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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07
Foot and Month Disease In New York.

A Veterinary Surgeon says THE foot
and mouth disease has broken ont
among cattle and hogs, in sections OF
New York State. I visited farm and
found six COWS, one two year-old, and
one yearling that had been taken with
very severe sore mouths, profuse flow OF
saliva, so they could not eat, and had to
be fed on Cruel. They broke out in
front of feet and between clogs with
vesicles, and their hoofs in part sepn-
rated Those that give milk in man
ner dried up and lost flesh rapidly. One
COW Gin calf as yet has escaped. Two
hogs had died, and two more had sore
feet. Some pigs that were fed some of
the cold milk from the diseased cows,
mixed with swill, were taken with
diarrhGa. From these symptoms I was
satisfied it was the foot and mouth dis
ease (epizootic aphtha) of Europe, and
recently in New York State. I was in
formed that several COWS had been afflict-
ed with the same disease, some of which
ran the roads. had not time to make
further Investigations how this disease
was brought to this locality. fit must
come from some other vicinity, as has
been so strongly advocated in England
and Scotland, and quite recently in New
York, where it was thought to be in
troduced from Canada cattle, it needs in
vestigation. Oxford Furnace being on
the line of the Delaware and Lackawanna
Railroad, over which many cattle are
transported from the State Of New York,
it might have been introduced here from
infected cattle discharging saliva on hay,
which was dropped out of the cars, and
eaten by cows running at large along
the railroad. At all events, if cattle are
running the road with a contagious dis
ease, although not often very fatal, yet
causing great loss to the owners and
danger to human health, as the milk
drank warm is almost certain to COM
municate this disease to man, means
should be taken to prevent its spreading.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07
FINANCIAL,
Investment Securities.

JAY COOKE Co.. are now selling, and recommend as
profitable and safe investment for all classes the First
Mortgage S-3O Gold Bonds of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company, bearing Seven and Three-Tenths
per cent gold interest more than per cent currency
and secured by first and only mortgage on the entire
Road and equipments and on more than $4,000 Acres
of Land to every mile of track 500 Acres of Land to
each $1,000 Bond The highest current price will be
paid for U. s. FveTwenties and all other marketable
full information, as well as the bonds themselves will be
furnished on application by JAY COOKE 4 Co., Phila-
delpha, New York and Washington and by most Banks
and Bankers throughout the country.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07
Bread and Meat.

The last part of the Zeitsc1,U ,fm
BiOlgie contains the results of an clabor-
ate series of experiments by Gustave
Meyer, of Oldensburg, on the effects of
feeding dogs and man on bread alone,
and bread mingled with meat and other
articles Of diet. He shows, what indeed
has long been known, that to feed either
animals or man on bread alone is a great
waste of material, and that immense
quantities must be given in order that
the body should lose no flesh, while on
the other hand, the addition of some,
even though small quantity, of meat is
economical. He demonstrates that the
tissues of the body become more watery
with insufficient food, which renders the
whole organism less capable of resisting
injurious influences. In his experiments
on man he endeavored to ascertain which
of the several kinds of bread in ordinary
use white bread, rye-bread, black bread)
was absorbed in greatest amount during
its passage through the alimentary canal,
and found that white wheaton bread
occupies the first place, then leavened
rye-bread, then the bread (rye) prepared
by the Horsford- Liebig process, and,
lastly, the P"mpernichel North German
black bread. Nevertheless, the first is
not so satisfying to the feeling of hunger
as the three latter, and is more expensive
in every point of view. He denies the
great nutritious value often attributed
to bran, since the heterogeneous compounds
it contains are mingled with much non
assimilable matter but admits that, if
these could be extracted, and were then
returned to the flour, the best results
would be obtained, rs the meal already
contains abundance of salts.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

