Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-13
Barnard.

The Good Templars of East Barnard
are lively set of boys. Like the King
of France with forty thousand men, they
marched up the hill and then marched
down again, the other day. They want
ed to make themselves famous. They
pitched on to our friend Barney Kelley,
an old citizen, above reproaCh, and were
going to hang him without judge, jury
or the benefit Of clergy. His offence
was that he procured a pint Of spirits at
the agents, for his daughter, Mrs, Riley,
for medical purposes, He stopped on
his way home at Mr. Russ Toplitt's and
sent the liquor home by his son, Mr..
George Kelley in another bottle, as
the bottle Mr., Kelley got the rum
in belonged to Mr. Toplilf A Mrs.
Graves, of white flag notoriety, being at
Topliff's, reported the story that the liquor
was drank there, because she found an
empty bottle in the sink the next morn
ing. The amount of it was that Mr.
Kelley was arraigned for purchasing rum
under false pretenses The Justice was
a Good Templar, the jury drawn were
Good Templars-and conviction was
sure, However, by the management of
of Mr., Kelley's counsel, and the timely
arrival of the Constable, Mr. Paul D.
Dean, whose duty it was to draw the ju,
ry, the little clique of tcmplars were bad
ly beaten at their own game. Sic tran-
sit gloria mundi. Mr.. !. Wilson for
defendant Mr.. NJ, J, Gilman for the
prosecution,
Plymouth.
Saltash mountain is 1850 feet above
the ocean.
Mr.. Daniel P. Wilder has purchased
the Blacksmith shop, formerly occupied
by Mr.. 7. H. Courtney, and has taken
possession of the same. Mr.. Wilder is
about to put in new forge,
Sherburne.
The town Of Sherburne was char
tered by New Hampshire, July 7, 1861,
to Benjamin Ellery, Ezra Stiles Of New
port, r. |. and Ga others, by the name
of Killington, and changed to Sher-
burne, November 4, 1900. Mr.. Ellery
was the grandfather of the late Com
modore Ellery, who died recently at
Castleton.
Twelve thousand two hundred and
forty five bushels Of potatoes were raised
in the town in 1910.
Chester.
The Chester Farmers club have de
cided to build cheese factory at Nor,h
Chester.
"A new brick depot will be built in
place of the old one recently burned.
Mr.. G. L. Fletcher has sold his resi-
dence with a lot of land, to Mr.. Bea-
man for $500.
West Windsor.
Samuel Hale of this town is 80
years old, his wife So. He was born on
the place he now lives, and has never
been absent therefrom but few years.
The couple have been married G2 years
and have never been separated a day
since, save for the three months he was
in the army, They are both in excel
lent health Mr., Hale has never been
compelled to say sick one day in his
life. He has never seen a steamboat or
been on railroad train.
State at Large.
- Vermont has twenty-Seyen hundred
and fifty district schools,
Jesse Burditt, formerly a conduc-
tor on the Western Vermont Railroad,
has been appointed superintendent of
the Rutland Railroad
Calvin Brown of Waterford, fin
ished sowing his wheat on Saturday
last, a thing seldom if ever done in
Northern Vermont so early in the year.
NILSSON is going to spend the sum
mer in this country. She will spend a
part of the season at Newport, r. I.
and portion among the mountains Of
Vermont at Stowe.
About $4,000 will be expended on
the fair grounds at st. Johnsbury this
summer, to prepare for the accommodate
tons of the State Fair.
George Jones, publisher of the N.
Y. Times is a native Of Poultney,
Milk is being shipped from Rut-
land, to New York, over the Harlem
Extension Railroad with coed success.
Daniel d. Howard, native of Bur.
lington, and formerly proprietor of the
Irving House at New York, died at
Geneva, Switzerland, recently.