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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
The Havana Lottery.

The profits of the ticket sellers in
the Havana Lottery are enormous one
party in New York receives 900 tickets
for every darwing. Each ticket costs
him 800 in notes of the Spanish Bank,
equivalent to $l6.6 in United States
currescy, allowing 50. 33 on each ticket
IA exchange. Selling the ticket in New
York at S28 currency, this leaves the
vender 81 .33 clear profit on each ticket,
or so, 200 on his entire batch every
sixteen to eighteen days, which makes
quite handsome pile at the end of the
year, not counting the profits on the
few prizes which are drawn. The drawer
of prize who thinks he has obtained
$500 finds out his mistake on visiting
his banker to cash the lucky ticket.
The $500 are but S24O, and this latter
figure only if the banker (?) chooses to
treat his customer fairly. The sale of
tickets for island consumption is de-
creasing, but it is increasing for the
United States. For the purpose of
carrying on the Spsnish government
and the war, the people Of the United
States purchase SO, 600 tickets for eigh-
teen drawings per annum: this is equal
" lOA,VpO tlChctb ~ Wv cuCH, mdhluk
SO, 240, 900, of which the government
receives twenty-five per cent. directly,
or $50, 900, the ticket purchasers run
ming their chances for the remainder
of their outlay, and receiving larger
or smaller premium. As only six large
prizes are given, 1894 people are dis
appointed every drawing six ont of
10000 get a respectable prize, which
generally finds It's way back again to
the Golfers of the island treasury. 1t
is also well-known that nine -tenths of
the so-called tickets in the Havana Lot
terry, sold in the United States, are
still people buy them,
hoping against loss all the time. When
will the American people have a little
and not allow their pockets to
be picked by every adventurer who
offers them $40 for 81.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
Laws Regulating Mining Lands.

A private inquiry having been made
of the Attorney General of the United
States on the following subject, the
question was referred by him to the
General Land Office, and Acting Com
missioner Curtis makes this statement
as the rule of the Department -" If
lands have been entered and patented
as agricultural, upon which valuable
mines were known to exist at the date of
such entry, the parties owning such
mines are in no way debarred from ac-
quiring the title thereto upon a full
compliance with the laws and the in
structions regulating the disposal of
mineral lands as by express provisions
of law no title can be acquired to min
eral land under the acts regulating the
disposal of agricultural land. In all
cases where lands have been returned as
mineral upon the township plot, or
where affidavits were filed with the local
land officers alleging that the lands are
more valuable for mining than for agri-
cultural purposes, it is the duty of the
register and receiver to cause hearing
to determine their true character before
allowing their entry urderthe Pre-emp-
tion or Homestead laws"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
The Birth Of the Fly.

Sir John Lubbock, in recent paper
in Nature, London, describes the birth
of May-fy from a full grown larva,
which, having observed it to be in a
glistening condition, he caught and pat
under the microscope in drop of
water. Very few minutes had elapsed
when he had the satisfaction of seeing
the thorax open along the middle of the
back the two sides turned over the
insect literally walked out Of itself, un-
folded it's wings, and in an instant flew
up to the window. Several times since
he has witnessed this wonderful meta
morphosis, and it is extraordinary how
rapidly it takes place. From the mo-
ment when the skin first cracks, not
ten seconds are over before the insect
has flown away. Like the ephemere,
dragon flies, at first dull, brown, slug
gish and ugly larv@, with six legs, are
in water. Not SO the ant
lion. which passes it's early days in dry
sand.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
Make Birds Friendly.

