Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-02-10
}. Fl. Searles has Just commenc.


There are sixty-six money order
post offices in Vermont.
L. p. Barron of Washington, has
in his possession a jack-knife, taken
from the stomach of a COW recently
slaughtered by John G. Thompson,
the knife being open when found. 1t
measures about y inches in length,
open, and from the appearance of the
stomach it must have lain there some
time. 1t is probable the COW mistook
it for bone, as its handle is of horn.
A little sharp feed.
The Addison county temperance
society will hold its annual meeting at
Middlebury, February 18th, at 10 o.
clock a. IN. Rev. Franklin Tuxbury
of Brandon and Rev. Edward Mills of
Rutland will address the meeting. A
candidate for county commissioner
will be nominated.
"A democratic club has been or-
ganized at st. Adams.
Il. P. Barron, constable, of Wash
ington, Orange county, collected last
week, taxes against the estate Of the
late B. w. Bartholomew to the a.
mount of about Sc, 100 on the list of
1874. TIE town raised six hundred
cents on the dollar on the grand list
of 1878, to pay the Indebtedness Of
the town, the debt being about $40
900.
The fair of the Franklin county
agricultural and mechanical society
will be held this year on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, Sept. 9Th, 9th
and 10th, on their grounds in Shell
don.
There has been q new postotice
established at East Concord Vermont,
and Noah w. Villas appointed post
master.
Seven persons were baptised at
Bratteboro on the 3lst, through a
hole in the ice of the river.
The Brattleboro ''Record and
Farmer has been purchased by d.
Leonard, Of Fair Haven, who will per.
sonally manage it hereafter.
The "city" of Vergennes, to
which, the reform school is soon to be
removed, has recently made improve
ments in the water works which cost
$4,000, making the whole expense
since the works were first begun, in
1868, $4,000.
Our esteemed townsman Judah
Dana was on Tuesday presented by
Gov. Peck, personally, with his COM
mission as school examiner for the first
of Vermont, vice Lesvenworth resign
ed.-[Rutland Globe.
-Phair-t the Rutland murderer,
was sentenced to be hanged on the
second Friday Of April, 1877.
"A funny story is told of two La.
NOBLE county farmers who are not
grangers. They induced their wives
to join and report, before they would
commit themselves. Now, while they
will, they cannot two black balls
greet every application. Meanwhile,
the wives 60 regularly and trium-
phantly to every grange meeting, and
theywonder what they do at the Grange
anyhow.
The population of Brattleboro
during the past year has deceased 81,
while the number Of families has in
creased AZ.
B. B. Smalley Esq, clerk of the
United States District and Circuit
Courts, gives notice that there will be
no session ofeither till march 8.
There are AZ national banks in
the state representing stock to the
amount of S7,S50,712.
There are in Vermont 100 Baptist
churches-three new ones having been
constituted duringthe year; 72ministers
including three newly ordained; and g.
315 members. There were 279 bap-
tisms last year, less by Is than the year
previous.
AT ball given at st. Adams the
other night, by the Brotherhood ofLo-
como'iye Engineers, the sets were
formed at the sound ola steam whistle.
-Winooskia can go to the bead on
manufacturing. Its WOODEN mill alone
employs over FIVE hundred and twenty
operatives. In all nearly nine hun.
bred people find employment through