Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-02-08
Summary Of News.


stantinople and suburbs.
SMALLPOX has appeared in severa
parts of the Dominion of Canada.
The census of Rome, just completed
shows a total population of 10000.
Two men have been killed and severa
injured by powder explosion in Colo
RADIO.
The "black tongue disease is de
shoying the cattle OF Knox County,
Illinois.
The Ohio State Journal proposes the
name of William Dennison, of Ohio, fol
the Yice-PrGsidency.
The schooner VIM. Tell upset, on the
Texas coast, and the Captain and two
passengers were drowned.
A SINGLE hair from Louis NapOleon's
head is said to have been sold at $500 at
a recent fair in London.
WELL-executed counterfeit twenty.
dollar notes on the National Bank OF
New York are in circulation.
In Mexico no hopes of an early peace
are entertained. Porfrio Diaz now
menaces the State of Vera Cruz.
HOLMES COUNTY, Ohio, has had nc
deaths for the past ten years, and its only
undertaken is in the poor-house.
A SMALL boy of Weseca, MINI, "played
hang in his fathers barn, and suspen-
ded himself with terrible Execution. u
SAMUEL r. Sexton, of Mapping, Con-
necticut, raised 2,366 pounds of tobacco
to the acre, and sold it at 35 cents per
pound.
The colored field hands of Georgia and
South Carolina have united in petition
to Congress for the retention Of the duty
on rice.
The Kentucky House of Representa-
tives concurred in the Senate bill admit
ting negroes as witnesses in the State
courts.
The work of restoring the Vendome
column in Paris has been commenced.
all the pieces, 272 in number, were care
fully preserved.
A Mrs. JOHNSON, of Paxton, N. Y,
committed suicide because her husband,
Swede, could talk language which
she could not understand.
A YEAR ago Mr.. Gleason, of Chicago,
lost leg through the carlessness of a
car driver, and last week he lost the
other in the same manner.
Ex-DEPUTY Commissioner Williams is
to get from the japanese government
$40, 600 gold per annum for organizing
an American revenue system in Japan.
PRINCE BISMARCK has ordered that
French shall cease to be the language of
all diplomatic intercourse in which he
has any personal part or official control.
For the last twenty-slx years there has
been sleighing i'll Boston on Christmas
Day but three times-in 1915, '56, ga.
Twenty-one of the days have been clear,
but without snow,
THE South Carolina House of Repre-
sentatives have adopted joint resolu-
tons, declaring the proposed reduction
OF the import duty on rice unwise, par
tidl and disastrous.
An inventive genius at Mound City,
ILL.,, has devised fifth wheel attach
ment to a buggy which helps to turn
both horse and carriage on space not
exceeding their length.
SECRETARY Robson and Mrs. Aulick
were married at the Church of the
Epiphany, at Washington. The Presi
dent and members of his Cabinet, with
their families, were present.
LOUISA FOWLER has obtained ver-
dict of $4,000 and costs against David
A. Martin for breach Of promise OF mar
riage, after seven years courtship.
Both reside in Plattsyille, N, Y.
One hundred men in California took
special train and thirty greyhounds and
started in pursuit of rabbits, The rainy
season set in, and weeks hunting re-
suited in the death Of one rabbit and the
return of the party.
The Legislature of Kentucky has re-
pealed the law making insanity cause
for divorce, on the ground, perhaps, that
under such law no marriage was valid,
entrance into matrimony being ip8o facto
proof of mental unsoundness.
In the Ohio House resolution was
offered asking Congress to grant 500
bounty to each soldier of the late war
who enlisted for three years, but were
discharged before the expiration of two
years for sickness or disability.
The eighth annual meeting of the New
York State Workingmen's Association
was held at Albany. The annual address
was delivered by the President, William
]. Jessup. Delegates were present from
Bufit.o, Syracuse, Troy and New York.
The Minnesota Legislature has passed
a bill to aid the sufferers by the late
prairie fires. 1t provides for o loan of
$4,000 to enable poor people to buy
seed for next crop. The loan to each
individual applicant is not to exceed $50.
A YOUNG girl named Haucke living at
Richmond Grove, ILL.,, chewed piece
of ordinary sealingwax as n substitute
for chewing-gum. The wax contained
Venetian red, a deadly poison. The
girl fingered few days, and expired in
great agony.
INTEREST in the Tichborne case con-
tinues undated in England. As the
arguments Tor the defence 60 on, the
claimants chances are said to grow
weaker. The G100 Tichborne bonds
have fallen to els. Revelations of an
exciting character are yet to be looked
for.
AN appalling steamship disaster &C.
cured between Rio Janeiro and Monte
viieo. The steamer America, took fire,
and the flames spread with snch rapidity
that the vessel was soon burned to the
waters edge. No fewer than eighty
seven passengers, of whom there were
large number on board, are reported to