Some kindly soul writes to Cincin.
natl paper: l was much interested
some weeks since at the remark OF Q
/ friend living in the suburbs of the city,
that when he left home early in the
morning, he thought as many as two
hundred birds were chirping aud sing
ing in the trees around his home.
asked him, How do you account for
this, seeing that it is so very early in
TIE season, and the snow scarcely gone
from the ground ?" He replied, ~
love birds, and delight to feed the little
songsters, and for this purpose pur-
chase refuse grain and seeds at cheap
rates, and arrange shelves and COLI
veniences for feeding on the trees and
fences. By these means I am always
surrounded with birds, early and late.
Now, the purpose of the writer of this
is to propose like acts and like pleasure
to others ; and to suggest to those hav-
ing little spots of waste land to plant
hemp, suuhOwer, rape, and other small
seeds (the expense of which need not
exceed fifty cents), and they, too, can
teed and enjoy the presence of the early
birds, which will delight to visit and
spend their summer days around the
mansion of their friends. Particularly
at this time, when our Acclimatization
Society is spending money and efforts
so liberally in introducing European
birds of song, is it too much to ask all
who would encourage the enterprise to
half feed the birds Plant your little
seeds, watch the gradual growth, keep
ing in mind the aim to make home and
its surroundings happier and to teach
the little two-legs indoors to care for
and treat kindly the little two-legs out
of doors. Feed, feed the birds. All
will be the happier.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
The Erie Indians.

Let an Indian tribe vanish entirely
from the earth withoutleaving a shadow
behind, not even one chieftain TO 60 as
a deputation to Washington, not even
one brave, who refuses to live on his
reservation, and skulks around the set
Elements clad in the cast.oT silk hats OF
the white man, and forthwith we begin
to exalt the extinct race with the heart
of an antiquarian and the pen of a nov.
elist. 1t is only the degenerate, mind
fatiguing Indians Of to-day whom we
despise no doubt the tribes of the past
were of nobler nature. Among these
tribes Of the past there are none more
completely past than the Eries, who
have left scarcely moro than . name be.
hind them. They belonged TO that re.
markable confederacy OF tribes called
the Neutral Nation, dwelling upon the
southern shore of Lake Erie, a city OF
refuge to warning parties on either side.
To them belonged the right of lighting
the council fire of peace, a ceremony
waiGh vas said to require n maiden
hand, and for years they held their
place, respected and at peace. Upon
these Western Islands were some of
their Businesses traces OF their fortti-
cations were discovered there by the
first surveyors, earthworks built, appar-
emily to enclose village, with gates and
sallyports of wood, and in one place a
quantity OF new stone axes and arrow
heads stored away in huge armory for
future use. Picture-writing was also
found, and one rock inscription upon
Kelley's Island has been pronounced
"the most extensive, we'll sculptured
and preserved inscription found in this
country"
The Fries were at the hcad of the
Neutral Nation, and at the time of the
first French explorers they were in the
height of their power. So much is
known, but no more. The Iroquois came
and swept them from the face of the
ear'h. "Of course, says the student
of lake country history, wearily, "The
Iroguois are as sure to come sweeping
in at the last as Sir William johnson !"
The Eries were soutterly destroyed that
the most patient investigator can only
say =" They were, and they are not. /"
Little besides their existence is known
OF them," says Parkham, whose histo-
ries are as reliable as they are fascina-
ting-an unusual combination.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
Artificial Coal.

On some of the French railroads COM
pressed cOal-made from waste coal
dust-is exclusively the fuel used, and,
at first, possessed u considerably greater
economical advantage than subsequent
ly, the net cost of the article, including
the motive power, the wear and tear of
machinery, and for labor, having been
as low as forty cents per ton, in some OF
the districts of France and Belgium,
and, even in the most important manu-
featuring centres, the average net cost
per ton has been as low as thirty cents.
The increase OF value, however, soon
reached to four dollars per ton at the
mill and the fine dirt coal, which once
merely worthless, thus paid profit OF
of nearly three dollars per ton. But even
this increase has been largely advanced
upon, because the advantages of this
kind of fuel have become more widely
known, and the demand, consequently,
greater. and because the modes Of
manufacture and the qualities of the
article have been greatly improved.
When making contracts for this fuel,
the railroad companies have been ac-
customed to allow six per cent. of ash,
tolerating difference of one-half of
one per cent, more or less, than the
standard allowance, with a correspond
ing difference in price. But, when the
amount of ash exceeded eight per cent,
the coal is considered unfit. It is esti-
mated that cargo of this artificial or
pressed coal will represent almost,
mathematicially, solid mass of coal,
and that the coal bunkers of ship will,
therefore, contain fifty per cent. more
of this material than of ordinary loose
coal in Jumps.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
Story Of q Picture.

