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Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1874-11-28

EXPRESS PARCELS. Ono of the
funniest express parcels We have
seen lately was young child, tied
into chair, with u nicely wrapped
turkey on one side of it, and a par
eel Of dry goods on the other to
keep it in position. This baby was
billed Hattie Penuock, and was sent
by express yesterday from Lisbon,
N. II. to North Concord, to thanks
giving. 1t evidently had no relish
for the journey, as it cried almost
necessarily, much to the distraction
of the kind hearted express messen.
ger. whose forte was evidently some
thing else than quieting cryin G chill.
dren.-Montpelier Journal.
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ma The story which originated in the
Boston daily papers and has been
copied into some Of our Vermont
exchanges, about young being
''sent to Boston and turned loose in
sthe streets" by the Selectmen of
Bradford, should be taken with con.
siderable allowance to say the least.
3 That part Of her "Sad chapter in
Life" which relates to her Bradford
experience has no foundation in fact.
! Diligent inquiry of the selectmen Of
three years passed has failed to give
! us any clue to any such girl ever
1being here. Before such inhuman
charges are made by the press
against the officers of any town, it
would seem proper that the charges
should be supported by evidence
other than by the word of vagrant
aud prostitute.
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BURNING KEROSENE. We wish

BURNING KEROSENE. We wish
to call the attention Of all consum.
ers of kerosene oil to the pernicious
and unhealthy practice of using
lamps filed with that article with
the wicks turned down. The gas
which should be consumed By the
flame is by this means left heavily
in the air, while the cost of the oil
thus saved at the present prices
would be scarce one dollar Q year
for the lamps Of HOUSEHOLD. A
large family of children in the coun.
try were taken III one night, and on
going to the nursery the mother
fonnd tho whole room nearly suffl.
Gated with lamp turned nearly out,
whereupon the doctor forbade the
use of u lamp ut night unless buru.
ed at full head. A girl was subject
to fits of faintness, which if not in.
duced were greatly increased by
sleeping in the loom with the lamp
turned almost out. Besides the
damage TO health, it spoils the pa.
per and curtains, soils tho mirrors
and windows and gives the whole
house an untidy aud unwholesome
OdOr. s...
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1874-11-28

WELL ANsw FRED. The Man.
chester Union having declared in
effect that New Hampshire has been
made poor by Republican rule, the
Nashua Telegraph makes this con.
elusive reply:
In 1858, when the Republicans
had fairly got into power in this
State, and before they got into pow
or in the nation, the savings banks
of this State numbered 81, with o.
4G3 depOitors, and S3,5S3,65S on de
post. In 10 years, under Republi.
can "warring against u.s." the num-
Der of depOsitOrs had increased to
$4,000, the number of banks to 81,
and the amount of deposits to $780,
GIL, liza. In 1860 the assessed valu-
alton Of our State was S1O3, 1904, 1876.
In 1870 the assessed valuation had
increased to 1853, lS7, 177, while the
true valuation to day is upwards of
&229,OOO,OOO. The entire town,
county and State debts are less than
ten millions of dollars, or one fifth
OF the assessed increase in the valu
alton of our State. One third of
the mere surplus earnings of our
people, as represented by their de-
posts in the savingg banks, would
wipe out every dollar Of public debt
in the State. "Poor" indeed Who
would not have the State continue
to grow poor in the same way for
the next ten years 7
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
DAVID EMERsoN's ESTATE.

THE SUBSCRIBERS, having been appoint
cd by the Honorable Probate Court for the
District Of Bradford, Commissioners, to re-
ceive examine aud adjust all claims
and demands of all persons. against
bury, in said District deceased, represented
in solvent, and the term Of six months from
the 24th of November 1874, being allowed by
said Court to the creditors of said deceased,
to exhibit and prove their respective claims
before us; Give notice, that We will attend
ing. house of widow Hannah Emerson in New
bury in said district, GU the eth day of Feb
ruary and the 9th day of May next ut ono
o'clock in the afternoon of each Of said days.
November, A. d., 1874. 27w3.
j. w. STEVENS, } Observation-Disclosures.
I'D. WILSON, COMMISSIONER
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NEWS IN GENERAL.

