Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-06-27
Items of Interest.

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Texas are very fine.
IT is said that one person in ten of the
entire population of Virginia is Bap-
fist.
The Texas democratic Convention
passed resolutions in favor of the Gin
cinnati platform.
VIM. j. MoCRAoKEN, one Of the oldest
pioneers of Western New York, died in
Milwaukee, aged lightweight,
The White Mountain Apaches, in
Arizona, are again on the war path, not
withstanding the late peace palayer.
AT least nine-tenths of all the roofs in
New York are nearly fiat, and hence are
capable of being used as private pleasure
grounds.
A TERRIBLE wreck occurred on the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad, near the
new freight house at Railway. BY the
disaster two men lost their lives.
The cholera has broken out in South
ern Russia, so dispatches from Constan-
tinople say. All vessels arriving at this
port from Russia are quarantined i'm
mediately,
Or the furniture workers in New York
city, G,5SS in all-4,G24 are working ten
hours-624 eight hours, 24S are on a
strickland IT'S have been discharged by
their employers.
THE miners strike in WestphOlia is
spreading. The workmen of forty-two
mines in the neighborhood of Essen and
Bockhcim have quit work and joined the
movement commenced by their fellow
workmen at Dortmond.
REPORTS from all parts of East Ten
nessee, the KnorcHle Herald says, agree
in representing the present harvest of
wheat to be one of the largest that has
been gathered in that section of the
state, and the quality as fine as was ever
grown on the soil,
In Berlin the labor movement has en-
tered an ugly phase, and serious troubles
are anticipated. On threatened strike
of the engineers, the masters have re-
solved to forestall the strikers by closing
their shops and factories, thus throwing
out of work both strikers and nom
strikers.
A TRIaHrFUL disaster occurred at Mar
settles. While the Spanish steamship
Guadayes was lying in the port, crowded
with passengers, her boilers exploded,
and fifty-fve persons were blown to at
oms. The steamer Immediately took fire
and the flames communicating to the
dock, a large quantity of cotton was con-
sumed.
The KnorciRe Herald says that accounts
from all parts of Knox County Tennessee,
agree that the wheat crop will exceed in
quality and quantity that OF any year for
quarter of a century past-eveu the
famous yield Of 1857 not excepted And
what is true of Knox County seems to be
generally true of East Tennessee. The
quality Of the wheat is excellent.
AT the Maine Democratic State Conl
vention, at Bangor, Charles p. Kimbal-
was unanimously renominated for Gov
ernor and resolutions adopted indorsing
the Cincinnati platform and nominees.
Mr.. Kimball, in accepting his nomina-
ton, and also [. G. Madigan, who pre-
sided over the convention, made speeches
in favor of Greeley.
TIE new bounty law of the United
States Congress extends the time of the
second enlistment of the three months SER
vice men, who were transferred to the
three years service, to the date of entry
into the former service, and gives them
the 500 bounty promised by President
Lincoln, May 8, 1861. The number Of
claims of this character on file is about
10000.
The mother of Laura D. Fair is re-
ported to be dangerously i'll with fever
in San Francisco. Since sentence Of death
was passed upon Mrs Fair, Elisha Cook,
one Of her counsel, Harry Byrne, who
prosecuted the case, Judge Sprague, of
the Supreme Court, who was instrument
tai in granting her new trial, and a son
Of A. P. Crittenden, her victim, have
died
A CIRCULAR signed by Senator Schurz,
ex-secretary Cox. Messrs. Bryant, Often
dorfer, Wells, and Brinkerhotf has been
sent to about two hundred gentlemen
who originally favored the Cincinnati
movement. The design of the circular is
to have conference called of the differ
ent branches of the opposition to Presi-
dent Grant and his administration, to
take such action as the " situation of
things may require" says the document.