A painter once wanted a picture of
innocence, and drew the likeness of a
child at prayer. The little supplicant
was kneeling beside his mother; the
palms of his uplifted hands were rev.
erently pressed together his rosy cheek
spoke of health, and his milk-blue eye
was upturned with the expression of
devotion and peace. The portrait of
young Rupert was much priced by the
painter, who hung it up on the study
wall and called it " Innocence. Years
passed away, and .he artist became an
old man. Still the picture hung there.
He had often thought of painting
counterpart, the picture of "Guilt,"
but had not found an opportunity. At
last he effected his purpose by paying a
visit to neighboring Jail. On the
damp floor of his cell lay wretched
culprit named Randall, heavily ironed.
Wasted was his body and hollow his
eye (; vice was visible in his face. The
painter succeeded admirably, and the
portraits of young Rupert and Randall
were hung side by side for Innocence"
and Guilt" But who was young
Rupert and who was Randall ? Alas
the two were one. Old Randall was
young Rupert led astray by bad COM
panions, and ending his life in the
damp and shameful dungeon.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
JOB PRINTING
Facts and raucles.

L
Enjoyment stops where Incidence be-
gins.
Bees lately stung = little boy to death
at Lake City, Iowa.
A womans modesty is like her color
extremely becoming if not put on.
A man at Galesburg, ILL.,, has been
fined $40 for cutting of his wife's hair.
As sixty is TO one, 80 are potato-bugs
to potatoes in Kentucky, according to
the papers.
A man may as well expect to grow
stronger by always eating, as wiser by
always reading.
What requires more philosophy than
taking things as they Gomez Parting
with them as they go.
The latest thing in marriage an
nouncements reads thus: "No cards.
No Presents. No divorce"
Farmers in the Connecticut Valley
are making more extensive arrange
ments than ever for raising tobacco.
The most stylish young ladies' have
struck against the tyranny OF the mil
liners, and make their own bonnets.
Croouet still continues in favor, end
surreptitious booIs still entrap the feet
of unwary wanderers on shady lawns.
Lucy Quin Of Philadelphia sold her
new bonnet so that her lover might pur-
chase ball ticket. That's true love.
"The British House of Lords, says
a Western paper, 4" has just decided
that man cannot marry his widows
sister,
It ID startling fact in natural his
tory that children who are perfect
little lambs usually grow up to be
"mutton heads"
Some person asserts that five New
York ladies' have gone to Pans TINS
spring for the express purpose OF hav'
ing their faces enamelled.
A widow in Maine has lately worked
ont her tax on the highway, and the
surveyor said she did her work better
than any man in the town.
During the warm weather thesprinci-
pal occupation of the "girl of the
period seems to be sitting on the
stoop waiting for the looming map.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has quit
wandering around nights to see If the
police do their duty. The boys got to
shooting at him as he crept through the
alleys.
Eleven Yale students, who had been
ont serenading n boarding.school, were
arrested by the New Haven police one
night last week. And the chsrming
pupils in the boarding-school had leI'
for their homes the day before.
The culture of rice is prohibited with
in one mile of Savannah, the radius be.
ing known as the "dry culture limits.
Twenty. three squatters were arrested
the other day for violating this provis-
ion, and ordered to destroy the growing
crop.
Edward Fl. Hoswell, murderer OF
the Mcfarland type, at Hallowell, Me-,
has filed twenty pages showing why
he should be pardoned. He cites these
and other cases to show that, had he
been rich man, he would never have
been convicted.
A Texas paper tells Of a man who
brought in for shipment to st. Louis
eight hundred wolf pelts. He kills the
wolves by putting strychnine in the car
casses OF animals killed for the purpose
and left on the prairies. It often oc-
curs that he finds rs many as forty dead
wolves about one of these carcasses.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27

