Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-06-22
News Summary.

months,
The nominal strength of the active
: militia of the Dominion of Canada is A,
/ $40, men.
JOHN CALVIN was killed in Philadel
phia, by falling from the masthead of q
schooner.
In ten days five girls under fourteen
years of age committed suicide in the
United States.
GEN. GEO. W. McCooK has been
nominated by the Democrats of Ohio
for Governor.
The funeral of the late Archbishop OF
Paris took place at the Cathedral OF
Notre Dame.
THERE are 1854 natives of Ireland
in Connecticut, four of whom are return
ed as colored.
The barricades in the streets of Paris
have all been removed, and traffic is
rapidly reviving.
The bill incorporating Alsace with the
German Empire has been read three
times before the German Parliament.
The vote to convict Gov Butler, in
the Nebraska Senate, sitting as a Court
of Impeachment, was 8 yeas to 8 nays.
Retailers in New York are still charg-
ing $3.50 and SO per ton for stove coal.
The wholesale cost is only about $3.50.
Ex-United States Senator John NJ.
Thayer, is candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor of Nebraska.
THE Democracy of the LIST District of
Tennessee talk of running Andrew John
son for their Representative in Congress.
AT Mendocino, California, mob has
warned all the Chinese in the town to
leave within ten days, on peril of their
lives.
Two boys, aged ten years, named
Connerton and Mosher, were drowned
at Boston in n dyke on the Black Bay
Lands.
The barns of the Cromwell Quarry
Company in Cromwell, Conn, with 30
head of cattle and IA horses, were burned
a few days since.
NJ. GIRARDIN in the LiJerW demands
for France the establishment of liberal
republic, after the model of the United
States or Switzerland.
The murderer of Miss Mcdaniel, in
California, for refusing to marry him,
has been hunted from his hiding place
and shot, and his body burned.
THE New York State Fair is to be held
at Albany on the I'd, Sd, 4th, 9th and
9TH of October next. The entry books
will be closed on the I'd of September.
AN Ottawa correspondent says that no
explanations will be given why Sir John
Young signed the Treaty of Washington
until after the treaty has been signed in
England.
No one is allowed to leave Paris after
nine o'clock in the evening, from which
hour all the gates are closed and cavalry
patrol the streets and suburbs until
morning.
In the English House of Commons
Mr.. Gladstone declared that the existing
laws We're ample to enable the govern
ment to fulfil the conditions of the treaty
Of Washington.
THE trial of Hon. C. C. Bowen, for
bigamy, was resumed Mt Washington,
and concluded. The jury, after being
out about twenty minutes, returned with
a verdict of guilty.
By blunder the people of Worcester,
Mass, have been ordered by the city
authorities to renumber their houses with
Roman numerals. The ,SDy shudders at
the thought of CCCCXLIV, over its own
door.
TELEGRAPnIc advices from Buenos
Ayres, via Lisbon, say the yellow fever
was still raging with great virulence, but
no more deaths of prominent persons
belonging to the United States had oc-
cured.
JOSEPH LERRITz, seaman OF the
British steam-tug Louisa, wrecked in
the Straits Of Magellan, has arrived at
San Francisco, on sailing vessel. He
reports all the rest of the crew killed or
made prisoners.
BAEz is making great military prepare
tons in San Domingo, having received
arms from New York. Casseres is march
ing against Cabral. The country is agi-
tated. The revolutionists are also pre-
pairing for the struggle.
The Figaro estimates that the number
men who bore arms in the late Paris in
surection and who have not vet been
identified or arrested, is fifty thousand.
The police are in constant danger from
violence at their hands.
THE Germans had an immense peace
procession in Chicago. 1t was ten miles
long, and about thirty thousand people
and one thousand vehicles were in the
line. About two hundred thousand
people witnessed the parade.
The President has recognized the fol.
lowing named persons as Vice Consuls
of Sweden and Norway: Carl Frederick
Clausen, at Washington Carl T. Pagel-
len, at Grand Haven, Mich, and Carl
Moller, at Leavenworth, Kansas.
THE sophomores won the Harvard
College regatta, beating both the juniors
and freshmen, two miles, in 1455, with
Il foul on the part of the winners and
the juniors. The Beacon Cup was won
by the freshmen, the Juniors not coming
to time.
DURING a quarrel in Rails County,
Missouri, Richard A. Menifer was at
tackled by three brothers, named Under
wood. He returned the fire and killed
one of his assailants, but was himself
killed by receiving no less than fourteen
bullets from the surviving brothers.
FoRTY-sIX members of the Allegheny
penn knights Templars have left
on tour to the Old World with the in
tention of visiting Malta, Rhodes, Eden,
Joppa, and finally, Jerusalem. In Eng
land the Knights will be the guest of
the Earl of Shrewsbury, a distinguished