Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-18

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1t is stated that the American Jockey
Club, Of New York, deposited $40. 900 with
Duncan, Sherman e Co., the Saturday be-
fore the failure.
The London papers are well supplied
with letters from the people expressing their
disgust and Indignation al Brother Shear
mans remarks on the Beechcr scandal.
Sherman should take his departure for
homc-in lcaly steamer. ..
A party at the Vineyard, in one days
fishing, caught 10i bluefsh, weighing 543
pounds.
The new Missouri Constitution changes
the Governors term from two to four
years. When the instrument comes to be
voted upon the opposition will be strongest
in the cities, where great complaint is made
that the Convention has given the rural dis
tricts much more than their share of polti-
cal power.
Joe Towards Star observes that the
summer season israpidly drawing to close.
He must be taking ice in hisn.
Mr.. Thatcher, the COMM ,ioner Of
Patents is reported by his fiendsGJ intending
to vacatc his present Office in the Fall-pro-
baby Octobc. list.
The riits5prg Con,mClriai is consoled
by the thought inat the floods are affecting
only thc Democratic States. It's hard TO
find the other kind these days, you know.
MIR. Ballard Smith, managing editor of
the Louisville, KY, COWjcr-JoWn0y, sever
ed his connection with that paper and has
purchased the controlling interests of the
Egcajag LC"gcr Of that city.
Our Consul at Tunis informs the State
Department that a tonnage tax of three and
e-hGlf contmcs is to be levied upon all
mercantile vessels entering the ports of the
regency 10 dcfray expenses Of the lighthouse
at Cape Bon,
--Saraloga water agrees with Nice-Presi-
dent Wilson. lie has written 200 pages
of his book since he arrived there.
The New York Times is in sporting
mood these days. It's latest is to offer a
wager that by iulicious investment it could
intoxicate the entire population of Kala
kauG's dominions for less sum than his
vine and whislcy bill during his visit 10
that city, and keep them in better tobacco
than his Majesty usually smokes for a
month On what the city is asked to pay for
hig cigars.
The Farmers and Mechanics Conference
to begin its sessions ON the It'll of Septem-
Der, at Cincinnati hos perfected special ar
rangements with the Erie Railroad Company
for reduced fares. Tickets will be good for
one month.
Five negro convicts escaped from the
penitcntiary at Richmond, Va, and have
not Geen seen since.
About $4,000 of the $47, 900 recently
stolen from the Treasury Department at
Washington has been recovered, and Ottman
the suspected thief, has been held for trial
in 500, 900 bail.
The crops in Canada have been much
damaged by heavy rains.
Geo p. Rowell & Co.'S Newspaper Re
porter for July contained the names OF lob
new newspapers Of these, nine were Re-
publican in politics, nineteen Democratic,
the remainder claiming TO be independent or
J. utral
Mr.. and Mrs. Algeron Sartoris will
leave Long Branch for England on the 28th
inst.
a practical route for railway in di-
rect line between Quebec and Lake ST.
John has been discovered by the French
Canadian hunters and Indians who hunt in
the same country.
There were IA, sos, coo postal cards is
sued during the month of July on the requi-
sition Of postmasters, This is the largest
number ever issued in any month before.
"A Chicago, chemist, owing to the non
payment Of his fee, refuses to return the
stomach Of u dead man sent to him for
analysis.
The damage to Ohio crops by the re-
cent Western floods was not as extensive as
was reported.
President Graut has pardoned Captain
Moody, of the ship Alexander McCullum,
who was sentenced to three months imprls-
onment for cruelty to seamen.