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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-04-30
Woodstock

80 cents extra ao'H be charged IN each case
Office Subscribers same as Mail Subscribers.
Woodstock.
DR.. Chandler is now located in
the Cushing tenement, at the foot OF
the Park. Office in p. 0. Block
The Dr. is working up agood practice.
The Mendelshons hold forth at
the Town Hall tomorrow (Thursday)
evening.
We would call the attention Of
the reader to the advertisement of
Mrs. Johnson &c Tewksbury in an
other column. They have ribbons
and laces, hats and caps, elbows" and
Gloves" Of comets. They have
rosies end daisies, pinks and violets,
and rare flowers Gin advance of the
season. that nothing but the instinct
of the honey bee could distinguish
from the natural. Everything is in
ship shape, and visit to the old
establishment, Oh the corner, that has
stood the frost and heat Of years, will
we'll repay you and also, convince
you that the ladies in charge can do
business without man behind the
counter waiting to ''mash' your love-
ly Spring Hat into an old box Or
paper, and yell "$5" at you.
The weather this spring astonish-
es the natives, and the oldest inhabit
ant he's no reccollections of any thing
like it. We had is inches Of snow
Saturday night, and to-day (Wednes-
day. the prospect is good for as much
\ more.
Joe B. Silver has sold his goods,
phattels, and effects, to Chas. Pike, who
ill continue the barbering business at
Els old Stand. Mr.. Pike has been
he employ of John Oliver, barber.
{bere for SCI atime, aud has many
friends, Success to him. Joe goes to
Boston.
Henry Taft is down with the
Jung feaver at his Brothers A. J.Taft.
Gov. Converse is quite ill, so
much so that he sent for DR.. Kim
Russ, Monday.
L. b. Thomas has Turkey that
laid two eggs in one day lately. She
is Democratic and is trying to pay the
national debt but, we fear, it is no use
as long as the Republican robbers of
labor are in power
We have hen, common kind,
that laid an egg that measured 8 by
81 inches, one day recently.
Our Quechee news did not get
around this week. John Cones mules
could not make time. Mud and short
rations, the cause.
April.
A month whose lone virtue is that it
will end,
A month that will make a man strike
his best friend,
A month a la Modoc-savage and
tough
A sneezer, tearer, regular rough
A freezing, and thawing and showing,
A raining and whirling and blowing;
A month all out of season,
A time we can't plant peas in;
A frosty old bruiser,
A windy old cruiser;
A month too late,
A month to hate;
A cheat,
A beat;
A pril!
MIR. Jones has painted and var
nished his Store so that it looks as
showey as can be. Mr. Jones is one
of our most enterprising Merchants,
and always has good stock ofgoods,
and sells cheap.
ID. A. White advertises Ladders
in another column. D. \. does good
work.
1T would be better for the town
10 build the w. r. Il. as a town than
to lose what has been done and the
road too. Unless we have road the
grasshopper will be burthen to the
land.
Our "Modoc" has come, and he has
gone with our "blessing."
Taftsvillc.
Mrs. Mary T. Osmer, of Taftsville,
over 60 years of age, has for the past
yaor 1npa nor oyun bnuoa uror1> onJ
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Windsor County Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company.
Annual Meeting.

