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Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30
American Cattle.

The expectation OF American cattle to
Glasgow has become an important trade,
with promises OF substantial increase.
The experiment was first made in 1873,
when six cattle arrived on August II.
The number gradually increased, until
II reached fifty per week in October.
Shipments then ceased until last year,
when in June from 100 to 100 cattle
landed every We k, and the trade con-
tinued until October. In July Of this
year the trade began again, and since
then from 100 to 25O head have reached
Glasgow every week. During the last
week in August 164 American cattle
were sold in Glasgow, and averaged
$l66 per head. This is said to be the
highest price ever received for such
lot. But this is only one part of the
American trade in beef at Glasgow. On
June B the first sale OF dead meat was
held, when one hundred carcasses of
beef and seventy.two OF mutton were dis
posed of. The trade since then has con-
stantly increased. During the last week
in August 210 carcasses were sold, and
ION Wednesday evening"" says tho
Pau Mall Gazette of September /,
"there might have been seen passing
through the streets Of Glasgow to the
cattle market the uncommon procession
OF thirty-three lorries, each laden with
three tons OF butchers meat" Since
the importation began, 1,5OO, 900 pounds
of meat have been sold. OF 1000 cat.
tic sold in single week in August, 3O5
were imported from America. Cattle
killed two days before the sailing of the
steamer from New York are sold within
two weeks in the markets of Glasgow.
1t is expected that the trade will con-
tinue through the winter. Arrivals of
two hundred carcasses week are ex-
OectAd.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30
Poisoned Arrows.

The arrows by which Commodore
Goodonouch, of the British navy, was
killed in India, were poisoned by piung.
ing into n human corpse for several
days. This form Of blood poisoning is
made familiar in civilized countries by
the occasional death of medical stu
dent from incubation by morbid virus.
The least scratch is sufficient to insure
death, though the poison does not de-
velop for several days. The Papuans,
who use this method for poisoning, are
very warlilke, and it is said they do not
leave their dwellings even to work in
the fields, without taking q bamboo bow
and arrows. Those arrows which arc
poisoned are distinguished from their
more innocent fellows by being highly
carved and painted. They
are barbed with human bones, sharp
ened almost as fine as needle.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30
Our Sugar Supply.

The total amount of raw sugars manu-
featured in the world in 1875 was about
2,SlO, 900 tons, and of this quantity
sugar cane supplied 1,760,0 900 tons, and
beet root 1,05O,000
The total sugar crop manufactured
from cane for this year shows de-
crease of about thirteen and one half
per cent, yielding 1,526,000 tons
against 100000 tons last year. The
estimates of this years beet root crop
are necessarily not yet completed, but
the general opinion of people who
should be competent to judge is that it
will exceed last years by about $50, 900
tons, making say 1000, 900 tons against
last years crop of 1850, 900 tons. But
this increase in the European beet root
crop but slightly affects our supplies or
our commercial interests, very little beet
root sugar having ever been imported
into this country.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30
The Channel Tunnel.

Work on the channel tunnel between
France and England will begin simuita-
neously at both ends on July l, 1877.
There is an English and French COM
pany. The governments of France and
England grant concession of ninety
nine years to the companies, after which
it reverts to the two, governments. By
August, 1879, when the feasibility Of
the undertaking will have been demon
strated, the companies will be called
upon to declare whether they will go on
or abandon the work, and at any time
during its construction company may
withdraw, on satisfying its government
of the impossibility of carrying it out.
At the end of eighty years the two gov
ernments reserve the right to buy the
tunnel. Twenty years are given to
complete the work. 1t is estimated to
cost 1924, 100000 in boring aud e1cava-
tions.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30
Sold 1t.

