Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-08-17
Summary Of News.

III sydney, New South wales.
A SERIOUS riot has occurred in Porto
Rico, two negroes being killed.
PRINCE ARTHUR is to be created Duke
of Connaught, in complimentto Ireland
Mr. JOHN S11DE11, we'll known from his
connection with the famous Trent affair,
is dead.
Utah has about $4,000, Mormons, and
about one-half of them are of foreign
birth.
The French Assembly has postponed
the consideration of the tax on raw ma
terials.
THREE of the crew of the Storm Bird
have been killed by natives of the New
Hebrides.
ELECTION in Iowa is on the second
Tuesday in October, which this year will
be the 10th
AN expedition to observe the eclipse at
Cape York in December is being formed
at Melbourne.
FIFTY or more prisoners are on trial in
the Island of Martinique for completely
in the late instruction.
The President has appointed Dorrance
Atwater of Connecticut to be Consul at
Tahita, Society Islands.
ONE case of cholera has been reported
in England the disease has also appear
ed in the South of France.
THE Assistant Treasurer will purchase
SIS, 900, 900 of bonds and sell S7,OOO,0OO
of gold during the month.
ANDREW and Crawford Barnes, broth
crs, of Manton, r. l., were drowned off
Bullock's Point, by the capsizing of their
boat
THERE are in New Haven 374 manu-
featuring establishments in which is in
vested capital amounting to nearly SlO,-
000,0 900.
ACCORDING to the census returns the
number OF dwellings in New York City
is G4,029, and the number of families
49, 800.
MEXICAN advices represent that the
prospects of the election of Juarez are
the best, but Congress may declare Diaz
President.
The new Spanish Ministry has resell
we'd to put down the insurrection in
Cuba, regardless of all sacrifices of life
and MEANS
The Asiatic cholera has appeared in
England and France. 1t is steadily
marching westward. Are we prepared
for it here?
THERE are but Al 900 Iethodists, of all
sorts, and only about $500 lndepen
dents, with like number of Baptists, in
all Ireland.
The local fishing laws are suspended
at Prince Edwards Island, pending the
ratification of the Washington Treaty by
the Legislature.
DURING July the number of applica-
tons at the Patent Office were 1,S12, and
in response 1,121 patents and trade
marks were issued.
An unknown man was found in field
near New Haven, Conn.,, with bis throat
cut and his mouth filled with rags. He
had been murdered.
JAY Cooke has offered quarter sec
ton of land on the North Pacific railroad
to the family of each soldier who fell in
the late riot in New York.
THREE New York young men, attempt
ed to cross from the Canadian to t
American side in small boat, and were
carried over Niagara Falls.
MARRIAGES between cousins are allow
able in Kentucky, and the result is said
to be clearly visible in the idiot and lu-
matte asylums of the State.
THERE are now five ministers of the
Methodist Church in Utah. The church
at Salt Lake City, organized May "a,
1870, has membership of 81.
BY the upsetting of a boat at Remove,
Clinton County, Penn, Miss Lille
Uhric, and Mrs. W. Rex of Philadelphia,
were drowned. Their bodies were recov-
cred.
The " New York State " and the
"Pleasant Valley" Grape Growers Asso-
Citations will hold joint fair in Ham,
mondsport, Steuben, N, Y, opening ON
the Goth of September.
ALL Americans visiting Europe should
take passports, especially the naturalized
citizens of the United States, rs the lat
ter cannot get them there without pa
pers proving their identity.
THOMAS Brown, aged twenty-seven
years, committed suicide at Lockport,
n, Y, by shooting himself in the head
with revolver Cause, dependency
from the loss of his wife by death.
The New Jersey Republican State
Committee has called State Convention
to nominate Republican candidate for
Governor, to be held at Taylor Hall,
Trenton, on Thursday, Sept. 7, at noon.
ABOUT four miles from Cincinnati re-
sides hermit dog. He lives in cave
in the ground. He refuses to be domes-
ticated yet is not wild, and appears
friendly to all those who call on him.
PARIS does not possess one steam fire
engine, nor any engine better than those
is use fifty years ago. There is not a
single engine on the river, and none of
the engines employed are drawn by
horses.
AN AMERICAN schooner, the Samuel
Gilbert, of Gloucester, has been seized
at the mouth Of the st. Lawrence River
by Canadian cruiser for violation of the
fishing law. She was loaded with flesh
fish.
IT is rumored that the Duke of Suther-
land, Mr.. John Fender, and Mr.. Fowler,
the eminent engineer, are about to pur-
chase the Suez Canal for $4,000, 900,
The undertaking cost the French COM
pany 900, 100000.
A LITTLE girl of five summers was Sc
verely stung by hornet, and, running