-Twenty.f0ur persons were kill
ep by the recent cOlliery explosion
IN England.
George Neutrality-suspicious. In
war, first IN peace, and last In get.
ting . mOnument.-N. 0. RepnbH.
can.
The latest political rum0r makes
Elihu b. Washburns Of Illinois and
Marshall Jewell Of Connecticut the
possible candidates respectively for
President and Vice President.
The Official investigation into
the grasshOpper plague IN Kansas
alone reveals the fact that l5S,OOO
acres of corn were ruined by the
h0prers; several thousands of the
people are suffering for the nccessa'
ries Of life.
The last election returns show
that 10000 Illinois Republicans stay.
ed at home who voted in 1872, to
% 600 Democrats. 1t may he truly
said that the Republicans carried
the last elections, only they carried
them in left handed sort OF way.
"A Lafayette (Ind.) man, just
as he was approaching the shining
shore, took his wife's hand and said {:
"Susan, you've been a good wife !!
We've lived together thirty two
years, and never found u button
of my shirt! III speak good word
for you as soon 40 git thar"
The commercial editor of the
Port Royl Standard reports: "Ths
matrimonial market in Beaufort is
lively tine grades in great demand.
The Town Clerk has returned with
y sample from Northern mart,
and we hear that an attache of the
Marine, River and Mining Manufac-
turing Company will shortly 60
North to lay in stock to last life
time. There are a few others, how
ever, in Beaufort waiting until moth.
ers-in law get easier"
"A dissolute woman in New
York City roasted her child to death
on Saturday. The neighbors heard
the child crying "mamma, mamma
take me off the stove" They at
tempted TO get into the room but
found the door fastened. Entrance
was gained through window where
they found the mother Keeling
around the room and the little girl
sitting on the stove, her limbs and
hands burnt. Her flesh was kissing
aud shriveling on the stove, which
she was vsinly endeay oring to get
off, but she had not the strength to
do so, and her little voice was grow
ing fainter aud fainter. The child
was rescued alive but cannot sur.
vive. The mother was taken to the
Tombs.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
JOHNSON A. HARDY'S ESTATE.

THE UNDERSIGNED. having been ap-
pointed by the Honorable Probate Court, for
tho District of Bradford Commissioners to re-
ceivs examine, and adjust all claims and de-.
johnson A Hardy late Of Bradford in said Dis
trict, deceased, and ali claims exhibited in
offset thereto, hereby given notice that We
will meet for the purposes aforesaid, ut the
late dwelling house Of the said Hardy on the
22d day of December, and the 9Th day of May
~, each of said days, and that six months
from the tenth day Of November A. ID. 1874 10
the time limited by said Court for said crsdi-
tors to present their claims to us tor examins-
ton aud allowance.
Der 4. ID. 1874. 27w3
iGBs II pbh nfhHY. Commissioners.
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HANOVER. Board at Conant
Hall comes to. $3.50 a week for the
term-a price rather high for the
the quality of board furnished.
The subjects for the Lockwood
prize essays have announced as fol-
lows: l The Perils OF High Civil
ization. 2 Plagiarism.
Prof. Quimby gave the Juniors a
a reception, last Friday evening.
Business is quiet.
Mr.. Frost seems to have enough
to do in his jewelry store. He will
add some desirable goods to his
stock before the holidays.
DR.. CLARK is prepared to do good
work at dentistry in his new rooms
in the Tontine.
NEwBURY. Miss Alice Bailey, a
most excellent maiden lady, for many
years a resident of Newbury and a
member of the Methodist church,
was found a lifeless corpse on the
morning Of the 10th inst. half an
hour previous to the discovery of her
death one of the neighbors was in,
and she appeared as usual. She
had been a great sufferer for many
years, but had uniformly maintain.
ed great cheerfulness of spirit. Her
house had been the home of many
students who are now sailing upon
life's broad ocean, and will have
pleasant memories of her when they
gee that she has entered the harbOr
tho haven of rest to weary travel.
ers.-M0ntp elier Journal,
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1t is lust as we expected-thel

1t is just as we expected-there
are some who care for the most aban-
dOned. The ladies missionary sOci-
; ETY. Of Walden had meeting on
, Tuesday, in view of the affair at
/, this place Saturday night, voted to
: send missionary here at once
This may be fun for our neighbOrs,
but the case is more serious for us.
The question with us is. whether
;. the law or the mob shall rule.-Cal-
ed0nidn.
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"A number. of Democratic jour
nails are guessing al 1.-THE first act OF
Radical legislation to be repealed
by the Democratic Congress- At
guess, we shOnld say 1t would be
the act forbidding the sale of intoxi'
eating liquors in the. Capitol build
ing.-St. Louis Globe.
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That Ancient Teapot.