Annual Meeting.
1lHE Annual Meeting of the said Company
l. for the choice Of Directors and changes in
the Bylaws will be held ct its in Woodstock
Of two o'clock, afternoon, Of Wednesday, May
9th, A. d. 1874.
Woodstock, VT, April II, 1874.
r. s. SOUTHGATE, Secretary.
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kNA/ r. A. NJ, regular Conyocation Mon
* day eve, May %, 1874 att IL
~ \ clock.
oopsToCK LODGE No. 81 F. h A. M.
ual communication Wednesday eve.,
3, 1874, at IL o'clock.
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A Western Granger has written
for some Mardi Grass seed,
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Reuben Smith of Mortified, VT,
wanted to die because he thought his
wife was unkind to him. He took
morphine, but the wife was prompt
enough with restorative measures to
keep him alive. So he watched for
another chance, escaped to the barn,
and there hung himself
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Esther Black, an old pauper wom-
an, died lately at Hove, England. For
many years pastshe had been receiving
about sixty-two cents week from the
Board of Guardians. 1t appears now,
how ever. that she was not dependent
upon charity. A will has been found
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MESSRS. CUTLER BROS. g. co.
In ordering another small lot Of your in
valuable
Vegetable Pulmonary Basam
l should like to tell you what kow about it,
in order that others may have the benefit Of
my
EXPERIENCE.
Since this Balsam first came to my notice
in 1S4S have kept it constantly in the house,
never allowing myself to be out of it over
night. In all these
TWENTY-FIVE YERS
it has not failed in single instance in my
own case to give the desired relet; and |
will say the same in regard to my mother,
whose
LIFE WAS SAVED
by it, as 1 cannot but think. Hers was case
of Congestion of the Lungs, and although at
tended by most skilfull Physician, she seem
ed to fail constantly, so that we despared of
her recovery, when an old friend and neigh
Dor persuaded her to try this Vegetable Pull
monary Balsam. The result was most graft
flying, assure you.
RELIEF WAS IMMEDIATE
and recovery rapid. She is now over 81
years old, and is active and we'll. Whenever
She gets severe cold, which happens once
in while, she takes thirty to sixty drops,
according to the violence OF the cough, which
has Away Is yielded in y day or two by taking
the Balsam only on retiring at night. With
it the
IRRITATION
is at once aubdued, and good nights sleep
| secured.
Twill mention another case, that Of ayouns
lady acquaintance, who
BLEED AT THE LUNGS
and coughed frightfully, had night sweats
and was fearfully reduced. She left. Boston
for her country home, $50 miles away, as we
supposed to die. sent her q bottle OF your
Balsam, and soon had the satisfaction to hear
that she was much better. She continued
taking 1t for while and got
ENTIRELY WELL,
and is living now, which fact is to be ascrb-
ed mainly to the use OF the
Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam.
Very truly yours, JOHN CAPEN
Boston, March IA, 1873.
No. 5 Worcester Square.
Price in large bottles, which are much the
cheapest, 81. Small bottles, old style, 80
cents.
1As there are many worthless limitations,
be careful to get the genuine, which is pre-
pared only by CUTLER BROS. 4 CO., sue
cessors to Reed, Cutler & Co., Wholesale
Druggists; proprietors of the Prize Gold
Medal Cooking Extracts, Pure Spices, Must
ard, and other choice goods for family use
also Cutters Extract OF
JAMAICA Ginger with Sweet Flag,
pronounced the finest preparation of its kind
And
"OCEAN FOOD" One Quart for One
Cent
Shredded Carrageen for Blanc Mango,
Cruel, &C., one Of the cheapest and most
delicious articles of food in the world. A
few cents worth will make dinner dessert
for family and for invalids and children it
is unrivalled. Put up in packages sufficient
to make l6 QUARTS for only Is cents.
Sold by grocers and apothecaries.
1643 e. o. W. l2w
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Levi Rice, of Ro ckingham, has
this year made over 200 pounds of
nice sugar from Sc trees, to which he
hung As buckets-over pounds to u
tree.
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AN INNOCENT MAN IN PRISON

A pardon has been issued by Gov
Taylor, Of Wisconsin, TO James b. Car
ter, who has spent over seven years in
Waupun on life-sentence for murder,
OF which he was convicted largely on
ms own admission, at the Lacrosse
County Court in 1867, but of which, it
now appears, he was Innocent. BE wos
living with a shoemaker named Ira b.
Wheeler, III Pepin County. He and
his wife differed, and she was regarded
as lutte loose. Quarreling about some
shoe-pegs she brushed over with her
dress while he vas ut work, she picked
up the hatchet, struck him i'm the head
and killed him. Carter, horror-strnck,
saw the deed, and attempted TO iy, but
threats Of accusing him of the murder,
and persuasion, induced him 30 stay
and help hide the body. Suspicion was
aroused, and both were arrested. On
the plea that by confessing the guilt
himself he could secure Mrs. Wheeler's
discharge, and then her testimony with
other Influences, could he usedto secure
his release, he was induced by counsel
to admit the crime. Both, however.
were convicted. The woman DISCHARGE
was secured by writ Of error on tech
nical grounds, and Carter seat to State
Prison. His brother has persistently
labored to prove Carter inn)cent and
secure his release. and recently left for
Waupn with free pardon granted by
the Executive ON mass of documents
showing the above facts, the mans good
conduct in prison, etc. The official
statement of the reasons for the pardon
relates that the record showed the man
was made victim Of thewoman Wheel
er and her friends, and pardon is recon-
mended among others by the Judge who
sentenced him, the District Attorney
who prosecuted, and five Of the jurors,
several of the witnesses for the state,
county officials, and nearly 600 citizens
of Pepin.
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DEPARTMENT REPORT.

