Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-04-18
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Springs, was sold to A. I. Stewart for
S532, 600.
TIE National Guard of the State Of
New York numbers about twenty thou
sand men,
THIRTY-oNE circuses and menageries
take the road from New York city this
season.
A MILLION dollars is the price Of well
established and successful sugar planta-
ton in Cuba.
Tue grand reunion and banquet OF the
Third Army Corps takes place in Phil
adelphia May 4.
The iron-works in Iron County, Utah,
are very successful Iron ore is abundant
and of good quality.
The coal beds of Missouri are said to
cover an area of 300 square miles,
mostly in the northwest.
The Iowa Senate has passed the House
Liquor bill-a measure even more
stringent than the Ohio law.
THE Legislature of the proposed State
OF Deseret has met for the first time,
and elected President and Speaker.
Mr.. JOHN BRIGHT is about to re-enter
the British Parliament, but he docs not
propose TO take a seat in the Cabinet.
The Bureau of Records reports 705
deaths, 1884 births, 43 still births and ITO
marriages in New York City in one
week.
In France much anxiety is felt at the
rapid increase of drunkenness. which,
since the war, threatens to become ma
tional vice.
THE st. Louis Democrat pronounces
the story of st. Louis circular, warning
people away from Chicago on account OF
smallpox, hoax.
PRINCE Edward Island has popula-
lation of "a, 021, as shown by the recent
census. This is about A to each square
mile There 10 an excess OF about 22l
males.
A COUNCIL of war sitting ut Versailles
has sentenced the Vicar OF st. Eloi to
two months imprisonment for causing
the arrest of number Of persons by il
legal means.
RETURNS from the Spanish elections
show that the miniSterialists have return
ed pol, the radicals 62, the republicans
AZ, the Carlists SO, and the opposition
conservatives 80.
Farm fences are far less common ia
France nnd Germany than with us.
Thousands of farms in either country
arc simply divided from each other by a
narrow foot path.
SECRETARY Fish has just received from
Havana, evidence that DR.. Howard is an
American citizen. Before his arrest he
had so registered himself at the Amen-
can consulate in Havana.
The suit brought by Mrs. Kelly for
So, 900 from the Staten Island Company,
for the loss of her husband by the explo-
sion of the Westfeld, is ended, the jury
returning verdict for the plaintiff.
The ATLANTA "four," which is to row
in the international boat race on the
Thames, England, on the 10th Of next
June, are taking their preliminary break
inas on the Paissic River, near Newark,
N. j.
The Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention met at Harrisburg, Pa, and
nominated General Harbanft, of Mont
gomery county, for Governor, and Ulysses
Mercur for Supreme Court judge. The
platform was in favor Of Grant and OF
Protection.
AN unsuccessful attempt to assassinate
the Mikado of Japan has been made by
a party Of twelve persons in Yeddo. |
Two of the assassins were captured the |
others escaped. Foreigners are now
forbidden to go beyond the limits Of the
City of Yeddo.
A REMARKABLE coincidence was presen-
ted in connection with the death OF Jo-
mas Parker, at Goshen, Maine, lately.
Three cousins Of the deceased, residing |
in different States, all died the same
night. and nearly all at the same hour,
and each in a fit.
A DESPATCH from Lone Pine states that /
Owens Valley has moved southwark .
fourteen feet. Seven thousand shocks
have occurred to date. Huge rocks were
hurled down the Yosemite Valley, de-
stroying many noble trees. Immense !
waves rolled up the Gulf Of California.
The New York Republican State Con-
vention will be held in the City Of Elmira,
on Wednesday, the 18th day of May next,
OF II O'Clock, for the purpose of electing |
delegates to the National Republican
Convention, which is to meet at Phila- |
delphia on Wedne sday, June 5, nett.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred at the
Cunard dock, Jersey City. The tug
boat Davenport was towing four bargcs
out of the dock wien, with terrible force,
her boiler busted, utterly demolishing
the tug, sinking ore of the barges, in
stantly killing six men, and iniuring
number of others.
A NUMBER of masons, employers, and
Iiourneynen, met in New York, to dis
cuss the eight hour question. The en-
ployers argued that the men could not
earn in eight hours enough money to
keep themselves from want; but the
journeymen declared that they meant to
work no more than eight hours, and
threatened a strike if the law were not
complied with.
In the case Of Arthur O'Connor, the
youth who recently presenteda pistol at
Queen Victoria, evidence was rendered
by his father as to the boys predisposi-
ton to insanity, and DR.. Harrington tes-
titled that the prisoner was both mad and |
dangerous, but the jury found him guilty. |
He was sentenced to years imprison-
ment at hard labor and to receive twenty
strokes OF the cat-o'-nine- tails
A TERRIBLY fatal accident is reported
from the West. The steamboat Oceanus,
from Red river for st. Louis, when near