Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-03
Summary of News.

In the New York riot, the number of
killed and wounded was 142.
The President has continued tho lease
of SANTANA Bay one year longer.
FIVE persons TO each house is the re-
ported average for Great Britain.
The Spanish Cortes has reaflirmed its
former resolution never to part with
Cuba.
The Dublin Chief of Police, who was
stabbed by Fenian, has died of his
wounds.
The Cuban General Leon Tamayo was
captured lately and executed at Sancti
Espiritus.
The appointment of the Archbishop of
Tours to the Archbishopric of Paris is
confirmed.
The other day ship arrived in Lon
don from Shanghai with 5000 chests of
spurious tea.
The damages for which the city of
New York is liable from the riot, amounts
to less than $4,000.
The Gar of Russia has granted per-
mission for the erection of the first Syn
agogue in ST. Petersburg.
THE number of deaths registered in
London last week was 1896, which was
forty-nine below the average.
MAINE reports only two-ffth hay
crop. New hay is now selling in Lewis
ton at $50. Last year it was only $15.
A HURRICANE has caused immense dam
age at st. Joseph, Mo-, four persons
being killed.
In the Connecticut Senate, the bill
repeating the Usury laws was passed by a
nearly unanimous vote.
SAMUEL MOODY, well-known horse
dealer, had his skull fractured in Boston,
by the kick Of horse.
A SEVERE gale visited st. Louis, doing
considerable damage. One man was
killed, and another seriously injured,
The ship Nahmon, from Bombay,
bound to Penang, has foundered in the
Indian Ocean. Thirty lives were lost.
MICHIGAN has 5, 144 lakes, covering an
area of Lila miles, besides q water
front on the great lakes of 1850 miles.
CAREFUL estimates of the cotton crop
place the probable limits of the yield
between 100000 and 3,500,000 bales.
The regular express companies COM
plain that peoples trunks and baggage
are very often called for by gangs of
thieves.
The gold placers of Sonora, Mexico,
are pronounced equal to the best Cali
fornia and Australia. Thousands are
focking there
The latest reported balance in the
United States Treasury was Currency,
So, POI, GOO; coin, $50, 735,O0O; certif-
Gates, S21, $4,000.
FRANK Roe, farmer, while loading
hay, three miles east of Norwalk, Ohio, |
was killed by lightning, which came from
an almost cloudless sky.
EIGHT hundred and fifty seven deaths,
four hundred and thirty-three births,
and one hundred and forty-seven mar
riages in New York last week.
THE Austrian government has formally
ratified the treaty acknowledging the
rights of natives of that country natu-
rallied in the United States.
MGR. j. H. GUIBERT, who was APP
pointed Archbishop of Tours in 1857,
has been appointed successor to Mgr.
Darboy, who suffered under the COM
munist rule is Paris.
In the French Assembly the Govern
ment announced that proceedings have
been commenced in the Courts against
the purchasers of arms in the United
States for malfeasance in Office.
AN explosion occurred in q securing
in New York, occasioned
by the careless use of benzine. Ten
policemen and firemen were badly burned |
while trying to eXtinguish the flames.
The large and extensive petroleum
works in Rheims, France, caught fire,
and were totally destroyed. The loss of
property is immense. Fifty persons
were burned to death by the conhagra-
ton.
HE city OF Olney, ILL.,, IS place OF
5000 or 5000 people. Recently patent
from the United States has been issued |
covering almost the entire land on which
the city is located. The patent was
issued to Z. S. Wilson.
The latest revised tables of the Census
Office make the aggregate population of
the United States to be as follows
White, 1881, $50 colorcd, 4,S79, 1873
Indian, %, 1888 japanese, 56 Chinese,
63, 1856. Total, S,549,9S7.