The July report of the Department of
Agriculture says that an increase in the
corn area of fully 100000 acres is an
parent, or six per centum above the
breadth of last year The per centage
is largest in the south; the increase in
acres is largest in the west. Returns
make the gain in Iowa over 300, 900
acres; in Missouri, about the same; in
Illinois, about 100000; in Indiana,
fully 100000; in Kansas, about no.
600. Georgia shows almost as high an
increase as Iowa and Missouri; Ala
bama, 10000 acres; Missis sippi no.
900 acres; Texas, 300, 200. The in
ducement to enlarge the corn area of
the cotton states appears to have been
less influential in the Mississippi Val
ley than in the more eastern states,
Georgia particularly The increase in
Texas is simply due to the natural ex-
pansion Of crop areas from immigra-
ton, and Is equally noticeable in cot
ton and other states
The number of states reporting a de-
crease III area IS small, including only
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Flor
ida, Louisiana. Tennessee, West Vir-
ginia. Kentucky, and California. In
Northern New England late unfavor-
able spring interfered with planting,
and in Louisiana the area is less by
reason of the overflow.
The states making increase are as
followss Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin,
l0l; Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nebraska,
l02; Massachusetts, Oregon. 1O3; Con
neeticut, North Carolina, Illinois. l04;
South Carolina, Michigan, l06; Indi-
ana, los; Iowa, 109; Minnesota, 40;
Alabama, Arkansas, ll2; Kansas, III;
Georgia, 1l5.
The report says the general condi-
ton of the corn crop in the west is
good, but elsewhere variable.
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The South.

THE Constitutional Convention OF Arkansas
is in session ut Little Rock.
MICHAEL FITzdERALD, county Judge, at St.
Joseph, No, has been arrested for selling
forged county warrants. He was held in 81, 600
bonds.
The election in Kentucky on the 81 inst,
for clerk of the court Of appeals, resulted in
the selectiolt Of Jones, Democratic candidate BY
large majority. The Democrats we're also
successful in the local elections. At Lexing-
ton the democratic majority was 300 to 400.
NEAR Sedalia, Mo-. an alteration occurred
between four men named Wilson, Rollins, Ray.
and Henry. and George and David Davis The
former had let down the fences Of the Davi.
brothers farm, in passing. Rollins and Wilson
were badly wounded. Constable Derrel. Will
a posse, attempted to arrest the Davis boys
when another light ensued, the constable ar,
one of his men being seriously wounded Two
or three Of the wounded men will die.
THE white taxpayers Of Natchitoches par.
ish, numbering 200, ct IN convention on the
9th ult., and demanded the resignation Of The
district and parish judges, tax collector aad
parish attorney. The two judges had left
tile parish, and the demapd was not complied
with The tax collector ana attorney resign
ed. All quiet. No violence apprehended
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FRENCH CABIN ET TROUBLES.

A letter from Paris says the story Of
the crisis in tue French cabinet, is
briefly this: Magne, late Minister OF
Finance, after a long losing fight, see
ing his last plan for balancing the
budget rejected by great majority in
the House, insisted on giving his resig-
nation which was accepted. He was
confessed representa- tlve of Bonapalt.
ism in the cabinet. A little later
Fourier, Minister OF the Interior, in.
sisted off resigning. There were sew.
eral reasons for has leaving, the most
plausible of which are as follows He
demanded that Bonapartist should
be taken in the place that Magne had
vacated that on the reception Of Ven.
tavOn's report the President should, i'm
advance and by message, 1cpel the
Cashier former proposition that the
Project of Police, who, having pushed
the Investigations he was ordered TO
institute into the Illegal Bnapartist
intrigues to the basis OF criminal pros
ecution, insisting that the law should
have its course, should be dismissed
from office. All these demands were
in cabinet council resisted, and finally
rejected. The conducting chief of rc
sistance is the Duke dc Casees, Min.
lister OF Foreign Affairs, an Or
leanist. So fan as any one is an Or.
leanist to day, he is an Orleanist by all
his autecedents.
Fourier is % comparatively young
man, and free from binding antece
dents. He was once munster under
Theirs, and has always, though at first
in another department, been a minis
ter under MacMahcn. The signiii-
canoe, if there be any, in Fourtier's
departure from the Presidents Coun-
cil within less than ten days Of his
acting as the Presidents authorized
mouthpiece to the Committee of
Thirty, Les in the fact that while he
was personal SeptennaIchist, appar-
emily with the honest Marshal's APP
proval, he ceases TO be a minister
IN order that it might seem as though
the honesty of the Marshal was grown
somewhat tired Of that queer finishing
hut boldly false policy of the truce Of
parties
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The West.