A writer in the Windsor Journal,
who signs his communication "A
Friend" has discovered huge
"inare's nest" in the item published
in the OPINION, in which reference
was made to an ancient teapot used
at a recent gathering of old people
in this town. A part of "Friend's''
communication read thus:
You were stold that it was made
in the reign of Henry the l., in the
first year of his reign. But is it
not very remarkable that either
Henry or any of his most far-see-
ing and care-taking subjects, should
have got that teapot ready some,
what over 500 years before tea was
introduced into England'f Accord.
ing to Chambers Encyclopedia, the
first reference to tea by a native of
Britain, is found in a letter, dated
June 9th, 1916, by Mr.. Wickam,
aud preserved in the records Of the
East. India Company. The first
rather large consignment received
in England was in 1867 five hun.
dred and forty .seven years after the
above celebrated teapot is said to
have been prepared. We are glad
it waited patiently SO long before it
could be applied to its intended
use, and then onward has endured
for more than two centuries longer,
to. give our friends in this remote
quarter of the New World, so much
pleasure at their late tea party.
The writer evidently is ignorant
of the fact that vessels similar to
those in use in our day for teapots
or tea-urns' are to be seen in all the
principal museums in the world.
These vessels, many of them, were
dug from cities buried centuries be-
fore the reign of Henry LIST.
In the old Testament we have de.
scription of similar vessels, while
Josephus makes many references to
such articles of household use,
among the ancients. Because tea
was not introduced into Europe UNI
til the 18th century, we have no
reason to assert that previous to
that time people had no vessels in
which to heat and carry water. AS
to the age of the teapot in question,
(by the way the teapot can be seen
a, this of1ice,) we have no way of
knowing positively. That it has
been handed down through several
generations there is no doubt.
The.owners claim the age to be as
stated, from the fact that it has the
letters Fl. l. on the bottom surmount.
cyl by al X and the crown of Eng
land. They interpret the letters to
mean "Henry l. rex" the letter x
being often used in early history for
req, king. Whether the teapot was
made a thousand years ago or not,
we fail to see any force in the argu-
ment of "Friend," SO far as relates
to the use of tea in England. The
vessel is equally we'll adapted tor
score Of other purposes as for the
preparation Of tea. =.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1874-11-28

The New York SpOrtsmen's Club,
the special object of which is the
protection of fish and game, have
agreed to submit to the next legis-
lature certain amendments to the
game laws, SO as to prevent the de-
structiOn of valuable trout ponds
by putting pike, pickereI or other
vOraciOus fish therein to eat up and
destroy the trout. ...-
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Saturday, Nov. 20, 1874.

THE OPINION will be sent until
January, 1876, for $50, the sub
scription commencing when money
is received. Postage will be free
after January next. Those who
subscribe at once will get the paper
IA months for 9l.5O.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
JACOB b. STEVENS ESTATE.

THE UNDERSIGNED. having been ap-
pointed by tho Hon. Probate Court for the
District Of Bradford, commissioners to re.
ceive. examine and adjust all claims of all
persons against the estate of Jacob b. Ste
vens late Of Topsham in said district, decess-
ed and all claims in Offset thereto hereby
given notice that we will meet for the purpos-
o. aforesaid, ut the Town Clerks office in
Topsham On the 9th day of February and the
eth day May next, from 10 o'clock. A. NJ, until
3 o'clock P. NJ, each of said days, and that
six months from the 10th day of November,
said creditors to present their claims to us for
examination and allowance.
Dated at Topshsm, this Goth day Of Noyem-
Der, A. D., 1874 27w3
b :. yTNw RH1fKhRHAS' Commissioners.
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Ladies who have not got their
winter millinery, will do well to call
at Mrs. q, 81. Curtis
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1874-11-28

