Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-02-09
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OTTAUQuEcHEE CHAPTER No. 81,
A, NJ, regular convocation Monday eve
Feb. 81, 1871, Z O'Clock.
WOODSTOCK LODGE No. 81 f. & A
NJ, regular communication Wednesday
March 8, 1871, at 7 o'clock.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC -
Regular Meeting of Sheridan Post, No
%, Dept. of Vermont, G. A. r., j
held on the 1st & Sd Thursday Evening
of each month. All applications for mus
ter must be made at Regular Meetings
By order of the Post Commander,
G.. A. WOODBURY., Adt.
Considerable advertising is crowded
out this week, that will certainly ap
pear in our next.
The G. A. r. is entitled to thank
of the citizens of Woodstock and vicin
ity for the very able course OF lectures
given under their auspices this winter
Prot. Angels lecture last Friday even
ing finished the course, and it is sale
to have been very able discourse.
!. Buy your Dry Goods at E. I. Alb
| bolts, Tracy Block.
An interesting story may be found
on the outside of this paper entitled
"Miss Tamarind's Christmas day. II
is long, but it will pay to read it.
No snow yet--weather milld-busi-
ness dull, and "local items" scarce
The adjourned meeting of the Wind.
sor County Agricultural Society will
be held at the Town Hall, tomorrow
(Friday) at 10 o'clock a. m.
DR.. Cotton who has been visiting
his friends in the north part of the
State for week or two past, has re-
turned to his office in Woodstock
where he is prepared to heal the sick.
Middlebury Jail is now lined with
boiler-iron, 3-16 of an inch thick.
A nibbler is a man who enters store,
runs his fingers into every sugar barrel
and takes couple of ounces then goes
to the cheese and cuts of a slice, just to
taste then, as matter Of course, must
have cracker; and before he makes
up his mind to purchase half a dollars
hRorth he has eaten up the profits on
two dollars worth of groceries.
"THE WAY OF THE TRANsaREssoR Is
HARD.-That "smooth faced youth !,
John Haggerty, who had been convicted
in the Police Court, Boston, for an as
sault with intent to rob, recently, man
aged to get out Of the scrape only to get
into another and worse one. He
started for his home in Woodstock and
got as far as White River Junction when
he took fancy to chest of tea on one
of the trains. When discovered he
claimed to be 'Boston Runner and
stated that the tea was marked wrong.
Railroad man No. 2, who suddenly made
his appearance, knew it to be shipped
through, and marked" John. He had
his trial before a justice at White River
village, was bound up in tue sum of $500,
and is now boarding with jailor Hew lit.
His father, who is an honest, hard
working man, has spent over $1,000 in
buying this rascal off. If he keeps on
Fsuying him---and we understand his
mother is urging the thing agaiu--he
will find himself in old age on the town,
and the boy in prison, or "dropped from
a scaffold.' 9Nowis agood time to quit,
and let he,law take its course.
Our friend, Henry D. Briggs, of Pom
fret, lost valuable dog this week. He
says he would rather have lost his best
horse. We have not learned the partic-
ulars. Some say a chatter" of dogs shot
him, others say he fell into bad COM
|panyin this village (Woodstock) and was
bit so that he died going home. He
was remarkable for his intelligence.
"Comical Brown" holds forth this
(Thursday) evening at the Town Hall.
Brown has no equal in the "comical'
and his assistants can't be beat in vocal
powers.
No clue to the Woodstock Bank rob-
bers can be found. Dix Wheeler went
to New York, but failed to get his eye
ION them.
@Whitmore & Clarks Minstrels
will give another of their excellent con.
certs at Town Hall, Woodstock, on Sat-