Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-02-17
-Gaorpe Rraley most brlitallY :

9th. Larrabee's face was terribly
punished, and the provocation was
only slight. Braley is a young, Wig
orous man Larrabee old and sickly.
Braley was, after an all.day trial, on
Tuesday, fined $40, and costs taxed
$1O.Os. Suit for private damages has
been commenced.
A DEvour HORSE Edward Hast.
ings is rarely absent from church on
the Sabbath, but on Sunday before
last, he did not arrive in due season,
or in his accustomed manner Just
before the ringing of the bell, he
turned out his faithful horse for water,
and as the animal caught the sound
of the bell, he remembered that it was
his business to 60 to church and spend
two or three h }urs in his place in the
shed. Without waiting for harness
OF driver, he started and soon made
the intervening mile. He took his
place in front of the church, waited
for his imaginary load to alight, and
then went to the shed to remain
through services. After while Mr..
Hastings came up on foot, being
much out of breath from travelling
through the deep snow. He found
the horse in the shed, looking as sane
timonlous as on occasions when he
had not been guilty Of playing so
wicked a trick on his master and his
family Monitor.
considerable excitement prevails
concerning the death of Mrs. Hogan
who lived in the edge Of Chelsea, neal
Tunbridge. Her husband claims that
on returning from the school house
whittier he had been to carry his chill
dren, on last Friday morning, he fount
she had committed suicide by hang
ing. He took the body down and
moved it to another part Of the house
before calling any assistance. Thu
head was found to be considerably
bruised, and many other circumstance
have caused grave suspicious as to thu
manner of her death.
The new postmaster at Newport
Shaw, has put in several hundred new
and modern boxes into the post office
and put the office on first class foot
ing throughout, so that it is really
great credit to the place.
On the first of Jan. there wer
SO weeklies and G daily papers in Yer.
mont.
During the past year the humble
of fares collected on the Central Yer
mont railroad and leased lines from
persons not having tickets averaged
about eighteen thousand per month
In the month of January of the pres
ent year, under the new arrangement
by which a deduction of fifteen cents
from the regular fares is made wher
tickets are purchased, the number o
fares collected in the cars was only
abou. four thousand.
Tuesday morning of last week
Nelson Gordon, Oscar Goulding ani
Willie Bissette, in Jail at Burlington
on charges Of larcency, having picked
locks during the night, and thereby
getting together in cell near the
door, made a rush on Napoleon White
when he went to look after the fire. -
Throwing him down, they pushed him
into the cell they came ont of, locked
the door, and made of. Gordon and
Goulding were recaptured on Shedd
farm, and Bissette in Willston.
The Lyndon Union has COM
menced its eleventh volume, and is do
ing well. 1t is live local paper, and
contains much spicy reading.
1t is said that Hon. William G.
Shaw, of Burlington, Is the coming
man for United States District Judge
for Vermont, in case Hon. D. A.
Smalley resigns, the impression hay
ing got abroad that Senator Edmunds
is really for him.
"A friend Of the Eddy Brothers,
Mr.. E. P. Miller, of New York, chal-
lenges DIR. Beard to make good his
statement that the Eddy's are frauds,
and proposed to wager $1,000 that
the DR.. can't do it.
The Globe says that three leading
Rutland sportsmen rode two days re-
Gently to kill a fox worth a dollar.
The State Board of Agriculture,
Manufactures, and Mining will hold
meeting at Jacksonville on Tuesday
apd Wodnaedav Friday 18th and