Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-09-12

town authority.
The wedding in church here on
Tuesday, of which notice is given in
another place, set all the town agog,
The parties started for Europe on
Wednesday,
"A Western journal thus alludes to
an editorial neighbor: He was too
weak to 'eat crow but seven columns
of Government advertisements each
week make him relish bull pup
wonderfully"
Edmund Burke said. because
some grasshoppers under the fern
makea field ring with their impor-
tunate clink, while the great cattle
reposing under the oak chew the cud
and are silent, we are not to suppose
that the noisy insects are the only
inhabitants IN the field
Mrs. Nellie j. Kenyon will speak
at the School house at West Wood
stock on Sunday next, Sept. 10Th, at
the usual time of service
Maine has gone Republican by
about 10,000-same as last year.
In 1868, when there was a full vote,
and the year to base the present vote
on, Grant had $4,000 majority in the
State. The poor critters down there
are iubiIant over this, when in fact
it is a Democratic victory, When we
read of the amount of deyiltry en-
ployed by the Administration to carry
Maine, and the result, we are con-
fdent of success in November
The radical party is failing and sick,
And on steep orado to the very Old Nick,
Glad to know it-ain't you
Saturday evening being sultry
and politics having quoted down since
the election, the attendance at the
Club meeting was small. There be-
ing no special business to transact, it
was moved and voted that the Sec
rotary be empowered to call the next
meeting Of the Club, as occasion might
require. On motion, the meeting
adjourned.
"A Postmistress in Maine, whose
official compensation amounts to about
ten dollacs per annum. has been ap
piled to by the Grant National Com
mittee for contribution to their elec
tioneering fund.
C. II. NJ ntague has hung out hi
single on the Old Franklin Book
store. We wish him success.
john Oliver will soon locate hi
barber shop in Andersons Block Oh
Central street.
Last Sunday was very hot da,
for the season-90 in the shade
A thunder shower in the evening
brought relief, The weather has beer
cool enough since,
If you want a good, clean shave
or a hair cut, go to Prof. J b. Silver's
Henry's Stone Block, first floor.
The Publishers of the Acow hav
hung out a Grant q Wilson flag
They fell Or got knocked off thu
Fence somehow.
The Jubilee Singers, of Nashville
Tenn, five in number formerly slaves
will give q concert of vocal and il
strumental music at the Town Hal
Woodstock, Sept 29d. See advertise
ment in another column.
"A. G. Brown e Son, Timer,
have dissolved partnership and A. G
goes it alone now. We are SONY t
loose Henry, but we believe Re ha
selected better field Tor bushes,
with his brother Charley. at Lebanon
n. H. The Lebanonites will find tn
Messrs. Browns worthy of thei
patroage.
Barnard Town Fair passed offquiet
ly on Tuesday. The exhibition wa
very fair, but hardly equal to last yea
DR.. Henry Boyntor, of Woodstocl
delivered the address. The GaysvllI
Cornet Band furnished excellent mus
on the occasion. Barnard beats II
County on Town Fairs. Premium
and comments next week.
Henry D. Briggs will offer h
tannery, located at Tafsville, for sal
at auction, on the 10th Of October
The annual muster of the Secor
Regiment of Volunteer State Milit
will be held at Mortified, on the 18t
10Th and goth insts.
The st. Paul Pioneer has pul
lished over seven thousand rames
Republicans who are going to vot
for Greeley. So there is another wa,
rolling on.
-Apropos to agricultural fair
"Well, Mr.. Salmon, how did you Ill
your muskmelon?" "Oh, my wi
boiled it and boiled it, but we didr
like it half so much as squash"
j. B. jones new store is near
completed, and it will be one of t
Eandsomest and most convenient d
goods stores in town.
The Northern Pacific Railros
is being snowfenced its entire line.