Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-05-05
ITEMS.

The State Treasurer of Pennsyl-
wanna says one dollar and sixty six
cents was the amount of available
funds in the Treasury on the 31st of
March.
Lead and silver ore have been
discovered within the limits of the city
of Portsmouth, N. II.
Linen busters, after the Ulster
pattern, reaching to the heels and grid
ed with belt, will be fashionable for
gentlemen this summer. Nothing
said about bustles.
The other day another crazy man
was found in the White House seek
ing an audience with the President.
Delirium has been witnessed there ire
quently.
The butter crop Of the United
States now exceeds the wheat crop IN
value. It'll be a luxury to have a
little bread with our butter one Of
these days.
Twenty criminals in the county
Jail in Manchester, N. H., are await
ing the May term OF the Circuit
Court Of Hillsboro county, which
meets at Amherst week from next
Tuesday, Judge VIM. l.. Foster, Of
Concord, presiding. A large number
of indictments for political offences
are anticipated.
The Pennsylvania miners say
they will hold out three months. a
long time for the military to watch,
john Hunter, of st. GATHERINGS,
Ont, has been'convicted and senten-
ced to fourteen years imprisonment
for incendiarism with intent to de-
fraud the Hartford Insurance Com
pany.
Official reports from all but three
counties make the Republican major
ity in the last State election in Michi-
gan 25,42S, which will be increased
when the remaining counties are heard
from.
The bill to provide extra compen-
sation tor jurors in protracted trials
has passed the New York Assembly
and the Brooklyn jurors are now hap
py.
Henry Grambo, the Public Ad-
ministrator of ST. Louis Mo-, who alb
seconded last November some $50, 900
in debt to various individuals and es-
tates in his hands, has voluntarily
returned, and is engaged with his
bondsmen in settling his affairs.
Grambo has been in Mexico since he
left, engaged in the coasting trade.
The people of this extravagant
country expended $2,S41,590 for for
eign buttons last year. More than
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-Ex-Gov. English of Connecticut,
who has just returned from his tour
of the South, says Of the people of
Texas that "they have seemingly for
gotten that there ever was a war, and :,
from every act and impression, CLEAN
the information that they welcome
anybody who will come here to bet
ter their condition, regardless of any
political association. 1t is very rare
thing for them to refer to Il mans pol
itics not halt so much as we in New
England do"
"A despatch from Louisville says
that several thousand ticket-holders of
the late library lottery have placed
their coupons in the hands of COL.
Blanchard Duncan, with instructions
to bring suit against the lottery man
ayers for breach of contract, and to
recover their money.
Ladies wells, they say, are now
made with a little pocket for the nose
Some require big pocket.
The appropriations for city ex-
penses, III Newburyport, Mass, Tor
1875, are $137,906, and increase of
$4,000 over 1874.
MIR. David Craig, Of Americas,
Ky, wants wife. His age is sc,
his step elastic, can ride as antic a
horse as any young fellow, doesn't use
a cane, and desires as helpmeet an
old lady, but one as frisky as himself.
Who speaks first?
The Court of Commissioners on
the Alabama Claims has sustained the
demurrer of counsel for the United
States in the case OF VIM. +. Fisher,
giving judgment for the United States.
The claim was for war risks and the
decision rules out all such claims.
Treasurer Mackery, of Pennsyl
vania, refuses to allow the experts en-