LIVING IN FALsEHooD.-Let us merely
suppose two sisters living together for
years in full interchange of thought on
every subject and community of inter-
ests. At last one of them falls into n
habit or practice, not, indeed, directly
injurious to her sister, but such as would
cause her deep pain, and forfeit her es-
teen. Day for day she exchanges the
usual affectionate morning greeting,
taking pains that no alteration be per-
ceived in her manners, and then goes
out on false pretense to do some act or
follow some vicious passion which her
sister fondly believes her to be too good
and pure and highminded to do or enjoy.
BY and by she comes home with smil-
ing face, though a little uneasy at the
chance Of a question which may betray
her, and she accepts her sisters kiss as
if she had as good a right to it as ever,
and perhaps goes with her to church on
Sunday, and talks just as she used to do
with her, about things good and holy.
DO we not all know that such q life as
this would become, in a week, nothing
but hollowness and rottenness that the
very power to retain any true affection
would be lost, and that the deceived sis
ter would have right to say that no
cheating or swindling of trade would be
half so base as such swindle of respect
and love ?-Echo.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07
Commander ROdgers's Official Report.
AsIATIo FLEET, J
U. S. FLAGSHIP COLORADO, :
Roiepa Archoro0n Core0 June 10 1871 |

U. S. FLAGSHIP COLORADO, :
Boisee Anchorage, Corea, June IL, 1871. J
GENERAL ORDER No. 32.-The Com.
mander-in- Chief has pleasure as well as
pride in making known to the officers,
seamen, and marines of the Asiatic Fleet
his high satisfaction Of the gallantry and
endurance evinced by them in the recent
operations against the Coreans on Kang-
hoa Island.
On the LIST inst. while the Monocacy,
Palos, and four steam launches were en-
gagged in surveying, they were suddenly
assailed by storm of missiles from
masked batteries on the shore.
With the greatest promptitude and
gallantry this treacherous attack was
met and the enemy driven from his guns
and his position.
The Corean Government having failed
to make any apology for this murderous
attack, on the 10th inst. an expedition,
consisting of landing force detailed
from the Colorado, Alaska, and Benicia,
under Commander L. A. Kimberly,
with the gunboatss Monocacy and Palos,
all under Commander II. c. Blake, Com
manding-in-Chief, was dispatched to
punish the enemy.
The operations of the 10th and 18th
insts., which resulted in the capture of
five smaller forts, eliminated on the 18th
in taking, by assault, the enemy's strong
hold located in most formidable posi-
ton, at very dangerous part of the
river, and desperately defended.
Two hundred and forty-threo of the
enemy's dead were counted within and
around these works, and fifty flags were
taken.
The works were formidable not only
from the natural features of the land,
from shoals and violent currents in the
river, but were rendered artifically so
by hundreds of weapons, of various kinds,
placed by the enemy for their defense.
The gallant band which encountered
and overcame the perils of the naviga-
ton, which fought its way, against
vastly superior forces, through mud and
marsh, over PERCEPTIONS hills and diff
cult ravines, and finally stormed and
captured the enemys stronghold, is
worthy of all praise.
To one and all the Commander-in-
Chief expresses his thanks, and the pride
he feels in commanding such a body of
officers and men. He makes known to
the commanding officers of vessels his
obligations for the efficient drill and or
ganization which have produced the reli-
able force composing the Asiatic feet.
10 those brave men now suffering
from their wounds he tenders his hearty
sympathy.
While rejoicing in the success achiev-
ed by our arms, he expresses his pro-
found sorrow for the loss of those GAL
liant men who gave up their lives in vim
dicating the honor of their flag.
While deploring their loss, let us pre-
serve the memory of their bravery.
Among the honored dead whose loss
we deplore is Lieut.. Hugh w. Mckee,
who, CALAMITY leading his men to the
assault, fell MORALLY wounded in the cen
ter of the citadel, which he was the first
TO scale.
His memory is the more endeared to
is because we knew him, and his gallant
~ will be cherished by all as a bright
example to the service.
JOHN RODGERS,
Jommander-in- Chief of the Asiatic Fleet.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

