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DIED..

In Cambridgeport, Mass. May 4. Carrie F
wife Of Horace Berry, M. D.. and daughter
of John b. Pickett, Esq, Of Bradford, aged
20 years.
In Oxford, N. H., April 81, Fred Haselton
aged two and half years, Of scarlet fever.
In Bradford, May 7th, Mrs. Dolly McDuf'
fee, aged "a years and months
In Lnconia, N. H., April %, Lulu A., adopt
ed daughter Of Perley Putnam, aged 10 years
Wt,ere the birds sweetest sing
When they G0me in earliest Spring;
Where the purple viOlets grow,
And the fairest roses blow;
Where tue InurmuriDg waters flow,
Chanting d requiem soft and low;
Where the dropping willows weep
There ws've laid Lulu to sleep. 8.
In Oxford, N H., April q. Louis Heath
Pierce. aged 4 years months, only son of
c. w. Pierce, Esq.
Well we know our darling Louis,
DwGlls where glorious angels be;
We could almost zee our Father
Lead him, DER the crystal sea.
just beyond the silent rtyey,
There the safnted mother stands,
Stretching out her hands to welcOWs
Louis to the Better Land.
Oh how Joyous was tho meeting,
As she folds him to her heart,
Knowing she has found her darling,
And that they shall never part
Win our words, to tell Of sorrow.
Such Nv human hearts may know,
When their best, their dearest treasure,
Like q broken flower, ljes low.
O! Our Father, wilt Thou comfort,
Wilt Thou make Thy will seem host
Even wilt Thou guide them upwards,
To that land Of perfect rest.
When their lives are almost ended.
When theip boat floats with the tide,
May they see their l9yed ones, waiting
For them on tho other sids,
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grunge C0NNtv.
+. NJ, BIZ, Admir- of In chsneery.
W. Term Of said Court II
James Ring and Orange County on thu
Ellen Ring. First Tuesday In June
The petitioner has hlsd in the Clerks Office
in said court his petition, setting forth In
goods. chattels and estate of Moses Ring
deceasd;. that on the oath day of March 1871
James Ring and Ellen Ring then Of Topshan
in said county, but now residing without this
STATED duly executed to Moses Ring and Sally
Ring his wife, a mortgage deed lof certain
lands in Iopsham aforesaid. and described az
follows: Being oil and the Same land L. build.
ings thereon. decided to said James Ring by said
Moses and Sally Ring by deed Of the same
date last aforesaid to which last deed refer
ence il made for description. And also being
all the land which the said James Ring owned
IN the town Of Topsham aforesaid, called the
the Joseph Dickey farm, and occupied as II
homestead by said James Ring.
Conditioned for the payment of a promis-
sorry note OF the date of the March oath, 1871.
for sixteen hundred dollars with interest an.
nunlly, signed by said James Ring, payable
to Moses Ring, or bearer, as follows: Fifty
dollars on or before Oct. LIST, 1871, and fifty
dollars in each succeeding year from the last
mentioned date till all is paid. with interest
annually from date; which is now owing and
three payments of fifty dollars each are now
justly due and owing, together with about
three years interest, on all of said note.
That said Moses ahd Sally Ring in the life
Of said Moses King assigned said mortgage
and said note to Edwin Ring in trust for said
Moses Ring. and since the death of said Moses
Ring, to wit. on the - aay of March, 1872,
said Edwin Ring did deliver to tho petitioner
said note and mortgage as the property of
said Moses Ring. and he now holds the same
Ring. And the said Sally Ring, widow of the
said Moses. has, since the decease of said
Noses. released and discharged all her right
and claim in and to said estate of said Moses
Ring. The prayer of said petition is that the
Ring. and all claiming by, through or under
them BE- foreclosea according to law.
And it being made to appear that said James
q Ellen Ring reside without this State 80 that
u subpoena cannot be served OH them. 1t 10
therefore ordered that notice be given to said
defendants, requiring them to appear in the
court Of Chancery next to be held at Chelsea,
in SAID Orange. County,op the first Tuesday III
june, 1874. and make answer to said petition
by publishing the substance thereof together
with this order three weeks successfully In
the National Opinion, newspaper printed
and published at Bradford IN said county, the
last Of which publications shall be not less
than twenty Days before the commencement
Of said term Of said Cp4rt,
Dated at Chelsea this 18th day Of April,
A. ID. 1874.
B. MARTIN, Dep. Clerk.
X. VI. HARVEY. Solicitor.
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STATE OF VERMONT,
,.o.. Mill. T., p'mpse CHUNKY.
Executor of In Chancery,
Jacob Mills, June Term,
y. A. d. 1874.
volu n Ms1lu

