Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-05-09
Items OF Interest.

International Society have been arrested
at Lyons.
In Massachusetts, there are 1913 cotton
factories, with 50, 149 looms and 1901
S4S spindles.
MANY of the Wisconsin veterans are
availing themselves Of the provisions OF
the homestead law
In the united states Treasury there is
in coin, S129, GIT $3.50; coin certificates,
$25, 272, 800; currency, SO, los, 433.
A MINNESOTA woman has invented n
n fan to be attached to sewing-machlne
and put in motion by the same power
The annual deposits in the Canadian
Post Office savings banks have increased
in four years from 1912, SIT to l,9l7576,
The operations of the U. S. Treasury
Department are said to use up ll4,O0O
lead pencils and S64, 900 steel pens every
year.
The St. Paul Mimi Board of Trade
withdraws from the National Board on
the ground that its assessments are too
heavy.
The South Carolina Legislature has a
law legitimizing the children of colored
mothers by white fathers who held them
as slaves.
The coroncr's jury at Philadelphia in
the case of Maggie Murphy, found a
verdict that she died of malpractice by
DR.. r. Hitchcock, and he was committed
to answer.
A THUNDER STORM Of unusual violence
passed over the midland counties
IEugland) doing great damage. Houses
were unroofed, churches injured, and
some lives are reported lost.
A GENTLEMAN in Cleveland has been
making experiments i'll extinguishing
the flames of petroleum, and has found
that sand and aqua ammonia thrown on
the flames will quickly extinguish them.
Snow was so deep in Little Cotton
wood Canon, Utah, recently, that an
ordinary question was "Can you
oblige me with an iron rod to bore for
my cabin ?"
THE French government has determln-
ed to try several of the generals of the
late war who have been censured by the
committee appointed to investigate the
capitulation of Metz and other French
fortressess.
Mrs. PETER CRoNDA, of Mackinac Co.,
Mich, is the mother of twenty-three sons
and daughters, each of whom is parent
of a dozen or more, consequently Mrs.
Cronaa is Grandmother to at least three
hundred little ones.
SALEM n. c., is remarkable place.
But one house has been destroyed there
by fire in the past ninety years. There
is not q whisky shop nor bar-room in
the place. 1t has but one lawyer, and
he recently moved there.
JOHN COOPER, mulatto, who muir
dered James H. Swing, colored tin
smith, last November, was hung in
Cleveland. On the scaffold Cooper made
few remarks, saying he was sorry for
what he had done, and was prepared to
die.
A MAN in Council Bluffs, Iowa, one
dark night missed his way, and fell head
foremost into deep hole. He could
not extricate himself, and yet lived until
morning, standing on his head for nine
hours. He died shortly after being
found.
THE Tichborne claimant publishes a
letter to the public in which he returns
thanks for their previous subscriptions
in his behalf and asks for an additional
sum of CA, 900 to enable him to continue
his contest for the possession Of the Itch
borne estate.
DURING thunder storm q cat, lying
under a stove in the house of William
O'Meara, near Lewisburg, Ky, was
killed by Lightning At the time four
persons were seated near the stove.
None of them were hurt, though all were
slightly shocked. Inits passage through
the room the electric fluid resembled q
globe of fire,
The first reports of the losses and prl-
vations by the earthquake in Inyo Coun.
ty, CAL, were greatly exaggerated. The
local papers now say that, leaving out OF
the count the loss Of score or two adobe
houses which, if rebuilt, would not now
sell for 81 piece-the actual extent OF
the damage will not exceed 100000,
taking the county throughout.
AT Oatka Falls, Missouri, the farmers
wives have organized club, and meet
regularly around Mt one another's houses,
and discuse various topics relating to do,
nestle economy. Their husbands fire..
quently accompany them, and stroll
round the farm of their host, looking at
his cattle and crops until tea time, when
they all assemble around the festive
board and have good time.
The sensation in Columbus, Ohio, is
the discovery that the famous Adail
Liquor law is imperfect, inasmuch as the
euacting clause of the law reads: "Bt
it enacted by the State of Ohio" instead
OF "Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of the state of Ohio" as the Consti
tuition prescribes. The question as t.
whether the error makes the law invalid
or not will be tested within few days.
The railroad managers have discharged
all the employees attached to the train OIL
which Stevenson, Cline, and Datro wer
murdered in Cass county Missouri, the,
having received orders to do so from
some of the REGULATORS. D." Several rail
road officials fed from Sedalia, Mo-,
short time since, in consequence of re
ports that some of the Cass County out
laws were there for the purpose of assas
sinating them.