BEYOND PER CENT.-General Craft, one
of our prominent lawyers, was hailed
while passing Freeman's iewelry store
by the proprietor with General, come
in here moment we have something
for you to solve. If a man brings his
watch to be fixed, and it cost me ten
cents to do it, and L keep it week, and
charge him six dollars, what per cent.
do | make ? We have been figuring,
and make it nine hundred per cent. and
have only got up to one dollar. How
much do you say it would be at six dol
lars ?"
Well" replied the general, "I do
not wonder at your perplexity; for it is
well known, and the celebrated Rabbit
calculating machine has demonstrated,
that at certain points in progressive
numbers the law governing them changes.
In this case the law would change, and
long before it would reach the six dollars
it would run out of per cent. and into
what is known as lvceay."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07
The General Sherman,

Five years ago an American trading
schooner, the General Sherman, loaded at
the Chinese port of Che-foo and proceed
ed with general cargo, across the Vel
low sea to the opposite peninsula of
Corea. She is said to have had on board
three American citizens in the persons of
her owner, master and mate, two English
subjects, two Portuguese and a crew of
Cinnamon. AT the mouth of one of the
large rivers which flow from the eastern
mountain ridges of Corea into the Yellow
sea, the General Sherman fell in with a
Chinese trading junk. The master was
taken on board to act as pilot up to an
inland mart Of Corean commerce. This
cautious oriental began to discover as
they assembled the river, that the Coreans
considered the intrusion of the foreigner
as an act of hostility, and that there was
every probability of their resentment
assuming a highly disagreeable form.
On some preteXt or other, the pilot threw
up his charge, and carried to Che-foo II
story about the burning of the General
Sherman and the massacre of all on
board. 1t has never been accurately
ascertained whether the pilot drew
entirely upon his imagination for the
materials Of this tale, whether he con-
strncted it by the aid of threatening init.
nations received from the natives, or
whether, before leaving the coast, he had
actually received authentic news of the
fate of the schooner. He stated the date
of his abandonment Of the Sherman to
have been Sept II, 1866, and it was
about the end of October when he reach.
ed Che-foo. This would allow time
enough to render it probable that he had
remained on the Corean coast for week
or two after leaving the American trader.
Beyond the story of the pilot, and some
contirmatory statements elected by sub
sequent inquiries in Corea, the fate of
the General Sherman has remained a
mystery from that day to this.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07


In the fall the dferepce between the temperature of
night and day greater than at any other time of the
year. In the early autumn the quicksilver sometimes
rises as high during the day in the most fervd sum
mer weather while at night it often sinks to an almost
wintry point The human body not being made of steel
on India rubber sonsby feels these tremendous changes
To fortify e system against Them genuine tonic is
required and the public has long since discovered that
among this description of medicines Hostetter's
Stomach Btters infinitely the best 1t gently auckens
the circulation regulates the bowels tones the liver
braces the and thus puts the whole physique on
its defense against the vicsstudes of temperature in
our climate Few, if any cases of epidemic fever are
heard OF in localities where it is in common use As it
becomes moro and moro widely known and the demand
for it increases chis and fever and the bilious remit
tent seem to recede before it, and if it should come
into universal use these diseases would cease to be
known as the scourges of our lowlying and marshy
districts. That homey bit OF proverbal philosophy
that prevention is better than cure" should be espe
ciay borne in mind in the autumn months and indeed
in all seasons together with the fact that among all the
preventves of malarious disease, HOsetters Stomach
Bitters is the most safe and potent.
Be certain however, to obtain the genuine article as
countless limitations of pernicous character abroad
See that the externals all right and remember that
Hoststters Stomach Btters is sold in bottles alone.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07
Waiting.

A listlcss holiday the Dreaming spray
Boats upward to the sky,
And not living dye
Relieves the llIelcss day,
sit and pant with all this summer toll
That takes from me my strength,
49, An mavoiling length
or years without one spoil.
And nothing have | gOrncrcd, nothing wor
Nothing had come to me
Nothing that can see
In all the work begun.
SO pass the languid summers one by one,
And one by one the days
A life of Junes and Mays
With all would undone.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

