Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1862-05-15
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

CAPT. Lyman son OF Charles Lyman, Esq, OF
Montpelier. has been made chief Quarter.
Master in Ha|lack's Department. He wen, Out
as Captain in the 11th Indiana.
The Democracy of Somerset, Perry county,
Ohio, have carried that town At the late cleo.
ton for the first time in fifteen Years. They
elected their entire ticket.
A negro taken prisoner at Yorktown amused
our officers by his earnest declaration that
"Massas had some mighty big sheetiron guns
ober dar, dat do heap OBJ mischief"
Perry Davis, the inventor ofthe celebrated
Pain Killer " died in Providence few days
ago. after an illness Of some two weeks He
was II years of age.
Mrs. Darlington makes Shakespeare say,
Sweet are the uses of advertisements. "-1t's
eo--if he didn't say it.
Parson Brownlow has been appointed chap
lain of the Goth Ohio regiment. He has &C.
cepted.
Flag Officer Farrsgut, of the Mississippi
squadron, is Tenuessean by birth. and mar.
ried his wife in Norfolk. He has many friends
at Memphis whom he is about to visit.
Two men by the name of Snow and Ocking-
ton. while pouring out the contents Of demi-
john of spirits a, Stratford Hallow. were severe
ly burned by the ignition of the liquor. Shows
injuries, il is feared, are fatal.
Fanny Fern says that i, is jus, as sensible q
move to get married without counting, as to at.
tempt to succeed in business without advertis.
ing. Well said, Fanny.
Beaurcgard calls the recent battlefield
"Shioh." We presume that his Secretary OF
State, Judah p. Benjamin, will abdicate now,
for the prophecy of the patriarch Jacob wa.
that "the sceptre shall not depar, from Judah
until Shiloh come" -Preniice.
Heavy as was the fruit crop in the West las.
fall, the coming season promises even still great.
er abundance. The trees are covered with
bloom in all quarters. In Central and South.
ern Illinois prospects arc exceedingly good.
A TERRIFIC BoMBARDMENT.-A letter from
an officer in Fort Jackson, in tho New Oreas.
Bulletin, states that the Federal feet, in its ut.
tack upon that fort. averaged one shell every
twelve seconds, or five minute, for nearly
seventy hours.
Gov. Hulbrook has received draft from
some Fermonters in California for 1886, to he
applied to the relief of the sick and wounded
Vermont soldiers. H,d it not been for the re
cent disastrou. food in that State this donation
would have been much larger
In digging the graves of the brave men OIL
the Vermont Third Regiment who Tell befor,
Yorktown, the remains Of some soldiers of the
Revolution we're turned up. The brass buttons
that had been on their clothing were in good
preservation.
Some Jerseymen in New York regiment. hav.
been complaining to the Paterson Resis,e,
that Governor Morgan is charging them 500
each for tho shoddy uniforms furnished them
at the time of enlistment.
DR.. SANBoRN's REMAIys, who died o, Sbir
Island on the 3D. of April, were shipped foI
Boston in the Black Prince, on the 9Th of the
same month. On the 9th it became necessary
owing to some imperfection in the process Of
preservation, to consign the remains to watery
grave. After appropriate ceremonies the body
was buried in the deep.
Envious persons are for the most par, I'm.
grateful, mean, proud, important, and malicious
they lie under misfor'une common calamity
and common blessings fall heavy upon them
nature gives them share in the first. and their
i'll nature in the latter; and having their own
trouble, and the happiness of their neighbors to
disturb them, they Iced no other ingredients oil
misery.
Timothy Titcomb, moraizing in his bsauti
full way on unfinished humanity. says ID
never knew Christian to set himself up as a
pattern. So far as l know, they are very shy
of pretension, and deprccate nothing more than
the thought that anybody should take them for
finished specimens of the work of Christianity
in human life and character
MoRE VI. PRISONERS AT RICHMOND In a
line received from Capt. j. r, Drew, dated at
Richmond. April 18th, he says: "Eldrijge,
Taylor and Elliott of the Sd Vt were brought
here prisoners; also two others of Co. D, severe.
y wounded. have visited them and have
done all could for their comfort"
In the list published, Eidridge was set down
missing, Taylor and Elliott were reported kill
ed Free Press.
A QUAKER ToAsT.-Thi, is me and mine to
thee ana thine | wish when thee and thine
come 10 see me and mine, that me and mine
will treat thee and thine as kindly as thee and
thine have treated me and mine.