Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-01-15
Items Of Interest.

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r Items Of Interest.
Nevada has a population Of 6O,64O.
Utah has one Gentle to five Nor
j. mons.
Fifty thousand Hebrews carry on
!. business in the United States. .
If Alaska is annexed to Washington
Territory, the latter will have an area Of
= GAO, 900 square miles.
A bill to establish the whipping post
for wife beaters has been introduced in
the California Legislature.
A Michigan auctioneer, while crying
"going, going, gone" dropped dead
the other day as the last word was
uttered.
A Tennessee court has decided that
: teacher has the same right as a parent
to enforce obedience from child. and
can, therefore, infiict corporal punish
ment when necessary.
The Rev. Mr.. Noble, Free Methodist
preacher of Portage, Wis, has pur-
chased steamboat, in which he travels
up and down the Wisconsin river hold
ing revival meetings at every landing.
Two ex-members of the United States
House have lately sought work in the
document folding room, at Washington
work which includes the wheeling Of
mail matter i'll barrow to the post
Office.
Wendell Phillips said in a recent tenn
perance speech: "You can't make
license law loose enough, but what I'll
strangle every grogshop iu Boston. If
you will make me SUPER ntendent OF
police"
Now pick almanacs. They are dead
ripe, and are worth about two and a-half
cents pound, rag measure. None
genuine unless branded "1076." Ask
your druggist for that kind and take
no other.
A man died recently in the hospital at
San Antonio, Texas, whose body was
covered with large spots, and whose
flesh became one mass of putrid matter.
He had all the symptoms of the old
time plague.
According to very ancient English
rhymester, when Christmas falls on
Saturday the winter shall be full of great
tempests, that shall slay both man and
beast fruit and corn shall fail greatly.
and many old people perish. v
In Canada, as we'll as in the United
States, the year has been marked by q
material decrease in immigration. In
1879 ACC, 854 immigrants were ensored,
tl,an e5, 900 have been Registered.
A doctor and military officer became
enamored of the same lady. A friend
asked her which of the two suitors she
intended to favor. She replied that sit
was difficult for her to determine, as
they were both such killing creatures.
A party of Chinese miners, engaged
on placer claim near Wagontown,
Montana, where recently put to sleep by
a dose of morphine administered by their
cook, who absconded with tho treasure
of the camp. One of the victims did not
awaken thereafter.
The latest fraud is man who makes
a regular business of deserting his wife
and children among strangers The lat
ter usually gave them money and needed
articles, after receiving which the family
joins the husband and they repeat the
game in some other place.
A courageous goldfish saved the Ben
nington Hotel, at Bennington, Vt, from
burning. A lamp exploded and set fire
to the table, the heat cracked the globe
occupied by the goldfish and the water
put out the fire. The hero fish, alas
fell victim to his own devotion.
A workman Of Columbus, Ohio, tried
to pass over the Scioto river hand over
hand" on q wire of an unfinished bridge,
but shortly the wire began to cut his
hands, and though he made desperate
attempts to return, the pain compelled
him to let go, and he was dashed to
pieces on the rocks. fifty feet below.
The once notorious colored lawyer OF
Greenville, Miss, J. D. Werles, walked
aboard boat lying at the wharf a few
days ago and accosted q couple OF cart
men with "Did you ever see any one
commit suicide9" They both answered
"No," when he rejoined: "Then watch
me-" and leaping into the river was
drowned before he could be reached.
The calculating criminals are the
Messrs. Hattenbock, of Sioux City,
convicted of engaging in the lottery
business. The Judge offered them their
choice between paying fine of scotland
$500 costs, or going to Jail for thirty
days, and with the remark that $4OOa
month each and board was as much as
they could earn outside of prison, they
captivity.
William A. M. Thompson, of Quartz
Valley, CAL, recently started for his
home in Iowa, which he left twenty five
years ago. During all the time, his
family, consisting of wife and nine
childre n, heard nothing from him. He
is ow seventy-four, and returned to find
the home circle unbroken by death, but
by the addition of fifty grand
children and three great grandchildren.
A young man in Olathe, Kansas, who
is particular about his washing, the other
day wrote a note to his washerwoman
and one to his girl, and, by a strange
fatality, put the wrong address on each
and sent them off. The wash
erwoman was well pleased at an invitation
TO take ride the next day, but when
The young lady read !: eff you muss up
my shirt bosoms, and rub the buttons on
my collar any more, as you did the last
lime, I will go somewhere else, shc
cried all the evening. and declares that
she will never speak to him again.