Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-21
News Summary.

News Summary.
The anniversary of the downfall of the
Empire was celebrated in France.
A CONVENTION of Methodists is called
in Syracuse for the 9th of December.
The steam-tug Osprey has been lost
off Dundee. Six persons were drowned.
G. G. Bowen announces himself us a
candidate for Governor of South Caro-
lima.
FATAL cases of cholera have occurred
at Dantzic, Elbing, Altoona, Coblentz,
LEIPZIG, and Vienna.
TWELVE vessels have been wrecked at
Hong Kong by typhoon, and five
vessels at the Bahamas by hurricane.
A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred
in northern France Ten persons were
instantly killed and an immense number
injured.
The Young Mems Democratic Club
of Boston has declared that John Quin
cy Adams Is it's unanimous choice as can
didate for Governor.
IT is stated that since the annexation
of Strasbourg to Germany, %, 600 of the
inhabitants of that city have emigrated
to France and America.
AN explosion of petroleum occurred
on board vessel at Penzance. The
vessel was destroyed. Two persons
were killed by the explosion.
A WESTERN woman who carelessly
wrapped pie in some poisoned hy-pa-
per, nearly caused the death of the poor
neighbor whom she charitably wished to
crafty.
AT a meeting of the Board of Trustees
and Overseers of Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, Me-, Gen. Chamberlain ac-
cepted the Office of President, rendered
him last July.
ST. THOMAS, one of the Virgin Islands,
which, for the second time within few
years, has been subjected to great
calamity belongs to Denmark, and has
population of about 1900.
ARTHUR ARNoUD, the Communist, be-
fore making his escape to Switzerland,
acted for a fortnight as a druggists
clerk at Batignolles, and sold medicine
to officers of the Versailles army.
SO far, the casualties by. the Ocean
Wave disaster are AZ killed and 2G
wounded. Many persons believed to
have been on board the steamer at the
time of the explosion are still missing.
Gov. WARMoTH of Louisiana, has
issued an order suspending George E..
Bovee, the Secretary of State, and APP
pointing F. j. Heron, formerly United
States Marshal, to discharge the duties
of the Office.
Two bodies supposed to be of the men
who robbed the Southern Express Mes
senger, on the train near Moscow, some
weeks ago, are reported to have been
found hanged, near New Madrid Mo-,
a few days ago.
ADIsPATCH from Gumbinneu, a town of
East Russia, &C miles from Koinigsberg,
says that in the small village of Chino
chon, with a total population of 49,
there have already been 70 cases of
cholera, 46 of which terminated fatally.
The bark Ermandine has capsized in
gale near the English coast, and ali on
board were lost. The brig Peacock cap
sized off Shields, and the entire crew
persisted. A fishing schooner foundered
in Pentland Firth, and five persons were
drowned.
NOTICE is given from the Treasury
Department that principal and accrued
interest of the first series of Five twenty
bonds of 1862, amounting to 800, 000,-
600, will he paid on and after Dec. l,
next, and that after that date the bonds
designated will cease to draw interest
GEN. CADwALADER G. WAsHBURN, was
nominated by the Republicans of Wis
consin for Governor of that State. The
informal ballot for Governor gave Wash
burn 142, Smith Ill, and scattering IL.
The formal ballot nominated Washburn
by 1856, votes Smith, los, and scatter
ing, 2. Gen. Washburn accepted the
nomination.
DR.. HUNTER, of Cleveland, has deter
mined to secure the 100000 offered by
LNtN IOlh W lllt inventor Vi VI cdlldl-DOHU
which shall do away with the necessity
of using horses on canals. He has made
a boat which is propelled by plate of
vulcanized rubber, which works on the
principle of a fsh's tail. 1t has been
tested successfully at Buffalo, and will
soon start with a cargo of coal for Roch-
ester.
ADvICEs received from Kobe, Japan,
state that heavy typhoon passed over
that district on the 4th of July, causing
immense loss of life and destruction of
property. Upwards Of 400 persons were
killed by the ferceness of the hurricane,
many being immured in falling buildings
and crushed to death. Whole families
persisted in this manner, their dwellings
being uprooted from their foundations
and dashed into fragments.