National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-05-02
Items OF Interest.


Eighteen horses we're burned alive in
n stable ut st. Joseph. Mo-. few days
ago.
OF the eleven retiring members OF the
Pennsylvania Senate eight are Demo.
Gratis.
Two street robbers in New York were
sentenced to twenty years each in State
Prison.
The late purchases OF fve-twenties'
by the United States Government were
at l14.49.
Usury-that is taking more than seven
per cent. interest is to be punished In
New York city.
A new town is Just started in Kansas,
in which no one is to be allowed to set
tie who smokes or chews tobacco.
The great strike in Wales reached its
end by compromise which affords
nearly all that the men required.
The boilers in Colville & Co. 8 saw
mill, Wilmington, N. c., exploded re-
Gently, killing two men and one woman.
The motion for an injunction and re-
ceiver in the case of the Knickerbocker
Life Insurance Company has been de-
MED.
Several persons have been killed in
Giurgevo, Wallachia, because the mill
tary would force the carmen to pay
taxes.
Bad drainage, many physicians be-
lieve, causes cerebro-spinal meningitis,
a fact full OF suggestiveness TO- city
fathers.
Indiana tobacconists are pinched to
choose between shutting up shop on
Sunday or paying $40 fine for selling q
cigar on that day.
Twenty reals per day of service is the
sum families who have sons with the
insurrectionists have to pay the Spanish
Government.
Awestern pulpit orator defines religion
as can insurance against fire III the
next world, for which honesty is the
best policy"
Five men were killed and many more
injured by "fre-damp" explosion in
coal-mine near Abertillery, Mon
mouthshire, England
A wool-grower in the United States
lost $15, 900 last year because OF his not
reading the papers, he did not sell his
wool at the right time.
A determined youth at Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa, got his lady love out Of her stern
parents possession by a writ of habeas
corpus, and then married her.
Minnesota reports that with the mild
weather pickets are beginning to come
up, and farmers expect fair crop OF
fences some time this summer.
The Missouri Legislature has passed
bill emitting laborers to q lien upon
railroad when the contractors fail to
pay them for the work they may have
DONE
A Naples contemporary styles Mr..
James Gordon Bennett, of the New
York Herald, who is now in Naples, the
discoverer of the discoverer of the dis
coverer.
Buffalo Bill has just received from
the West bride made out Of human
hair, which he captured in battle with
the Indians. 1t is heavily mounted
with silver.
J. B. Brown, postal clerk, was ar
rested at Winona Junction and brought
to La Crosse, Wis, charged with burn
ing mail matter to save the labor of dis
tribution.
A western contemporary thinks that
the old maxim of law in libel cases,
"the greater the truth the greater the
libel" has been retained in Pennsyl-
vania for the the benefit of politicians.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New
York Tribune, gets salary of $40, 600
a year. Jennings has 10000 on the
Times, Croly had 81, 600 on the World;
Hudson had 500, 600 on the Herald, and
was retired on pension OF $lO,O 600.
John Sullivan, long knownin England
as "king of the begging-letter I'M
posters" has been sentenced to seven
years penal servitude ior swindllng
Gen. Braybrook out of IS by lying
petition.
A Mississippi sheriff makes an un-
common demand upon public credullty,
asserting that both he and his wife were
chloroformed by burglars, and S7,OOO
carried off from his house. The money
was public funds, of course.
Some years ago fat fellow asked
old Sir Francis Burdett, while in Par
lament, for some position, saying,
Don't you remember me ? used to
be page" Well, replied Sir Fran
els, "you have grown into volume
A schoolmaster in Cahokiaville says
there is nothing like kindness in man
aging school. He lays his ten foot
hickory sapling pensively on the desk
before him, and tells the boys kindly
how they must do; and he says the ef-
feet of his kind words is something re-
markable.
After the Modoc treachery while the
signal officers were engaged in signal
ling between General Gillem's head
quarters and Colonel Mason's camp,
Modoc Indian got upon the ridge, near
Captain Jacks camp, and with white
rag on pole initiated the movements OF
the signal officers, waving the rag to and
fro.
Somebody is advertising a preparation
which, among other merits, is warrant
ed to a keep lady's hand from chaps.
Punch knows another way to effect this.
Let her dress in the present fashion,
and have it known that she has no
money. Chaps, if they are sensible
chaps. will let her hands alone very SO
verely.
A Connecticut mother learned of her
daughters contemplated elopement.
and on the night appointed for the flight
she nut some laudanum in the girls tea.
The latter fell asleep and did not wake
up until next morning, and in the mean
time Romeo got tired of waiting and
went home disgusted. He goes with
another girl now.
Fifteen years ago, Michael Cancemi,
ali Italian, was four times tried for the