Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-05-23
Items OF General Interest,

IHE New YORK Democratic state Con
vention endorsed the Cincinnati resolu
tiops.
Horace Greeley has resigned his posi-
ton as editor-in- chief of the New Yorl
Tribune.
The ConSiionnel says three more
French departments will soon be evacu
ated by the Germans.
A TERRIBLE fire occurred in Brooklyn
N. Y. Fourteen tenement-houses were
burned, rendering homeless hundred
families.
STOCKS in San Francisco are complete
ly demoralized The break is one Of
the worst ever known, extending through
the entire list.
CINCINNATI is said to be the most
densely populated city in the United
States, having $4,000 people to the square
mile, while New York has but $4,000.
The London Times says Germany has
expressed her readiness to negotiate with
France for fastening the evacuation Of
the latter's territory by German troops,
The Republican State Convention at
Elmira endorsed the administration OF
Presidant Grant in series of resolu-
tons, and elected delegates to Philadel-
phia.
ORIsS. FERRY was reelected for term
of six years from March, 1878, by the
Connecticut Legislature. The contest
was between the successful candidate and
Gen. Hawley.
ENGINEER James Wood ran q special
train from Rochester to Syracuse, a dis
lance of eighty-one miles in eighty-two
minutes. This, for the distance, is the
fastest time on record.
THOMAS BUCHANAN READ, the Ameri-
can painter-poet, died at the Aston
House, in New York. He was carried off
by an attack of pleuro- pneumonia, in
the fifty first year of his age.
The last expedition to Cocos Island in
search of treasure, supposed to have been
buried there by pirates, has failed, and
fourteen persons from the expedition
have returned to San Francisco.
WoRKMEN are engaged in the City Hall
Park, N, Y, surveying the ground for the
New Vanderbilt Underground Railroad.
Three thousand men have been engaged
to begin operations Immediately.
A ROYAL decree has been published at
Madrid granting full pardon to the
Havana students who were convicted of
violating the grave of Gonzales Castanon,
and sentenced to the chain gang.
A SCHOONER which arrived at Copen-
hagen from Iceland reports series of
violent earthquake shocks at Hasvick.
Twenty houses were destroyed, and sew
eral persons were injured, but no lives
were lost.
PRESIDENT GRANT sent Congress a
message relating to the hardships of
emigrants, and suggesting some amelio-
rating action and one also in regard to
the continued persecution Of the Jews
in Roumania.
A DISPATCH received at Washington
from Helena, Montana, dated the 18th,
says: "The Fort Benton authorities
report that Simmons, Hard, and five
others, have been killed by Indians
while descending the river"
ALL the titles of the Marquis of Butte,
etc, are hereditary save two, which were
bestowed on him by the Pope. in him,
are concentrated the dignities of mar
quis, three earls, three viscourts, three
barons, and five lords. He was born
September -, 1847, and is consequently
twenty-five years.
IT is illegal in Massachusetts for any
passenger car to be lighted by naphtha |
or by any Illuminating oil or fluid made
in part from naphtha, or wholly OF in
part from coal or petroleum or other
substance or material which will ignite
at q temperature of less than three hun
bred degrees Fahrenheit.
A NEW line of iron steamships from
to Liverpool will soon COM
mence regular trips, and then will be
seen the novel spectacle in American
waters of the launch of an American iron
built of American materials,
owned by American capital, and to be
manned by American seamen. The four
steamers of this line are to be named the
Pennsylvania, the Ohio, the Indiana, and
the Illinois.
Trey are going to solve a maritime
war problem by making the British iron
clad Hotspur hurl her Titanic bolts of
FIVE hundred weight apiece against the
revolving turrets Of the iron-clad GLt-
ton, in order to test the real strength of
revolving turrets, the advantages and
disadvantages of the system under fire,
and other points which can only be
proven by actual experiment.