Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-05-11
State at Large.


SUDDEN DEATH.-On the 3lst ult.,
as Mr.. Nathaniel Greedy of South Roy
alton was passing through his meadow,
he stopped to light his pipe, and care
lessly threw the burning match upon
the dry grass, which instantly ignited.
MrGreeley Immediately made strenuous
efforts to extinguish the flames, and
while so engaged suddenly fell back
ward to the ground, and when assistance
arrived life was found to be extinct.
A post mortem examination was made
and it was found that death was caused
by Justification Of the heart.
Sixteen car loads of French Cana
dams passed over the Vermont Central
Tuesday evening oflast week, southwark
bound.
Hon. Charles Reed of Montpelier
has been appointed by Judge Woodruff;
Federal Supervisor of Elections for this
State.
MAsoNC,-The Grand Lodge of Yer
mont meets In Burlington, June 18th
and 18th, at Good Templars and Grand
Army hall. The Grand Chapter of Roy.
al Arch Masons meets at the same place
June l6th and the Grand Commandery
of knights Templar at the Asylum Of
Burlington Commandery on Tuesday,
June 18th.
VERMONT REFORM SCHooL.-The huge
piles of foundation material accumulate
ing around the site of the New Reform
School edifice at Waterbury look as
though the builders intended to lay
deep and broad the basis of more am
pie and permanent habitation for the Of
fcers, teachers and benefcaries of this
institution. The work of putting this
material in place and form is about COM
menclng, and will need to be prospecut-
ed with energy and dispatch as well as
thoroughness, to insure the completion
of the building by the time specified
October next.
VERMONT HORSE STocK ASSOCIATION.
We learn that Messrs. c. II. Blodg
EFT, Charles Jones and L. Y. Tucker
purchasing committee of the Vermont
Stock Farm, at Shelburn, have purchas.
ed of Mr.. E. S. Wadsworth, of the For
est Bay Stock Farm, near Waukegan
ILL.,, the six-year old black stallion Wood.
burn-Pilot by Alexander's Pilot, Jr.,
dam by Clays Mambrino Chief, for ter
thousand dollars the six year old black
stallion Claybrino, by Relf's Mambrinc
Pilot, dam Mollie Harrison by Strader's
Cassius M. Clay, Jr.; and the thorough
bred stallion Yorkshire Lexington, by
Lexington, dam Hymenia, (Ansel's dam,
by imported Yorkshire. Also the fol-
lowing brood mares:
Thoroughbred mare Cressida, by OF
iver Che by Wagner; dam by Medoc
Che by Eclipse) I'd dam by Lance Che
by Eclipse).
Thoroughbred mare Florizelle, by &c
Altorf; dam by Job Che by Eclipse.
Fanny Peters by Mahomet Che by
imp. Sovereign dam by Mirabeau.
Mollie Harrison, by Strader's Cassiu.
M. Clay, Jr; dam by Ohio Messenger
Olinda, by Relf's Mambrino Pilot
dam by Oliver Che by WagneD.
Kitty Coon by Cooks American Clay
dam by imp. Tranby.
Bashaw Maid, by Iron Duke Che by
Cassius NJ. Clay, Jr); dam thorough
bred.
Belle Britton, by Montagues Sover
eign Che by imp. Sovereign dam Bel
lamira, by imp. Monarch; I'd dam Kitty
Heath, by American Eclipse.
Lady Burnay, by son of Glencoe
out of a thoroughbred mare.
June, by Gurnee's Eclipse; dam ;
Western New York mare, known as the
Christopher mare.
Cressida is in foal to Yorkshire Lex
ington; Florizelle to Alhambra; Fam,
Peters and June to Claybrino; MolliC
Harrison, Olinda and Bashaw Maid, t.
Woodbun Pilot; and Kitty Coon, La
dy Burnap and Belle Britton to Herr
Mambrino Patchen.
This purchase will bring to Vernon
some of the finest blood in the country
Owing to the continued illness O
one of the proprietors the Rutland In
dependent is offered for sale.
The Royalton National Bank is Il
be moved back again from South Roy
alton to its old quarters in Royalton vii