National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1873-03-14

An Iowa man VINO recently bS"I
his wife to death, has been hung by
vigilance committee.
Prussia proposes to substitute for the
Jury system a mixed court consisting OF
three Judges and four laymen.
Lord Lindsay is organizing private
astronomical expedition to observe the
transit of Vensus from the Island OF
Mauritius.
A hog in Iowa that was buried in the
snow nearly six weeks came out alive,
but was reduced in flesh from IoO
pounds to SO.
Mrs. Betsy Walworth of Lowell,
Mass, was found dead with her head
submerged in tub Of wat,r, in which
she had been washing clothes.
The Duke of Richmond sets the price
Of $500, 900 on his house at Charring
Cross. which stands in the way OF GER
tain proposed street improvements.
Forty-six of the new U. s. Senator's
are lawyers five are interested IN rail-
roads; four are farmers; three are ply
sicians; two are journalists; two clergy
men.
Tho vital statistics of New York City
for last week show that there have been
$40 deaths, 234 marriages, 400 births,
and 40 still births. This is about an
average.
An exchange having said 60 The first
robin has been seen; but one robin
doesn't make a spring." the Auburn
Bulletin retorts "Try him with bug
and see."
Somebody who has been studying
our weights reports that, upon the
average. boys at birth weigh little
more and girls a little less than six
pounds and a half.
A member of the English House OF
Commons inquired whether the Ameri-
can Government intends to remit the
surplus of 300, 600 over their actual
losses, which they are reported to have
received through the Geneva award.
The bill prohibiting the sending OF
obscene literature through the mails,
and for other purposes, was passed by
the U. s. Senate as amended by the
House. 1t was enrolled and signed by
the President, and is exceedingly strin-
gent.
The tender passion often gets a man
into serious trouble. A horse thief in
Kansas lately put the vigilance commit
tee on his track by writing love letter
which fell into their hands and the next
day his body swung from the limb OF
tree.
The U. S. House Committee on APP
preparations agreed to non-concur III
the Senate amendment to the Post Of
fee Appropriation bill, forbidding the
transmission of all free matter, so far as
the same affects exchanges among news
papers.
A farmers daughter recently married
"wealthy and respectable" travelling
agent, on short acquaintance. lie has
Just left her with a note advising her
not to fall in love with strangers here
after. That man evidently has some
solid ideas.
The British House of Commons lately
called on Mr.. Gladstone for an explana-
ton of the story that the United States
had obtained large sum in excess OF
actual losses at Geneva. Mr.. Gladstone
denied the statement, which was re-
ceived with cheers.
A schoolboy's toast: The Girls
Nav they add charity to beauty, sub
tract envy from friendship, multiply
genial affections, divide time by indus
try and recreation, reduce scandal to its
lowest denominations, and raise virtue
to its highest power.
A Tennessee belle lately punished
suitor who sought to gain her hand
through false aspersion of his rival, by
going with him to the altar, and then
responding "no" at the most critical
moment, and completing the marriage
ceremony with the calunniated one.
A man recently broke off marriage
because the lady did not possess good
conversational powers. Acynical friend,
commenting on the fact, says: He
should have married her, and refused
her new bonnet, and he would have
discovered her conversational powers
There is in New York City profess
sional "facemaker" who sits as model
for the artist who manufactures gro
tesoue masks for carnival times. The
flexibility of his features is said to be
so wonderful that,i If necessary, he
could delude the recognition OF the
smartest detective.
A Frenchman has invented respira-
tory contrivance, a sort of mouth trap,
by which miners can defy for time
the suffocating effect of choke damp.
The nostrils are closed by sort OF
spring, q can containing the air is fas-
tened to the back, and rubber tube
leads it to his mouth.
An agent who went to the east coast
of South America to investigate the
rumors of gold discoveries, returned to
Salt Lake, recently, and some OF the
leading mine operators and capitalists
of that city left suddenly for New York,
few days afterwards, In consequence
of misrepresentation
In an English church, recently, after
the publication OF the banns of mar
riage by tle minister, a grave elder, IN
stentorian voice, forbade the banns
between a certain couple. On being
called upon for an explanation, had,
he said, pointing to the intended bride.
az had intended Hannah for myself.
His reason was not considered sufficient.
The puddlers in the Oxford On. JO
Iron Company's rolling mill have now
been on a strike for six weeks, the differ
ence betwixt the company and the men
being thirty-one cents per ton on pud-
died iron. The mill has been ruled by
Boonton prices, and as workmen there
are paid &c. 81, the Oxford men demand
the same rate. They have been offered
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Henry Ward Beecher, in speaking Of
the moral strength which culture gives,
says I'm the great conflict between
and France, it was the school,