Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-10

Mr.. Il. S. MINER is named as Repub
lican candidate for Governor in Wiscon
sin.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has
decided that swing signs across the street
are illegal.
JENNIE G. CLAFLIN publicly announces
herself as a candidate for Congress in
the Eighth District of New York.
THE Australian Meat Preserving Com
pany have profit of $4,000 year on a
capital of $4,000.
DEMOCRATS of Wisconsin have settled
upon the Hon. Andrew Proudfit as their
candidate for Governor in the coming
campaign.
ALVAREZ and Hernandez, the Cuban
agents from Cespedes, who were recently
captured, were executed at Matanzas.
The members of the Montreal Volun-
teer Corps deny that they have joined
the Cuban expedition.
The records in the Treasury Depart
ment show that 1857 100000 of the new
funded loan had been subscribed for.
CHIEF Justice Thompson, of Pennsyl-
vania, is spoken of as democratic can
didate for President.
The Republicans OF Mississippi have
called State Convention, to meet at
Jackson ON Wednesday, August 30.
The yellow fever has ceased to be cpl
demic at Buenos Ayres, and thanksgiving
services had been held in all the churches
A PIN, carelessly dropped in the loom
by female operative, spoiled seven
hundred yards of clorth in one of the
mills of Lawrence.
SOME of the French journals report
that President Theirs and M. Gambetta
are negotiating for the establishment of
a moderate Republic.
The population of Great Britain at
the present moment is about twenty
per cent. smaller than that of the United
States.
SOME trouble has occurred in an Illinois
town by the discovery that a Judge has
for several months past been swearing
witnesses on dictionary.
CAPTAIN COBB of the steamer China,
refused 500 from the japanese Govern
ment for rescrling four of the Japanese
from wreck
ONE hundred and seventy-nine trains,
carrying passengers daily arrive and de-
part from Chicago, eighty-three of which
carry the United States mails.
Hon. FREDERICK WATTS, of Carlisle
Penn, has been appointed successor
to Gen. Capron as Commissioner of
Agriculture, to date from the LIST of Au-
gust.
A FEARFUL hail-storm passed over
Western Iowa, doing much damage at
Atlantic. The postoffice building and
several houses were destroyed and two
men fatally injured.
1t is stated that he ron of Pennsyl-
vania is so far superior to that in use on
the Clyde, that the foreign underwriters
have been forced to recognize the differ
ence in making their rates.
IT has become known that NJ. Gam
beta, during his Dictatorship, author
lied the opening of private letters, for
the purpose of discovering who were
inimical to his Government.
COUNT DE PERsrGNY has been writing a
letter to the London papers. in which he
is said to attribute the disasters to the
French arms in the late war to their iso-
lation.
A TRACT of about one hundred acres
of Clinton Mountains, Arkansas, has
sunk, carrying big trees entirely out of
sight, and the hole continues to enlarge
its borders.
itentiary for 1870 gives tabular state
ment of the convicts received at that
institution for twenty-five years. The
total number was 20,514.
The effect of the decision of the Solic-
itor of the Treasury in regard to the in
come taxes, will be that they will not be
collected. Making loss to the govern
ment of four million dollars.
New YORK devours nearly a thousand
barrels of eggs q day. Each barrel con-
tains eighty dozen or more, SO that the
actual consumption is not far from n
million eggs, and the cost to consumers
about ten million dollars year.
A TRAVELLER stopping at the railroad
depot in Harrisburg, was robbed OF q
satchel containing $150,000. He had
carelessly left the bag under the seat Of
the car while he went to get some re-
freshments.
THERE is one house in Cincinnati that
pays $4,000 a year for advertising.
There are several in Cleveland, even,
who pay as high as $4,000 year.
Somehow these men don't break up a
liberal advertiser never does.
The survivors of the Massachusetts,
regiment which served in the Mexican
war, have formed an organization, to be
known as the Association of Massachu-
sets Volunteers in Mexico. Col. Isaac
H. Wright was chosen commander.
A SERIOUS riot occurred at Greenwich,
London, on the occasion of the acquital
of an alleged murderer named Pook.
On his release from confinement he was
set upon by q crowd numbering 1000
persons, but the mob was quelled.
The town of Fredonia, ILL.,, was ex-
cited by the discovery of the dead body
of little girl, aged six, the daughter Of
Richard Handel, in his house, six miles
from the town. The body was mass
of bruises and cuts, which indicated that
the child had died from violence,