National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-11-14
JOB PRINTING
Items Of Interest.

The whole business portion OF the
town of Reno, Nevada, has been burned.
The Sacramento beet sugar factory
this year will make 5000 barrels OF
sugar. valued at 5000, 200. Y"" ~
There are three hundred vessels now
in course Of construction at Glasgow.
Half OF them will be steamers.
The amount Of gold dug in California
since 1Si8 In 1880, 700, 100, OF which
500, 900, 900 were mined in 1854. 49,
Jefferson Davis has been nominated
for the Chancellorship of the University
of Georgia, which IL about TO become
vacant. .e,.
1t is said that new penal code, by
which the death penalty is abolished,
will be introduced by the Italian Gov
eminent. 1881 h
There is time at which lamb be-
comes mutton /; there is a time at which
the mint sauce OF Irritation has to be
discarded for the currant jelly Of serious
intentions.
It is said that the Penn ylvania Rail-
road Company, having nov complete
through line, will send passengers from
New York to New Orleans in sixtyfour
hours, without change Of cars.
The vexed question whether the Jews
in Germany can be compelled to appear
before magistrate if summoned to at
tend on the Sabbath, has once moro
been brought on the tapis and decided
in the a ffirmative. ...t ..
California farmers are up in arms
against what they term the suqTrel
nuisance, and ut q convention held in
San Francisco recently, they demanded
some Legislative enactment that would
result in exterminating the pest. N7
Whittier, one of the purest and
sweetest poets in the English tongue,
has the barest competency for his
bachelorship, and any where, save in
New England, would be regarded as
only round the corner from penury.
An old farmer said to his sons:-
"Boys, don't you ever spekerlate or
wait for something to turA up. You
might just as well 60 and sit down on
stone in the middle Of medder with
pail 'twixt ysur legs, and wait for COW
to back up to you to be MIXED" srl
Last spring MIR. Sam Hemphill, of
Warsaw, Ind, slipped small potato
over the end Of a grapevine which he
had trimmed in order to keep it from
bleeding. The potato sprouted and
grew all summer, and the shoots it sent
forth are neither grape nor potato vines,
but have peculiar look and formation
of their own.
As part Of the history of the ravages
Of the scourga,lN Memphis, tho fata nf
the inmates u boarding house is
given. The landlord is Joe Sanford,
whose family consisted of wife and
two children. In his house were 18
boarders. OF all these there were only
Joe Sanford and one boarder who sur
vived; all the rest (2O) died. stts
A tragic love story comes from San
Franchises. One Burque, policeman,
has just committed suicide in that city.
He was mfn OF some ability and had 4
rich sister in RUSSIA noblcnan's s wife
who had sent for him to go there, but
he was in love with San Francisco girl
and would not leave her. Her parents
refused consent to the marriage and he
settled the matter by killing himself.
Gentlemen" said an auctionesr,
who was selling piece of land, "this
Is the most delightful land. 1t is the
easiest land to cultivate, it is so light,
80 very light. Mr.. Parker here will
my statement, he owns the
next patch, and he will tell you hsw
Easy it is worked" eyes, gentlemen"
said Mr.. Parker, cit is very easy to
work, but it is plaguey sight easier to
gather the crops"