Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-11-16

Meeting of Sheridan Post, No. % Dept. o
Vermont q. a. r., is held on the first and thirt
Thursday evenings Of each month All appli
cations for muster must be made at Regular
Meetings. by order of the Post Commander
l.. p. TEwKsBURY, Adjt
> AS we go to press rain decends
upon us as well as the unjust, and the
lookout is that we shall loose oul
ID inches of snow in short time.
"A special meeting of the Grand
Army Of the Republic will be held at
the Hall in Phoenix Block this (Thurs
day. evening at o'clock p. NJ.
HARVEY n. BRUCE, Post Com.
CA more extended notice of the
above came to hand too late for last
weeks issue,
A SMART OLD LADY.-AIrs. East
man Paddock, who was among the
early settlers of PomGet, and native
Of Mason, n, H., is now stopping
with us few days Mrs. Paddock is
in her S5th year, Can read and do any
kind of work without the aid of glass
es, is as straight and active as a Girl of
16, and can walk off 4 mile as easy as
a lady Of 80. She has Il retentiye
memory and can relate incidents and
give dates like Il 'book." Knitting
is one Of her chief occupations now,
and she has completed a pair Of gloves
within few days that for style and
finish it would be hard to beat. Mrs.
L. Is truly type Of the mothers of
the past generation,
The second week in November
brought us freezing weather and 13
inches of snow.
Edward Bryant was buried at
the bottom of u well forty feet deep in
st. Johnsbury, last Wednesday. His
body was recovered after twelve hours
mceasing toll by a large force Of
neighbors.
The pathy wanted by allopath
and homppath is sympathy.
Send your job printing to this
Office. Work done cheap and well,
An applicant for the position of
domestic in one Of our ''first" families,
was asked if she understood how to
use kerosene. Her reply exceeded
the most sanguine expectations =
"Use it, is it o. she exclaimed in a
tone of reproachful explanation "give
me can Of karyosane and Id never
ask for the lift of shavin'." She was
not engaged.
"A military company has been or
ganizcd at Brattleboro, numbering
over fifty members
BY the last census, St. Johnsbury
has population of 1865.
Snow has come, and Senator VIII
sons favorite phrase Of Goods green
earth" will be cut of season for a few
months.
We astonished some Of the ma
tives last week by stating that the
thermometer stood 13o below zero.
We meant 13o above, which was
cold enough, and made XVth's pretty
scarce on the streets-no mistake.
-"EIow much is your pig going to
weigh ?" is the seasonable question,
The weather for the past week
has been of the kind that makes a man
look at a big wood pile on his premises
with great satisfaction.
The time of year for going bare.
foot is not now.
THE Standard grumbles about the
"cirkis" posters &c, with which the
middle bridge in this village is orna-
mented. A good way to circumvent
the bill stickers would be to cut the
bridge up and sell the pieces to the
farmers for scare crows.-P0St.
They would operate like the scare
crow we read of, which not only stop
ped the black thieves from further
depredations, but frightened them so
that they brought back the corn they
had stolen two days before.
ST. JoHNsBuRY made a handsome
record in the matter of relief for the
sufferers by the fires in the West. Its
cash subscriptions were over $3000,
and in clothing, etc, over $780,
This puts it ahead of any other town
in the State, a position its citizens
may well be proud to occupy.
-Sabin Daigle has sold one of his
cottage houses advertised in this paper
to Gen. Mower for $1,000.
Isaac Williamson, son of the late
Robert Williamson, is at home here
on visit. after serving Uncle Sam