Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-02-24
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seldom in private conversation, the
opinion expressed that a man with
$4,000 income had gone to hell.
The bill removing the State Cap
ital of West Virginia to wheeling
within the next ninety days,passed the
House of Representatives on Saturday,
81 to 2S-and only awaits the Cover
nor's signature.
1T would help Grant great deal,
says the Cincinnati Commercial, if he
could have some of the conceit taken
out of him.
The Kansas Senate has passed a
concurrent resolution thanking Con
gress for the recent appropriation OF
S15O,OOO in aid of the destitute people
on the frontiers.
1.-Two hundred horses are in course
of training at New YUk stables for the
Spring races. This number is to be
largely re,enforcod by Southern stables.
Jerome Park, it is said, will witness a
larger number of horses at the ap-
preaching races than ever before.
The Republican party is dead and
the Republicans know it-that what's
carrying out the provisions Of the bill
for relief Of the suffers by the grass
hopper plague have been issued by the
War Department.
The city of Cincinnati is negotiat-
ing with Senator and Mrs Sprague with
reference to the removal ofthe remains
of Chief Justice Chase from the Con-
gressional Cemetery atWashington to
Spring Grove, Cincin nati's picturesque
city of the dead
The bunting business will be lively
if Colorado and New Mexico are ad-
mitted as States.
Application has been made for an
injunction to prevent the Grant Loco
motive Works at Paterson, n J. from
disposing Of any of its property. An
order has served to show cause why
receiver should not be appointed.
The liabilities of the Company amount
to SSoO,o0O. The Company was
wrecked by a locomotive contract with
Russia which it was not able to COM
piete wlthina specified time, according
TO contract. Thirty three engines are
now at Paterson in an unfinished con-
dition.
A Philadelphia female lawyer, Miss
Caroline NJ. Burnham, is seeking ad-
mission to the bar of the Supreme
Court of tho District of Columbia, and
as there is already one female practi.
toner at that bar it is probable that the
last applicant will be admitted.
Senator McCreery, vi Kentucky,
will be the onl y member of the Senate
after the 9TH of March who voted
against the impeachment of Andrew
Johnson, The Senators who voted for
the impeachment who will be collea-
CUES Of Mr. Johnson are Messrs Cragin,
Frelinghuysen, Sherman, Conkling,
Cameron, Howe, Anthony, Edmunds,
and the two Morrills.
The capital Of Arizona is to be re-
moved to Phoenix.
Gov. Hartrantt, Of Pennsylvania,
has issued a warrant tor the execution,
on the 18th of March next, of Barney
McCue, convicted in Wyoming county,
Dec.1, 1874, of the murder of John
Dexter
THE Government proposes to order
that beer barrels shall have two bung.
holes instead ofone. What next.
After travelling up and down Eu-
rope, Col. Forney says the working
people of America are the happiest and
best paid on earth. They eat the
white bread of the world.
The Woman's Suffrage Association
at St. Louis has appointed a committee
to urge the Constitutional Convention
to incorporate in the Constitution the
right Of Suffrage for women
The Richmond Enquirer says the
papers are placing so many of Grants
opinions in iuxtaposition that it is hard
to tell just the position he occupies
upon any question, except that OF
drawing his own salary.
The New Haven Journal makes
note of an old resident of that CITY,
about 70 years Of age, with a rubicond
face and an excellent story-teller, who
has been steady drinker of gin and
sugar for sixty years, consuming, on an
average, two quarts week What