RNDERPEsT. The Russian cattle
plague, while vending its course over
Europe to the British Isles. has been
slowly advancing toward Eastern ST.
IBERIA, and through Northern China
Last winter its depredations began on
the Russian Pacific coast, destroying
nearly all the cattle from the Amoor
down to Waladstock. 1t may now adj
vance into Corea, and pass into Japan,
or even reach America by way of the
Alentian Islands and Alaska. DR.. Mac
gowan lately drew up report in relation
to this malady, for the information of
the japanese Government, transmitted
through Minister De Long. DIR. Mac
gowan had already appraised the Secrc-
tary Of State at Washington of the pos
sibility of the epidemic reaching Alaska,
ria the Ascension Islands. Prohibitory
legislation seems to have hitherto pro-
tected the Atlantic coast, but America
is now exposed in a more vulnerable
quarter. -Shdnghoi Newsletter.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

FAMINE HAS FOLLOWED ON TIE TRACK
OF WAR in the fairest land of Europe,
but neither war nor famine is as destruc-
tive as neglected or maltreated disease.
Essential as food to the starvating is DIR.
WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs to all who
suffer dyspepsia, congestion OF torpidity
OF the liver, constipation or intermittent
fevers. To treat these complaints with
mineral poisons and acid alkaloids, while
this mild and certain remedy is within
the reach of all, is little better than
moonstruck madness.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07
Another Railroad HORROR.

One of the most appalling of the many
railroad disasters we have had to note
took place on the Eastern Railroad.
Revere station, the scene of the acct
dent, is way station seven miles by
rail from the station in Boston and four
miles and half in an air line from the
City Hall. At this point an accom-
mediation train was on the track, when
the Bangor express collided with it.
The way train had left few passen-
gers and was just starting up in order
to back off on side track when the ex-
press burst into view. The rear passen-
ger car had moved but few feet when
the engine crashed right through it.
The cars of the accommodation train
were crowded with passengers, and none
of them had sufficient warning to allow
them to escape. There was nothing but
a momentary gleam Of the locomotives
light, the thunder Of its approach, and
then the crash came carrying "a souls
into eternity almost instantly. The
rear car was crushed to pieces with the
exception of the front end, which hung
IN fragments on the engine.
Only two or three persons in it escap-
ed unframed. These were entangled in
the timbers, and were extricated from
their dreadful situation with much
trouble. The rear portion of the ex-
press train was not thrown off the track,
and none of the passengers were harmed,
although one of the brakemen was
jammed into helpless position on one
of the platforms.
As soon as possible, the dead bodies
We're removed from the wreck, and de-
posted in the little station, while the
wounded We're extricated from their
horrible situation, and carried into
houses, and cared for near the scene, un-
til the arrival Of an engine from Boston,
when they were sent to the hospitals in
a Pullman car. The killed and wounded
were nearly all Lynn, Salem and Boston
people. BY the sad accident "a people
were killed instantly, and about 4Oiniur-
ed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

MAcDALENA BAY.-The San Francisco
papers are severe on the Magdalena Bay
scheme, and one of them, the Ala Cali
fo,nian, chronicling the arrival at Cape
de Lucas of the last of the colonists in
a very dilapidated condition, says; "In
the meantime the telegraph informs us
that the company is seeking to entice
the French Communists to that lively
country. The French Government was
infinitely more msrciful--only proposed
to send them TO New Caledonia, :"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

Last autumn persons who wished to
observe "the prophecies" inquired of
us whether twas according to good usage
to gnaw the corn from the cob, or if it
should be cut into the plate. Generally,
though not always, matters of table Ell
quette are founded in common sense. A
bird can only be properly enjoyed by
picking it: hence good usage sanctions
the use of the fingers in removing the
flesh from the bones of bird, while one
who should take the bone of beefstcak
or mutton chop in his fingers would be
looked upon as ill-bred. The only way
to get the full satisfaction out of green
corn is to gnaw 1t from the cob, and
though the operation, especially to n
foreigner who knows not corn, is not an
elegant one to witness, it is performed
at the best ordered tables. SO generally
is it conceded that corn should be eaten
from the cob, that silversmiths now
make silver green-corn handles these
are thrust into the large end of the cob,
and allow it to be held without soiling
the fingers. 1t is rather an awkward
matter to cut the corn from the ear at
table, especially if the knives are not
sharp. If it is to be eaten in this way
it should be prepared before it is sent to
table. The operation of eating from the
cob is much facilitated by drawing a
sharp knife lengthwise of each row, in
such manner that the hull of each kerr
mel will be split. When this is done, the
digestible, nutritious contents of the kerr
nels will slip out, and the often tough
hull be left upon the cob. Those whose
teeth are sensitive or defective will find
this great help,-American AgricuHu-
Tia
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

