Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-02-17
ITEMS.

more than $4,000 IN dollar subscrlp-
lions for suffers IN Kansas and Nebras-
ka,
E d. Hammond, teller of Second
National Bank ofLawrence, Kansas,
is a defaulter in the sum Of $4,000.
The bank is secured from loss. Ham
mond has fled.
A committee Of so leading gentle
men of Cincinnati, headed by Richard.
Smith and appointed by the Chamber
of Commerce 60 to Washington to
urge the bill to establish Il branch
mint at that city.
The new Chief Justice of Rhode
Island has politely requested a reduc'
ton CT his salary. He's behind the
times.
---One hundred and thirty-six Re-
publicans and forty-six Democrats go
out on the Sd of March. 1t will be a
solemn March for them.
Mrs. Lydia Bradley, of Peoria,
ILL.,, has just been elected first Direc-
tor of the First National Bank Of that
city, She is a wealthy widow and
large stakeholder in the bank.
The Springfield Republican thinks
S2O,000,000, can be saved easier and
more creditably by retrenchment than
gained by laying more taxes.
"A Radical idiot in the NIississip
pi Legislature has presented bill tc
detach Lafayette county from the
First and annex it to the Second Con.
gresslonal District, the object being tc
make a Radical majority in Congress
man Lamar's district
1t is rumored that 100000
worth of goods were struggled from
Montreal into the United States in {
single day recently.
What is called the Choctav
Claim, some $4,000, 900, is denounced
as a Congressional job, the real claim
it is affirmed, having been paid Ions
ago.
We all heard of he ''merciles
despotism' imposed upon kansa
under Democratic rule, yet that rule,
as compared with the despotism in
tlicted upon Louisiana, is freedom
itself.
Navigation all along the New
England coast continues to be yer,
perilous and uncomfortable on accoun
of the ice.
The weather in Canada for tn
past two days has been colder tina
""y l"ou" fnr yaars Nh" tharmnm
eter at Ottawa, on the Sth, registered
81 below zero, at Pecke 80, Desert 81
Brockville 33, Parry Sound Is, Dove
4, London 5 and Toronto 4.
Reports Of heavy storms and in
tense cold come from the West. |
Kansas several persons have been fro
zen to death, and in Iowa a train cor
tanning thirty passengers was showed
IN with the thermometer ranging from
PIE to 26o below zero.
Governor Ingersoll has appointe
Senator-elect William w. Eaton, c
Hartford, Conn, to fill the vacancy
the United States Senate caused b
Senator Buckingham's death, the tern
ending March 4.
"A Memphis fortune teller told
man that fortune of $4,000 was con
ing to him the next week, and h
shelled out $50 to his wife to buy
new suit. when to late he learned tina
his wife had fixed the thing with tn
old woman.
In Keene, N. H., the other day,
farmer brought into town single loa
Of wood containing eleven and ONT
quarter cords. After Bergh has rea
this he will not sleep nights until h
learns how many oxen the farmer ha
hitched to his sled.
The cold in Kansas is intense, an
it is feared that much suffering will
caused throughout the frontier countit
of the State. Twenty men were FRI
zen to death and many others had the
limbs frozen during the severe wealth,
Of January, and the present col
weather is almost as severe. III
mean temperature during the month
January was 14o above-s Q cold
, than the mean of eleven years previou
The widow of the late Comman,
er Gushing has sent to Alfred I've
son, of Georgia, a sword presented
that gentleman by the citizens