Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-06-18
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that the spirits OF the palefaces he has
murdered are tearing his flesh.
The Governor of Iowa will pro-
coed to Washington and ask relief
from the grasshoper raid. Congress
ought to resolve itself into Commit
tee Of the Whole to go out and catch
EN-.
The Governor of Wisconsin refused
to pay railroad conductor mole than
three cents mile for his fare. 1t
would have cost him more than that
for shoe leather if he'd gone a-foot.
The Boston correspondent of the
Hal tford Courant says politics is Get
ting away from Butler. 1t is the wi
sest thing politics could possibly do.
"A letter from Levuka, FIJI Is
lands. states that on the Goth of Mach
the King abdicated his throne and &C.
ded the Islands to Great Britain, and
British Commission were then az
ranging form of government for this
new acquisition to the English throne.
Railway trains travel at the rate
of nine miles an hour in Egypt.
Horse-cars would be an improvement
Among the items of the Contin-
gent Account of the Department Of
Justice are one copy each of the pc
etical works of Burns, Moore. Scott.
Milton, Byron, Pope, Tennyson,
Whittier, Longfellow, Browning, Low
ell and Bryant. The Tribune argues
that these purchases indicate a pur-
pose to make it the Department of
Poetic Justice.
The finding of 4 hair-pin in an
Indiana husbands pocket procured his
wife divorce. She probably wanted
eight or ten gross.
"A poor girl was allurcd by an adj
vertisement from Paterson, N. j., to
obtain work in q Charlotte, N. c., cot
ton mill. She failed to get the offered
price, and after working eight months
for $3.50 per month and walked all
the way to Baltimore, whence she was
sent home by the police.
The reports Of the crops show
that l,367,753 more acres have been
sown in wheat this year than last, and
the present crop is very promising for
a full average production. The color
ed beetle has made its appearance in
States north of the Ohio river, and in
some localities the chinch bug has APP
peared, but as yet they have not done
much damage.
Richard Cove, of Laconia, N. H.,
io>'entor and owner of the Cove pat
ent detached reversible handspring
for watches, has brought suit against
San Francisco parties for infringe
ment. Damages are claimed to the
amount of $25O,OOO.
The New York Custom House
have brought a test case
in the coul IS t. determine the value of
I franc. 1t involves the question
the franc Of France and of
is worth Is cents and 6 mills
II 1890 cents in money of account of
he United States. The Custom
House authorities put the latter value
lpon it.
New York city consumes 100000
bushels Of peanuts in year. This
1ec?ssitates the consumption of a hun
lred bushels day on The eight-hour
'.tstem.
The Presidents "Peace policy"
With the Indians has been scalped by
he resignation of his Commissioners.
Strawberries are high in Georgia.
young man stole one from a i;uit
stand there, and upon being accused
IF it he whipped the salesman so hard
hat he had to be bound over in $500
% keep the peace. AT that rate, what
would they cost box?
The completion Of the great st.
louis bridge-by far the finest piece
If engineering skill and mechanical in
,enuity in the United States will be
publicly commemolated on the Fourth
If July with a grand flourish Of trum-
oets, fireworks. oratoly, etc.
The body of another victim to
he Mill River disaster has been dis
covered, that of Rose Wilson, girl of
Iaydenville, and there are now but
wo of the 40 lost that have not been
covered.
The mania for collecting postage
camps has broken out in Missouri,