Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-31
News Summary.


The income tax for the last fiscal yeal
amounts to $685., O00, 900; or about 50 PEI
head.
COMMODORE AsHBURY has reconsidcred
his determination not to send the yacht
Livonia to America.
VERMoNT's elections are hereafter tc
be held biennially. There will be nc
election in that State this year.
OPPOSITION 10 the proloneation OF
President Thers's term of Office is said
to be rapidly growing in France.
THE total imports at New York fol
the past week amount to $1,000, 472,
against SS5, pa, LAG for the corresponding
week of last year.
The next elections are to be held in
September, in the States of California
and Maine. The former will be most
vigorously contested.
The city government of Paris has voted
$50, 000,0 900 to rebuild and repair the
public edifces destroyed or injured
during the reign Of the Commune.
The first cost of stock in Texas is light
the price there paid being: for year
lings, from $2 to $3.50; two-year olds,
$3.50 to 81 COWS with calves, $G to $S.
A FARMER in Mercer county, Mo-,
killed viper fifteen feet long. His
snakeship was looking leisuroly over the
fence at the man blowing, and he shot
him.
THE apple crop throughout Pennsyl-
vania, as far rs we are able to learn from
our exchanges, promises even larger
yield than last year, when they We're
plentiful.
ELEVEN thousand barrels of -four have
just been shipped from San Francisco
for Hong Kong, and another like ship
ment will soon follow, with 5000 barrels
for Singapore.
AN order has been issued by the Minis
ter of Worship, forbidding throughout
the Russian dominions the holding of
divine services according to the forms of
the Protestant Baptist religion.
THE Grand Jury of Baltimore signed
and presented indictments against Mrs.
Elizabeth G. Wharton for the willful
murder of Gen. William Scott Ketchum
and an attempt to poison Eugene Van
Ness.
IT is said that the rapidly-increasing
population of Minnesota, by destroying
the timber and tilling the prairies, has
so changed the climate of that state as
to make its value as a sanitarium for
consumptives exceedingly doubtful,
A MrI11NER in Troy, Mrs. Grimes, told
her little apprentice, who had baked in
arranging bow on - hat that she
would shoot her for her offence and
the youngster, believing this to be true,
went into commissions for the rest of the
day.
HE st. Louis Democrat describes how
Deputy United States Marshal got
drunk lost a prisoner, was himself az
rested by the police, was dismissed by
the Marshal, was put off train of cars,
and was run over and killed. all in one
day.
LIEUT.. James Carlins, U. S. Cavalry,
has been dismissed the service for con-
duct "prejudicial to good order and
military discipline" in ordering a pri-
vate to fire at a target before which a
trumpeter was standing, thereby killing
the trumpeter.
A CoLD-BLooDED murder was commit
ted thirteen miles, from Denver, up the
Platte River. George M. Bonacina and
Mrs. Newton, his sister, were shot by a
German farmland named Theodore
Myers. Bonacina is dead and Mrs.
Newton will probably die.
A YOUNG man in Missouri espied a
flock of wild turkeys, but as they were
too far off to shoot he secreted himself
under the bushes and "called" them.
Another hunter coming along heard the
call, and concluding it was turkey Sc
GREETED in the bush, fired and killed HIM.
CoURBEr's defence before the court
martial which is trying the communist
prisoners is novel one. He claims that
he joined the Commune for the purpose
of effecting a pacifcation between its
members and the Versailles authorities,
and that to his personal exertions was
due the saving of many objects of art
during the siege of Paris.
Mr.. EDWARD RICHARDSON, q Ver-
monter, after residing eighteen years on
the island of Hawaii, owns an estate of
400, 900 acres of land, plentifully inter-
spersed with lava from the volcano of
Mauna Loa. He went to the Sandwich
Islands poor man to earn his livelihood
as carpenter. Among his other pos
sessions are 800 head of cattle.