Az election for delegates TO Congress and
county and town Offices took place at Salt Lake
City on the Sd inst. Cannon, late delegate,
was renominated by the Momona and II. n
Baskin by the Liberals. Considerable excite
ment attended the voting, and at ono time
riot seemed imminent. The women generally
voted. The result Of the election had not
been ascortained at this writing.
Col. VIM. r. Steele, present Delegate to
Congress from Dakota, was renominated ly
the Democratic Convention ON the 81 inst.
GRAssHoPPERs in Kansas are doing immense
damage. The owner of G0-acre field writes
that they destroyed more Of his corn IN twenty.
four hours after descending than 5000 cattle
could in the same length Of time The terri
tory covered by the pests is over 100 miles in
width, extending from The Nebraska line on
the north to the Arkansas River on the south
CUsrERs expedition was in camp at Fort
Black Hills, near Bear Butte, on the 3lst ult
The Indians in the neighborhood were peace
able.
ADIsPATcH from TT Garry, Ma soba Of the
81 rast., says; Lord Gordon, the infamous
swindlor and confidence man, shot himself
Saturday last, at his residence at Headingly
in this province. Two English detectives al
rested him, and he promised to go quietl
with them if they would not 60 through the
United States While in his room, preparing
for his journey he blew ont his brains.
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Foreign.

ENaiAND. The public worship regulation
bill has passed TO a third reading in the Com.
mons. Interest IN hare bali Is increasing a.
the A. ierioan players become known.
SrAIN The British Mediterranean squad.
ron has sailed for Malta An Italian figatf
has Also ben ordered 20 the coast OF Spain
Twelve Thousand additional troops are 10 be
sent to Cuba The Carhsts have shot the
Canon OF Nittona. Tho republican troops
have entered oleat The Catlists He'd. leaving
100 prisoners
dTzlNANY. II reported from Berlin tbat
the Roman Catholic bishops have Forwarded
to the government "a protest. declaring tina,
they cannot submit 10 the sided laws. an.
claiming that Legislative powers IL matter,
concerning the church belong to the Pom,
alone
FRANcE- The Paris police are again search
ing the houses Of Bonspartist ssmpau,iler
nd piezing documents.
MuRAyiA. Eleven towns and villages wpr
devastated By the storms ia MoraNa.
BEloiuM. 1t il understood a majority d
the delegates to the international couere,
favor exclusion % an polnte relating 10 nav
warfare, and a strict adherence 10 matte,
strictly connected with amoliorauon Of huma
suffering IN time Of war
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Washington.

