National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-09-12
Items Of Interest.

date over s5O0,0O0.
A Texas cattle.raiscr has pasture OF
100, 900 acres.
The season loses none of its fruitful.
ness in snake stories as it advances.
It has never been definitely settled
who first uttered the salutation "Good
morning."
Eleven persons were recently ypoisoned
near Sheffield, England, by eating poi
soned mushrooms. st..
The high price of bread is causing
great agitation in Paris, and serious
trouble is apprehended.
A great storm, accompanied by tidal
wave, has driven thirty vessels ashore
at Sidney, Cape Breton.
The vital statistics Of one week in
Nov York we're. S15 deaths, 513 births,
1866 marriages, and 40 still-born infants.
The individuals who killed Tecumseh
have been so thinned out by death this
summer that not over FIVE or six remain.
From five to seven refrigerator cars,
loaded with butter, are said to be
shipped East every day from Chicago.
The conductor whose train collided
with one on the Marietta and Cincin-
natl r. r. has been committed to Jail at
Circleville, o.
Alderman John Nichols, Of Phila-
delphia, who was convicted OF extortion
in office, has been sentenced to nine
months imprisonment.
The Raiiroad Gazette estimates that
the extent of new railways built IN this
country in 1873 will be more than forty
per cent. less than for 1872.
Scene in Court: Judge-Have you
anything to offer to the Court before
sentence is passed on you? Prisoner
No, Judge; | had ten dollars, but my
lawyers took that.
In view of the fact that there are 209,-
9O7 persons engaged in farming in Iowa
to III ,24S in all other pursuits, the farm.
ers' ticket would seem to stand good
chance of success.
The Cresco (Ta.) Plain Dealer threat
ems to print the name Of every man IN
that place who visits liquor saloon,
the number Of times day he makes
the visits, and at what hours.
U. S. Judge Advocate General Holt
denies having withheld from President
johnson petition signed by five mem
bers Of the court when presenting the
record OF the trial of Mrs. Surratt.
A farmer in Washington county, KY,
has found IA practical use for snake.
For two years he has had one shut up
in his corn crib, and during all that
time not live mouse has been seen
there.
Mems lives should be like the days,
more beautiful in the evening; or like
the spring, aglow with promise, and
the autumn, rich with golden sheaves,
where good works and deeds are ripened
on the field.
The sharpest man in the world, so far
as heard from, "hangs out at lafayette,
Ind. He subsists by driving spikes in
the timbers of n bridge and collecting
the wisps of hay that are caught by
them from passing loads.
Notwithstanding the great loss by the
November fire, the valuation f real and
personal property of Bosto this year
will show an increase of little more
than 81, 900, 900 over last year. The rate
of taxation will be about $13 on 81 200.
Lake Tahoe, Nevada, has curiosity.
Half mile from shore q tree stands
perpendicular in eighty feet of water.
1t projects ten feet above the surface,
and is fastened so firmly to the bottom
that it affords safe moorage to the larg-
est crafts on the lake.
The Rochester Union says: "Strange
as it may appear at first sight, there are
more locomotives in use on the Western
Division of the New York Central Rail-
road, in switching and making up trains,
than are engaged in drawing the freights
across the division when ready to move."
There isn't much encouragement to
suicide in Milwaukee. A wealthy farm
er hung himself there the other day,
and his wife not only refused to cut
down the body but wouldn't have any
thing to do with it after it was down.
The authorities had to attend to its
burial.
The Juggernaut car in India crushed
eight women to death at Gooptipara
this summer. The Bengal Government
proposes to put stop to the dragging
oi these dangerous cars, proposition
which the people generally do not re-
sent, although the priests strongly op-
pose it.
1t is stated that while the present cot
;on consuming population of the world
10 not increase in numbers at the rate
If over one per cent. per annum, the cot
on product of the world is increasing
It the rate of five per cent. per annum,
md that therefore there is an increasing
surplus of four per cent. per annum.
A Green Bay (Wis. paper says that
;he history of the pine land frauds in
5hawano county is, in brief, that at
,ale of valuable pine lands, which took
place at the land office in Menasha last
,ear, some parties bid off at large
price the more valuable lands, and for
eited them by not paying for them
within the time prescribed. Next day
hey went to the Office and entered them
It the minimum price, Sl.25 per acre.
At the present time Lausanne appears
% be the scene of some little excite
nent on account of strikes. On an eve.
ling not long ago several groups of peo-
Die gathered in the Montee of st. Fran
,ois, which was SO blocked up as to be-
,ome impossible. The police did their
,est to make the people ''move on, " but
n vain. A tube was therefore affixed
o a water-pipe in the street, and the
.rowd treated to q cold douche.
The fair Americans who dressed their
pianos in pantalets, are rivaled by
natron of Illinois who made, last WIN
er, ample garments of heavy bed-tick-
az for her peach-trees. When she put
,a ea,d erarp,apfs on bpr fraas antirplv
overing them, the neighbors gathered
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