National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-05-09
Items Of Interest.

cation.
A married Indiana man has eloped
with his step-mother.
The last Legislature OF Kansas organ
lied eleven new counties.
New York sawdust in boxes continues
to bring fabulous prices in the rural
districts.
The Maine Republican State Conven-
tion is to be held in Bangor, Thursday,
June 10.
A Newport cat washes its face in o
basi n as neatly and skillfully as its
proud owner.
Fred. Douglass was refused the use
of the Opera house in Lexington, KY,
for lecture.
The announcement that truth is
stranger than fiction" is said to depend
chiefly upon who tells it.
Nearly all the American girls study
ing for the operate stage in Milan
lodge in the snme house.
Proceedings have been instituted
against two papers in Toronto for pub
fishing gift-enterprise advertisement.
With the spring weather suicides are
taking place in vast numbers. The pa
rers report number OF cases every
day.
A Chicago druggist, whose clerks
mistake " cost woman her life, has
been sued for $25, 900 damages by her
husband.
A Lynn man has invented substitute
| e. ,nl, hn n1
, cheaper in price and superior in dura-
bility to that article
Two candidates fer local Office in
Illinois receiving an equal number of
votes lately, "tossed up" to see which
should have the Office.
The Havana authorities have deliv.
cred to the English officers the Bank OF
England forgers, and they will be taken
to England in man-Of-war.
Small contributions to the United
States conscience fund are the order OF
the day. Sums ranging from 81 to 30
reach the Treasury every day.
Three boys in Evansville, Ind, tried
to see which could hang longest by the
neck. When their srort was interrupted
one of them was almost dead.
In Chicago two pounds of canned green
corn are worth as much as sixty pounds
of shelled field corn, the former being
most of it brought from Maine.
The two love-sick Wisconsin girls,
who the other day unsuccessfully at
tempted to commit suicide together by
poison. have since drowned themselves.
A little lady in Schenectady recently
sent word to her aged p. in New York
that she must be excused from writing
longer letter. She had spent very
restless night with a sick doll.
A Rhode Island enthusiast at an auc-
Ition bought lot of furniture and then
asked the crowd to name "the poorest
woman in town" The name was given,
and the goods were sent to her.
A Massachusetts farmer recently ad-
vertised his farm for sale, and now he
is asserting that he has fed out over
hundred barrels Of oats to the horses of
persons who have come to examine it.
Some practical jokers, in Worcester,
Mass, a month ago put some tacks III
chair for their friend Thomas McGee to
sit on, and they produced wounds on
his this which led to dangerous alb
cesses.
Minister Washburn has sent S25 to
a gentleman in Illinois, to be used in
defending the suits instituted by the
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company
against the farmers who refused to pay
more than the legal fare.
The order of Patrons of Husbandry
has extended its operations into the far
South. The farmers of Mississippi,
Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia are
organizing into oranges, and evlnce
lively interest in the movement.
A Telegram operator in Baltimore,
recently sued a friend for twenty-five
cents, the amount he paid fora telegram
sent at his request. He obtained
verdict for the amount and costs, aggre-
eating 81. 95, but the defendant appealed,
and has finally given bond in the sum
of fifty cents.
The Attorney General of the United
States has given his opinion that indi-
gent persons who volunteered in the
Union army during the rebellion, and
have since that time become insane, are
entitled to admission to the Govern
ment Asylum for the Insane in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Corporal punishment is rarely inflict-
ed in the schools of Russia and
Germany. In France it is prohibited.
In Switzerland school-whippings are
left to the regulation of the separate
cantons. In England there is constant
and vigorous whipping, and in America
the custom is dying out.
1t is stated that Mr.. Stockwell, who
has been lately so badly bled in Wall
street, tells this old joke as upon him
self When l first came down in
Wall street / was called StJckwell /;
then, when I began to make money, l
was called Mr.. Stockwell. Then it was
Captain Stockwell and subsequently
became known as Commodore Stock
we'll. Now it is that red headed cuss
from Cleveland"
The employer of large number OF
Chinese laborers in North Adams,
Mass, still expresses himself much
pleased with their achievements, and
says they live up to their contract. he
regards many of the stories relating to
Cinnamon as exaggerations or mis-
representations by interested parties,
and thinks, from his own experience,
that when they are properly treated they
become excellent labOrers and me-
chanics.
The Wisconsin Assembly has chap
lain (the Rev. Mr.. Richardson) who is
to do his duty and to earn
his salary. He admonishes the mem
bers in an indirect way through his