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Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
Watchful MatrOns at Long Branch.

According to a New York Herald
correspondent, the season at Long
Branch this summer has set movement
on foot that may possibly result in a
code of etiquette to be used by mammas
for the governance of their daughters.
It has arisen from the meeting of
matrons from different portions of the
country, and q mutual exchange Of views
rs to the manner in which young lady
should be brought up and the amount of
liberty she should be given. At some
of the larger hotels it is quite amusing to
watch the girls and their mammas. Some
of the mothers Of the old school never
let their daughters out of their sight, and
sit on the beach and watch them through
opera-glasses while they are bathing,
while others, satisfied with the early
training that their girls have received,
are content so long as they know where
they are and what they are doing. The
of opinions on the question
between the mothers will very probably
result in definite settlement as to the
amount of liberty young lady should
be allowed. In the meantime the young
ladies themselves are very much agitated
over the question, and secret indigna-
tion meeting was held the other evening,
at which nine young ladies pledged
themselves to exert all their influence, to
at once remove their beloved mothers
from the baneful influence of certain
who we're promulgating doc
trine, in which they claimed it was highly
improper for young lady to accompany
q gentleman to the theater, opera or
german without chaperone. These
nine young ladies have constituted them
selves into committee ON permanent
organization, and are rapidly enrolling
under the banners all the malcontents
that they find. There are some hopes,
however, that before any open outbreak
can take place compromise will be
effected that will meet with the views of
both parties.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
A Stroke Of Love Lightning.

A Long Branch letter has this:
have met here recently an old frient
who, a few years since, was one of the
most resolute and philosophic of bache
lors. He was grounded on reason, and
he had at his tongues end all the argu
ments that distinguished anti-matrimon'
ialists have used for centuries. He was
not fierce, he was calm and logical, and
I have often said: "f any man is safe
from connubial perils, he is safe beyond
proadventure." After exchanging greet.
ings with my friend, he blurted out,
"Well, I'm married. I confess it j.; but
please don't tell me that you knew
should be; that you had expected it
for I am no fool, and I have sworn loo
times that to me marriage was absolutely
impossible" Subsequently he gave me
his confidence. He was walking one
moonlight evening on the beach with q
young lady he had known for five or six
years. She was friend of his sister,
and he regarded her as kind of adopted
sister. He had liked her for her sound
Judgment, strength of character and
freedom Of sentiment. They were walk
ing quietly along, and discussing Her
bert Spencer. One of the last things he
remembered distinctly was that they
were illustrating the survival of the
fittest by examples within their own
knowledge. The next thing he knew
he had proposed to her, and she was
throbbing on his bosom like volcano
in eruption, and sobbing out that she
had adored him from the first moment
she had laid eyes on him. "Wasn't
that rather queer" he asked, "for a
young woman of extraordinary strength
Of character, totally devoid of sentiment?
Well, am very glad it happened,
though how it happened, to this day I
have no idea. But you know I'm always
looking for the cause Of things. Won
der still what put us into that passionate
mood-us, who had always been SO self
contained, in one another's society. Was
it the moon? Or could it have been the
sea "
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
Russian SOldi ers as Tea Drinkers.

The Russian soldiers are said to live
and fight almost wholly upon tea. The
Cossacks often carry it about in the
shape of bricks, or rather tiles, which,
before hardening, are soaked in sleeps
blood, and boiled in milk, with the addi-
tion of -four, butter and salt, SO as to
constitute kind of soap. The passion
of the Russian for this beverage is SIM
ply astonishing. In the depth of winter
he will empty twenty cups in succession,
at nearly boiling point, until he per-
spires at every pore. and then in state
Of excitement, rush out, roll in the
snow, get up, and go on to the next SINH
lar place Of entertainment. 30 With the
army. With every group or circle sf
tents, travels the invariable tea-cauldron,
suspended from tripod; and il would be
vain to think of computing how many
times each soldiers pannikin is filed
upon halt. II is his FIRST idea. FIRE.
quently he carries il cold in Q copper
case, as eolace upon the march.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
A Russian Village.

