Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-06-09
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of the Tennessee jubilee singers aDsconded,
Saturday, leaving the .minstrels destitute,
and with five weeks salary due They
were doing good business at Omaha.
The Army and Navy Journal boldly
insinuates that Shcrman's Memoirs will out
live Badeau's Life of Grant. Shouldn't
wonder
The Cozzens Hotel property in Omaha,
Neb., is advertised at Sheriif's sale, June
18th, to satisfy judgment against George
Francis Train.
The Holly Water Works Company has
submitted Il definite proposition for introduce
ing water by its system into Bangor, Me-,
from the Pcnobscot river. 1t proposes to
lay fourteen and four-ffths miles of pipe,
with 127 double fire hydrants, for a little
less than 100000. 1t is very probable that
it will be the contract
One ''trcat" during the Pennsylvania
Republican Convention covered 1880 glasses
of beer.
The state fish commissioners Of Connec-
ticut report that 1,359,000 young salmon
have been introduced into the Connecticut
river during the past year, and state that a
like number will be put in this year, proba-
bly, during the present month
In the libel suit of Grant vs. P0rtlah d
Duly Press, on trial at Portland, verdict
was rendered Saturday Of mot guilty"
Red Cloud and his companions resent
the indignity put upon them in quatering
them in a temperance hotel. How would
Grant Or any other prominent politician like
to be put up at temperance hotel them
selves ?
Coy. Jacobs has issued Il proclamation
declaring the seat of government of West
Virginia removed from Charlestown to
Wheeling.
Gen. Hooker says Gen. Thomas was the
great General of the army and Farragut the
hero of the war Also that "Shermn has
always been stopping over" Fighting
Joe" intimaes that he has "a shot in the
locker he may let off by and by.
The state tax in New York for all pur-
poses this year will be but six mills on Il
dollar. Last year in was seven and quar-
ter. The difference came principally by
striking out appropriations for new work
and extraordinary repairs on the canals.
The work which is authorized on the ca
mails is to be paid out of the canal rcven-
ues.
The robbery Of the Sioux chiefs, the
other day in Washington, while they were
at dinner, of their money and shirts, was
only carrying out the policy Of the Indian
Ring.
The fashion doctor says the dose is il
pound of bugles to every black silk.
The South Carolina negroes are in IA
vor of Massa Grant for third term.
Mr.. Beechcr apologies for preaching
about love SO often. And yet nobody ac-
cuses him of not practising what he preach
es.
The English do not like our form Of
government They disapprovcd of the first
steps towards it century ago.
An Iowa paper tells Of a smart wife
who helped her husband raise seventy acres
of wheat The way she helped him was to
stand in the door and shake broom at him
when he sat down to rest.
After March 4, 1877, we may look for a
civil service reform in earnest 1t will come
in the honest old shape Of a rotation in office.
". Y. SIN.
In court at Montreal, a lawyer quoted
as precedent some point in the Beecher
trial, when Judge Moodlct said: Don't for
Gods sake, quote from that case here 1t
is disgrace both to the United States and
to New York, and not creditable 10 the
judges and lawyers engaged in it,"
The Rev. James Freeman Clarke has
accepted the invitation of the mayor of Bos-
ton to deliver the Grafton before the city
authorities on the Fourth Of July.
Another scandal has come to light in
connection with the Grant Administration.
This time il is Secretary Robinson, the gal
liant dry land sailor of the Navy Department
who is said to have been selling govern
ment land at private sale to a personal
friend for one-twentieth of its value, and
has used for other purposes the 100000
appropriated to buy the sailors duck over
alls.
The Memphis Avalanche estimates the
wheat crop this year in the country. tribu-
tary to Memphis as the largest since 1860.
That Michigan man who mellowed the
Lieutenant Governor for kissing his wife
did it with four foot stick one inch in
diameter and dragged the Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor about the room, plying the stick brisk
ly on his person. That's better than mo,h-
or Beechcr trial.
The first of a series of condensed crop
reports from various States says Texas is
the State from which accounts are given in
the present issue, and reports from several
counties show an increased area of cultiva
ton, and the prospects better than for
number of years.
Who says farming doesn't pay In the
Connecticut House of Representatives there
are 101 farmers.
JEFF. Davis kissed a Il the girls at Tex
as reception.
Reports from Newfoundland state that
there is every indication that the coming
season in Western fisheries will be a pros
porous one.
The Springfield Republican says 'the