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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14
Assault upon Queen Victoria.

The attack upon Queen Victoria by
the man O'Conner, calls to mind former
attack upon her Majesty, one which came
near ending her life. This attack was
made in 1910, by Edward Oxford. That
attempt was made in the month of June,
shortly after the Queens marriage to
Prince Albert it occurred at the same
place on Constitution Hill, and about
the same hour of the late attack. The
Queen was then in the pride of heryouth
and beauty. In letter Prince Albert
spoke of the attack as follows: We had
hardly proceeded hundred yards from
the Palace when noticed, on the foot
path on my side, little mean-looking
man holding something toward us, and
before / could distinguish what it was,
shot was fired, which almost stunned
us both, it was so loud and fired barely
six PAGES from us. Victoria had just
turned to the left to look at a horse, and
could not, therefore, understand why her
ears were ringing, as from its being so
very near she could hardly distinguish
that it proceeded from a shot having been
fired. The horses started and the carri-
age stopped. I seized Victoria's hands,
and asked if the fright had not shaken
her, but she laughed at the thing.
[ then looked again at the man who
was still standing in the same place, his
arms crossed and pistol in each hand.
His attitude was so affected and theatre
cal it quite amused me. Suddenly he
again pointed his pistol and fired a
second time. This time Victoria also
saw the shot, and stopped quickly drawn
down by me. The ball must have passed
Just above her head, to judge from the
place where it was found sticking in an
opposite wall. The many people who
stood round us and the man, were at
first petrifed with fright on seeing what
happened, now rushed upon him.
called to the position to go on, and We
arrived safely at Aunt Kent's. From
thence we took short drive through the
Pork, partly to give Victoria little air
partly also to show the public that We
had not, on account of what had happen
ed, lost all confidence in them.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14
The Frozen Crew.

Near by the lighthouse, whose lamp is lit
By brand from the sun which is firing it,
Doubling the CLEANS from the west that culver
crystal ship lies out on the river
Frost-woven sheets to the wind are furled
Frost-bound the streamer on topmast curled (;
Reef-band and mainsail are frozen stark
A shimmering spectre, the frozen bark
Smooth cordage Of ice was spun last night
BY the breath Of the storm in it's mystic might
Chill was its touch, that chilled the men,
Who strove to lower the sails again;
But 1t conquered them all in its silver snare,
And fashioned shroud for the bravest there
Only day from the harbor bar
Had the canvas filled for its port afar;
Only day of breezes brave
Had challenged the bark to mount the wave
Only day Of quickened life,
As the air with its pulses of health was rife,
Had this ship, with its store Of golden corn,
Over the gladdened sea been borne,
When feathery fakes began to fall,
And the king of the storm outspake, to call
To his aid the help Of wind and sleet-
Furies that came on hurrying feet,
And blinded the men, and couded the air
With wonder that ever is wondrous fair
A spell that siren might weave in hate,
To lure her victim to helpless fate,
Yet never 80 mockingly cruel as when
One, the most fearless among the men,
sprang to the top with heart to dare,
And was frozen stiff to the cross-tree there
Long the battle with wind and hail.
One by one the stout hearts quail
One by one they are frost-numbed all
The gallant crew in their icy thral
Breaks the morning in smiles once more
Turned is the weird ship back to shore;
Slowly it plows the sea-slush through
The ghostly ship, with its silent crew
Till ont from the lighthouse succor comes,
And the men are borne to sorrowing homes
Some to yield to an endless night,
Blind to the blessing of cheerful light:
Some to suffer a torturing pain,
Az the sealed life-current is loosed again,
Or to cry in the fever of struggling breath
To the man aloft who is dumb with Death
While the mute ship lies, a spectral sight,
Glad in its vestments of shining white,
Unvaned by the flames from the west which di
To kindle the hold Of the crystal ship,
And halo the head Of the sleeping man
Who froze at his post when the storm began.
Mary B. Dodge,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14
MARRIED IN HASTE AND REPENTINc

