Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-09-28
News Summary.

A BEER barrel exploded and killed a
boy in Boston the other day,
The cholera epidemic in the Baltic
provinces of Prussia begins to abatc.
BILIOUS fever is prevailing to an UNI
precedented extent along the upper
Potomac.
The total assessed valuation of real
personal property in New York State is
80, 052, 53789S.
AN affair between Catholics and Prot
estants occurred at Portadown Ireland.
No lives were lost.
THERE were 1,673 cases of foot and
mouth disease in the County of Norfolk,
England, last week.
The Northwestern Women's Suffrage
Convention is to meet in Indianapolis,
November ID and l6.
AT the close of the year 1870 there
were nine hundred and eight agricultu'
raj societies in Prussia.
THERE are five farms at Stratham, N.
H., which have never passed out of the
original settlers names.
The workingmen of Maine have de.
cided to run an independent ticket fol-
Governor and County officers.
CHRIsTIANA EDMUNDs, the Brighton
(Englsh) poisoner, has been committed
on the charge of wilful murder.
The boiler of q four-mill at New
Haven, Indiana, exploded, killing three
persons, and injuring three others Seri,
ously.
A CONSPIRACY has been discovered in
Toulon, the object of which was to burn
the arsenal and allow the prisoners tc
escape.
The death rate in Paris previous to
the siege was 900 week. During the
the siege it ran up to 5000, and now it
is only 700.
The State of Ohio has six hundred and
five Presbyterian churches. Two-thirds
of these belonged formerly to the old
School branch.
A WABASH Indiana) woman murdered
her three children by cutting the threats
OF two, and beating out the brains of the
third with a stone.
The Internal Revenue Department is
now issuing all denominations of the
new adhesive stamps, and will exchange
these for any of the old ones.
In the struggle with the Commune OF
Paris, the French army lost SO killed
and 430 wounded officers, and 794 killed,
6,024 wounded, and 1873 missing men.
ACCORDING to the report of the Budget
Committee to the French Assembly the
estimated cost of running the govern.
ment for the fiscal year will be 4, 296, 00C
francs.
The last of the Lower California colo.
nists arrived at San Francisco from
Magdalena Bay. The number of colo
nists landed there was 1926, of whom Sc
have died from heat, thirst, and disease.
A SINGULAR epidemic has lately ragged
in Chicago. 1t is of the nature of bill
ious fever, is not fatal in its effect, last
ing only four days, and has attacked a
large number Of the residents of that
city.
The total of the forces available fol
war purposes in Europe taking the Eng.
lish disposable force at 470, 779 men and
1856 guns), is 5,164,300 men, 512,364
horses, l0,224 guns, and about 800 mi,
trailleuses.
THERE is considerable excitement
among the Wisconsin hop growers.
Fifty cents per pound have been offered
for new hops, and twenty cents for last
years growth. The estimated crop is
only 5000 bales.
The reclaimed marsh lands in Califor
mia are proving to be the best in the
State, not only for the production of al
kinds of market vegetables, but also fol
grain raising. From an acre of sucl
ground crop of wheat was recently
harvested yielding rs bushels.
The steamer Leader, from Dantzic fol
Amsterdam port, has been lost at sea
and so far it is not ascertained that {
single person has survived. The number
of persons on board is not accurately
known, but it is feared the loss of life il
heavy. The officers and crew, all O
whom must have persisted, numbered
about 25 men.