Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-04-25
Items of Interest.

A BEET weighing l3l pounds was re-
Gently exhibited at San Jose, Cal,
The Maine State Agricultural Fair is
to be held this year and the next in Ban
Cor.
TIE finding of q diamond in Eldorado
County, California, has caused some ex
cltement there.
THE New York and Philadelphia Rail
road bill has been defeated in the New
Jersey Senate-l2 to 6.
THERE is woman in Washing ton Ter,
ritory who has shot and killed eight In
dians with her own hand.
The ApNchcs attacked tho stage near
Prescott, Arizona. Tbe passengers kill
ed one Indian and escaped.
In 1851 the SHIPMENTS OF butter from
St. Adams were 1872 9G7 pounds. In
1871 they were 3,270, lS2 pounds.
The town of Mexico, No, claims the
notoriety OF possessing man who can
lift n barrel OF kerosene oil with his
teeth.
THE court at Versailles now trying the
communists, have just sentenced two
prisoners to death and two to lmplison-
ment for life.
IT is affirmed that there are no good
grounds for The report in the London
D1ty Tdcgoph that affairs between
France and Germany are in critical
condition.
The trial of Charles Waller for the
murder of Henry Taylor, both colored
men, in Cairo, H., last October, resulted
ia Walters conviction and sentence to
ninoty-nine years in the penitentlary.
FIVE members of the ATLANTA Club
took passage in the steamer City Of
Montreal for England, to contest with
a crew .! the London Rowing Club on
the River Thames for the amateur cham
piouship,
THIRTEEN printers in Toronto were az
rested for conspiracy, in attempting to
induce other printers not to work in
non-mion Offices. The strike still con-
tinues, but the places OF the striking
plA.llSlo arc DNlllo lllIIN hP'
Mr.. A. W. WILCOX, of New Haven,
put a $500 fve-twenty bond and Il S1C0
greenback in asiraw bed for safe keep
ing" He didn't tell his wife, and his
wife, on Spring-cleaning intent, buried
the straw and bond and bill
The public accounts Of the Dominion
show its trade to he in prosperous con-
dition. The total receipts for last year
from all sources were SIS, 1925, $50 the
expenditures, %15, G23, 081. The exports
to the United States were $4,000, 900
over the imports.
DIR. WILLIAM HEwER, an English
misar, aged eighty-four years, long 4
noted character in San Francisco, was
found dead on pile OF rags i'll his room
in Dupont street The room had not
he swept in fourteen years. Twelve
thousand pounds, English money, was
found in the room.
THERE are now planted in New jersey,
according to the most reliable authori
ties, six thousand acres with cranherries.
Two y ears from now they will be in full
bearing, when that state will take the
lead in cranberry culture, as she did a
few years ago with Strawberries, rasp-
berries, and blackbcrnes.
The steamer Edgar Stuart, flying the
American colors and carrying war mate
rial, supposed to belong to Cubm Tevo-
ntiouists, put into Kingston, Jamaica,
in distress. She was seized as prize
by the commander OF the station hccau,e
she had no papers. The American con-
sui protested against he seizure and for.
warded the papers in the case to Wash
inGtou.
FIRE MARSHAL Wn1IAMs, of Chicago,
in his annual report says the way the
great fire in October spread itself about
was "to his surpriae.' He limits the
duration Of the fire to twenty.eight
hours, and places the number Of build
ings destroyed at $4,000 covering an
area OF 2,0u0 acres. The total loss he
places at $3.50, 52G,5 800, and the insur-
rance at 100000, 600,