MARRIED IN HASTE AND REPENTINa
QUICKLY.-The Indianapolis Sentinel
gives this; Hasty marriages are ill-timed,
and with half chance will breed dis
content and much rioting. For instance,
on the LIST Of July last, a party in this
city met and were introduced, and on
the Goth of the same month married and
went to boarding, apparently as doting
as two pigeons in a garnet. The middle
Of August developed an unpleasantness;
the ending of September confirmed it.
October witnessed a separation, and No
vember reunion. The remainder of
the record is sad, very sad. Mutual
wrangling; each playing bluff game,
and both losing. Last week the husband
came to the wife, and moved that they
now agree to disagree Taken by consent,
and the fractions couple Immediately
proceeded to make fair divide of the
household plumber. More riot on the
division. The husband locked the door
and went for that wife something after
the style Of Bill Nye and the heather
Chinee. The woman, all battered and
torn, and in manner forlorn, has filed
affidavit for assault and battery and
surety of the peace. Next and under
the circumstances very sensibly, will
come suit for divorce.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

How IT IS DoNE.-The sap of the rub
Der tree is collected in large quantities
in Bolivia and other South American
States. The following illustration will
give an idea of the process used there in
preparing the gum for market. The
sap, or milk, of the tree has been re-
ceived in an inverted turtle-shell. An
earthen jar, with hole in the bottom,
sits over a palm nut fire, the smoke as
cending through the jar. A Bolivian
Indian sits near he dips paddle into
the milk, and holds it over the smoke
until the gum is hardened, then dips it
again, and again hardens it over the jar.
This process is continued until the end
of the paddle is covered to the proper
commercial thickness. The gum is then
cut off, and is ready for market. Agood
days work is six pounds. The rubber
product of the Amazon Valley is increas-
irg with great rapidity. That for 1870
was correctly estimated at 576O net tons.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14
New York Fashions.

The lowest-priced fabric for Dolly
Warden polonaises, and also the material
most popularity used for them, is French
calico, with black, brown, or buff
grounds, strewn over with brilliant hued
flowers and trailing vines. This is near
ly yard wide, and costs from 40 to 80
cents yard. Next are the soft-fnished
cretonnes, heavier than French calicoes,
but not twilied, as India cretonnes are.
The grounds are pale blue, apple green,
or rose, with floral designs in shaded
gay frescoings like those seen in the
cretonnes used for upholstery. Sixty to
so cents is the range of prices. More
expensive cretonnes, though of no better
quality, have black or buff grounds with
bright flowers. A beautiful twilled
goods, called cotton Saline, has soft gray
and light brown grounds dotted with
small flowers, rose-buds violets, and
forget-me-nots in their natural colors !;
price So cents. The finest material for
Dolly Warden for spring, and which peo-
pie of wealth perfer to brocaded silk, is
the new soft foulard, at So yard. The
designs are those already described
dull grounds with flowers of brilliant
hue. The width is twenty-four inches.
For summer polonaises there are Dolly
Warden organizes, with black or pure
white grounds nearly hidden by the gay
chintz pattern ; price 80 cents. Another
fabric for summer use is called mouSSeline
sole, silk muslin or close fine grenadine
in the prevailing Dolly Warden colors and
design. This costs from 81. so to So q
yard.
Among wooden stuffs for spring suits
is new closely woven mixture of wool
and cotton in plain, grave colors, or with
stripes, sold for 37s cents ayard. Good
mohair alpacas in lustrous black, among
which the beaver brand deserves special
commentator, and in every shade of col
or, are rs cents or ST. yard. Lower
priced mohairs soon lose their gloss and
fade. Japanese silks of the best quality
are brought out in checks and hair
stripes of bright blue, apple green, and
black with white, and also in the grisaille
stripes so much worn last year.
New spring shawls have beautifully
shaded Roman stripes alternating with
pale blue, gray, black, and white stripes
They are of soft fine ottoman reps, two
yards square, and are worn folded straight
like scarf The prices range from $4
to 1922. Those for So, $40, or $12 are
very desirable.
A novelty this season is scarf of otto
man reps in bright Roman stripes. 1t
is three yards long and over half yard
broad, and it is to be wound around the
shoulders Sc or SO buys pretty scarf.
A CURIOUS SUIT. In Pittsburg breach
of promise suit has been commenced,
possessing some singular features Mary
Gilmore, the complainant, alleges that
one John 7. Corbett, of that city, last
year, happened by chance to see her
photograph, and so admired it that,
though he had no acquaintance with her
he declared he would marry her. She
was then living in Ireland, but so
enamored wasJohn of her "photo, that
he sent over money to bring her out here.
When she arrived he professed to believe
that she did not justify the charms of
the photograph and declined matrimouy.
Hence the suit.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENTS. -
With a single exception no Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, has been his
own successor in the history of the gov
eminent. The exception was that of
Daniel D. Tompkins, of New York, who
served as Vice President under the two
terms of President Monroe, one of which
terms occurred in what is historically
known as the "era of good feeling
from 1921 to 1895 The instances in
which Vice President has stepped from
that position to the Presidency are six, to
wit John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
Martin Van Buren,, John Tyler, Willard
Fillmore and Andrew Johnson-the three
latter succeeded to the Presidency on ac-
count of the demise of the regularly
elected incumbents while holding Office
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