Whereas, Jacob Mills, Jr. of Topsha,n, in said
Orange County, State Of Vermont, xeCutOr Of
tho last will and tastament Of Jacob Mills,
late of T0psham, deceased, has filed his peti.
Chancery, in said county, setting forth III sub
stance as follows:
That John g. Mills, formerly Of said Tops
ham, but not now resident of the State Of
Vermont, but "a resident of one of the southern
States, and your petitioner believes of the
State Of Mississippi, on the fifth day of April.
A. ID. 1871, duly executed to John ellis, of
Manchester In tho county of HIllsharough and
State of New Hampshire, Q mortgage deed Of
certain land situated in said town of Topsham.
bounded aud described as follows, viz: OH
the North by the highway leading from Tops
ham East Village to West TOpsham; on the
East by land owned by c. Jones on the
East v III e to W.T. fopsGam t Or the Go%nty
Road, so called; on the West by land owned
by John A. Mills.
Also one other piece of land situated in
Topsham and bounded as follows. viz:
North by the highway leading from Tops
the County Road, so called; East by land
owned BY Nancy Craig: William I. George.
and land formerly owned by Asa M. Dickey
South by land owned by GOrham Keezer
West by land owned or lately owned by Asa
NJ. Diokey being all the right title and in.
tpFtnt WhItH wv sStu JONu ". Mills hAu on
the date Of said deed or might afterwards
have 10 said premises by virtue of a deed from
Jacob Mills aforesaid, dated May Doth, 1866,
and recorded in Topsham Land Records,
Book II, Page 545, reference being had there.
to for further description.
Conditioned for the payment of twelve
hundred dollars specified in the following de.
scribed prOmissOry notes all Of even date
with said mortgage deed, all executed by
the said John g. Mills apd all payable to said
john ellis or order on demand at the Amos.
keag National Bank at said Manchester, with
interest annually from the dates as follows
and for the amounts as follows. viz; one note
for one hundred dollars with interest after
date; one for one hundred dollars with INF er.
est after September LIST, A. ID. 1871 one for
S0ne hundred dollars with interest Rfter May
lst, A. T. iSfg; pne for epe hundred and
ATTY dollars with interest after September lst
A. d. 1872; one for one hundred and fifty dol
lars with interest after May lst, A. d. 1873
one for one hundred dollars with interest after
September lst, A. D. 1879; one for one hun
area aud atty aallars with. intsaest after
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STAFFORD Apr the % 1874


OpropH arthur Marston has
,,antad lila farm situated in the
eastern part of the town, for term
of three years, TO Bradley Sargent;
Mr.. Marston has moved to OrfOid
Street and intends to make it his
home.
The school at the Academy closes
this week Friday. 1t mas been a
very successful term. and the teach
er, Miss Farr, has won new laurels
in the artof imparting instruction
to those under her charge. Sever.
al of the scholars have been sick
with the scarlet fever, but are all
out of danger now.
Two deaths Fl om this disease have
occurred in this place taking two
lovely children.
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JANE DOROUGH's ESTATE.