Here, extracted from a local news
paper, is q passage in a report of the
transactions of the Cork steamship
company, read at a late meeting. and
composed apparently by some amazingly
candid gentleman in the management of
that model body of mercantile marine
proprietors "We have also sold the
Bittern for CO, 200. She was completely
worn out from stem to stern, and as we
dare not put her to sea again we thought
the sooner We got rid Of her the better"
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

and white men We'd with each other In tho
hendish work Of destroying over one hundred
and twenty men, women and children. II has
been alleged that Lee shot one woman with .
gun aud out the throat Of another, telling an
Indian not to spare the life Of young woman
whom tho savage asked him to save" The
jury brought In verdict Of guilty Of murder
In the trst degree.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30
European Wheat Crop.

Mr.. Card, who is an authority on
British agriculture, shows that the
wheat crop of the United Kingdom is far
from abundant. This arises from the
land devoted to wheat having been 678,-
600 acres less than the average acreage
Of 1874 and the seven preceding years.
Mr.. Card says Great Britain will rely
mainly upon the United States and Canada
to makegood the deficiency, and predicts
better prices. This is good news for our
farmers on this side of the Atlantic.
Cheap freights make the prospect still
better.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

Mamma (who had been quietly watch
ing certain surreptitious proceedings):
"Why, who helped you to that cake r.
Willie promptly: "Hebben, mamma. "
Mamma, (sternly): "Sh.- sh-sh, you
naughty boy, how dare you tell such
stories7" "Willie: "iTaint nv fault
If it is tory, Ma. Didn't pa tell beg
garman Eat Hebben helped chose Eat
helped zemselves2"
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30
Dancing.

The Atlanta Times says: An old color
ed preacher in this city was lecturing q
youth of his fold about the sin of danc-
ing. when the latter protested that the
Bible plainly said: "There is time to
dance" Yes, there is tine to
dance" said the divine, "and it's when
boy gets whipping for going to q
ball.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

Since the cyclone at Galveston, in
September of last year, the whole island
is being covered with the finest quality
OF Bermuda grass. As the sandhills on
the beach form they will become matted
with this grass, aud thereby become per-
manent sea walls.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

From Seymour Thatcher, M. D., of
Hermon, N. Y: "Wistar's Balsam of Wild
Cherry gives universal satisfaction. 1t seems
to cure cough by loosening and cleansing
the lungs, and allaying irritation, thus remov-
ing the cause, instead Of drying up the cough
and leaving the cause behind. consider the
Bslsam the best cough medicine with WI ich !
am acquainted"
Fifty cents and 81 a bottle. Sold by all
druggists.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

Beautify the complexion and remove
pimples, spots, burns, scalds, stines, chapped
lips, prickly heat and all irritations Of
the skin by using GLENN's SULPHUR SOAP.
In cases Of govt and rheumatism it is very
etiicscious. Depot, Orittenton's, No. Sixth
avenue, New York.
Young heads on old shoulders produced by
Hills instantaneous Hair Dye.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

GREAT BR1TA1N..-At present the whole
constituency in England and Wales
numbers 2,340, 1853 electors, consisting
of 843, 803 in counties, and 1, 484, 844 in
boroughs, and 12,116 in universities.
In Ireland there are 23O, 773 electors,
and in Scotland 295, 400.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

Pimples on the face, rough skin,
chapped hands, saltrheum and all cutaneous
affections cured. the skin made soft aid
smooth, by the USE VI JUNIPERTAR SOAP. That
made by Caswell, Hazard l. Co., New York, lie
the only kind that can be relied on, as there
are many limitations, made from common tar,
which are worthless.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

A gentleman who has been in the bust
ness good many years, furnished to a
New York World reporter the following
estimate OF the consumption of groceries
by an ordinary family for one month,
and the comparative cost between the
past and the present time and ten or
eleven wears ago:
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

The World adds that ga visit to some
OF the representative grocers on the east
side of the city resulted in the develop
ment of some similar facts. Prices rs o
general thing were still low, but the
goods were not SO stricly frst-class."
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

"Oh my dear, how came you to be
80 wet9" inquired an affectionate
mother to her son. "Why, ma, one of
the boys said daren't jump into the
creek, and, tell you, I amt to be
dared l"
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

