Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-07
Items OP Interest.

Items Of Interest.
MILK is to be sold by ale and beer
measure in Maine.
THERE are 1872 patients in the Virginif
Asylum for colored lunatics.
MAINE proposes to abolish solitary
confinement in her States prison.
The California Assembly refused, by
vote of 43 to 33, to exempt journalist
from jury duty.
The bullion product of Nevada in 1S7l
exceeded 1000, 000-nearly equal t.
the gold product of California.
The voluntary subscriptions to thu
French fund to pay the indemnity t.
Germany amounts to 23,000,000 francs
SOUTHERN Illinois reports fatterine
prospects of an abundant fruit crop
especially apples, pears and cherries
Gov. CALDWELL, of North Carolina
has offered $85, 600 for the capture o
Lowery and his gang, and yet there arr
no takers.
A PUBLISHED letter from Charles d
Hilderbrand, the Missouri outlaw, con
veys the unpleasant news that the repor
OF his death was false.
THE Vermont Legislature, at its las
session, fixed the election Of Congress
men in that State, this year, for the frs
Monday in November.
The "mistake" OF druggists clerl
caused the death of the wife of Col. j. M
Thopburgh, young lady very highl.
esteemed, in Nashville, Tenn.
The National Labor Convention a
Columbus, nominated David Davis, o
Illinois, for President, and Joel Parker
of New Jersey, for Vice President.
The National Engineers Gift Enter
prise" eliminated in Milwaukee, in thu
arrest of President Charles d. Smith
who bailed himself out and left for part
unknown.
A VERY competent authority, presen
in the Prusslan dominions during the
war, estimates the number of men called
to arms on the German side during tina
period at a million.
A LETTER from Londonderry, ireland,
including one half of three pound ster
ling note, to pay $l5, income tax lief
unpaid by the sender, was received by
Treasurer Spinner.
ENCOURAGING reports from the diamond
fields continue to reach Capetown
Diamonds were selling at auction ut q
decline Of 25 per cent. on the prices re
ported by the previous steamer.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention to nominate candidates fol
State officers and Presidential electors
and to select delegates to the Democratic
National Convention, is to be held il
Reading on Thursday, May 80.
A SPECIAL despatch from Rome to the
american Register says General Sherman
Colonel Audenried, and Lieutenant
Grant, previous to their departure from
that city for Naples, had pleasant inter.
view of an hours duration with his Holi-
ness the Pope.
The Auditor OF Ohio has decided that
when q sexton resides, as a Waterman in
the basement of church, the whole
building must be taxed, the State law
providing that a church building must
be exclusively used for divine worship
to be exempt from taxation.
IT is report that a Boston landlord re-
Trained from collecting rent from one Of
his tenants for several years, that he
might avoid payment of the income tax
thereon, and that by the recent failure
Of the tenant, he has lost the entire sum,
amounting to many thousand dollars.
Two soldiers, named McCargue and
Mavanaugh, inmates of the National
Asylum, at Milwaukee, were found dead
i'll ravine in the woods back of the
asylum barns. They were nearly blind,
and have been missing for more than a
month, and until the past few days have
been covered with snow. The thaw de-
yeloped their whereabouts.
IT has been generally supposed that
the guano deposits in the Cincha Islands
were the excreta of birds, but now DR..
Habcl and Professor Edwards suspect
that they are made up of the bodies of
decayed animals and plants, most of
which are of marine origin. This sup
position rests on the fact that the
anchors Of ships moored near those Is
lands frequently bring guano to the
surface.