THE SUBSCRIBERS, having been appoint.
ed by the Honorable Probate Court for the
District Of Bradfpnl Commissioners, to re-
ceive, examine, and ADJUST all claims and de-
mands of all persons, aga!nst the estate Of
Jane borough, late Of Corinth in said district,
DECEASED, represented insolvent, and the
term Of siy months from the 9th day Of April
tors Of said deceased to exhibit and prove
their respective claims before asI Give pgtice.
that we will attend to the duties Of our ap
pointment ut the dwelling house Of James
N, Doe, in Corinth, in said District, on the 9th
Of Octobsp peEt, ut 10 o'clock, In the loren Don
on said day,
1NSLEY DOW, ~sstS''e'
Cvriutl,, Appeal, is7t. 5OW3
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STATE OF VERMONT.
0raMgs County.
George +. BALDWIN, In Chsncery.
John Mattooks Orange County,
o<h n.

and others. Dec. Term, 1873.
George p. Baldwin of Bradford in Orange
county aforesaid filed his bill in said court on
the 18th day of November 1873, stating that
John Mattocks late Of Peacham, in this State,
died seized aud possessed, of lots No. AZ and
~, in the third division Of lots in said Peach
en-. o. iN . acres each that rig Mattoeks
his Will duly proved, and VIM. Mattocks was
appointed and duly made executor; that said
Executor obtained license to sell the real ca.
tate OF said testator, and afterwards on the
4th Of March, 1857. at the city of Chicago, ILL.,,
s so;d sae eegyeyea tq the Qrst9r tbe lots afore
executed to the Orator, was on the 9th day
OF February 1858, duly recorded in the land
records Of Peacham; that the Orator paid
to said executor the full amount of the con.
sideration mentioned in said deed; that said
executor intended to give, and the Orator
supposed that the aforesaid deed was a good
and SUFFICIENT conveyance of said land but
BY mistake the said deed was signed by one
and the Orator did not discover the defect UNI !.
ii! since his death that said lands are
wild, and the Orator has paid all taxas there
on since said decd, and derived no benefit
threfrom; that he cannot dispose of the same
on account of said defect in said deed that
there has been no other conveyance of the
same since the deed to the Orator, and no
claim adverse to the Orator set up: that the
following persons are the only living heirs of
the said John Mattocks deceased, to wit:
John Mattocks Of st, Paul. Minnesota,
Kate Nattocks, wife of James Coles Of
Rockford, ID. i; Elizabeth, wife OF Charles B.
Nichols of Franklin, New Hampshire; Es-
tella, wife of Adelbert Dcnnison Of Lin coin,
Nebraska; and Enos Mattocks Of Lyndon,
Vermont, minor of whom his mother, Mrs.
Nancy j. Kent of said Lyndon, is guardian
and praying that the said heirs Of said tesla
tor, John Mattocks, may be decreed to release
said land. to said Orator and be perpetually
enjoined from claiming any interest therein
or making any conveyance of the same to
any person other than the Orator. Process
OF subpoena having issued to the parties above
named, and due service being made upon the
said Enos: said cause was duly entered in
the said Court ut said December term 1873,
and 1t then appearing that tho otben parties
named in said bill resided out of this State.
1t was ordered by said Court that they he
notified Of the pending Of the said bill and
that they DO required to appear and
answer to the same at tho term of said Court
to De held at Chelsea, in and for said county
OF Orange, the first of June A. d. 1874. by the
publication Of the substance of said bill. and
Of this order three weeks successfully in the
National Opinion. newspaper printed at
Bradford in this State, the last publication
to be at least twenty days previous to said
last named term.
Dated at Chelsea Apr. 81, 1874,
3. MARTIN, Dep. Clerk.
Y. w. tLARKE, Solicitor.
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Remember This !