There is no disease flesh is heir to
more troublesome to manage than rheuma
tism. 1t comes whom YOU least expect it, and
generally remains till 1T gets ready to go away.
The most conspicuous remedy for this COM
plant is Jotnson's Anodyne Liniment.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

AT our request Cragin & Co., of Phila
delphia, Pa, have promised to send any
of our readers, gratis ION receipt Of
fifteen cents to pay postage), sample
of Dobbins Electric Soap to try. Send
at once,
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

Any hard steel tool will cut glass with
great facility when freely wet with cam
phor dissolved in turpentine. The rag
ged edges of glass vessels may be easily
smoothed thus with fat file.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30
An Educated Lady

or gentleman desiring to devote few hours
each day to light, active business can cloar
from 81 to - per hour, by showing new pub
LEGATION that every one wants and taking cub
scriptions therefor. For full particulars write
to j. B. Ford Il Co., New York and Chicsgo.*
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

Two or three doses OF Sheridan's
Cavalry Condition POWDERS will cure horse
of any common cough or cold, and the very
worst cases may be cured in few weeks. We
know this from experience.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

If you have Rheumatism Neuralgia,
Headache, Burn, or a Bruise, procure
a bottle of Eupeon. It will give instant
relief, as thousands can testify. For
sale by all Druggists. H. A. HURLBUT
& CO., rs and ~ Randolph Street.
Chicago Agents for the Proprietors.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

The RURAL HOME on trial thirteen
weeks for rs cents. abandonment farm and fami-
ly paper printed. Address at Rochester, N.Y.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30
Correspondence invited. Agents Wanted.
ROOFS.

Why not make your Roofs asf lUsHme and save the
expense Of new roof every 10 or is Year,. CON BE-
done: II you Slate Paint, 10 viii not only resist the
effects Ct water and wind. but shield you from Fire
OLD ROOFS.
Protect your Buildings by using Slate Paint which
neither cracks In winter nor runs In su mer Old
ahngle roofs be painted looking much better and
lasting longer than nso shingles without the paint for
onrt the cost Of reshinglng. On decaved shingles
II fills up the holes and pores, and gives new subsian
a ROOT that lasts for years CSrsd arped shlnge les
1t brings 10 their places and Keeps them there This paint
requires no heating IL applied with brush an very
Ornamental 1t Is chocolate color, when frat applied but
changes TO uniform slate crlor. and Is to all ntents
and purposes sate
ON TIN OR IRON ROOFS,
the red color Is the best paint In the world for
1t has heavy body 10 easily applied expands BY heat
contracts by cold dries slow and cracks nor scoes
One coat equals of any other.
FIKE-FROOF NEW ROOFS.
Mills foundrles. factories and dwellings specially
Materials complete for e,eep fiat Roof OF Rubber
Roofing cost but about haf the price of reshinsll
For Private houses, barns and buildings of oil dssori
tous Is far superior to any other roofing In the world
for convenience In laying and combines the ornamental
appearance, durability and proof qualities of ltn at
onetArd The cost. No Tar or liravel Used.
" How to sdps reshingling-stop leaks eReotu sy and
cheaply In rofs of all kinds" 100 page book free.
Write tO-dny!
NeO York Slate Roofing Co., Limited,
Roofing Contraction 7 Cedar 81 N "
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

See adv't of Ladies' Floral Cabinet. It
is the most beautiful magazine in America.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-09-30

Vsyf,EN WHITING. TD ADvRRTIsRRs.
w please say that yeu saw the advertise
aeueln this paper.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-06

four hundred miles of the pole, and
passed beyond the limit of all animal
life. The last human habitation they
left far behind them, and no living being,
neither bird, nor beast nor creeping
thing was there to breathe with them the
frosty air. 1t is a region of utter silence
and solitude; and when we reflect upon
the present inutility of such a land to
the human race, we can only regret the
efforts and expense that have been un-
dertaken in its exploration.
We mourn the sad fates Of a Frank
lin and Hall, with their many brave
followers, all of whom surren dered
their lives in a cause which was as sac
rificing and bold as it was useless and
unnecessary.
The chief result of the late expedition
may be to set at rest our curiosity as TO
the mysteries of the polar sea, if such a
sea exist, and TO convince us of the folly
of attempting to explore these sterile
regions that can be Of no possible use to
mankind.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-06