NUMBERING A WIFE WITH Hor Cor
FEE.-A curious trial is now going on in
Chicago, in which German named Goa
chin Gest Is charged with scalding his
wife to death with hot coffee. A physi-
clan who made post-mortem examina-
ton of the body of the woman, testified
that death resulted from the effects of
scalding, and testimony of admission of
the accused to the brother and sister of
the deceased is to the effect that he knock
ed the deceased down with the coffee pet
and poured its contents upon her because
she took long time getting breakfast
ready in the morning. Gest has always
borne good character until this unfor
tunate affair.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

CosrIY.-A handsome young gentle.
man walked into the Adams Express
office the other day, and desired to ex'
press package of letters to lady, to
whom he desired to return them,
"What are they worth?" asked the clerk,
who, in making out his account, desired
to know what was the risk. The young
gentleman hesitated moment, then
clearing his throat from certain hlIski.
ness, replied, "Well, can't say cxactly,
but few weeks ago l thought they were
worth about four hundred thousand
dollars.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

HOLIDAYS. Gradually the belief that
America has too few holidays is gaining
ground. Wisconsin has just passed a
law making election-day legal holiday
This has often been suggested, but new
er, We believe, put in practice, and the
results of the Wisconsin experiment will
consequently be watched with interest
1t has been held that if the day were a
holiday a more nearly full vote would be
brought out, and that, too, The right of
suffrage would be exercised more gener-
ally by business men, the very class
whose ballots it is most desirable should
be polled.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

The proprietors of the Russell House,
in Detroit, were offered Ave hundred
dollars for the bedstead on which Alexis
slumbered, and the chambermaid was
bribed in almost untold amounts to let a
fashionable dressmaker have the sheets
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

A certain city was about to be de-
stroyed. The women were allowed to
leave, and were told that they might
carry away on their backs whatever they
most priced. Each woman took man.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

A WESTERN VENDETTA. George Webb
was shot and killed and James Aid and
David Hamiltree wounded in an ARRAY
at Salem Church, five miles from indie
pendence, Mo. 1t appears that bitter
family feud existed between the Webb
and Aid families, and as both parties be-
longed to the Salem Baptist Church, an
effort was made to settle the difficulty
through the influence Of the church.
With this view meeting of the respec-
tive friends of the families was held and
while efforts were being made to heal
the differences between Aid and Webb,
n few angry words were spoken, where
upon Webb shot and wounded one of
Aids brothers. In attempting to stop
the fight David Hamiltree was wounded
and Webb killed, the latter receiving
seven bullets in his body.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

FEARFUL Academia shocking acct
dent occurred in Frankfort. A building
in which a large number of persons re-
sided, fell burying the inmates in the
ruins. Fourteen corpses have, thus far,
been taken from the debris, and a large
force of men is yet engaged in searching
for the bodies of other victims of this
sad disaster.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

