Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-12-15
VERMONT.

The Vermont Grand Lodge O
Good Templars will meet in Brandon
on the second Tuesday Of January
1876.
There are two graduates OF the
University ofVermont in the present
Congress-Dudiey c. Denison Of Yer
mont, and John A. Kason of Iowa.
On the Sd inst, teams crossed
Lake Champlain at Port Henry OF
the Ice, with an average thickness Of
five inches. The oldest inhabitants II
that vicinity fail TO remember SO early
crossing on the ice at this point.
--Rt. Rev. Bishop DE Goesbriand
Of Burlington, was present at tho ded
icatlon of the new Catholic cathedral
in Boston on Wednesday.
The first paper issued in the State
was "The Vermont Gazette, or Greer
Mountain Post Boy 1t was publish
ed in Westminster, ami appeared fol
the first time III 1881,
H II Talcolt, Esq, OF Burling
ton, has been appointed County Audi
tor Of that county, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death Of the late
lion Charles Russell.
Cabot proposes to erect OF soldl.
ers' monument at an expense Of 81,
500 and dedicate it next July. Good
for Cabot.
The Montpelier and Wells River
Station Agent at East Montpelier.
named A. NJ. Pearsons, has left, with
$3.50 Of money and u Boston ticket,
His Whereabouts arc not known.
Vermont has paid internal reNen-
ue receipts to the amount OF $64,4lG
for the past fiscal year, mostly for
rum and tobacco--of which Rutland's
share was about $500. 80 says the
Globe.
SPRINGS PURcnAsED,-The famous
st. Lron Springs, in Canada, have
passed into to the hands Of Hon.
George f Edmund9, Judge II II
Powers. Gen Geo. = Foster. Hon Jed
p Clark, and iIcssrs + W Peck, p
S Benjamin and Geo ide. The new
owners purpose thoroughly developing
the property, and VIII doubtless make
it the Dominion Saratoga.
MIR Jesse Cheney, Of st Johns
bury, offers TO pay half Of the $4,000
debt Of the UniverSalist church il this
town, provided the members OF the
church will pay the other halt. Ills
offer will probably be accepted.
1t is again reported that the
Central Vermont railroad manage
ment will shortly Lave control and
operate the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad.
MIR. Potter, ship and boat builder
at ST. Adams Bay, has conceived and
put into practice the idea of building
an ice-boat, to be propelled by sail,
and which can be managed and steer.
ed with the facility OF a sail-boat on
water. His intention in this project
is to furnish a means of enjoyment for
excursion parties.
"A few days ago, the Southerland
Falls Marble Company raised from
their quarry block OF marble one
hundred and eighteen feet long. six
feet three inches deep, and four feet
two inches wide, weighing about two
hundred and seventy-nine tons.
One Frederick Hunt, a man near
ly GO years old, was married at Lower
Waterford, Thanksgiving day, TO a
Girl oils Hunt has been married
twice before and has 10 children liy-
inc, besides one Of his wives, from
whom he has parted. 1t is said the
girl procured the marriage certificate.
The new Pavilion hotel at Mont
pclier will be open for the reception
of guests on the first If January.
"A Stewart stove blew up in the
kitchen of Gen. Pitkin at Montpelier
the other morning, and made things
lively for few minutes. Fortunately
no one was hurt, but the stove was
pretty well stove up. Pipes were at
tached to the reservoir for the purpose
of heating water for use in other rooms,
aud hetheory is that they became clog
ged in some way, creating a pressure
of steam, and thus the explosion.
I'Ositi0Os Oftlc Ey-GOntedcrates.