Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-01-04


Of beef steak is sold here for - cents
per pound, and the lookout is that it
will 90 still higher before another fall
The Post thinks Orange County
Jail must be empty because we said
there was no Democrat there. OF
course it is empty. No Republican
has been jailed to any extent for over
ten years.
We are indebted to Mr.. William Boycc,
Sexton. for the following statistics for 1871 -
Number of deaths Ill town, Sc; number Of
deaths over 81 years. 10; between 60 and 50,
IS; between 80 and 60, u between - and
3O s; under Is, s.
Died in each month January, 10; Feb
rnary, I; March, 5; April, 8; May, 3 June,
4; July, 81 August, /; September I; Oct.
4; November, 4 December, L.
Diseases disease OF the brain, 3 ; do.
liver, |; disease unknown-or no particular
disease-l4 ;dropsy, 8 paralysis, 2; apoplexy,
=; consumption 10; scarlet fever, 2; conges-
ton of lungs, cancer, |; nervous prostcra-
tion, |; hemt disease, 3 epilepsy, |; con-
vul>iOns, |; typhoid pneumonia, .; brochits,
|; killed bya fall, |; dy>en.ery, 3; abcesscs.
!; typhoid fever, i; gangrene, Il softening
OF brain, |.
1t will lie seen from the above that the
number of deaths in Woodstock, during the
year 1871, has been unusually large, consider
ing that no "epidemlcs" visited us. Mr..
Boycc rays the number is larger than any
year since lie has been Sexton, extending over
aperod of fifteen years.
The fifty photographs, four by
six inches, Of Mount Washington and
Moosilaukc, ETC., exhibited at the
Town Hall last Friday evening by
Prof. Huntington were quite interest
ing and instructive. THE pictures
were thrown ON canvass IS by 20 feet
by means of q powerful calcium light,
and the Prof. stood by to explain, but
he lacks power of expression to do it
easy and well. A fair audience was
present, and it is safe to say that it
was pleased with "Scenes Above the
Clouds in Mid Winter"
George Sheppard, q "cullud pus-
son." a sort Of "wandering Jew" in
this section for many years, died from
the effects Of exposure, at the Poor
House at South Woodstock, Dec. 31st,
aged so years, and has probably gone
where the good niggers 60" He re-
turned to the Poor House in q sad
plight q few days before his death,
where he was kindly cared for by Su-
perintcndant Harding and family.
1t would be good policy for the
individual who stole that Buffalo Robe,
advertised in another column, to re-
turn the same at once, and commence
the New Year with a resolve to do
better Remember the adage, "honesty
is the best policy"
The scriptural admontion "Let
him that thinketh he standeth, take
heed lest he fall" is particularly ap-
propriate just now.
An adjourned meeting of the
Sons of Temperance will be held at
their Hall, next Saturday evening, at
o'clock, Local speakers will be
present and address the meeting. All
who take an interest in the cause of
temperance, and all who do not,
are cordially invited to attend.
The Rutland Daily Herald put
in an appearance this morning in new
clo, after n years Of toll. Brother
Clark gets up good state paper, ex-
cepting its politics.
THE annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Woodstock Il. r. Co.
will be held at the Town Hall. Jan.
10, at p. M.
A suit for divorce between parties
in Bennington, has been postponed
until the June term, much to the re-
gret of the lady applicant, who, an
tic!pating legal release from her
first matrimonial venture, had ar
ranged for the celebration of second
New Years Day.