Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-07-16
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guard against future Judge Advocates
like Holt. A good idea.
"A Chicago paper issued a supple
ment the other day containing l6e
columns of solid matter 1t was the
delinquent city tax list.
The injunction asked for by the
creditors Of the Chicago and North
western Railroad has been denied by
the United States Court, at Madison,
Wis.
Chief Justice Waite has been
chosen a delegate to the General Epis-
copal Convention to meet in New
York in October.
After long fight over the New
York City Budget for 1874 the esti-
mates have been reduced $313,758.-
Worth fighting for.
"A long crow-a loud crow-and
crow altogether-the motto of the
Democratic ROSTERS Of Missouri in the
coming canvass.-St. Louis Times.
Government has been adjudged
to return $594,OOO internal revenue
taxes to the New York Central Rail
road.
A New York lawyer prides him
self on having obtained five thousand
divorces.
The only colored graduate from
Yale College this year, Mr.. Bouchet,
comes out sixth in class of one hun
bred and twenty-five.
Rhode Islands good lawyers are
all Democratic. Hon. Geo. H.
Browne, appointed Chief Justice a
few days ago, is Democrat, and
Hon. Charles S. Bradley, who was ap-
pointed Chief Justice some years ago,
was also a Democrat.
Virginia negroes lose Sl4o,0oo
by the suspension Of the Freedman's
Bank.
The newspapers Of New York
City are said to own about $15,0OO,-
900 worth of real estate there.
The local option election in Ala
media county, California, resulted in
favor of the license party by a large
majority. =.
Moses Indignantly denies that he
has any peer in his affection for South
Carolina. Thought so from the way
he has been gobbling it up.
The Portland, Me-, Press publish
es an original letter from DR.. Living
stone, to his brother in Listowell, On
tario, in which he complains bitterly
of DR.. Kirk, the British Vice. Consul
at Zanzibar, as having caused his mis-
fortunes. Livingstones brother was
moved to publish this by Indignation
at the prominent place assumed by
Kirk at the obsequies.
Can the reason for dismissing so
many persons from the Washington
departments lie in the fact that Presi-
dent Grant discovered an entirely new
set of relations on his recent visit to
West Virginia?
The Christian hero, Gen. Howard,
believes in laying up treasure on earth
as we'll as in Heaven. He has just
sold his house in Washington for $780,
900, and the Freedman's Bureau grew
poor while he was building it,
WHEAT.-The condition of wheat is
better than the average of a series of
years. In Vermont, Massachusetts,
and Connecticut, spring-wheat looks
well, slightly better than in the re-
naming New England States. In
New York, the depreciation in condi-
ton is 10 per cent. The effect of
frost in clay soils could not be utterly
overcome by subsequent favorable
weather.
Practice VS.. PREAcHING.-The pay
and perquisites of President Grant for
the four years of his present term a
mount in round figures to 100000 ;
those of President Lincoln during four
years amounted to $l94,OOO. Thus
four years to Grant cost the country
$26S,ooo more than four years Of Lin
coin; and Grant says: 81 would pro-
vide for an excess of revenue over cur
rent expenses. l would do it by rigid