National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-08-15
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
JOB PRINTING
Items OF Interest.

Nevada feeds the convicts and the
officers of its State Prison at an average
cost OF twenty and one.half cents per
day each.
An Iowa farmer met with terrible
death last week, having been thrown
from his seat on hay rake and literally
raked to death in its teeth.
Ten thousand young shad were re-
Gently liberated in the Raisin river Mt
Monroe, Michigan, in the hope OF nc.
rimating them in the fresh water OF
Lake Erie.
The two Indian chiefs, Satanta and
Big Tree, confined in the Texas State
prison for murder, are usefully en-
ployed in making chairs, at which bust,
ness they nre very expert.
A man paid $40 for chance at chuck
luck at Elapso, ILL.,, on a circus day,
feeling sure he had spotted the envel-
ope containing the 500 prize. He was
never more mistaken in his life.
The Tycoon has capital way OF en-
couraging newspaper enterprises. He
orders that all men of certain social
and political circles shall subscribe to
the new japanese paper or be beheaded.
Sebastian Mercy while drunk was car
rying hls four year old boy his arms
in Cincinnati. He staggered, fell and
killed the child Then remorse suggest
ed the oath, " / will never drink another
drop"
The Mayor of indianapolis has de.
cided that he has no legal right to COM
pei drunkards to state where they buy
their liauor while under prosecution
for drunkenness, as they would be liable
10 conviction upon their own testi-
mony.
A physician, on presenting his bill to
the executor of nm estate OF n deceased
patient. asked, "Do you wish to have
my bill sworn o. "No.' replied the
executor, I" the death of the deceased
is sufficient evidence that you attended
him professionally.
The Chicago Tribune has been re-
viewing the Chicago Directory. 1t finls
in it 1885, ,07O names, from which 1t
reckons that the population OF Chicago
is 465, 5,745. There are in it enumerated
209 churches, 12l schools, colleges, and
other institutions of learning, 272
lodges and societies, and 1.672 Smiths.
A contractor said that he never, in
twenty years experience in Boston,
knew workmen, "good and true, so
scarce as now. He could get plenty
that were willing and anxious to draw
their pay, but to do an honest days
work, they could not be found in any
number. Mechanics, artisans, and la
borers cannot be had at any price.
Wasn't this pleasant thing for posr
Porter Pierce of Southport, Me? He
is away in his schooner fishing, leaving
two men to get in his hay, and they
| have got it in with n vengeance, though
there is no hay in the barn now, because
they would smoke their pipes there. 1t
never rains without pouring. The in
surance on the property, valued at ST.
900, ran out n few days since. Prob
ably Pierce, upon his return, will ex-
press himself strongly upon the smok-
ing question.
The editor of the Tobacco Leaf
newspaper in Clarksville, Tennessee, in
response to toast of the press said:
Gentlemen the-the press. The press
AS 1 said, the press cheersl The
mill, as l remarked-[ laughter the
mill-and by the mill mean the -four
ing mills the great civilizer and dis
tributor of the staff of life. The press
and the mill-the mill and the press
gentlemen-IIgreat applause the mill
and the press stand, so to speak-stand
in intimate juxtaposition, of which the
mill sustains most intimate relations to
the press, while both are productive OF
indiscriminate grinding" IGreat ap-
plausel.