~ said had never grown day older
since that time. You know now why.
have never ceased to think OF her M
on that day. I have never lost the bless
ing of those eyes rs they looked on me
i'll the forest on the mountain. road. /
have never left her, never grown away
from her. II, in the resurrection, we
are to r, sumo the bodies most exactly
fitted to represent our whole lives ; it,,
as have sometimes thought, we shall
rise i'll the forms we wore when some
great event stamped our souls forever,
then am certain that shall awake in
form and feature AZ was that day, and
no memorial will remain of an hour of
my life after her burial.
"We buried her in the old vault close
by the honse, among the oaks. Beauti-
iu to the very last.
My voice is broken. ] can not talk
any more. You have the story. That
is the whole of it. God bless you, my
boy. You have Observation-Disclosures
-my-talk.
Goodnight. Go to bed. I'll stay
here in this chair a while. l don't
exactly feel ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
yet"
l left him sitting there; his head
bowed on his breast, his eyes closed,
his breathing heavy. My own eyes We're
misty.
In the hall I found John, sitting, bolt
upright in large chair.
Why, John, I thought the Major
sent you to bed long ago? ?"
Yes, Sir; the Major always sends
me to bed at the third bottle, Sir,
and l always doesn't 60. He's been a
tellin' you the old story, now hasn't he,
Sir ?"
What old story, John?"
Why, all about Miss Lewis, and
Mister Tom, and the General ?"
eyes"
John laid his long black finger know
insly up by the side of his nose, and
looked at me.
Why, John-you don't mean to say
-eh 2"
"All the claret, Sir"
"What Sarah and the black horse
and"
"All claret, Sir"
John, my man, go in and take care
of him. He is either asleep or drunk.
Curious that Why didn't think that
a man was hardly to be believed after
the second bottle, and perfectly incredi-
bic on the third. BY jove he is trump
at a story, though"
1t would be difficult to describe all
that dreamed about that night.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
An Invention Wanted,

A correspondent of the Scientific
american says Piowshares, as now
used, are enough to make any farmer
complain, especially if they are steel
ones, which are generally ruined after
being sharpened once. The cast steel
ones will not scour in black lands. Why
could not the share be made smaller, so
that it would not be necessary to weld a
plate of iron on it? The share and
point might be made of two pieces, and
the point used in some way TO fasten
the share. Plugs or wedges could be
used instead Of bolts, which are 20
placed that they are hard to unscrew.
Would not such q contrivance be as
successful Is the movable saw teeth 2
! think 30. If such thing could be
made, il would be one Of the most pay
ing inventions"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
FEMININE ExHoRrER-A corres-

A FEMININE ExHoRrER. CORES.
pondent thus describes noted lady
preacher Mrs. Van Cott is about forty
fiveiyears of age, quite large and fleshy,
and very good looking is exceedingly
graceful in her gestures, and very vivid
in the description of scenes which she
wishes to portray. To picture the
death-bed scene Of some unrepentant
sinner seems to be a specially with her,
as she thus has a good opportunity OF
working upon the feelings of her audi.
ence. She is rather egotistical but is
doing a good work.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
A SMART BoY.-Here is q boy who

A SMART BOY.-Hefe Is q OOy VINO II
precocions to some purpose. He re.
sides in Texas (Brenham county,, and
being ten years old only, ne does not
shine as calculating boy or as mnsi-
cal boy but at this tender age he
proudly enters the ranks of agricul-
turists, and, this year, is cultivating
four acres of cotton and one acre of
millet. We fully agree with the solemn
words of The Houston Telegraph,
which, without fear of contradiction,
boldly says: "This boy will no doubt
make a man who will reflect credit on
his family"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27

Chemistry now undertakes to make
meerschaum pipes cut of potatoes,
"peeled, soaked for about thirty-six
hours in water to which eight per cent.
of sulphuric acid has been added. dried
in hot sand for several days on plates Of
chalk OF plaster of Paris, and COM
pressed ct the same time. They can
then be carved, and will be an excel
lent imitation Of the meerschaum.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27

30 many of the county fairs in Ken
tucky were failures in their pecuniary
results last year that very few will be
held in the State this season. 6ome Of
the counties will combine and hold con-
solidated fsirp.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27

So1''
As estimates are usually made for the
benefit of interested parties, it is al
ways best to move slowly. In the
above case, aman making the trip might
easily double the figures given, be
economical, and when he returned homo
he would have little money in his purse.
Ask any one who has tried the trip and
note the answer.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27
Cost Os the Trim to California.

