Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-05-11
WHOLE NO. 1886.
Personal AND POLITICAL.

The only man in New York who is all
powerful with Gen. Grant is Gen. In
gals. He is an old army officer, an old
friend Of Grants and is q man of great
shrewdneSs and force. He knows more
abou, horses than any man in the United
States. He could make fortune at
any time as horse tanner if his other
talents should prove unavailable. His
power over the equine quadruped is
truly wonderful. Many of Gen. Grants
proceedings III New York can only be
understood through Gen. Rufus Ingalls,.
So says the Cincinnati Commercial.
1t is understood that the Joint High
Commission have agreed upon the set
tlement Of the San Juan boundary by
giving the United States that Island.
The expense OF assessing and col
lecting the revenue for the first three
months Of this year as compared with
the corresponding months of last year
shows reduction of 100000.
ANOTHER GIGANTIC JOB. The Sacra-
mento Union says the real object of the
Lower California colonization scheme is
to induce the Government to purchase
worthless territory from Mexico nomin.
ally, but really from the Company, which
is composed largely of Members of Con-
gress and other American politicians.
The Evening Posts special says
the treaty made by the Joint High Com
mission for the settlement of the Alaba-
ma question provides for a mixed COM
mission to examine and pass upon the
validity Of all claims presented, and that
the Emperor Of Brazil is to be the arbi-
traitor.
OF the twenty one members OF the
Joint Committee to inquire into the
ku-klux outrages, eight are democrats,
six Representatives and two Senators.
There will accordingly be two democrats
on each of the four subcommittee in
to which the Joint Committee will be
divided.
President Grant promptly signed
the Ku Klux bill. If he had been half
as active in his efforts to reduce taxation
as he was in pushing this infamous force
bill through Congress, poor people
could now obtain coal s. a ton cheaper,
and other commodities at a considerable
reduction
Judging from the manner in which
the claims of loyal men are rolling up
before the claim commission, it will take
them ten years to 90 over the list, and
the aggregate is likely to exceed $780,.
100000.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
ordered the sale Of the materials of the
Marine Hospital located at San Francis
co, which was shaken by the shock of
an earthquake in 1868. Since that time
it has been unoccupied
The Jeff Davis Mansion in Rich
mond is now used as a public school
The poet Longtellow has been re-
peatedly invited to read his poems in
public, but alwas declines.
The Rev. NJ. s. Gaddis has been
again indicted by the United States
Grand Jury for neglect of duty while
Assessor of Internal Revenue of the
Second District, for receiving presents
and bribes, and for offering bribe to
his assistant assessor, to induce him to
allow Gaddis to commit frauds in office.
The Ohio Legislature recently
passed a law that the books in Use in
the public schools OF the State shall not
be changed oftener than once in three
years, and then only by a vote Of two.
thirds of the respective school boards.
One of the original proprietors of
the Cardiff Giant is making some inter-
esting revelations concerning it. He
says that while the man who conceived
the fraud was looking for a place to
plant his giant, he visited sites in Lee,
Stockbridge and Great Darlington,
Mass, and decided to sink the ''petri-
faction in the latter place, at the soda
springs known as the pool" But on
going out to the place of birth, he con-
sidered the expense of transportation
too great, and so Berkshire lost what
Onondaga gained.
Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky,
weighs 400 pounds and can do more
hard work than most men of half his
weight. The secret of his endurance
consists in the fact that he refreshes
himself every few minutes by little maps
during which he loses nothing of what
is going on, though seeming wholly un.
conscious. In trying an arduous case
in court, he will be asleep half the time,
yet his senses appear constantly awake,
and no fact of interest to his client es-
capes his attention
A MIsCuIEvoUs MEDDLER REMOVED.
The President has removed DR.. Van
Aernam, from the place of Commission.
er of Pensions, which he has used to
insult and persecute homeopathic ply
sicians and surgeons. DR.. Van Aer-
nam illustrated a kind of bigotry which
is becoming rare among men of culture
in any profession, and made himself and
his office ridiculous and odious by the
most gratuitous insults to gentlemen of
education and approved scientific skill.
Mr. James H, Baker, of Minnesota,
is the new Commissioner of Pensions.
FATAL AccIDENT.-Joseph Laprance,
a Frenchman, aged 1S, was severely in
iured recently by pile of lumber fall
, ing upon him at Sturtevant's lumber