Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-12-30
III q All N e W S,

One Dollar and Fifty Gents gear to Nail
,Snb,c,.ibers, and $1,76 TO Village Subscribers
serued bv the Carrier. II not paid in adpance
so GEMS e1tra toiI be charged in each case
Office Subscribers same as Mail Subscribers.
Woodstock.
Extra copies ofthe AGE contain
ing full report of Mr.. Wins trial
are for sale at the office. Price 4 cts.
per copy.
in advance we wish our readers,
patrons, correspondents and the rest
of mankind, "Happy New Year"
We hope they will keep along with
us and put up with our failings, know
ing that we are human, in the year
about to open on us, as they have in
the year drawing to close. The
world is all well enough-man makes
the trouble we should all try to
make ourselves better, and mo,u is a
good time to commence. BE patient,
be charitable, be just and fear not.
DRAMATIC READING.-The Fifth
Entertainment in the Lecture Course
In Town Hall, Woodstock, Thursday
Evening, Dec. 81, 1874, by Mrs. Lou
Use Woodwork Foss. Although but
a short time before the public, Mrs.
Foss has won the highest encomiums
wherever she has read. The univer-
sal testimony given by lecture commit
tees who employed her has been, The
best of our Course. She has been ear
nestly recommended for our course
by Prof F. w. Churchill, (the best ell.
ocutionist IN this country Rev. w.
H. H. Murray and James II. Fields.
Mrs. Foss is perfect lady, of many
accomplishments, which adorp her
heme as we'll as the platform.
The Annual Meeting of the La
dies society of St. James Parish will
be held at the residence of Alvin
Hatch on Friday, lst prox,, at 4 p. III.
Let there be full attendance.
The place to get your Boots q
Shoes made & Repaired is at Harring-
tons Shop, in Standard Block, over
the Post Office. Work & prices war
ranted to give Satisfaction.
On account of the Lecture at the
Town Hall, occurring on the night ap.
pointed for their donation, the Metho-
dist Society have put it off until Thurs
day, Jan. 9TH.
To those who have been interes-
ted in the non.appearance Of Woods
Magazine for share of the past year
we would say, that it has been owing
to the faiiNso of the publisher, Mr..
Shutes. 1t has now passed. into 9th
er hands that are, with the hep Of
two printing presses, trying to get out
the Magazines Of the past sea sons to
supply all the subscribers. Sucess.to
r.- """''"oaly, thoy
seem to deserve it, 1t is now merged
into the Illustrated Household Maya
zine, and will be better and as cheap
as ever. Address, No Al Prak Row
New York City.
F. Sherwin Briggs, a former res
ident of Plymouth and Student at So.
Woodstock afterward we'll known a.
moug Vermont Printers, has become
Partner in the Metal World Publishing
Go. ofPhiladelphia, and is Chief Edi-
tor of their Publications. Among
these the Principal are the Metal
World" devoted to Sciepce and Me-
chanics, and the "Drug Paint, and
Oil Trade" the organ Of manufactures
and dealers in the goods.
"A Town Meeting is warned for
January 10, 1875, to see what action
the town will take in the matter OF
purchasing a Wood Lot for the Poor
Farm.
is Woodstock to 60 unrepresented
in the extra session of the Legislature
which convenes at Montpelier, Jan.
18th, 1875. 1t appears 50 now as
our Representative, DIR. Boynton, sail
ed from New York, Dec 25th for
Havana. The Doctor, in a business
note to us, says that his health is
about the same as when he left home.
We hope southern breezes will have
favorable effect upon him.
We served as Juryman the other
day. This is getting down pretty
low in the scale of humanity-for
an editor at least. 1t will be brother
Greene's turn next.
"Our colored fellow citizen" VIM
Hazard, better known lately as the
"one-eared nigger," is booked for
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