Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-04-11
Items OF Interest.
VIRGINIA has sc, 468 farms.

VIRGINIA has sc, 1853 farms.
A CHINESE colony will locate at Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
A RELIGIOUS sect is announced in st.
Louis which oompels women to cut their
hair of.
CAPT. JOHN G TODD is the only sur
viving officer Of the navy of the Texas
Republic.
Two mock medical shops in Philadcl-
pia have had their charters revoked by
the Legislature.
FoRTY-s1x thousand persons in Iowa
can neither read nor write, and one third
of them are voters.
Hon. IT, P. WALKER, United States
Senator from Wisconsin, in 1854, died
suddenly of apopleXy,
ADvIoEs from tho Southern States
show that planters will prepare to plant
more cotton this year than ever before.
The condemnations by the French
Military Commissions Of persons in the
Commune is thus 1924 (; alterations,
20910.
JOSEPH WHITE was badly torn by
lions, while performing at circus in
Frankford, Pa. He is not expected to
live.
Two persons we're killed and twelve in
jured by the fall of the wall of building
in which negro festival was being held
in Frederick, Nd.
A BILL was introduced into the New
York Legislature to punish by fine Of
$1,000 newspapers publishing the adver-
tisements oil abortionists.
GENERALS SHERIDAN and Anger have
been instructed by the War Department
to use extraordinary efforts to put stop
to the raids of Mexicans in Texas.
A STAY Of execution has been granted
in the case Of Charles NARROW, who was
to have been hanged at Maysville, N.
Y, for the murder of William Bachman.
The Pennsylvania Labor Reformers
have called a State Convention, to be
held in Williamsport, on Tuesday, May
Z to nominate candidates for State Off
cerS.
LETTERS from the West state that per
sons usually ploughing at the middle Of
March, were this year shiySring at that
time as they gazed upon their frozen
fields.
THE people of Wisconsin, at their
next general election are to decide
whether, they will increase the number
of Justices Of their Supreme Court from
three to five.
A RESOLUTION was offered and ordered
to be printed in the Ohio Senate, asking
the Ohio members Of Congress to sup
port a proposition to construct canal
around Niagara Falls, on the American
side.
A SHOCKING accident occurred on the
race.coursc at Lurgan, Ireland. A stand
on which were about two hundred per-
sons gave way and about thirty Of them
were seriously injured, some, it is feared,
fatally.
PROFESSOR s. I. b. Morse, the father
OF the telegraph, died at his residence
in West Twenty second street New York
His death was not unexpected, as since
his recent stroke of paralysis there has
been but little hope Of his recovery.
NJ. NJ. VIL1rMEssANr and Vitu, editors
Of the Paris Figoro, have been acquitted
Of the charge Of libelling General Trochu,
and found guilty of insulting a govern
ment funciionaTy. They were sentenced
to three months Imprisonment and q
fine of 5000 francs.
A LARGE proportion of the population
of Milwaukee is composed of thrifty, fru-
gal, industrious, productive Germans,
each of whom owns little land about
his house, and sports pig or two, and
sends his troop Of children to school, and
lays up money on 50 week.
WISCONSIN has just passed q law for
the punishment Of drunkenness with
more than ordinary severity. Hereafter
the inebriate is to be considered a crimi-
nal, liable to Imprisonment for two
or for as much longer period
as the costs of the action remain I'M
paid.
MAzANAREs, in Spain, near which the
rails were torn up and the trains stop
ped and robbed by banditti, is within
about one hundred miles of Madrid, in
the province Of Ciudad Real, which has
two hindred and forty-fve thousand in
habitants, on an area Of about five
thousand square miles, a population
more than half as dense as that Of the
State of New York.
ABOUT 400 farmers interested in the
milk trade met in New York to devise
means to protect themselves from the
rapacity OF dealers and middlemen. 1t
was stated that the dairymen receive 3
cents q quart for milk, while the con-
sumer pays 10 cents quart for milk
and water-3,000 cases of the latter
being added to the 10000 cases daily
brought into New York.
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