Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-10-06

Thanks Where Due-The State COnven-
ton Book Sales The ClairmOnt
Bank--LOw p .ices--Supp,ies--Fa
ions.
THAMES WHERE DUE.
1t is justly held stupid to open con-
versatior with speaking of the weather,
but the rule dosn't apply to such wealth
er as we have row. To-day completes
a week o perfect, sunny, cool, delicious
days that a"e the charm of the Hudson
River county in September. Farmers
begin 10 Calk or drOuth, but the cOun-
try needs few weeks of such dry days
to dry out healthly after the soaking
rains OF summer.
THE STATE CONVENTION.
The New York State Convention OPEN
ed yesterday with what sanguine Re-
publicans are pleased to term slap at
the Administration. The adoption of a
most moderate and just platform. advis-
ing resumption, denouncing subsidies.
insisting on the rights of labor and cap
i.al to an equal hearing, and expressing
no opinion on the Administration policy,
while hoping it will result in peace at
the South, and promising that no act of
the Republicans of New York shall be
withheld tor its success. 1t can hardly
fail OF approval from all men not pledg-
ed to the support of measures and men
rather than of principles. Ex-Congress-
man Ward made the strongest possible
answer to all fault finding in the pithy
declaration that if the announcement of
Republican principles be the condemna-
ton of the Administration, let that con-
Gemnation fall. The good Republicans
of the State do not derive great encour-
agement from the sight of President
escorted and flattered by ex-rebels, who
have never shown any convincing proofs
of change of hear. They do not rel
ish the modest demand to appoint Her.
schel V. johnson to the vacancy on the
Supreme Bench. The late news from
Mississippi which reads rs if IL dated
before the war, with the sight of "rec-
onciled" Democrats surrounding Repub-
lican speakers with shot-guns in good
old Southern fashion is not the exact
style of harmony preferred here, and
81 und Republicans who protested their
fa,,n before the battle of Antietam de-
sire to have it distinctly understood that
he harmony has not got to be entirely
on their side. The Admins alton, say
-hese Republicans, talks 90 much in The
vein of The man who believed in unan-
nifty in families. and complained that
ne was always unanimous but his wife
wasn't. At least he New York Conven-
ion has the courage 10 express its opin-
ons, and nobody has any difficulty in
showing what its acts and words mean.
BOOKS SALES.
The trade sale of books held last week
md this has exceeded the hopes of deal
rs, and mil ion dollars worth of books
Will be upon the market in the next ten
lays. That means that people have
money once more, and begin to buy
looks and surround themselves with
omforts and indulgences again. A
BOOKSELLER who attended the sale from
illinois said the great harvest was no =
ooner gathered in August than he began
, sell more books than he had done for
year. Books will be cheaper than .
icy have been since the war, as auction |,
rices ruled twenty per c-nt. below the
sual wholesale rates.
THE CLAIRMONT BANK. +
The Clairmont Savings Bank failed
II only 100000. but the history of its
efalcations reads very much like the III
'actce of many similar institutions out
de the city, where rural virtue is sup
osed to flourish. How many country Ell
inks are there which re, Use 10 lend their ne
nds to friends of the officers, or which S S9
not have LILLE outside affairs in which ~
e help of The bank comes handy, How
any Presidents The are who conside-
emselves mere figureheads, and take
e word of the people at the bank that 4
erything is right, when they spare II
ne from their other pressing business ID
look into its doors. How many trus- do
IS there are who don't know much how wit
ings are going on in their bank, but s ST
re it for granted that all is right, just bn;
e the trustees of the Clairmont bank, boz
e of whom did not know his name was A
the list, while another had withdrawn GY
,nths ago, though his name had not A
en- taken off. What hasty release of Fo
pothecated securities is necessary
netimes to get everything clear tor B