The village of Ivanorka may be taker
as a specimen of the villages in th'
northern half of the country. The chic
pursuit of the inhabitants is agriculture
Nearly the whole of the female popula
ton and about one-half of the men are
employed in cultivating the Communal
lane, which comprises about two thou
sand acres of light sandy soil. The
arabic part of this land is divided into
three large fields, each of which is cut
up into long narrow slips. The first
field is reserved for rye, the winter grain,
which, in the shape of black bread,
forms the principal food of the peasantry.
In the second, oats are raised for the
horses, and buckwheat, which is largely
used for food. The third lies fallow,
and is used in summer for pasturage.
The annual life Of the peasantry is that
of simple husbandmen, in a country
where the winter is long and severe.
The agricultural year begins in April
with the melting of the snow. The fresh
young grass begins at once to shoot up,
and very soon afterward the shrubs and
trees put forth their buds. The rapidity
of the transition from winter to spring is
astonishing to the inhabitants of more
temperate climes. On the twenty-third
cf April the cattle are brought out for
the first time and sprinkled with holy
water by the priest. They are never fat,
but at this period of the year their ap-
pearance is truly distressing. They have
been wintered on straw, cooped up in
small, unventilated COW houses, and
many OF them can scarcely rise to their
feet without assistance. Meantime the
peasantry are impatient to begin the
field labor. Flowing for summer grain
lasts till about the end of May. Hay
making commences toward the first of
July, and then cores the harvest, in
which the peasant may work day and
night and have scarcely time to complete
his task before the end of August. The
field labor is finished about the last week
in September, and the first day of Oc-
tober the harvest festival begins, Joy
GUS season, during which the parish .tetes
are celebrated.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
Finland.

Finland, which, rightly handled
might be one OF the czar's richest pos
sessions, is now after nearly seventy
years. occupation, as Improbable n
ever. Throughout the whole province
there are only S98 miles Of railway,
Post-roads, scarce enough in the South,
are absolutely wanting in tho North.
Steam navigation on the Gulf Of Bothnil
extends only to Uleaborg, and is, 90 fal
as I can learn, actually non.existent or
the great lakes. except between Tanas'
thuus and Tammerfors. Such is the
state Of q land containing boundlesa
water.power, countless acres Of fine
timber, countless ship-loads Of splendid
granite. But what can be expected oi
an untaught population under 1900, ,OOO
left TO themselves in an unreclaimed
country nearly as Large as France
Helsingfors can now be reached from
st. Petersburg, via Viborg, in fourteen
and half hours but what is one such
line to tho boundless emptiness of Fin.
landP The fearful lesson of 1869 will
not be easily forgotten, when all the
horrors of famine were let loose at once
upon the unhappy province. Seed-con
was exhausted bread became dear,
dearer still, and then failed altogether.
Men, women and children struggling
over snowy moors and frozen lakes TO-
ward the distant towns in which lay
their only chance of life. dropped one by
one on the long march Of death, and
were devoured ere they were cold by the
pursuing wolves. Nor did the survivors
fare much better some reached the
haven Of refuge only to fall dead in it's
very streets. Others gored themselves
with unwholesome food, and died with il
in their mouths. Fields lying waste /;
villages dispeopled; private houses
turned into hospitals fever-parched
skeletons tottering from the doors Of
overcrowded asylum children wan.
dering about in gaunt and squalid naked
ness ; crowds Of men, frenzied by pro-
longed misery, and ripe for any out
rage, roaming the streets night and day
such were the scenes enacted through
out the length OF Finland during two
months and half. But better days are
now dawning on the afflicted land.
Roads and railways are being pushed
forward into the interior, and the ILL
judged attempts formerly made to Rus
sianize the population have given place
to more conciliatory policy. Lectures
are being delivered at Helsingfors, and
extracts from native works read, in the
aboriginal tongue; that it is beng
treated with special attention in the
great schools of Southern Finland that
there has been some talk of dramatic
representations i'll Finnish at the Hell
singfors theater. Such q policy is at
once prudent and generous, and far bet
ter calculated to bind together the
heterogeneous races of the empire than
that absurd Pan-Slavism, which is
best translated as "making every one a
slave. ."-Lippineotfs Magazine.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01

