. Earl
Granville, IN his reply to Secretary Fish's
note took no exception to the position
assumed originally in the presentation of
TIE American case before the general
conference. In replying to Earl Gran
vile, Mr.. Fish will call attention to this
fact, which is regarded as a tacit indorse-
ment by Great Britain of the ground tax,
en- 10y the American government, and he
viii point out that if the omission was
unintentlonal it is now too late to rectifv
1T. Our country has acted, and will CON
tinue to act, on the theory that the Brit
ish government accepted the construction
put upon the tr' atty by Mr. Fish, and was
prepared to stand by the consequences.-I
" y Pdper.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08

gentleman of Hartford, CT, regularly
stamps ali ietters held for postage in
that city, attaching to the envelope a
printed statement of the fact. The re-
sponses he has received would fill large
volume. A resident of Elizabeth, New
Jersey, writes that Marcus l.. Ward be-
came Governor of the State through that
course. A Boston burglar says: ''Hes-
tor, you're gentleman ammo mat
ter what but got letter you stamped
just in time to dodge the beaks and be
off. Here's a stamp, and, if / ever hap
pen in Hartford in professional way, |
shan't crack your bin if knows myself. "
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08
JOB PRINTING

OF oil kinds neatly executed at tho lowest livirR
prices. Our onico In well furnished with mate.
rial and stock for this department and wo row
have experienced and competent workmen to
use them. II you want any printing done you
need not go % tho city, or out Of the county,
for you can get as good work and as low prices
at this Office as at any other.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08

The Maine Legislature has passed the
Savings bank bill taxing deposits one half
OF one per cent. per annum.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08
A Slow Train.

The train that night seemed to b,
wandering about somewhere in the inter
Tor OF the State, through country wei
lighted by the moon, windy, very cold
and rather spectral with the snow ano
brstlli S; evergreens, looking for farm
houses and convenient places to stop.
And stop it did frequently, start it did
reluctantly, and move about it deliber-
ately. We got to know all the pleasant
little detail of breaking-up and getting
underway again. First the whistle, then
a perccptible slowness of motion, then
the jerk Of the brakes, and sudden
stop, followed by loosening of the
brake, another lunge Of the car, then Il
rattle of the chains and long creak or
rather sigh of relief, and the train stood
sui, omlnously silent, as if dead This
silence had something in it appalling.
1t was sure to be broken, however, by a
nasal voice at the end of the train ring
ing out on the night air : "Hello, Jim
How's life ?'' "All superior" replies
the young man in the baggage car, in
the latest railroad slang.
" Seth, send along them castin's ?"
Seth didn't need nothing" Seth be
hahScu, utlu ItnlaTkS Hollow about Seth
which l should not care to hear about
friend of mine. The bell rings, the en-
glne snorts, and slowly moves off. Con-
versation is also carried on inside the |
car, upon the various events of the night. |
= What are we stopping for now ?"
. Are we stopping =? Station probably"
No, there is no station here docking |
Jut of the frost-covered window, after
'erapln9 place.; we are right in the
open country" Will be station here
ram Is waiting for it to grow" The
explanation is not satisfactory. After
title while the sleepless one discovers
hat the train is doing something else.
There, we are backing. What are we
'acklng for p Don't know probably
o get back. " But we back ever so
nucb.' "Of course. You see." saws
he sleeper rousing himself to explain,
we have to go one hundred and forty {
our miles in ten hours and we couldn't
o 1T il we didn't go. backward part Of !
le time. -E'rchanqe. t
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08

PHILADELPHn has sent away 9, 290, 5ss
gallons OF petroleum since Jan. /. ibis
is z, l57.Sl gallons more than during Ii 9
same period in 1871.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-03-08
RATES or SUBSCRIPTION.

