National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1874-02-13
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
JOB PRINTING
Items Of Interest.
Philadelphia is SOL, 900, 900 in debt.

Philadelphia is $61, 900, 900 in Debt.
The oil wells of Western Pennsyl-
vania spout out daily to the extent Of
about 40,0 barrels.
A couple at Woodville, Iowa, have
been divorced four times, and now con.
template fifth reunion.
The Kansas House OF Representa-
tives pass resolutions censuring them.
selves for taking railroad passes.
An Amsterdam lawyer recently re.
turned portion OF his fee from client,
because he thought he had over.
charged.
An indianapolis beggar goes about
selling his wife's wedding-ring to buy
bread for his children. He has already
sold seventy.ive Of it.
McCarty, who killed young Mordecai
in duel near Richmond, last spring,
has been convicted of involuntary
homicide" and fined $500.
"Sergeant" Bates seems to be re.
covering somewhat from his lunacy.
He proposes to introduce the prairie
chicken into the British Islands.
A gorgeous Georgia girl recently
peddled out 800 kisses at 10 cents q
smack and then gave the money to the
poor to buy coal and flannel and things.
The Young men of that town feel within
their individual and collective breasts
that charity is divine.
A New Bedford paper tells story
about shopkeeper, who advised lady
customer to buy two mohair switches
instead of one, as the article was be-
coming scarce. He said that the man
whom he hired to hunt NOES had only
caught two within fortnight.
The stories WI ich have been IN circu-
lation about the poverty of Louis Kos
suth are contradicted. Louis Ruttkay,
a cousin of the Hungarian patriot, liv-
ing at Des Moines, Iowa, writes to the
Chicago Times, saying that his relative
is in comfortable circumstances.
The New York Tribune almanac,
for many years standard authority
in political, statistical and commercial
matters, is this year better than ever.
Several new and valuable departments
have been added, making the wosk in
Send twenty cents to the
Tribune, New York, for it.
An old man living in the outskirts of
Williamsburg, Mass, recently left his
horse standing in stable where the
water ran in, till the horse froze his
feet and legs and died. Whereupon
the boys of the place took the dead
horse out of the stable and hung him
up in the yard, with label indicatin~
their opinion OF the old mans cruelty
Indian antiquity studies show l.
That the primitive Inhabitants of the
Valloy were contemporary
with the mammoth and the mastodon.
}. That the earth mounds of the red
ace are fully thousand years old, and
ome much older. 3. That the Indian
occupancy dates back as far as the
EARLIEST traces of man in Western
europe.
The Dutch troops in Acheen have
AIKEN the mosque by assault. They
we're twice repulsed with loss of 240
.illed and wounded, including twelve
Ulcers. The bombardment of the
zraton had only produced an insignif- )
ant effect up to January -, as the
nemy has good ironclad defensive
works.. The Dutch are now approach
ng this position by sap, and will throw
lp breaching battery.
Among the smaller duties of life I
ardly know any one more important
han that of not praising where praise
not due. Reputation is one of the
rizes for which men contend. 1t is, as
Ir. Burke calls it. "the cheap defense
nd ornament of nations, and the nurse
many exertions )" it produces more
.bor and more talent than twice the
ealth of country could ever rear up.
! is coin of genius and it is the i'm
erious duty of every man to bestow it
ith the most scrupulous justice and
10 wisest economy.-Sidney Smith.