The SACRED Crown, published by Lee
q Shepard, is commended to the atten-
ton of all who are contemplating the
purchase of a new singing book for
choir or convention purposes. See Adj
vertisement
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

LosT.-A st. Paul carman, who re
Gently lost one of his horses, of which he
was very fond, has been made insane by
the chatting of his acquaintance, who
told him he had killed the animal by
over-driving him. He is continually
dreading that he is to be hanged for
numbering his horse, and it has been
found necessary to place him in the
Jail.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

HoN. JOSEPH FAREWELL, Mayor of
Rockland, Me-, Isaac M. Bragg, Esq,
Bangor, and Messrs. Pope Bros, Ma
chias, Me-, lumber merchants fully en-
dorsed the SHERIDAN CAVALRY CONDITION
POWDERS, and have given the proprietors
liberty to use their name in recommend
ing them.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

The most astonishing cure of chronic
diarrhea we ever heard of is that of
VIM. Clark, Frankfort Mills, Waldo Co.,
Maine; the facts are attested by Ezra
Treat, Upton Treat, and M. A. Merrill,
either Of whom might be addressed for
particulars. Mr.. Clark was cured by
JoHNsoN's ANoDYNE IMMINENT.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

WAY,-When the Rev. Mr.. Sears was
settled in Wayland, Father Allen said to
him that he also once preached there as
a candidate, and should have been set
tied but for one little thing. a" What
was it pray ?" "Oh, the people didn't
want me-"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

LEADERS Of Choirs and Musical Con-
ventions are invited to examine the new
book OF Mr.. Leonard Marshall, well
known as an author and musical con-
ductor 1t is highly praised by compe-
tent Judges.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

The San Francisco papers publish a
list of their wealthy men," Fifty-one
millionaires, with fortunes running from
one to ten millions of dollars ten are
worth three-quarters of million, and
sixty-one have half million and up
ward.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

A man whose wife hanged herself in
his presence, on being asked why he did
not prevent the tragedy, replied 81
cut her down three times last week, and
! can't be always cutting her down"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

Give the positive, comparative, and
superlative degree of getting on in the
world. Get on ; get honor; get honest.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin, PIN
pies, ringworm, salt-rheum, and othel
cutaneous affections, cured, and the skin
made soft and smooth, by using the JU-
NIPER TAR SOAP, made by CAswELI,
HAZARD & Co., New York. 1t is more
convenient and easily applied than other
remedies, avoiding the trouble of the
greasycompoundsnnow in use.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

Rag"RAILROAD BONDS. Whether
you wish to buy or sell, write to CHARLES
w. HAssLER, No. 7 Wall st., New York.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

A CONSPIRACY. In Washington man
named Darden murdered gambler
named Mccarthy. From remarks made
in raving fit by Dardcn, who is thought
to be insane, it is coniectured that there
was a conspiracy on the part Of certain
gamblers to murder Mccarthy, that lots
were drawn, and that the unlucky num-
Der fell to Darden, who performed the
deed in compliance with the terms of the
conspiracy. During one night he several
times exclaimed, "Why was ] balloted
for to kill Mccarthy p 1t is thought
the wounds he received on the head by
the butting of Mccarthy have caused his
madness. He attempted to take the life
of his fellow-prisoner, James, who was
his companion on the night of the muir
der.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-07

DoNG PRETTY WEL1-Speaking of
thunder, James Russell Lowell has a
good story on that head. He tells of a
high and mighty Englishman, walking
up and down the piazza of a hotel in
western village with that "certain con-
descension" in his manner which foreign
snobs think is the thing when travelling
in the United States. "That was a
heavy clap of thunder you had here last
night, says the Briton to prairie chap
that crossed his path. "Well, yes, said
the native, who took in the others style
at a glance, eve did think it pretty well
considering the number of inhabitants.