Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-11-11
il, but they seldom last over one

it, but they seldom last over one
Sunday.
I saw the murderer Of Jim Fisk
on the street yesterday. The lasl
time l Raw him he was in the prison.
er's dock, y strong, dark.hai tie
liant !Oung man, who Looked IN
though nothing earthly could break
him. But his years OF imprisOm
ment have changed him sadly. Ills
hair Ia gray, his form has lost the
elasticity that made him an ohserv.
I'll man on the streets, aud he looks
twrmty years older than 10 did five
Yeas MgO. He hns not had much
work to do, aud had AZ good fare IN
his prisons ~ though DplmOnic,'
mad supplied his table. But confinr.
,nent. the worry and fret of prison
life has broke him, aud II IL doubt
ful ii he ever pgalms his impaired
manhood. Still, he il as gunhey a.
~ man can I've. lie proposes to go
INTO business at once, and rebuild
his shattered fortunes. While in
Sing Sing he purchased the right to
manufacture an asphaltum pave
n,ent, which he believes to be u nee.
-sity in all large ci les, AMI he has
already commenced to introduce il
into New York. Possibly h. may
vet ride the city as successfully us
Tweed did. 1t cost him s3OO, OO0
70 escape the gallows, which sirlpp
e,l him entirely. Ills career makes
.. very pretty moral lesson Tor y0un.
men. An iII,cIJ aUHci'u,v"t tor Il
depravetl woman COS: him the muir.
der Of u man and every dollar of n
large fortune, aud leaves him IN
middle life naked, with u broken
constitution and u reputation that
will bar every effort he can make
q NOng good men. Stokes has paid
very dearly for his whistle.
INSURANCE,
Tho Continental has gone M hone.
lrssly, aud as Il matter of course ali
the insurance companies are feeling
the effect Of it. Sharpers are tax.
ing advantage OF the nervousness
IF policy holders to blackmail the
other companies, AMI to some ex
tent they SUCCEED, but in others they
don't. The United States met them
1T the threshold. and answered them
Ivy publishing to the world their
regular statement, and not only re-
fused to pay ~ dollar, but demand.
ri the most rigid nvcstigation OF
their att IRIS. Other sounl compa
,ies did the same thing, and
the result IS the scare is nearly
over. Life Insurance is 80 widely
Infused, and is of so much impOr
tance t. all classes of people, thar
tho man who would deliberately for
his own purposes get up Il tountla
|ionless panic, ought to be hung t.I
he nearest lamp.pOst. There are a
large number of shakey cOmpanies
that never had any claim 10 public
that these times will tax 4
under, ami they ought to 70 under,f
hut the deserving, honestly mali;tg-
ed, sound cOlMnies, ought to br
stood by the closer.
BRIDES OUTFIT.
A fashionable dressmaker in this
;ity is now furnishing the bridal
outfit for IL Michigan girl, which is
something worth seeing these hard
lines. OF course papa is u very
rich man, and so lie cal, afford his
laughter, on the occasion of her
seventeen dresses; the one
she is to be married in is of heavy
white silk. embroidered with white
et, and decorated with t'rinyes Of
'range blossoms. Then there are
naltles, and opera cIoaks, and alt
hat sort of thing, to say nothing oi
he under clothing which rivals the
lress for elegance. Nothing less
expensive than silk is used, and tue
down to the stock
mgs aud sLOeS, are made to match
he dresses. The cost of the entire
nlItit is-llold your brratll-$3S,
NO! | hope the girl Is happy and
vii continue to be so but the prob
'b'ity is that she will he wanting 10
ind Il purchaser for those fine clot hes
II less than five years. LIS rather
90 much capital to lock up these
lays.
THE BARRIERS
Are the last trades men to he exer
Used. The dull times have driven
thousands in from the country, ami
hey are shaving fOl five cents. The
tgulars who have forgotten tina.
he war is over, and are still cIlars
ng fifteen and twenty, object, AMI
hey are combining against them. ;
they find one of the five
ent fellows, they stsrt u shop next .
DOR to him and shave for nothing
III he is starved out. The praplr
IN AL afford clean faces now. Their
'eeting was the most odorOus gath .
ring | have attended for so,ne time. I
PIETRO.
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