The Subscriber having lately purchased
the Hows NH. ut the South end Of Bradford
Village. would respectfully announce to the
pablo that he has engaged the services of a
practical Miller. All custom grinding will
be done IN the best possible manner. He will
keep constantly supply Of Corn, Flour and
Meal, which will be sold as low Us possible.
All goods bought at the Mill will he delivered
in any part ofthe Village free ofchsrge. He
respectful solicits your patronage.
A. BOWEN
Bradford, April o, 1874
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M A 10 K 1 r ID.

In West Fairlee, April 2sth by Rev. o.
Bcckwith. Mr.. J. o. symons of Thetford,
and Miss Harriet A. Haven Of West Eairles
In Bradford, May I'd, Fat the NJ. 4. Parson
age, by the Rev. J. McCulley Fulton, NJ. A.,
Mr.. Charles Pike of Havcrlill, N. H.. to Miss
Mary Richardson of Danville, 20.
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sickness is AL affection that waits ON US
oil. None are exempt, and there are none but
need relief from its attacks. Whoever can
furnish this becomes our benefactor. A con.
viction prevails that DIR. AVER docs 1t. Dis
orders Of the blood have..been healed by his
SARsArARlLLA, and affections Of the lungs by
his CHERRY PICTORIAL, too frequently and too
distinctly to be disputed. His AcUE CURE is
said, by those who use it. to never fail. Read
or, if you must have medical aid, take the
best of medicine. Poor remedies are dear. as
good are cheap, ut any price you have to pay
for them.-lCharlcston Courier.
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The OPINION Office has been moved into
the building formerly known as tho "Bliss
Stand" but which has been re-christened the
"Opinion Building" by the proprietors,
Messrs. Bailey e. McDuffee, who, Of course,
will soon have sign out to show the multi
tude that the building has new name. Our
business office 10 on the first floor front, and
the printing Office directly in the rear. We
claim that we have the most conveniently AT
ranged and best!office Of its size in the State.
Our facilities for doing Job work are unequal
led by any count try printing office, while our
small expenses enable us to do worA cheaper
than it can be done in the city. We believe
In Franklin's. motto, "He who by the pillow
would thrive, himself must either hold or
drive" and shall endcavor to see that oil Or
dcrs for work received ut the Office are prompt
ly and correctly filed.
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STATE OF VERMONT,

