Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-07-05
Summary OF News.


$3l7, 900, 900 are in circulation,
FOURTEEN persons were accidental,
drowned at Moray Firth, Scotland,
A JOURNAL to look after American
interests has been established in Mexico
THE French Government wants to bu,
1000, 600 pounds of tobacco very cheap
MEXICO is preparing for an invasion
from the Western States. Unnecessary
A DIR. in New York was fined heavily
for torturing cats in killing them with {
club
A FREsHET in the Columbia river has
flooded portion of the City of Portland
Oregon.
ADvIcEs from Central Arizona report
fresh discoveries of gold and silver
deposits.
The Nova Scotia giantess, Miss Annie
Swan, has been married to q Mr.. Bates,
in England.
SEVERAL boys have been arrested in
Newark, N. j., for injuring people with
pea shooters
THIRTEEN young ladies graduated from
the Tennessee State Female College q
few days ago.
NEARLY 10000 insurgents have been
tried by Court Martial and shot in Paris.
So despatch says.
The Pope's jubilee was celebrated
with great ceremony and enthusiasm in
all parts of Ireland.
The Greek government has forwarded
an immediate recall to Mr.. Rangabe, its
envoy to Washington.
HENRY CLAWS old home, Ashland, has
been purchased by the University of
Kentucky for 100000.
A COLONY of one Thousand Alsatians is
expected to establish themselves in the
vicinity of the capital of Mexico.
The wheat crop in Pennsylvania and
New jersey is declared to be at least ten
days earlier than it was last year.
AGAYG ofmen, supposed to be Fenians,
broke into an armory at Mallow, Ireland,
at night, and carried off 100 rifles.
LATEST reported balance in U. S.
Treasury, gold 800, 100000, currency
50, 75O, 900, certificates SIG, 100000.
THE French Government has appoint
ed Jules Ferry as Minister to Washing
ten, in place of Mr.. Trellhard, who will
return to France.
The Apaches recently made a raid
within sight of the City of Prescott and
run off with nearly 200 head of cattle and
killed several men.
The jubilee of Pope Plus TX. was
celebrated at Rome with great pomp,
and thousands of pilgrims from ali parts
of the world were present.
ACCORDING to information at the
Indian Bureau, the Indians everywhere
are quiet with the exception of those in
Arizona and Northern Texas.
The Third Auditor of the Treasury
has within a year disposed of 10000
army officers accounts, which had for
various reasons been suspended.
The Yankee Princess, Salem. Calm,
has offered 5000 francs for the body of
her late husband, the Prince, killed in
cavalry charge at the battle of Grave
lotte.
A PARIS correspondent of the London
Times writes that the international
Society, from which sprang the Paris
Commune, numbers 100000 members
in Europe.
The Chief of Police of st. Louis, hay
ing succeeded in breaking up the keno
houses, has given notice to the faro
banks that they must close within spe-
CITED time.
The construction of the tower for the
East River Bridge progresses rapidly.
Nine courses of masonry have already
been laid, rising to height of twenty
feet above the water.
The beneficiaries under the act of last
session, giving pensions to the surviving
soldiers and sailors of the war of 1879,
number about $4,000 whose claims have
already been admitted.
For the past two months the Depart
ment of State has issued on an average
60 passports day, many of them to
Germans and few to Frenchmen return
ing to their respective countries.
IT is officially announced that the Rus
sian Prince Alexis and his cortege will
leave st. Petersburg next August and
arrive in the United States in the latter
part OF September Or early in October.
Mrs. G. L. VAInAND1aHAM came to
Cumberland, Nd, to attend the funeral
of her deceased brother, Hon. John V.
L. MacMahon, and upon hearing of the
death of her husband, she became COM
pletely distracted. She was taken to
Dayton.
The American yacht Enchantress az
rived at Southampton. Eight of her
crew have been arrested for mutiny, and
one of them has been committed to pri-
son on the charge of stabbing an
officer
GEN. GREGG, commanding the Dis
trict of New Mexico, has been instructed
to prosecute with the utmost vigor the
Mexicans lately captured while engaged
in illegal traffic with the Indians on the
Texas border.
THE Grand Master of the Masonic
Grand Lodge of the State of New York,
having been invited to lay the corner
stone of the new Capitol, at Albany, all
Masons participating IN the ceremonies
will appear as Master Masons.
AN unknown man hired small boat