National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-11-28
JOB PRINTING
Items Of Interest.

| new orleans lOr 20.
A Boston dry goods dealer advertises
financial crash towels"
Ten counties in Iowa have elected fe-
male school superintendent.
Half the women who appear on the
streets Of Nashville wear mourning.
1t is proposed to abolish the Office Of
Railroad Commissioner in Vermont.
Philadelphia's real estate assessment
this year exceeds that of last year by
800, 900, 900.
The Swiss are said to beating both
the French and English manufacturers
in the silk ribbon trade.
An old fogy in Rutland thinks some
OF the church singing is done on tho
high-drawlic principle.
The Vermont, H., Chronicle an
nounces that it will exchange q few
tender-lines for spare-ribs or sausage.
Ten cents line."
Somebody has found time to count up
the number Of churches in New York
city. There are $50 in all, valued at
something over SAG, 900, 900.
A lady having married Mr.. Wheat
in Virginia, it is hoped that her path
may be foury, and that she may never
be thrashed by her husband.
girl at Lawrence, Mass, who lost
her speech some time ago, has been
frightened into the recovery Of it by
the explosion Of a kerosene lamp.
A New England paper complains Of
pistols being sold to boys not tall
enough to look over the counters of
which the dangerous toys are purchased.
Mrs. Livermore is our authority for
saying that thousands of women are
married to men for whom they don't
care a copper, that they may get a
home.
Michael Sullivant, the great Illinois
farmer, lost 10000 acres of corn by
frost, and has only half a crop on Is, 600
acres. He has discharged $50 farm Ia
borers.
At Portland, Me-, recently, black
smith, while pairing horses hoof pre-
paratory to shoeing him, found cent
lmbedded in the hoof and covered by
the frog.
"James Magin," said Kansas JUS
UlCC, 40 AC SlOSCA u NdoN, ,you hANo
been convicted of hollering murder
when there was no murder, and I fine
you 500"
The reputation of a man is like his
shadow; it sometimes follows and some-
times precedes him; it is sometimes
longer and sometimes shorter than his
natural size.
The Clay county, Ohio, Register says
that yesterday the cold wind went
up the trousers of many
loafer, asking what he had been doing
all summer"
Mr.. Davis, of California, found box
$4,000 in gold, and he be-
came SO excited over it that he dropped
lead. People should beware how they
ind $4,000.
The Milwaukee papers are talking
lbout an unsuccessful merchant who
vent from Wisconsin to Illinois. They
'ay the last State of that man was worse
han the first.
The squirrels of Contra Costa county,
destroy, on an average, one
lollar's worth of grain per acre. The
osses of nineteen farmers this year
IBSreBate SS,oiA.
A little boy has been fairly driven
rom Danbury school by the disgrace
ul persecution of the other scholars,
7ho taunted him with the fact that his
ather had been a New York jury
aan.
Speaking of hard times the Dayton
Ohio Journal undertakes to show that
q that city of $4,000 inhabitants, $2,-
90, 600 is spent in whisky, malt liquors
nd tobacco, of which 81, 100000 goes
or whisky, while only 100000 is
pent for bread.
A Missouri girl, on her wedding day.
old her piano and bought sewing ma
hine and material enough for a suit
Or her husband and herself, and at once
ct to work making them up. Her hus-
and told of it. In two weeks her four
sters were all married.
Malone, of the Jackson Cash Book,
as now tried his hand at improving on
le old couplet, "In Adams fall" &c.
Ialone says:
' If it hadn't been for the sins of Adam,
We poor creatures wouldn't had EN-;
Owing to Adams very sinful manner,
All suffer and that's what the matter with
Hannah !"
Up to the 1st of October the receipts
grain at Buffalo footed up 49, ,500,0 900
nshels, or about 100000 bushels
reater than last year at the same date
ut since that time they have fallen off
rgely, and many vessels in Chicago,
well as canal boats in Buffalo, are
ready laying up for the winter for
ok of freight at living prices.
1t is said that in one of the early
giments that went out in the late
nr, the father of one of the staff Of
,ers called upon the Colonel Just be-
re the regiment left, and requested
at his son might be allowed to keep
W during his term of service, as he
I'd been accustomed, from his boy
,od, to drink a great deal Of milk.
ne hard-hearted Colonel, however,
id he would undertake to wean the
If.
Gen. Ryan was a great ladies man,
d created a sensation while promen-
ing the avenue in Washington, with
s military cape, large Texan braid
{, long curling hair, &c. He always
rried heavy cane, and was generally
by an unusually large
which was terror to
INV pedestrians. He frequently had
ficuIties in the hotel lobbies, gener-
v following up discussion of Cuban
ltters in that way.
In Japan every house mustbe decked
tn flowers on New-Year's day; and, to
pply the great demand, the shops are
! of dwarf peach-trees, bearing double
,ssoms, and growing in large china