-. ~ smith, Part.
VI b. Fl S T. cssr' as''. It" es'"s''y:
H. C. MoDuffee Orange County Ct.
Alen.o i Richardson,
Gilman Bagley. June Term, 1874.
and
Daniel H. Clark.
~, Wh ereas tho said !. NJ. Smith, VIM. +.
business under the firm name & style Of Smith.
WhitcOmb q Cook of Barre, in the County Of
Washington. and Henry C. McDuffee of Brad
ford. in the county of Orange Aforesaid; have
fled their petition in the office Of the clerk Of
the court of Chancery, in the said county, set.
ting forth IN substance as follows: That
but not now resident Of ths STATE 81 Yer.
mont, but resident as your petitioners be.
lieve Of one of the Western States; on the
2lst day Of May. A. D. 1870, duly executed to
said Smith, Whitcomb e. Cook a mortgage
deed OF certain land and water privilege stu.
ated IN Topsham aforesaid, bounded and de-
scribed as fellows, viz: The same real estate
and personal property. consisting of about
one acre Of land situated in West Topsham
village. together with the dwelling house,
barn, grist mill. and shed situated thereon,
together with the water privilege that Martin
Day and Susan NJ. Day have this 2lst day of
May, 1870, decided to me the said Alonzo
Richardson, with all the privileges and appur-
tenances thereto belonging, with all the
shafting, betting. gearing, wheels, and all the
machinery In said mill, also oil the furniture
used in said mill with the stove and
pipe; and said land bounded and described
further as being the same property, both r al
and personal, that said Daniel II Clark, deed
ed to said Martin Day, on the 18th day Of
January, A. d. 1870, and last said deed record
ed in book Is, page l02, Of land records in said
Topsham, and said land bounded sOHtherly by
land owned by Vim. Bagley, westerly BY the
blacksmith shop owned by A. Peafsons, and
the highway leading from and through said
village OF West Topshsm to W. B. Carpen-
tiers saw mill, near said village. and northerly
Tharston, and easterly by the stream on
which said mill stands; also all the land in
said stream and east of it over which said
stream flows and on which the inilldam now
stands, and over which the water flows
at higl.wator mark in the pond of said mill
dam; also the land lying between the mill
dam, the "crOss road" 50 called. the "Zion
Hill" road, SO called, crossing said streem and
the stream itself or the grist mill building;
this last piece Of land being ON the easterly
side Of said stream, Conditioned fur tho pay
ment Of the sun of nineteen hundred and
eleven dollars anu seven cents, specified In
IN four .prOmissOry notes, all dated the 2lst
day Of May 1870; all signed and executed by
TO said Smith, Whitcomb & Cook, or bearer,
%i ss: Ia sa sas IT, sasssst
viz: &c ~ VIZ
lst said note given for three hundred dol
lars and payable on the first day of June. A.
p. 1870; ID said note given for five hundred
d9llarR, md Payable ON the first day of Feb
suasJ 4, D. !@l; ID ssid nate slysa far aye
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The following is an exact copy
Of u letter received by deputy
sheriff of Bradford, who bad ''Tach-
ed lent property"
STAFFORD Apr the % 1874
Mr. Gilman. Sir
under Stand that you have ben O TEACHING
Ny properly that lent s8y eun the hay Rack
& that Chest lent them IL him to y. use a
while l. he has not returned than wood
Thank you to put them things rite back ~bair
you took them from gust as they was when
yon found them il ron don't shall make you
cost 4. will fetch yoA out to StratfoId in q
way that You never Com yet t. va do it Son
to il you have gut to be so all mighty poor
that you have to tach lent property that your
or Dam poor
yours in hast
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ZEGdZ NO2/CES.
JAMES LATTo's Estate,

THE SUBSCRIBERS. having been ap-
pointed by the Honorable Probate Court for
tho District Of Bradford, Commissioners, to
.receive examine, and adjust all claims and
demands Of all persons against tho estate Of
James Latte late Of Newbury, In said Dis
trict, deceased represented iasolvent, aud the
term Of six months from tho 10th day Of April
1874, being allowed by said Court to
.sthe creditors Of said deceased to exhibit and
prove their respective claims before MS Give
lay netice that will attend to the duties Of our
appointments at the dwelling.house Of George
We'll Hall In Ryegate. w. In said District, ON the
ST First day of October next vt IL o'clock In the
"'o forenoon of said day.
A JAMES 4. PARK, ! r,,,
ROBERT COCHRAN. con'"''solner''
prot April ~, 1874. 49w3.
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MINISTER'S ASsoCIATION.-At
the Minister'S Association, held
this week with Rev. Mr.. Elliott Of
this place, the subjects, written upon
and considered. were as follows,
"Smali Salaries; their effect upon
the ministry and upon the churches.'
1t was thought that ministers should
receive sufficient support to relieve
them from all anxiety as to money
matters, that their attention may be
given wholly to spiritual things. 1t
was felt that, in many instances, the
support was less than the good of
the church as well az its pastor
would seem to require. "The Min.
istry of fifty years ago compared
with the Ministry Of the present"
lit was decided that some OF the
changes having taken place were de-
sirabie, while Others were less so;
that the work of the Ministry now
is full greater that it was formerly;
and that the dignity of the pulpit
should be fully sustained. "Scrip'
,ture uses Of the word Faith )" ar
gued that the faith WHICH is sauing
has in it a Huixg aud sitql union
with Christ, and with the truth He
taught. "ProbatiOn after this life"
decided that the word OF God, from
which all doctrine is to be taken,
does not warrant a belief in such
probation; that men should give
attention to eternal things now,
while there is an opportunity.
The Meeting was very pleasant
one; the state of the church regard.
ed as hopeful; and the hearts of
those attending warm and tender.
DRI Prichard very kindly re-
celved and entertained the AssOcia-
.tiOn.
The next Meeting to he held in
West Newbury. MODERATOR.
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9.
The Ride Of Collins Graves.
Incident of the Flood In Massachusetts,,
on May l6. 1874.
NY JOHN BOYLE o'REILLY.