WAsHNaToS dispatches say Elhu b. Wash
burne, our Minister 20 Paris, is expected ia
this country early in October next The
change in the Presidents Cabinet viii not take
place till that time when Mr. Washbume will
be appointed Secretary Of the Treasury The
friends Of Mr.. Washbumo have his assurance
that lac desires to give up the mission to the
French court, and that he positively viii no
return to Paris an our representative. Mr.
Sawyer, formerly Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury, il il said is making efforts to Sc
cure his appointment as Minister to Russia.
THE Treasury Department has been notified
that the government OF SaXony has issued
decree that on and after Jan. ! 1876, the cur
rency ~ marks shall be enforced ON that king
dom. The mark is the monetary unit Of the
German Empire
ATTORNEY GeSEEAL WILLIAMS has returned
20 Washington Admiral Re, uolds is acting
secretary Of the navy during the absence Of
Secretary Robeson
Mh. l.. l.. ChoUSsE late Washington CORE
spondent Of the New York Times. is announced
az the editor Of the new Administration organ
TO bo started in New York at an early day.
MISUNDERSTANDING PLArr, Of Virginia. has en-
tered suit against the Washington sunday Ga
zette, for libel
IT r. said Postmaster General Jewell vii,
make some changes Among them Assistant
Postmarter-General Barber, the present third
assistant, will he permitted to rctire Mr.. Jewel
naturally preferring a confidential friend fu
the position
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"Aye, Master, said a Cornish miner
in Colorado, sit be true hard loife,
but we uns are brought up to it loike,
andbegout the danger Wen emile itsame
loike o'you the air bout You. Aye, it
be, master, dark, but don't think 'ee
we can't tell e day an noight. Aye,
can We, an make moighty difference
atween e noight am day. No mon can
sleep e same in day as noight he
cawn't fix it up nohow, an we DO
know when noight come on to e minute,
when e sun go down. But worst o. all
be that we uns call e dyin' hour o. the
night ; ats from three to four o'mornin'.
There e best o us gins e hammer a
sloight dropan' feel his strength goin. "
Experience in the mines proves that
curious fact that there is a dying
hour about 3 or o clock in the morn
ing, and though one would think day
and night the same IN this Egyptian
gloom, the miners find vast difference.
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LOUISIANA RICE CROP.

An agricultural revolution, We are
told, is impending in the delta region
of Louisiana, where the planters are
meditating to certain extent the
abandonment of cotton and sugar
planting for rice culture. The reason
is that experience has taught item that
sugar and cotton cannot with profit he
grown in the delta region. Low prices
and difficulties Of various sorts prevent
their successful competition with more
favored parts of the world. Year after
year the planters have struggled with
unfavorable results, whist small
number of creoles in the parish of
Plaquemines have been growing rice
and getting rich at il. In 1861 Louisi-
ana raised 1900 barrels of rice but the
war paTalyzed the business. Suisse
quently it revived, and in 1868 the
crop was 60, 900 barrels, whilst for
| this year the estimated crop is
/ l25 900 barrels. With this large
supply it may be naturally supposed
! that New Orleans is becoming an i'm.
siana nee was Of poor quality, but with
the growth OF the trade ana the addi-
tional experience of the planters, and
the additional agricultural improve
ments from time TO time adopted, the
quality has advanced. The best Caro-
Ina aud Honduras seed are now i'm
ported for planting, and the character
OF the crop grows better every year.
The New Orleans Newspapers show
how much the desire for gong into
this profitable culture has gained
ground there, when they say that AN
area of two thousand square miles of
land along the Mississippi aud its
many bayous will soon be turned into
rice fields. II lbs, 600 acres are thus
added to the land sown with rice. the
Louisiana crop will make an extraor.
binary advance. Louisiana has had
so many misfortuBes. that tie country
will receive the intelligence of her
prospective COOL luck with genuine
gladness - Charleston Nous
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HOW IT WORKS.

A dispatch from Bloomington, H., of
the Both, in relation 10 the effect of
prohibitory laws, Gays: cone month
ago nm ordinance went into effect re-
straining the sale of all kinds of
liz Tor in quantities less than one gal
Ion, and prohibiting the drinking Of
liquor in the place where bought This
ordinance was an attempt to carry ont
the vote of the people on the license
question, but it seems 60 have neither
suited one party nor the other, and 10
have proved decided failure. BY
various devices, more liquor than ever
Is sold, and drinking is going ON rs
freely as ever. Brewerics that never
before ran in the summer are running
now ut nearly their fun capacity, and
violations Of the law are becoming
alarmingly frequent. This being the
case, public opinion is fast working M
against this childish attempt nj prohibit
ton, and i is entirely possible that. at
the Council meeting tomorrow evening,
this ordinance will h. repealed. Public
| sentiment is such that more vigorous
measures cannot Ice adopted, and /. Is
likely that change will be made i'm
favor Of license. The Paragraph and
Leader both are openly advocating new
legislation ON this question. At Chenoa
similar dissatisfaction exists regarding
the ordinance there in force. and n pub.
lie meeting isappointed for Saturday 10
discuss the question.