Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-02-10
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that he married his wife because she
was 4 good carver That's the kind
of a help-meat every man wants.
They say that A. T. Stewart
takes his meals at home before going
to public dinner in order TO avoid
dyspepsia.
"A private letter from Montevideo
reports as seriously i'll in that city ex-
Internal Collector Bailey who left
New York suddenly several years
since, large defaulter to the Govern
ment.
BY the accession of the New En-
peror Of China, one,third of the hui.
man family comes under the nominal
sway of boy 5 years old.
Mrs. Lieut.. Fitch will require
double escort when she wears those
100000 diamonds out doors.
What was it that Grant said a
bout preferring the devil to Andy
Johnson in Washington?
There is a frmer feeling in the
Pennsylvania coal trade, and dealers
believe that it will recover from the
present dizziness but as yet there is no
increase production.
Candidates for the Florida Sena-
torship are as plenty as bananas there,
and most as slippery as the skins.
The hair of Miss Mary c. Has
kins, ofDanbury, N. H., is 52t feet
long.
"A correspondent, under date of
Victoria, British Columbia, JAM. 6
says it is regarded as particularly de-
sirable that prompt measurus should be
taken properly to settle and mark the
boundary between that province and
the territory of Alaska already sew
eral disputes between Canadian and
American officials are reported to have
taken place.
1t is noteworthy fact that only
four Washburns have been or are as
pirants for Senatorial honors in the
next Congress but they aren't having
the usual family luck, somehow.
The award to Miss Winnie Ream
of the contract to furnish for the Ma.
tional Capitol an elaborate bronze
statute Of Admiral Farragut has 81
linced her detractors. Miss Ream's
success is undoubtedly due to the de-
votion of Mrs Farragut, lady of ac-
lsnowledged culture, who with Gen.
Sherman, carried the day over the jolly
Robson, who voted against Miss
Ream every time.
"A Memphis editor upon being
summoned home the other night was
heard to remark as he took hack for
the train eff it is boy he shall bo
called Andrew Johnson
The New Jersey House of As,
sembly has adopted resolution va
eating the Office of Clerk ofthe Assem-
bly, and condemning John Carpenter,
the Clerk, for disreputable acts in APP
pointing subordinates.
The mean temperature of Monta-
ma for the first sixteen days of Jan
nary was 20 degrees "a minutes below
zero.
Conductor J. r. Poor, who lost
both legs in the recent accident on the
Lowell and Andover Railroad is low
considered gu, of danger and in a fair
way to recover.
The Pensacola Navy Yard is
maintained, some officers affirm, for
the purpose OF diminishing the navy,
as a portion of the men stationed there
die every summer.
Another bill, similar in purport
and effect to that of Milton Best. of
Kentucky, for reimbursement oflosses
sustained in consequence of destruc-
ton of property during the war, has
been vetoed by the President.
Disturbances are reported in As
pinwal in consequence of the impris-
onment of DIR. Piggott, a British sub,
ject. A man-o!-war has been ordered
from Kingston, Jamaica, to Aspinwall
to support the British Consul, who has
been assaulted.
Hon. VIM. G. Hunt has resigned |
the Presidency of the Illinois Central
Railroad, and John NJ. Douglass. of
Chicago, has been elected his success
sor.