Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-24
Summary OF News.

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The cattle disease has appeared in Ire.
land
THE French Assembly has passed the
Naturalization bill.
A CONTRACT has been made for tunnel
ing the Sierra Nevada.
DUBLIN is quiet, the rioters having
been fined and released.
REPORTS from all parts Of Arkansas
say the crop prospects were never better.
A TORNADO in Wisconsin caused i'm
mense damage, two persons being drown
ed.
The Prince of Wales has been installed
Grand Patron Of the Freemasons of Ire
land.
C1AdGETT, Republican, is elected Del
egate to Congress from Montana by 1000
majority.
OWING to the failure of the hay crop
good COWS sell for $40 each in Penobscot
County, Maine,
The number of clergymen in the
United States is placed at $1,000; their
average salary at 800.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS has accepted
the appointment Of Arbitrator at Geneva
on the Alabama claims.
The Illinois Democratic State Central
Committee have called a State Conyen-
ton at Springfield Oct. 4.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION reports the total
casualties of the Versailles forces in the
second siege of Paris at 7,5l4.
New YORK and the New England
States together have almost onc-third of
the cities in the United States.
The British House of Commons passed
the Ballot bill, after an exciting debate
between Disraeli and Gladstone.
The French Post Office authorities
are about arranging money-order sys-
TEN with England and the United States.
The National Division of the Sons of
Temperance have arranged for q Conven-
ton in Boston, on Sept. 6, to continue
for five days,
SEVEN dollars was received in Wash
ington from a New Yorker who had not
paid the full amount of his income tax
for the past year.
In tho English House of Commons,
Viscomt Enfield denied that negotiations
were pending with the United States for
the abolition of privateering.
New lodges of knights of Pythias are
established in Massachusetts, at the rate
of about one per month. There are now
fifty three lodges in that State
The female suffragists of San Fran
cisco and Stockton are preparing to
bring suits against the County Clerks for
refusing to register them as voters.
A NUMBER of small boys, while hunting
near Oreville, CAL, mistook q Mexican
sheep-herder sleeping in the grass for a
bear, and shot him. He died in few
hours.
A DREADFUL MURDER occurred at En-
ranoocy Eng, woman having been
ruthlessly killed by some ruffians, who
also seriously wounded her father and
two children.
The rinderpest, which caused great
ravages among the cattle in Austria for
the last ten years, has recently made its
appearance in the vicinity of Vienna and
in that city itself.
In the Dental Convention, at White
Sulphur Springs, Dr. HARTMAN, of Bos-
ton, read a paper on the formation of
teeth, showing them to be fbrous. The
views expressed caused some surprise and
considerable comment.
CITIZENS of the United States, before
going abroad, should obtain their pass
ports from the Department of State.
No fees are now charged for them. Ma
turalization papers must be presented
with their application.
The managers of the steamboat and
railroad lines of the North west have de-
cided to make the tariff 25 cents per 100
pounds for grain, and so centsper barrel
for Flour from all points on the MISSISSIPPI
pi River to Milwaukee, Chicago and Du-
luth
The fair of the New York State Agri-
cultural Society Is to be held in Albany
on the I'd, Sd, 4th, 9Th and 9th of Octo-
Der. Entries, except for fruits and flow
ers, must be made on or before Saturday,
the I'd day of September. The pre-
NUNS are open to all corners, residents
of New York or non-residents, on equal