One copy, ono year In advance. cs......"..u 30
II notpad within three months, ......,, . 90
No variation whatever from these rates.
No Japer discontinued until all arrearage
are aid, except at the option Of the publishs
Marshall County Republican., 1872-04-25

If chronic Indigestion affected the stomach only. it
might be more easily borne but it gives rise inevita
bly, to many other diseases affecting the liver, the
nerves. the bowels and the brain. Biliousness, nerg
tremors constipation headache and terrible men-
tai disturbances are among its usual Accomplishments
In fact every organ every fibre of the frame sympa-
thizes with the debilitated and diseased stomach.
What is needed in such case? Clearly an Alternative
and invigorant; and among medicines of that class
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is beyond all comparison
or estimate the best. Mere purgatives only deprive
the system of the little strength that disease has left
it, Salivants have the same effect. The whole inter-
nal organism has gone wrong, and can only be put
right and kept right by medicine in which the tonic
and stimulating elements predominate, but are quail
fed and modified by antibilous aperients and blood
purifying components. Now, the truth is (and the
medical faculty well the public know the fact
that Hostetters Bitters contain ingredient
qusite for the of dyspepsia and all the ailments
of body and mind which it involves. This has been
proved in SO many thousands ofnstances that seems
almost idle to repeat the statement.
The great tonic rallies exhausted natRre from what
ever cause enfeebed, and permanently recruits the
vigor of the nerves. the muscles and the brain Its
effect upon the brain is TO give strength to the will and
precision the judgment, and to Danish despondency
and that inirmty of purpose which generally accom-
panies bodily weakness.
Marshall County Republican., 1872-04-25
The Music House of Root & Cady,

Deserves notice as the first to fully recover
from the shock of the great October fire.
They now occupy their spacious fve-story
brick store, corner of Wabash av. and Van
Buren, st., with the largest and best stock OF
pianos, organs, and imported musical mer-
chandize ever offered IN Chicago. They are
Northwestern wholesale agents for
l. MASON & HAMLIN's ORGANS, the cheapest
and best in the world. Tney are made-200
u week-in forty different styles, from $50 to
81 500 each.
2. SrEck PIANOS, in all styles, square, grand
and upright. Celebrated for their admirable
tone, durability and great popularity.
g. WEBER PIANOS, square, upright and
grand. They have larger sale in New
York, where they are made and best known,
than any other piano, at high prices. OF
magnificent finish and wonderful tone, COM
bining the excellencies without the defects
of the best pianos, they surprise and delight
every musical artist who tests them.
4. Roor & CADY PIANOS, the best medium
priced pianos known, full-sized 7-octaves, of
best materials, with all improvements, fully
warranted and sold from $lO0 to $500 less
than other pianos no better.
5. IMPORTED MUSICAL MERCHANDIsE-strings,
violins, flutes, clarinets, etc.-selected from
| the manufacturers of Europe for their adapta-
| ton to the American climate and market.
Their sales in this department has doubled
| in less than two years.
Exclusive agency will be given to first
class agents who will thoroughly canvass
| the territory given them, and adhere to man
ufacturers' prices, in all parts of the North
west, where either class of our Goods are not
now represented.
Buying for cash, they sell goods as low as
they can be bought at the factories or OF East
| ern manufacturers, and thus save Western
| BUYERS freight, the risk and delays OF ship
ment, with the advantage of dealing with 8
house near at hand, well known, able and
willing to guaranty perfect satisfaction
| The largest and one of the oldest music
houses in Chicago, identified with music cul
| ture in the West for twenty years, thell
success is the pride and inheritance of Chi
| cago and the Northwest. B.
Marshall County Republican., 1872-04-25
The Nature of Cats.

They are not allies and companions,
like dogs. They make no attempt TO
take O part in human affairs, as dogs do.
They undertake no responsibilities OF
guarding the houses, or protecting the
persons, or joining in the sports OF man.
They will not disturb themselves IT
burglars break into the dwelling. or If
violence assaults their protectors. They
are not conservatives, like dogs, curious
of suspicious characters, furious against
unlimited strangers. Nor are they
liberals, like dogs, in the welcome they
give to change, and the JOY with which
they transfer themselves to fresh fields
and pastures new. Like Gallo, they
care for none of these things. They
probably have no idea that they are
valued for their propensity to -slay and
scatter mice, and imagine that they are
only superfuously indulging the bent OF
native genius for " natural selection,
when they are really performing the
one function for which they are treasured
by thrifty housekeepers, and for which
they receive the "grantin-aid" OF a
milky payment by results" They are
as unconscious as Mr.. Carlyle could wish
men to be of their one genius and merit
as attendants on our domestic civil
zation. You will see dogs full of pride
at the accomplishment of their little
tasks, and looking up to men for recog
milton. But there is nothing OF this
about the cat.
Marshall County Republican., 1872-04-25
Fashion Gossip.

