Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-06-30
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braska say the grasshopper ravagcs have
been exaggerated.
-Tennyson's charge for "a little poem
for magazine" is $500.
George Reynolds was found guilty of
polygamy at the last term of the District
Court of Utah, under the law of 1862 but
the Supreme Court Of the Territory has de-
clared the conviction null and void, because
the Grand Jury was composed of twenty
three instead of fifteen jurors, as required
by Territorial law.
Yale graduates class of only ninety
five this year, of whom thirty-siX are New
Workers.
The New Orleans tax registers having
failed against the State, have organized I'M
der the name of the property Holders u
nion," and are now exercising their influence
in obstructing the collection of the city
taxes.
The Appletons keep ten presses going
on Shermans Memoirs, yet find that the de-
mand outruns the supply.
Deputy United States Ma shals Allen
and Blood have been arrested at Austin,
Texas for voluntarily allowing Mccartney,
the counterfeiter to escape.
The stock of Herman q Exner, liquor
dealers Of st. Louis, has been seized for al
legged violations Of the revenue laws. One
member of the firm was arrested and gave
bail.
AT New York funeral eight ladie s
oiliciated as pall-bearers.
The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists have
nominated Mr. Pennypacker for State
Treasurer but there is likelihood that he
will ever pack penny of the States money,
unless he fails to pay his taxes.
The Dublin fire destroyed 1900 pun
cheons of whiskey The Fire Fiend is get
ting dissipated.
In the case of L. Ii. Dudley, of New
York VS. A. Winslow Jones, corn packers,
of Portland, on promissory note for $685.
900 for advances made, in which defence
was want of consideration, the jury disa-
greed and new trial will be ordered.
The record of the Republican party on
the financial question is not so much as to
allow Of their throwing much mud at the
Democratic infationists in Ohio.
"A hail storm in the northern portions of
Georgia, few days since, ruined the corn
and cotton crops and gale blew down sew
eral houses.
Hon. Reverdy johnson has just closed
his Goth year of active legal practice.
The leading Insurance Directorates at
Ottawa, Ontario, instruct their agents to
take no new risks on certain lines of proper
ty except at very high rates. The Canadi-
an insurance companies, during the last tif-
teen days, have lost about $250,000
Radicals are as unhappy at the recon-
Citation between the States as quack doc
tors are at a healthy season.
The glee of the Republican newspapers
over the fact that the Ohio Democrats have
put faulty plank into their platform shows
that there is more joy in the Republican
camp over one Democratic error than over
ninety and nine good deeds from whatever
source.
Gov Tilden says he never worked hard
er in his life than during the last twenty six
days. In that time he has had to examine
25O bills, and to 60 over some Of them item
by item. Of the bills, fifty have been veto
ed-one out of every five. The Governors
memoranda show an actual reduction Of tax
alton, in consequence of his pains-taking
vigilance, of -, III ,G34.
The sheets of parchment found in the
mails of the lost steamer Schiller, addressed
to the Pope, were from the Rev. John Ire
land, Of St. Paul, Mimi, and were forward
ed to him yesterday.