"A great variety of hosiery and
gloves at Mrs. @. II. Curtis
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-03

WdtchDldkefS and JelCeterS.
ATKINSON & ALSTEAD. q n. Cherry street.
i. N. SOBEL 4 co.. Is " Cherry street.
B. II. STIEF, Union street
Z. WIGGERS, BY n. Cherry street.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-03

tiers and the people of the inalienable
right Of electing their agents, except
in an unimportant matter, and created
a new government over both, the officers
of which are appointed by the Presi-
dent, and hold their places at his viii.
A Governor, a Board of Public Works,
a Secretary, District Attorney and
Councilmen and other officers are ap-
pointed by the Executive to rule over
the people without their consent, the
very complaint our revolutionary faith
ers urged against the crown Of Eng
land. This new government has swol-
len the public debt, as it comedies, to
over 100000, and, as believed, to
nearly double that sum. Amid all our
boasting over system of representa-
tive government, at the very centre of
the republic, the only place where Con-
gress is authorized to exercise exclu-
sive jurisdiction, the people are stripped
of the power of sef-government,
and have task-masters set over them
by the Executive coming from dis
tant State. While we read homilies to
other nations on the inherent rights of
the people everywhere to self-govern-
ment, Congress denies it to the District
Of Columbia, and confers upon the
President powers to rule which cannot
be found in any State, municipal cor
poration, or even territory in the
Union. No instance can be found any
where of the people being deprived of
power over their own affairs, and vest
ing them in few to rule for the pur-
pose of political effect. Congress is
not content with its past abuse Of pow
er, but is now engaged in inventing
new schemes to secure the ascendancy
of the Republican party against sound
policy and without constitutional
authority. Among these is taking and
running the entire telegraph business,
establishing postofice banks, control
ling all the railroads and canals and
their business, and regulating their
prices, as well as transportation
generally; creating a health bureau
to bring in all the medical fra
ternity; taking control of the erection
of all school houses, the employment
and payment of all teachers and the
appointment of the managers Of all
schools; the construction of roads and
canals; the opening of an interior sea
route from Texas to Boston for ships
and vessels; the establishment of an
elastic currency, to enable the Seereta-
ry of the Treasury and Wall street pets
to create financial panics at pleasure,
so as to plumber the helpless, uninform-
ed outsiders-to build UP and throw
down at pleasure, and thousand SIM
liar things; all having one object in
view, the increase of the Federal of.
ficials paid from the treasury, to mil.
lion or more-say one in every fifty Of
our entire population-to act as drill
corps Of politicians to sustain the Re
publican party, with the hope Of re
electing General Grant to the Presi
dency and crushing out the States, and
to expand the powers and authority
and patronage of the general govern
ment."
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-03
School of Drawing and Technical
Studies.

Evenings OF MONDAY, WEDNESDAY
and Friday, at P. N. and P. N. Room %
Colonnade Building.
t. VI. BRENNAN, NJ. Z, Principal.
feb2S 2w
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-03
ORGANIZATION By CoUNrIEs.

