Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-03-28
Summary OF News.

THURSDAY, April IS, is Fast Day in
Maine.
W1scoNsTNs wool clip last year was
1920, SAT pounds
A GERMAN writer defines woman rs
being something between flower and an
angel.
S. NJ. HEWLETT, tho temperance lee.
turer, died suddenly in Meriden, Conn,
lately,
A SPANISH steamer recently landed at
Gibaria, Cuba, LOO soldiers from
Spain.
An imperial decree reopens Sobasto-
pol Us commercial and military harbor,
with Notifications restored.
The U. S. chief signal officer announ-
ces that the display of cautionary signals
at all the lake ports begin on April l,
1872.
The officers of the U. S. navy of high
grade, have petitioned Congress for re-
adjustment of the rates of pay allowed to
the officers of that branch of the govern
ment
A NEGRO was rescued alive, at Char
lottesville, Va, recently, after lying at
the bottom of well, covered with about
fifty feet of earth and stones, for nine
hours. He was but slightly injured.
A BOY convict, named Dunn, 16 years
of age, rs he was being locked up in his
cell in the House of Refuge, Randall's
Island, N. Y, stabbed and killed his
keeper, Samuel Calvert, with a shoe
knife.
A DRUNKEN blacksmith named Joseph
Nelson, near Sedalia, Mo-, abused his
wife till she left him, and when she re-
fused to return he shot and killed her,
and then shot himself, iniiicting dan
gerous wound.
Mrs. ANNA G. RUTH, charged with
being an accessory before the fact in the
murder of her husband, Isaac M, Ruth,
by Dr.. John j. Medlicott, has been dis
charged on writ of habeas corpus by
the authorities,
A TRAGEDY, most sad in its details, took
place in New York. William Trevert,
German citizen in comfortable circum-
stances, accidentally shot his wife with
pistol, killing her Instantly. Trevert be-
came ravng maniac when he saw what
he had done.
TIE proposed constitution for Utah
was unanimously adopted by the Nor.
mon voters, and Fuller, the candidate
for Congress, was elected without oppo-
sition.. The Gqntiles put no ticket in
the field, and abstained from voting,
A large number of Mormon women
voted.
A SOUTHERN newspaper says; Give
brothers sleep side by side on little
mound right in sight of their mothers
little white cottage, that stands down by
a mill about twenty miles from Apo
mattox Court house. She pointed them
to us while the tears gushed from her
eyes. They were her all"
A SOCIETY, to be known as the "Nlis-
sion for Animals" was organized at a
meeting of citizens in Boston, based
upon considerations that the public
health, economy and morals are to a
large extent injuriously affected by our
present modes of treating live stock des-
tined for food, clothing, and other uses.
Officers of the mission were elected.
The particulars Oh Gen. Trevino's de-
feat near Zacatecas (Mexico) proves more
disastrous to the revolutionists than was
at first reported. While the battle was
one thousand men revolted
and joined Rocha, which created a panic,
resulting in the rout of the revolution
lists and the capture OF Trevino's main
command, with all his material of war.
Ar an inquest upon the body of girl
in Vermont, the evidence proved con-
clusively that the girl came to her death
by eating arsenic TO beautify her com
plexion. She had been in the habit of
eating cloves, pickles, chalk, &C., for the
same purpose, and having seen in
newspaper that some ladies in the old
country ate arsenic to whiten their skin,
she took some of the poison for that
purpose, and with fatal results.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, in the English House
of Commons, acknowledged the receipt
of the American note in reply to that of
Lord Granville. He was gratifed to state
that it was couched in friendly and cour-
teous terms. 1t did not adopt the views
OF the English government, and it seemed
to call for reply. This would be sent
to the American Minister Immediately. |
The correspondence, however, would not
be laid before Parliament. The matter
also came upin the House Of Lords, Earl
Granville promising to give the CORE
spondence to the public at an early date.