A correspondent Of the New York
Evening Poet. writing from Benton.
Me-, says: There 10 one lady. Miss -,
worth mention, and whose memory
should not be left to perish. She has
for many years taught school in and
about the town Of Brunswick, Maine,
and doubtless many good man and wo.
man in that region owes much to her in
huence and instruction. She is an i'm.
posing human structure, not far from
seven feet in height, and weighing not
less, think, than three hundred pounds.
Her voice is fitted to her size. and her
strength equal to either. She is pleas.
ing to behold-very handsome, the Ana.
kim would probably call her. I wish
Mr.. Barnum had found her before he
married of his handsome Quaker giant.
Miss - and that giant would have
made noble. astonishing pair.
Miss - was sent for once to reduce
to order a school Of evil repute. The
scholars there, mainly young men of the
savage order, had amused themselves by
turning their teachers out and throwing
desks, books and benches ont after them.
Miss -, ruler in hand, walked the
floor, making her exordium. Her ruler
was like weaver's beam. She told the
school why she was there, and serenely
invited those who designed to make
trouble to begin it at once.
Not creature stirred. Every eye in
the house was fastened ON her. Her
black eyes rolled majestic in their caves,
and cleaned with terrible meanings
upon the big boys, who then and there
resigned "the weapons Of their rebel.
lion." After some weeks one young fel-
low of twenty-one years, who, by virtue
of his handsome face and heaped mp
curls, considered himself n universal
beau, and privileged character, began to
air his pretensions rather obnoxiously.
Miss - looked at him once or twice.
The glare did make Adolphus shrivel
somewhat; but vanity and impudence
soon swelled him out again. I know not
precisely what it was that precipitated
the crisis; but it came one day when all
the girls were present. One stride, and
Miss - was alongside Of the curly
dandy-one grab and the curly dandy
was across her knee-kicks, howls and
scratches were efforts thrown away; and
amid the almost dying struggles of the
boys not to rend tho air with laughter,
and the hysterical shrieks of the girls,
Adolphus was disciplined in style and
to degree that he will remember to his
departing day. Poor beau How his
face and curls did look just then! The
girls never had need of any other picture
to make them remember him.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
A Pathetic Scene.

There was a pathetic scene at Fort
Abraham Lincoln few days ago, when
the Seventh Cavalry, General S. D.
Sturgis' command, which was headed in
the field last year by the gallant but un-
fortunate Custer, marched into camp.
As the gray troop Company E., under
Lieutenant @. G. De Rudio was passing
in review before the generals house, he
came ont of the door and to the gate with
a guidon in his hand and ordered the
command to halt The battalion came to
halt and present. On the porch were
congregated the members of the generals s
family, consisting Of his beautiful wife,
his pretty daughter Ella, another little
girl and their only remaining son, oil
dressed in deep mourning. The general,
with his eyes full of tears, addressing
Lieutenant De Rudio, said: "I am
charged by my wife to present your COM
pany with this guidon in remembrance
of our dear son, who was attached to it
when he was killed. Ihope you will ap-
preciate it; take good care of it, and honor
the memory of our dearly loved boy"
The lieutenant took the guidon in his
hand, raised it and replied: "Dear gen.
eral, I thank you and Mrs Sturgis in the
name of my company. This guidon will
guide them and myself to revenge the
blood of your son, and I assure you that
nobody shall capture it while man of
my command lives, for we shall defend
it with the last drop of our blood" The
generals son, Lieutenant Sturgis, it may
be remembered, fell in Clusters fatal
battle, and, at his fathers request, was
buried on the field of valor where he
foll
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
Words Of Wisdom.