PARAsoLs this year are trimmed with
lace to match the color of the material
of which it is made.
THE large number of young ladies suf
fering from dreadful bunions has sent
French heels out of fashion.
A NEW kind of fringe is made of small
feathers, and is very beautiful on thin
transparent ball dress. 4se
BoNNETs are very high this season, and
the trimming is all placed on the top /;
they are made to fit close to the head,
and have ribbon strings fastened with a
small bow under the chin.
POINTED and scolloped founces are the
latest style Of trimming dresses, and
make the ladies look like small peram-
bulating awnings.
"A NEW style of ornament for the hair
is SIN Ill humming bird with diamond
eyes and jeweled arrow through its
breast.
THE old.fashioned style of necklaces
worn by our graDdmothers, OF several
rows of small gold beads, are all the
rage at present. :
The spring style for the Sandwich
Islanders is red string above the LEFT
knee. The present fashion is a red
string below the knee.
IT is said that the style of the Spanist
ladies' dress has not materially changed
for 200 years.
YOU'VE ladies have got into the fash
ion of not signing their notes to gentle
men, which is very modest fashion
and not at all confusing for the re
cipient.
Marshall County Republican., 1872-04-25

WHINING GOLDEN OPINIoNs.-Perhail
10 man living has won more golcen
opinions than DR.. Walker, as the enor-
NOUS and widely increasing sale of his
California VINEGAR BITTERs attests.
We never look into one OF our ex-
changes, but there is a panegyric OF the
Bitters staring US in the face. Our read
ers will say that there must be a reason
for all this praise. They are right. The
efficacy of this celebrated medicine is
established by evidence which it is i'm
possible to doubt. Among the thou
sands whe have borne testimony to its
excellence, there is not one dissentient
voice. In very many phases OF lnor-
ganic disease it seems to be unfalllng.
Ali diseases arising from vitiated state
of the blood are surely eradicated by it.
1t is an effectual remedy for pulmonary
complaints, bilious, remlttent and inter-
mittent fevers, rheumatism and dyspep-
sia. 1t purges the body Of all unhealthy
humors,s gives tone to the system, and
where the vital powers are enfeebled,
restores their functions to vigorous and
healthy action. All this it does the
more effectually because its operation Is
not interfered with by the presence of
alcohol. The VINEGAR BlTTERs is per-
fectly free from any such hurtful lDgre-
dent. We have always believed that
plants contain the true remedies for
disease, and all the remedies necessary.
DR.. Walker is on the line of real pro-
gress, and we hope that he will not rest
on his present discoveries.-C Com.
Marshall County Republican., 1872-04-25

7. JEROME, of Saginaw City, Mich, is
building an elegant pleasure-yacht, to
be 90 feet long, to carry 16 passengers
beside the crew, and 10 be furnished
with an engine of l4xl4 cylinder.
Marshall County Republican., 1872-04-25

A YOUNG lady of Buffalo is abont to
sail for Russia to fulfill marriage en-
gagement with NJ. Levy. the famous
cornet player. She will be accom-
panied by her mother.
Marshall County Republican., 1872-04-25
TO CONSERVATIVES.

The advertiser, having been permanently cured of
that dread disease. Consumption. by simple remedy,
is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the
means of cure. To all who desire it, he will send
copy of the prescription used Gree of charge) with
the directions for preparing and using the same.
which they will find SURE CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.
ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, &C.
Parties wishing the prescription will please address
REV. EDWARD A. WILSON,
2s4 South Third street. Williamsbureh. n. Y.