Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-03-05
TENS.

The Hon. Francis John Peken-
ham, Secretary ofthe British Legation
at Washington, and Mr. Watson, Sec.
rotary of the Legation at Copenhagen,
are to exchange places.
Hartford is advertising for deba-
ting society. The city should subcribe
for the Congressional Record.
If the President drove pair
when he had salary of $685. why
shouldn't he drive a four-in-hand when
hehas $50, 900 AGive it up.
Mrs Paist has been elected to the
Philadelphia School Committee and
will undoubtedly "stick.
-Victora Woodruff, who was an
nounced to lecture at Chicago on Sat.
urday was unable to secure any place
in which to speak
The Kansas Senate has passed
the Joint resolution to submit the ques-
ton of female suffrage to the people.
In these days of change it
sounds strange to hear that a Wash
ington lady's carriage-driver was born
on the estate, and she has never had
but this one coachman all her life, and
no accident has ever happened to his
horses.
The Mobile Register says that
Northen people need not fear social
ostracism at the South so long as they
don't come down there for plumber.
Copper is now made successfully
in Pennsylvania, and from ores found
within the State.
The liquor dealers call the,'women's
movement sugar coated pill. Pit
ticouted would be better.
"A Connecticut hen was buried in
a hay NOW seven weeks She is quite
naturally inclined to brag about it,
now that she is so as to be around.
-Waitsfeld, VT, proudly shows
the re cord OF town meeting held in
1916, at which the Congressional sal
airy grab OF that year was denounced
1t may be well to ponder over
the fact that only one out of every
fonr hundred men in Massachusetts
are in the State Prison.
-PARDoNED.-Elijah Harden, a
Ku-Klux, who served two years Of
his sentence in the Albany Peniten-
tiary, has been pardoned by the Presi-
dent.
There is scarcely street in New
Orleans which does not have a line Of
street cars.
The Ohio Changers will be pray
ed for, that they may not sell their
corn to the dstillers.
Tho President of Berea College,
KY, was shot at three times, recently,
and has not so mich US a missing but
ton to show for it.
Over one hundred Eastern peo'
pie with consumptive tendencies are
wintering in Los Angeles, California
Says the Philadelphia Press
"Every party in this country is led by
the pardoned leaders of the other side
The Republican party of to-day is il
q considerable degree marshalled by
old Democrats. The Democratic
party of the present day is, in con
siderable degree, marshalled by ole
Wings We have Morton, Carpen
ter, Hamlin and Boutwell, in the Sen
ate; and Grant and Sherman ant
Sheridan, old Democrats, in the Ad
ministration."
New Orleans may be napy yet
The receipts of cotton at that point NJ
to date are one million of bales; 1913,
900 more than were received at thu
same date last year, and the largas
receipts since the war. The value o
this cotton will exceed eighty million
Of dollars. The cotton presses ar
crammed to repletion, and overflow o.
the sidewalks.
Among the converts to the new TEN
perance movement in New York city
is Rufus F. Andrews, surveyor of thu
port under President Lincoln. HI
was secretary to Governor William
during his governorship.