The wisest Of men is he who has tn
most civility for others. rr 100
II il the heart and not the mind thai
makes the true gentleman.
To be at once in any great degre
loved and praised is truly rare.
Greatness may build the tomb, bu
goodness must make the epitaph.
Everywhere cndeavor to be useful
and everywhere You will be at home.
Life is an outward occupation, al
actual work, in all ranks and situations
It is one of the most difficult things il
the world to persuade overselves thai
any one can love those whom we our
selves dislike.
The only way Of not being bored il
company is to say witty things yourself
or sit still and listen to the witty thing
Of other people.
However many friends you have, de
not neglect yourself. Though You have
a thousand, not one of them loves yor
so much as you ought to love yourself
No character will please long which il
uniform. To be always iocose il
buffoonery always pathetic. silly :; al
ways wise, sententious /; always grave
tiresome.
At the Sydney (Australia) exhibition
which has Just closed, there were one
hundred and twenty-nine thousand visi
tors, and the American exhibit was the
best.
The man who writes, speaks or medi
tates, without being well stocked with
facts as landmarks to his understanding,
is like mariner who sails along treach'
erous coast without pilot, or one who
ventures in the wide ocean without
either rldder or compass.
There are but three ways for a man
to revenge himself of the censure of the
world to despise it, to return the like
or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it.
The first of these is usually prevented,
the last is almost impossible ; the uni
versal practice is the second.
Who can explain the operations of that
sentiment, which creates around the
one object of our love halo of life and
beauty, which extends to all animate
and inanimate nature, and of that other
sentiment which, when we cease to love,
strips the object of our late passion of
all its adventiticus charms and reduce
it to the ordinary level?
Stand by your friends, let come what
may, is a good..motto. If you don't
stand by them you needn't expect them
to stand by you. So whether they be
friends OF high or low degree, in affluence
or poverty, stick to them and don't stop
to inquire whether it will pay Or whether
it will be popular. Whenever you prove
traitor and desert those who have stood
mp for you and helped your battles,
you will find yourself without any
one to congratulate You upon your
achievements, or comfort you i'll an evil
hour when misfortunes comes thick and
fast,
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
Hottest Days in the Last Century.

The highest ranges Of the thermometer
in Hartford, Conn.,, during the past
century have been - follows July 2,
LIT, l02; August 9, l7so. l05; July 5,
17sl, 115; July 10, 1904, lo6; July 20,
1914, los July 4, 1894, l0s ; August 2,
1885, 10e July 2e, lsA7, los /; July 3,
1855. los; July 10, 1855, loA; July II,
1871, ,1o4; July 5. 1875, los; July 26,
1877, 95 degree in the shade. 1t will be
seen that July 5, 1871, occurred the
hottest day for century, when the
mercury marked lis degrees IN the
shade st noon.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-09-01
TIE Nnw Couxrrarstr rirrr DottAS

The New COUNTERPART FffrY DottAS
Noyxs. The new counterfeit Oh the
Third National bank Of Buffalo. n. 4,
10 thus described In The new Govern.
ment Desector: Letter A O upper
right hand osrner. Dated March 10th,
1865. This 10 printed from The altered
plate Of Central National bank Of New
York. Title and dsse Of issue are all
that have beea changed On the plate.
Note like tie predecessor, about an
eighth Of ~ inch shorser than genuine. "
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-04


THE employment of torpedoes in naval
warfare, which has so far been very dis
astrous to several Turkish vessels in the
Black Sea during the present war, is not to
be regarded as merely experimental and
hastily adopted. Over two years ago the
Gar, who looks after such matters himself,
witnessed series of experiments with a new
species of torpedoes which were unostenta-
tiously made at Cronstadt, the port of St.
Petersburg. After he had become assured
of the complete success, from their instant
and destructive operations, of the torpedoes,
the Gear ordered that a torpedo corps should
be formed at Cronstadt, and the manufac-
ture of the deadly mechanism be quietly
proceeded with. Originally, this corps con-
sisted of 20 officers and 40 picked men, who
were to be instructed in the making as well
as the management of torpedoes. Last
year the numerical strength of this body
was largely increased, and some of its most
efficient members are now attached to the
naval service in the Danube, where they GER
tainly have done good service in the war. 1t
is said to be the Cars intention still further
to adopt and encourage the manufacture and
use of torpedoes by the Russian navy. 1t
may here be added, that the British Admiral
ty has now under consideration the propriety
of adopting the torpedo as an instrument OF
naval warfare, and of employing little fleet
of small and rapid steamers in connection
with their use. 1t is anticipated that the
leyiathan iron-cads which were intended to
have an armament of eighty and hundred
ton cannon will get out of favor in
Europe. The cost of one OF these ranges
from two and half to three million dollars,
and they have hitherto been chiefly re-
markable for arrangements in their machine
ry, which make it too often necessary tC
return to harbor for repairs after they have
been at sea for short time on trial trips.
Armored gunboats of moderate and
manageable size will probably.be1 the war.
ships of the future, and that at no distant
day.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-04

