Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-06
State News Items.

in Vermont last year Is $l4,ooo,ooo'
Father Boylan administered the
temperance pledge to over 200 boys on
St, Pat"ick's day at Rutland.
There were nine hundred car loads
of slate shipped from the Poultney sta
ton of the Rutland and Washington
Railroad during 1870.
West Randolph is to have an indie
pendent musical association organized
for the purpose of greater efficiency in
the rendering of Divine and secular
music.
For several years more cattle, hor'
ses and sheep from Vermont have been
sold at Brighton and Cambridge mark
els than from all the other States Of
New England.
"A couple of serious accidents &C.
Cured at North Springfield few days
since. George Curier was sawed by a
circular saw nearly the whole length OF
his leg, and H. Lockwood had three
fingers cut off by the same saw.
The assertion is made that more
than one.half the hotels of the country
are kept by natives of New Hampshire
and Vermont.
There are nine students from Yer
mont in Cornell University, N, Y.
"A few weeks since Gilmore Morri-
son was making wedge with an axe,
and nearly cut his thumb off. He
patched it on as well as he could, and
has since been playing thumbs up
Mr.. Russell Cobleigh of Chester
the baby cab manufacturer, finds the
water power there insufficient to meet
the wants of his growing trade, and he
proposes to set up steam works.
Many young people are attending
Black River Academy at Ludlow thi'
term, under the management of its gen
tlemanly and thorough Principal, MIR
Gitfin. Ludlow Gazette.
Col. Geo. A. Merrill, late Of th'
Rutland railroad, assumes charge of thu
New London and Northern railroad
with headquarters at New London
Conn.
Mr. P. w. Johnson Of Dandy, ha
r sap evaporation in which he recent.
= boiled down ninety two barrels of sa
in little less than twenty hours.
: 1t may be fact not general
= known that the "Battle of Hubbards
e ton was the only battle fought on VI
T. soil. What is known as the "Battle {
Bennington having been fought in tn
, State of New York.
, The Messrs. Russell are maxim
? their contracts for building large p;
4 per mill at Bellows Falls, and have a
reudy contracted part of their timbe
q at the new steam mill on the Clar
/, farm. Other manufacturing establish
ments are in contemplation.
y We learn that the officers Of II
Vermont Horse Stock Co. have pu
= chased of Hon. Ezra Meach of She
/ burne, 1925 acres of his farm for S2S
) 900.
- The jewelry store of E. H. HUI
tington at ST. Adams, was broken mi
d on Saturday morning last, but the bu
% glars were frightened away without S
- curing any booty.
- The observatory built on Camel
10 Hump last summer, by Sylvester De
III by of Colchester, went out Of sigl
0 about the LIST of February, last, and HI
III since been invisible to the jewellers b
low. On the 10Th ult,, Dorwin Carpe
G5 ter and Others from Huntington Cente
90 80 visited the mountain and found Il
- :. wind had broken one of the guys az
% and all the ports except one, and tt
in structure had toppled over.
ol The Butter market at st. Albar
- on Tuesday of last week, was unusual
w active, with advanced prices. Prlu
es dairics brought 80 to 80; extra, Acc.
II In Manchester, the big spout for rul
ol ming lumber down from the steam m
20 at ROCKVILLE, is in operation. 1t is thr
le miles and one hundred rods in lengt
OF and at the foot has two branches
en- switches, so that no delay is occasion
NC while removing the lumber from t
" foot of the spout. The boards q
ly thrown into the spout from the camia
II, of the mill and do not stop until tn
is arrive at the end of their three m
w. course Thirty thousand feet per d
can thus be transported down mou
~ tain where it is impossible to make
or good road, and almost without expen
'ut The WATERBURY, BANK BURGLARS.
ne &c No trace of Barton, who escaped fro
~ Ill M ,,n,,nntol liz M Loot r,ank