Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14
Summary OF News.
A LARGE cotton mill is to be speedily
erncte1 in Richmond Va.


erected in Richmond, Va,
A Boy fell and broke his neck, in Phil
adelphia, while practicing on a gymnasi-
UNI.
The Supreme Court of California has
ordered new trial in the case OF the Peo-
pie VS., Laura Do Fair.
A CANADIAN paper says that the McNab
surveying party, reported missing, are
now all safe at Fort William.
BEFORE leaving Chicago, the Japanese
Embassy presented Mayor Medill with
So, 900 for the relief of the poor of Chi
ca9o.
The Germans are organizing clubs in
every ward in San Francisco for partici-
patton in the coming Presidential cam
paign.
JOSHUA l.. CHAMBERLAIN, President OF
Bowdoin College, has been elected Major
General of the volunteer militia OF
Maine.
A RUSSIAN spy has been detected at
Lemberg, Austria, sketching the fortif-
cations, and condemned to years i'm
prisonment.
THF International Society is reported
to be organizing strikes in Vienna, with
the object Of preventing the international
Exposition there,
SALT was first made in the Saginaw
Valley in 1860, when the product was
1000 barrels. Last year the amount
was 755,0l5 barrels.
WHEAT is beginning to lodge in some
localities in California, but the crop in
the State will be fifty per cent. greater
than in any previous year.
The motion of Ex-Alderman Walsh,
of Chicago, for a new trial has been
ovel1uled, aud he was fined 500, and
sentenced to six months imprisonment,
FIVE of the crew of the wrecking tug
B. and J. Baker, were drowned in the
surf at Body Island, while rendering as
sistance to schooner in distress, recent
ly.
THERE was meeting of farmers
club in Wilton, n. H. 23l farmers dined
ut one hotel, and not single glass OF
liquor was called for, and only five cigars
were sold.
A COMPANY has been formed in St
Louis for the purpose Of building wharves
and docks, ships, steam boats, barges and
other water crafts, of iron with n capital
of So, 100000.
No more deaths have resulted at Hart.
land, Mich, from the effects of the i'm.
pure vaccine matter used there, by
which over one hundred persons were
made i'll and two died.
The Ohio House of Representatives
passed the Senate bill to allow SO, 900 as
the maximum amount of damages that
may he recovered from railroad eompa,
MES as compensation for fatal acct
dents.
The Sclaconic World of Prague says
| the Prince of Servia is about to marry
Russian princess and it predicts from
this alliance no loss important result
that the driving of the Turks from
Europe,
A GERMAN woman, whose husband
died in Indianapolis about a year ago
leaving his property mortgaged to the
fullest extent, has managed his business
so skillfully that she has an income o
$4,000.
A MAN whose eyesight was not good
wasrecommended to try glasses. He say
he went and took four at the nearest drink
ing saloon, and the result was that hi
sight was so much improved that he coul(
see double.
A MASSACHUSETTS swindler has beel
detected in obtaining money under falls,
pretenses, his method being to send cir
crlars offering for sale book which h
led his dupes to suppose was publica
zion of an immoral character.
IT is now believed that the Pope med
itates departing from Rome at an earl,
day. The archives and iewelry in tn
Vatican have been packed, in READINGS
for removal. 1t is said that His Holmes
will go to the city of Trent, in the Tyrol
The London Lancet gives the numbe
of casualties during the thanksgiving
demonstration at 229, only two of which
it says, resulted fatally. The most of tn
injuries consisted of broken legs and ribs
dislocation of other limbs and cuts an,
bruises.
They have discovered the model jury
man in Indiana. A man was drawn a
White River Bottom in that State, VIII
declared that he had not been in that cit
before for thirty years, and did not know
who had been President since AndreN
jackson.
The third trial of Josiah Ward, a
Camden, n. j., for the murder of Johl
Wadey, at Gloucester City about tw
years ago, terminated by verdict of &C
quittal under direction Of the court
The jury stood eleven for conviction an,
one for acquittal.
SAYS Scranton, Pa, paper, scarcel.
day passes without the manning TO
life or instantly killing some poor mine
or laborer in the mines. Accidents oc
cur so frequently that when an announce
ment is made of death in the mines i
creates but little sympathy.
lHE Oluclal report Vi tle operations O
the Spanish forces for the last fortnight
sums up the losses on both sides as fol
lows The number of Cubans killed, III
prisoners taken, Sc; and persons sur
!, rendered, 500. Number of Spaniard
, killed, "a and wounded, 30.
THE CLIMATE. There is no limit t.