amusing account of his love affairs when
he was student at William and Mary
College.
Nothing more rollicking, gay, even
eXtraVagantly comic could be imagined
than certain passages in these epistles-
notably that in which he describes at
length and in detail how Satan came
through hole in the roof while he was
asleep and taking the form of a rat stole
his "gemmy worked garters" His fair
enslaver-to whom he constantly refers
in these letters-was Miss Rebecea Bur-
well, the daughter of a gentleman of
Gloucester. He writes about her to his
friend, John Page, Esq, afterwards Gov
ernor of Virginia, which office he too
was to hold He is neryously fearful
that somebody will discover who his
sweetheart is; so, after the fashion OF
the time, he bestoWs upon her name
extracted from the dictionary of love,
Belinda. Every FAIR one then was Chloe,
or Daphne, OF Florella; Miss Burwell
was Belinda. But Belinda, the suitor
fears, is far too plain. His secret will
be penetrated, his movements be
watched, his love discovered. There
fore he translates Belinda into Latin,
AID calls the young lady ,CanepGna in
die-"Bell. in DayP ~ Greek letters were
from profane glances the dear ones
name, and it was even written backward
in Greek, and becomes AdntIeb!
We read Of these tolles Of the after
wards famous man with certain
amused interest, aud they seem to bring
the Sage of Monticello and apostle of
Democracy" great deal nearer to us.
lie is a man like ourselves, not mere
historic figure. He is not writing Presi-
DENTAL messages yet, but dancing with
rO I'M in the Raleigh tavern where the
youth grown TO manhood was to organ
Ize, through the committee of CORE
spondence, resistance TO the British
crown. He is boy, and is indisputa-
bly, in love in this good year OF 1868, and
he courts and sigus, and tries to cap
ture his pretty little sweetheart--as
uicus, it is said as she Was beau,iiui-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-06

and, like his friend George Washington,
fails. The young lady Will not be cap
tured.
There is much reason to conclude that
she gave Mr.. Jefferson "the slipper"
sending him adrift the most unhappy
of lovers-ior we soon find him writing
In the saddest strain about his pros
poets; planning sail-boat voyage to
Europe, and return "through the Brit
ish provinces to the northward" and
proposing schemes Tor the future, un.
connected with his dear "Campana-in
dep This lady afterwards married
Mr.. Jacquelin Amber, the beloved and
respected Treasurer of Virginia, and it
is somewhat notable fact that Miss
Mary Cary, who discarded Washington,
was united to Mr.. Edward Amber,
brother of the gentleman who married
Miss Rebecca Burwell, who discarded
Jefferson! The dHmqjores of that epoch
were unfortunate, and seem to have
been taught, by the saddest expert.
ences, that "kissing goes by favor.v
Another coincidence between the mat
rimonial tates of Washington aud JET
ferson was to present itself. Rejected
by Belinda, Tom Jefferson, as he was
called by his friends, betook himself to
law and politics, seeking in dusty tones
ana pOllJlcdl aSplraLlOu Some saAFe LOT
his grieyous wound. The day came,
however, when Cupid again asserted his
sway. Jefferson made the acquaintance
of beautiful young widow--note that
Washington, disappointed in love also,
met with lovely widow-Mr. Jeffer-
son's "fIiend" being certain Martha
Skelton The Martha being an additional
coincidence), J, a wealthy young dame OF
"rne Forest" in Charles City. This
young neiress he bore off from every
competitor. All his accomplishments
were used to that end-hiSwiE, badinage,
fiddle-playing and lover-like ardor.
At last ne succeeded, and great we'd
ding took place ut "lne Foresp' on a
night OF winter, the huge log fires driy-
away with their blaze the chill of Janu-
airy the same in which Washington
had married his fair widow, Martha. o |
the next day the groom s"h ~ bride
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-06