The San Francisco Bulletin gives the
following as n fair statement OF the cost
of q trip to California:
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-06-27

New York to San Francisco. $40
Seeping-car Qull hat "section 1.............. ~
Twenty mt ais route, at rs cents each Is
San Francis co 20 Yosemite ard MariIosa Big
Tree Grove and return, ten days trip, SIS to
500, but say y....................... IW
San lancsc to Napa Valley, Gsysers, etc.,. "
San Francisco to Santa Cruz, Peseadeio, san
Jose etc., say one weeks trip. p................ 30
Ten days in all IN San Fir ancsto, at "a per day. 40
Tr ps to the OF II House, ,etc.................. Is
fan Fra pcisco 10 New York k.................. 40
8 eeping g-car, (-ame as above oyel............... 20
Meals (ssn above).. Observation-Disclosures. IS
breaking trip three days at Truckee to see Lake
Tahoe and Donner Lake Observation-Disclosures. -
Breaking trip at Ogden to Salt Lake City ETC.,
four days. all expen ses. ....................... -
-
Hall of above expenses in curre ency, for which
deduct ten per cent, on $3.50, say ............ IS
Total expenses Of full Pacinc Coast. trim. as
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-20

MIDSUMMER MALARIA.-At this season
the heat Of the sun liberates from the
soil tho water and the filth OF cities i'm
mense Quantities of unwholcsome gases,
which the strongest can scarcely inhale
with impunity, and which develop the
most distressing diseases in the weak
and feeble. It is, therefore. OF para.
mount importance to invigorato the body
i'll hot weather. Ntalize and strengthen
the stomach and tho nervous system with
at least two doses per day of Hostetters
Stomach Bitters. aud you will be sure to
escape the fits Of Indigestion, attacks OF
bilious collie. sick headaches, diarrhoeas
and dysenteries which are so common at
this season. BE prudent. 4 little care
and forecast exercised now, may prevent
your being prostrated by remittent or
intermittent fever, or by chronic bowel
or liver complaint throughout the fall.
When vigor is oozing out of every pore
under the rays Of an almost vertical sun,
this genial vegetable tonic supplies to
the nervous system on ailment which en-
ables it to withstand the drain.
July
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-20

NERVOUS DEDILIrY.-A DEPRESSED, 1R.
HIrADLE STATE OF MIND; WEAK, NERVOUS,
EXHAUSTED FEELING; no ENERGY or AMI
NATION; CONFUSED HEAD, WEAK MEMORY,
OFTEN WITH DEE1n1rATISG, INVOLUNTARY
DISCHARGES. The consequence Of ex.
cesses, mental oyerwork or indiscretions.
This NERVOUS DEBILITY finds SOVEREIGN
CURE in HUMPHREYS HOMEOPATHIC SpE.
ctFlc, No. 2S. I. tones up the system,
arrests discharges, dispels the mental
gloom and dependency, and rejuvenates
the entire system; it is perfectly harmless
and always efficient. Price So for pack
ago Of five boxes and large 50 vial of
powder, Which is important in old serious
eases; or 81 per single box. Sold by ALL
Druggists. or sent by mail on receipt OF
price. Address Humphreys Specific
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE COMPANY, No.
5G2 broadway, y. y. For sale by EIGEI
Il McGn.GoK. Columbia. S. G. Ap14t.ly
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-20

The Orangeburg Ifns.s, of tbs 18th
says: "a family, consisting OF husband
and wife, daughter and son, were at orr
depot, IL lew days ago. The father
stated that several thousand immigrants
were determined to scatter over .!c
South.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-07-20

LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Eye Glasses Lost.
Columbia Lodge. No. 109.
W. Lowry-Lumber.
Mary T. Wilson-S25 Reward.
Mount Zion Institute.