THE British expedition against the
Looshais having accomplished its object,
peace will soon be proclaimed.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

How THE FRENCH BUILD. The French
practice in building is a good one. In
stead of using Aimsy lath for thin par.
titions, they employ stout pieces of oak,
as thick as garden palings. These they
nail firmly on each side of the framing
of the partition, and fill the spaces with
rubble and plaster of Paris. They coat
the whole with plaster. The floors are
managed in the same way, as well as the
under side of the stairs. Houses are
thus rendered more fre-proof," or
rather less combustible. In Nottingham,
England, where they have gypsum in the
neighborhood, as in Paris, they form
their floors and partitions in the same
solid manner consequently, Il building
is rarely burned down in that populous
manufacturing town. - Manufacturer and
Builder.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

THE Kansas House of Representatives
passed a bill abolishing capital punish
ment
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

RUSSIAN SENsTTIvENEss.- st. Pc
tersburgh correspondent of the Bresau
Gazette writes to that journal that the
protest of certain Germans in Milwaukee
against rendering formal reception to
the Grand Duke Alexis has greatly ex-
asperated the imperial family of Russia.
"The Empress, T." he says, "who has al
ways watched with maternal solicitude
over the progress of her favorite son
through the United States, was loud in
her denunciations of the boorish conduct
of her countrymen in that city the
more so, as it is now well understood
that the Grand Duke Alexis, during his
soiourn in Berlin last summer, was en-
gagged to be married to the daughter of
one of the most distinguished sons of
Germany, the Princess Elizabeth Louise
Fredenca, eldest daughter of Prince
Frederick Charles of Prussia. This en-
gagement was brought about by the joint
efforts of our Empress and of the En-
peror William of Germany. The we'd
ding will take place in the autumn after
the return of the Grand Duke to Eu-
rope. The Gar himself Is also quite in
censed over the Milwaukee incident
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

A NOVEL BALL RooM.-The Folsom
(Cal) Telegraph, says: At B. N, Bug
bey's vineyard, dance took place in one
of his mammoth wine tanks. A large
party of ladies and gentlemen, invited
to the dedicatory ceremony of dancing
in one of the largest watts in the United
States, were in attendance, and partioi
pated in the hospitality of one of the
most enterprising winters in California.
The monster tank was lit up the mu-
sicians announced "take your partners
for a quari.ille," and dancing COM
mencel alter the old Bavarian style
while one set danced, there was plenty
of rom for twenty spectators and the
musicians. The watts are able to contain
so, 600 gallons of wine. .....
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-14

Mr.. A. B. CAPRoN has collected in
Chicago for shipment to Japan, for the
experimental farm at Yesso, a number
of trotting stations, carriage horses,
brood mares, farm horses, cows, bulls,
hogs, and sheep, all of the highest breed
ing, and lot of agricultural implements
and machinery.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-05
Mass Meetings
FRIENDS OF GREELEY 4 BROWN

The Conservative Democratic and I.iber-
al Republican State Executive Committees
have made he following appointmc, l. for
public speaking. IL Is expected hat the
friends of Greedy and Brown will make all
necessary arrangements for holding the
meeting; and provide barbecues where it
is deemed expedient. Ii viii be SEGA that
number of counties lying of OF the great
lines OF railway travel, have been purpose
ly omitted in the foregoing appointments.
The friends of Greedy and Brown in these
omitted counties are earnestly requested to
organize, arrange for meeting, barbecues.
DC, and name their own times and places.
The Board of Control will, when advised,
furnish the best and most popular speakers
Applications should be adj
dressed to HARRIS BARKsDALE, Secretary.
j Jackson, Miss.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-05
GreeIey's Ad mirabIe Speech tOuch-
ing Off the OmcehOIders who
Earn their Esl cad by Racing
over the Country Making
Partisan HaranGueS.
SUNBURY, Pa, Sept. Goth, 1872.