song of soldier riding down
the raging fight from Winchester Town
song nf i, time that shook the earth
th The nations throc at nations birth;
+ tho song Of u brave man, free from fear
Sheridai's self or Paul Revere;
no riskcd what they isked, free from strife
d it's promise of glorious pay-his life
@ peaceful valley has walked and stirred,
d the answering echoes Of 'ife IRE heard
q dew still clings to the trees and grass,
Il the early toilcrs smiling pass,
they glance aside ut the white-waiied hoiiie'
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49, STATE OF VERMONT.
:. K. M. Bill.
Orange County Court,
~ 4. NJ. Collins, December Term,
&c. q. Paine and AID. 1873
AlOnxO Richar,lnon

In the above entitled suit, entered In said
nCOurt ut said December term, 1873. and now
,lpending therein the plaintiff declsres against
the defendants, in the common or general
courts In sssumpsit, and also upon note Of
4 the date of May oath, 1870. executed by
said defendants to the plaintiff for the sum Of
two hunpred and fifty dollars due In three
months after date with interest, aud demand
ing one thousand dollars in damages.
Aud II appearing to said Court that the
said defendant. AlOnx0 Richardson 10 without
this State. and has not been, aud could not he
personally served with process herein.
1t IL therefore ordered by said court that
said Richardson be notified to appear and
answer In said court at the next term thereof.
to DO holden at Chelsea, in said Orange
County, on the first Tuesday IN June, A. d.
| 1874, BY publishing notice Of the pendency Of
said suit, together with this order, in the
National Opinion. newspaper published at
Bradford in said county Of Orange. three
weeks successfully; the last of which publ
| cations shall be not less than twenty days
prior to said June term of said court.
Dated Ut Chelsea aforesaid Apr. II, 1874.
L. G. HINCKLEY, Clerk.
H. N, HARVEY ATTY for PHI
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SHOWED UP. Mr.. Il. y. Peaslee,
WHO keeps the TrOtter House Liv-
cry Stable in this village, started
from Boston last week with a span
OF strong horses aud three carriages
which he had purchased. He came
along very comfortably till he had
passed Fishersville, when he struck
snow several inches deep, and the
further he went the deeper was the
snow. On Salisbury Heights it lay
at least two feet on a level, and in
drifts OF six feet or more in depth.
He came to place where for sever
al miles the roads had not been
<sbroke out" since The storm. He
got stuck and had to call to his as
Sistance farmer with four oxen,
who, after considerable shouting
"Who-a- hish Buck, her Broad over"
got him out to a road which was
little more passable. When within
about thirty miles of home he tele-
graphed tor team from his own
stable to meet him, which did about
sixteen miles below this place. If
this journey had been made during
the wiuter months it would uot have
been worthy of particular notice;
but when u man with span of
powerful horses gets ''stuck in
snow drift" on the first day of May,
the fact deserves at least to be
placed on record. Ed" says he
made up his mind to bring ''them
things through if the snow lasted
all Summer, and he did. Beside
the before mentioned, lie has had
several new carriages come by
freight, and is now prepared to glad
den your eyes with as handsome and
stylish bitch out, either double or
single, as can be seen anywhere.
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--Piggy-piggy -piggy-at Trot
ter House Stables.
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Every THURSDAY, and fresh HOLSTERS
every SATURDAY. Also. Burmuda Onions
for sale. " JOB M. CLEMENTS.