Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-01-12
The Nezeys.
SAnAries.

er of Public Works in New York.
We shall all of lis get so sick Of
the centennial year that we shall new,
err want to see another. 49, Rochester
Democrat.
The statute Of Burns will be
erected in Central PAX, New York,
this year during the Centennial festiv-
tiles.
Three Michigan editors have left
their offices for the pulpit during the
last year.
Mick Thompson, standing on a
scaffold in Quitman, Ala, with the
moose around his neck, sang "The
Ninety and Nine" all through and
prayed for ten minutes. Then he
said /: "Let 'er 60" 1t is a needless
to add that "she went.
There is farm near Waterloo,
N. Y, on which is raised every year
5000 worth Of moss, which is used by
the nurserymen for packing trees, and
is sold for s. a load upon the ground.
- Miss Maggie H., daughter OF
Jefferson Davis, was married at Mem
phis, Tenn, last week, to Judson
Hayes, cashier of the State National
Bank.
The case of Henry Jones, the
colored caterer, whose body was de.
MED burial in cemetery at Phi!adel-
phia, has been appealed to the Su-
preme Court of Pennsylvania.
Besides furnishing all the mate
rial, that Government will be obliged
to pay $l,oO0,0OO for the rebuilding
of the Monadnock at San Francisco.
AT Crescent, N. Y, there lives
two twins by the name OF Lansing,
now in their 74th, one of whom was
born one year and one the next. The
former came late on New Years eve,
and the latter early New Yeas morn
ing.
The most successful owner of
race-horses during the past season in
France has been M. Lupin, who with
twelve horses has won nearly $780,
900.
Senator Jones of Nevada, has had
a private car built for the exclusive use
OF himself 1t is a richly furnished
house on trucks, and cost $1,000.
Over half the members of the
new Kentucky Legislature, which has
just met at Frankfort, are grangers,
and they have asserted their power by
electing one of their number, W. J.
Stone OF Lyon county, speaker Of the
house.
The kingdom of Siam will par
ticipate in the centennial. John II.
Chandler, an American citizen, has
been appointed commissioner to rep
resent that country, and about $780,
900 will be expended to display its
products and industries.
The largest steamboat on the
Mississippi has just been launched at
St. Louis. 1t is named the "Grand
Republic, is three hundred and forty
feet in length, with ffty-six feet
breadth Of beam, and has a carrying
capacity of four thousand two hundred
tons.
Three negroes were arrested at
Columbia, S. c., Thursday night,
charged with robbing the store of
Holloway & Reed at Pomaria, after
numbering Mr.. Reed and then setting
fire to and burning the store and the
body.
Max Muller insists upon the ne
cessity of compulsory and gratuitous
education among all the nations ofthe
earth.
Charles p. Beckwith, who was
for many years the confidential clerk
ofB. L. Babbitt, the large soap man
ufacturer has been arrested on the
charge of embezzling the funds OF his
employer to the amount of over half a
million If dollars.
--Delmonico is to be chief restauras
teur at the centennial.
"A. Il. Stewart refuses to open
that lodging house for women. 1t is
said that a red headed girl made up a
face at him in stree. Car and he got
mad at the whole sex.
"A Harvard professor went down
to one of the beaches of the New
England coast to battle, one stormy
day, but the man in charge refused to
let him 60 in on account of the dan
gerous swell. On his way back he
expressed his disappointment and in