oONDOK1s u, OcpI. <OtilJ Iod &
Mr.. Greeley made a speech at Williams
port, Pa, this evening. He commenced by
calling attention to the administration,
cabinet ministers, and officeholders, running
and racing from one end of the country TO
the otEer, to persuade the people to keep
them in office. l think that is something to
which the people ought not to be reconciled
to; of course s'like master, like man." The
whole body of officeholders, $4,000 to 49,
coo generally influential men are devoting
their time and talents to re-electing their
superiorS to office and thereby Keeping
themselves in place. | venture to say that
since the first day of May last, Federal
offieeholders have done more work and de-
voted more attention to keeping their pla-
ces than they have to doing their duty, all
of them enormously taxed and their ener-
gieS employed to sustain this machine of
power. and then running and racing over
the country, giving up to party services,
and to the Presidents reelection their time
and energies, that belong to the people, for
which the people have paid, and of which
the people ought to have the advantages.
TCries Of"That's so."l Now take my excel
lent friend, Gen. Hartman, (laughter) who
is here, to make a speech tonight for Grant
and Wilson. He will make good one-he
is good talker. As | understand the case,
General Hartman Is naval officer of the
port of Boston, responsible position, with
a good salary, which he doubtless earns, but
here he is earning it speaking in Pennsyl-
vania. Laughter | have found him also
in Connecticut, in Maine, and SO on. How
under heaven can he be earning the money
we are paying him in that position of Naval
Officer at Boston, while he is speaking all
over the country. He is a good, capable
man. and makes good speeches. but | say he
ought to make his speeches on his own
hook, | do. prolonged laughter.l He
ought not be paid for making them out of
the Federal treasury. Great applause.
Now there is another point to which the
people are not likely to be reconciled, and
that is the enormous use of money in this
election. In all the elections held, from
George Washington down to the present
time, there has not been so much money spent
Grant party alone. They have their treas
holders then Credit Mobilier; men with
their large Observation-Disclosures five times
as large as the capital invested.
tell you that right down in honest old
Vermont, where the people never heard of
money being paid before, their money was
poured out like water to induce the Demo-
Gratis to VCte the Grant ticket or stay away
from the polls. SO in Maine. A hundred
thousand dollars were paid in Maine for
votes.
Now, gentlemen, if they elect their ticket
this fall, it W i'll be because they have one
hundred thousand dollars to our one.
Mr.. Greeley continued at some length
touching upon the most important topics of
the political canvass, and finally returned
to his train amid great cheering.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-10-05
The Effects of CarPct-Isag Govern
Imemt.
A LUNATIC ASYLUM STARVED OUT.


The South Carolina papers publish two
letters from Mr.. Enson, the superintendent
of the luRatic asylum of that State, begging
for loan of $1,000 TO carry on the institu-
ton. In one of them he says:
lowing to the tightness of the money
market | am unable to borrow money with
which to buy provisions, and unless We can
obtain a further credit for supplies the in
mates of the institution must suffer for want
of the necessaries of life or be turned out
into the streets, dependents upon Individual
charity, as the State has proven utterly in
competent to provide for them. We have
now but one days. supplies on hand, and I'M
less relief is afforded, day after Tomorrow
viii find nearly four hundred human beings
in this asylum suffering for something to
eat. In the name OF God and humanity,
beg you TO help them if you cam
The Columbia IS. c. Phoenix. comment
ing on this extraordinary appeal from the
superintendent of State institution, says ::
:" Not single dollar of this years appro-
priation for the asylum has been paid. The
taxes from which the appropriation was de-
six ned to be drawn, were collected last fall
and inter, but they were all squandered III
legislative expenses, meeting drafts upon
the bogus armed-force fund, and such like
swindles. The asylum, the penitentiary,
the public schools, and all ether proper OBJ
jects OF governmental care and support,
have suffered terribly in consequence. The
asylum has been kept going up to this time
simply through the personal exeTtions of
the superintendent and the assistance rem
dered him by private Individuals