1t Is certainly curious phase of hu-
man nature that those who have been
denouncing imaginary dead issues for
years past, should be the first to seek
to lug into the canvasso thisyear such
dead State issues as the Funding Law
or the Cheatham-Johnson division of
two years ago. In another column,
our Memphis correspondent ventilates
this absurdity. He also urges the plan
of organization by counties that we
have preached, even to the feature that
their surest basis VIII beprecinct meet
ings, in which the people can, without
regard to rival aspirants, express their
real wishes on public affairs. Our cor
respondent suggests that the Demo-
Gratis in each civil district In the State
meet on some given day and select del
egates to the county convention" We
do not understand him as 1ntimating
that the given day should be the
same identical day all over the State,
but the same day throughout each
county. Some counties may be able to
set organization on foot earlier than
others. The most important point IN
setting the day for the precinct meet
ings in any county, is to give time
enough beforehand for ample notice, so
that ( u the people interested may be
advertised of 1t and attend In force. A
secondary point is, who shall set the
given day for the precinct meetings
In practice we are sanguine that an
earnest people viii have little difficulty
under this head. The old Democratic
county executive eommitte might very
well appoint a given day, after a pretty
free consultation with leading citizens.
affording ample time for all the county
t. be notified. There would be no die.
tation in this, because, when the people
assembled, they would reflect their Owl
views and not those merely OF the callers
Other counties may, ike Shelby
call a preliminary mass-meeting, ap
pointing bran-new committee to Sc
the day for the precinct meetings. Il
make such a mass-meeting truly rep
resentative, and to secure its recogni
ton as such by all classes, is not easy
Yet we recognize that such may be tn
most feasible plan in a few counties
and that Shelby may be one of them
After all, it matters little by whom tn
precinct meetings are called, if the PEG
pie attend them In force and manifes
their Will in plain, unmistakable Ian
guage. As the election returns are bu
the aggregate of the precinct poll
throughout the county or State, so tn
Will of the Democracy IN regard to bot
measures and men should be the ag
gregate Of the wishes of the peopl
as expressed in precinct meetings
By this means all local questions an
rivalries can be adjusted, compromised
or settled otherwise, on their loca
ground of origin, where they are hes
appreciated, and by the people mos
interested, without being lugged int
wider fields. This is the Democrat
plan for getting at the VIII Of the pee
pie. The more thoroughly 1t is cal
ried out, the more likely are the peopl
to secure truly representative govern
, ment in city, county and State.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-03

The Massachusetts, Legislature has
had its attention attracted TO the low
physical condition Of the children and
girls employed In the mills in that
State, and to remedy 1t has just passed
a law forbidding the employment BY
any manufacturing corporation OF wo'
men, or children under Is years Of age
more than sixty hours IN any one week
Sixty hours a week is ten hours a day
The Massachusetts, task-masters must
be an Unsuitable set, if they cannot be
satisfied with that much Labor from
these tender employees.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-03

THE WaUerly Journal, commenting
favorably upon the Shelby county
movement, says it is truly glad to see
the people at last arousing themselves
to a full sense of the duties of the
hour. DISCRIMINATION in the oppOsi-
ton party is all the Radicals need to
carry the State in November next. Now
that the ball of cooperation and or
ganization has been commenced, may
the grand movement be taken up by
every county in the State, until the
whole conservative element Of Tennes-
see shall stand united upon the princi-
pies laid down in the platform adopted
at Bartlett.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-03

Saddles, Harness, Etc.
e. T.. HOWERTON 4 CO., 50 Market ST.
j. ID. MARCH & son. so y. Market street.
n. MekEON, 30 S. College street.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-03

THE KnosUiUe Chronicle says of the
Bartlett movement:
1T VIII be in order Tor journals that
have expected so much from the meet
mo because Gen. Forrest and Emerson
Etheridge were in it, to explain wheth-
er they endorse the reputation views
Of the latter gentleman"
Our Republican contemporary viii
please bear IN mind that those repudla-
ton views were duly shelved by the
Bartlett meeting. Their enumeration
only shows to what extent freedom q
expression was allowed and encouraged
by the meeting,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-03

THE terrible straits to which the
neople ofIlouisiana are reduced may be
gathered from the statement by the
Ne,g Orleans Piccyune that "the State
board Of education is proceeding TO re-
pudiate all debts due by the State to
teachers OF public schools who taught
in 1865. Mr. Brewster's report from
the Committee Of Finance and Claims
recommends that all debts due teachers
Of public schools for services rendered
nreyious TO the reconstruction OF the
State. after the close Of the war, be dis
allowed. 1t is not asserted that the
claims presented by teachers from the
s,7nmer of 1866 to the summer OF 1865,
:, neriod of three years, are fraudulent
~, Incorrect, but upon the plea that the
school fund Of each year should be used
exclusively Cor thesupport of the schools
in that year. The board contend, Also
+bat there is not sufficient proof as to
the validity Of the claims, and that the
cost of proving them would be more
than the amount Of the claims. Finally,
:, order to rid themselves of these
claims. many of which are undoubtedly
inst the board declare that they are
.,,,,zseribed by the lapseof time. This
"a new way Of paying old debts, worthy
Of It's Radical authors-keeping poor
mon ont of their dues for years, and
+ben pleading the statute Of limitation