THE Irish journals complain that on the
occasion, six months ago, of proclaimine
Queen Victoria as Empress, as, many as 49,
900 prisoners in India were liberated by 9
gracious act of amnesty. They were all NAL
efactors-criminals of various grade:
of flaw-breaking. The British government al
home persists in keeping in penal servitudt
the ten remaining political prisoners who
loved Ireland s'not wisely but too well,
and thus perpetuates. perhaps increases, tht
dissatisfaction of Ireland. The press in tina
country, and a large number of the Irisl
members in Parliament are vehement ir
their denunciation of this persistence in pun
ishing a handful of enthusiasts for their po
litical opinions. Disreli, as well as Glad
stone, holds on in this persistence, and doe:
not perceive that clemency would be goo(
policy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-04
The Tyrant OF To-Day.

The observance of the Fourth of July as a
holiday was instituted in commemoration of
that Declaration of Independence in which
for throwing off the rule of the mother
country. 1t is matter of record that for
some years the day was observed in this
spirit. But the American people soon
became !too busy for holidays, and the
Fourth in short time passed into the care OF
the only American who had leisure to enjoy
Its idle hours or keen enough sense of the
blessings Of liberty to honor the memory of
the Fathers of the Republic. This individual
was the Small Boy. He eagerly seized upon
the Fourth, and has made it entirely his own.
During the rest of the year his sway is
disputed by anxious mothers, by un-
sympathizing fathers, by tyrannical teachers.
But on the national holiday he seizes the
sceptre of power and holds it for twenty
four hours. The elders may be permitted to
listen for bad quarter of an hour to the
reading of the Declaration; but the Small
Boy draws the line there. All the other
minutes of the day are his, and he devotes
them to the liberty which he most dearly
prizes, the liberty of making all the
noise he can. To assist him in his
jubilee the resources of the world are
placed at his disposal. The ingen-
uity of the furthest East is employed
in making noisy engines for his delectation::
and the foremost of all sciences does not dis
dain to devote the resources ofits laboratory
10 the construction Of material which shall in
its combustion delight his color loving eye
and caress his barbarc ear. His tyranny ofa
day is not confined to the family circle. State
and municipality are powerless before him.
Revised statutes and city ordinances are set
aside and he has full liberty to burn and slay.
Nothing can withstand him. This year those
banded despots, the insurance companies be-
fore the approach of whose minlons the
strong man quails and takes out po!icy,ar-
rayed themselves against him. Their fight
was of no avail, and to day the Small Boy
fires his cracker and exploies his torpedo as
of yore. So little confidence have the people
in their ability to resist him that they are
fleeing in crowds to seaside and noun tain
resorts.
Well, one day at least is due to the jack
eted future of the country. Let us cheerfully
endure the noise for few hours, and throw
up our hats to the king of to-day as he passes
by encompassed by the terrible enginery of
war.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-04

WITH each succeeding commencement the
colleges also are learning wisdom, and some
OF the peculiarities which have cung to the
exercises from time immemorial are giving
way to common sense. At Williams half O.
the orators put on for commencement day
have resigned, placing the audience which
will assmble on the occasion under obliga
tions to them, and at Amherst the custom o
making the outgoing Seniors pay for the
Alumni dinner is also done away with. A
Senior who is about to graduate has enough
bills to pay without being compelled to sub
scribe his five dollars for this purpose.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-04
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.

THE frequency of thunder storms in the
West is attributed to the existence OF a
Prof. Tice, who makes a business of arrang-
ing Tor their coming, whatever that may
mean. He has arranged for no less than
fifty four ofthese meteorological disturbances
in Iowa during the summer. Out there they
call him "weather huckster.n