Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-02-01

Vermont is loosing large quaint
ties of hay this winter which is being
pressed and shipped to market, from
various towns in the State.
II. II. Hammond, Esq, the town
clerk of Reading, is suffering from the
s.tafij.sts>of a paraIytic stroke, his right
side being nearly useless.
Geo. II. Biglow has retired from
the Burlington Free Press.
"A man in Albany, VI, got mad
at his family a few days ago. He
went to the barn and adjusted rope
over beam, but when his wife came
out and offered to assist, he again got
his dandcr up and postponed the
operation
Superintendent Merrill of the
Vermont Central has been presented
by his employees and other citizens Of
St. Adams, with a silver service valu-
ed at $4,000 and consisting Of eighteen
pieces of the new style, satin finish
and gold lined.
Representatives Poland and Will
lard voted againt the repeal Of the in
come tax. Representative Smith
was absent.
Stephen Mann, a soldier of the
9Th Vermont regiment, has recovered
in court bounty Of 1851 from the
town of Franklin, for re-enlisting on
their credit.
Loads of shoe-peg wood, white
and yellow birch, are being hauled into
Bethel. A lot Of poplar wood is beng
carried through to Bellows Falls, to
be manufactured into paper. The
wood brings about four dollars per
cord, delivered at the depot.
Michael Kelley Of Fairfield, has
invented a scraper ''on wheels. :" 1t is
pronounced a good thing.
The trial of James Allen Keyes,
at Chelsea, on an Indictment for muir
der, lasted ten days, and the jury was
out "a hours, and then discharged,
disagreed,
The people at Essex Centre are
permeated with the railroad fever
One young lady there was heard to
remark that she "dont low no fellers
round her that hahn rid on the keers.
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY,"
AT a meeting of the directors Of the
Vermont Agricultural Society at
Bellows Falls, Jan. 18th, a committee
was appointed to locate the next an
nual fair. The premium list was re-
vised and the premiums, in most of
the classes, increased to the extent of
an addition to the list Of over thous-
and dollars in money premiums. 1t
was voted to hold a trial Of moving
machines aud other hay implements,
at Rutland, June 26, 27 and 2S.-
James A. Shedd Of Burlington was
appointed General Superintendent Of
the next Fair, which is to be holden
at St. Jonsbury, Sept, II, u, 10 and
IA. The Society appointed Henry
Clark of Rutland and Hon. Crosby
Miller of Pomfret as delegates to the
convention called by the Commission
ers of Agriculture, to assemble at
Washington on Thursday, February
Is, 1872.
1t is generally understood that
J. II. Randsom of Richmond, late Of
the Richmond hotel, has purchased
the "Northfeld House" of Mr.. Fales,
and is take immediate possession,
WIN. Buckley, of Mortified,
died of consumption, recently, aged
27 year
FATAL ACCIDENT.-About 10 o'clock
on Tuesday Of last week, George w.
Wardner, of Mortified, was killed in
the Bugbee saw mill, two miles north
of Roxbury. He was at work with a
''cut off saw" and in some manner
got entangled in the rope belt that
run it. When found he was dead,
and cold, with his neck tightly drawn
up to the shaft, having evidently been
choked to death. His age was about
35 years.