On Tuesday afternoon whenthey were
placed in the furnace the bodies Of the
two sheep weighed one hundred and
sixty-two pounds, making total weight
of two hundred and twenty-six pounds,
which was completely reduced to ashes,
in bulk that would not more than I'LL
gallon measure.
This experiment shows cremation to
be entirely feasible, and now tine ques-
tion presents itself, will 1t become pop
ular? Aside from the prejIdices grow
ing out of habit and education, there can
be but little said against it. The doctor
could write volume in its favor, and
give many reasons why this mode of dis.
posing of the dead should be adopted
that would be difficult to answer. The
subject is now under discussion all over
the country, and, indeed, all over the
civilized world, and all sorts of opinions,
are elicited. Whatever the result may
be, the doctor has given Washington the
distinction of having the first cremation
furnace in America. - Washington
Chronicle.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-06

BALTIMoRE's Importance as a grain
market continues to grow in spite OF all
the fight that is or can be made against
it. There are natural advantages pos
sessed by the Monumental City which
it is very hard for railroad combinations
or freight manipulators to overcome.
Baltimore has fine harbor and is more
convenient to the great grain producing
regions than any other irst-c class shipping
point, This, with the excellent facilities
offered by the one great road that con-
tinually battles for Baltimore, and the
fine elevators and other handling ar
rangements in that city, is causing a
slow but constant change of the West
ern grain business from New York to
Baltimore. While other cities either go
behind or barely hold their own Balti-
more's grain business is all the time on
the increase. Nopeople appreciate this
more than the New Workers, and the
commercial papers OF that city are filled
with suggestions on the subject of re-
gaining and retaining this important
branch Of their commerce. With
all their talk they do not
seem fully to understand the diff
foulty under which they labor. Their
efforts are generally aimed in the direc-
tion of better means of transit to foreign
markets when the trouble is all right at
home. New York must extend more
urgent invitation in the way of good and
inexpensive dock arrangements, cheap
handling facilities, and a spirit of fair
dealing toward Western owners. They
must in word make up for some
of the difficulties under which they
naturally labor by presenting reasons in
favor of their city that overbalance all
that is said against it by their compel
itors. Trade goes where it is conducted,
just as naturally as water; and unless
New York remedies the distractions
that have been placed in the way OF its
flowing that way, the tide toward Balti-
more will continue to increase.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-06
THE LAST ARCTIC EXPEDITION


The earnest enthusiasm which Pres
idential campaign inspires, and the alb
sorbing interest manifested in our Gem
tennial affairs, have diverted the minds
of our people from matters scientific,
and but little attention has been be-
slowed upon the movements of the Po-
lar Expedition which sailed from Eng
land eighteen months ago and but re-
Gently returned.
This expedition was in most respects
the most formidable of all those that
have sought to penetrate the mysteries
of the frigid zone within the last two
centuries. Two powerful steamers, the
Alert and the Discovery, were lully
equipped by the British Government,
and fitted out with every supply that
science and forethought could suggest.
These vessels were manned by tried
men and true, who had braved the
hardships Of cold and ice, and were
commanded by Captain Mares, of the
English navy, an officer of considerable
experience in the Arctic regions.
Neither money nor pains were spared to
make the, expedition complete success,
and in May, 1875, Captain Mares put out
from Portsmouth, fondly hoping to sail
straight through the icy barriers and
into the open Polar Sea.
He was doomed TO the disappoint-
ments OF his predecessors, however, and
at the eighty-second parallel his vessels
were debarred all further progress.
From this point party with sledges
continued the advance, but the severity
OF the cold was beyond human erdur-
apce, and they were forced to return,
having accomplished an additional dis
tanee Of only one degree twenty min
utes. Peterson, the interpreter, and
three others died from the hardsbips Of
tllis sledging expedition, and the utter
impracticabIlily OF reaching the north
pole being unanimously agreed to, Capt.
Mares shifted his sails and steered
sOgthward.
These inireDid men approached within