Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-12-06
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House Saturday, and their third read
ing refused by a large majority.
The honest Vermont farmer is
fast bee ,ming demoralized. st. Al
bans people complain that new cheese
now in the market is adulterated with
some substance that produces worse
sea-sickness than violent ocean
storm.
Mr.. Ilenry's brief speech, pre-
vlous to the defeat of his :'remap-
ping" bill, Saturday evening, was one
of the happiest efforts Of the session.
1t put the entire House in the best of
humor, and made the Representative
from Chester "troops of friends.
Montpelier Journal.
Sheldon d Slason's mills and the
sandblaSt works at West Rutland are
filling an order for 10000 government
head-slones to go to Marietta, Ga.
George w, Robinson Of Ben
nins'on has received a patent for wa.
terproof covers for collins.
The Central Vermont railroad
have in process Of building in the ma
chine shops new engine, which will
be larger than any on the line. A
number OF engines are undergoing re-
pairs
But one cabinet appointment has
ever been given to Vermont Jacob
Col]lmer was postmaster general I'M
der Zachary Taylor.
g. e. l.. Harvard, of Peterboro,
has made 1877 entries, embracing SO
varieties Of fowls and many pigeons,
at next months poultry show at Kecne.
This is considered the largest entry
ever made in the country by any one
man.
is it so ?-The Rutland Globe
says that there are ninety thousand
five hundred and twenty-five white
men in the state who can neither read
nor write, and six thousand eight
and sixty-seven more who
do ii so badly as to be called illiterate
that is, more than onc.tourth the
whole population. Truly brilliant
showing for the Green Mountain state.
The bill before the Vermont Leg
islature creating a new Office of At
torney General, and which passed the
House, has been defeated in the Sem
ate.
Coy. Fairbanks has made the fol.
lowing staff appointments John A.
of Rutland; Julius J. Es.ey,
Of Brattleboro Albert c. Hubbell of
Bennington, and Albert W. Hastings,
Of st, Johnsbury, to be Aide-de- Camp,
with the rank of Colonel
The tax on the grand list of Yer
mont for the next fiscal year, is 20
,ents on the dollar, and for the sue
'eeding fiscal year it IS 80 cents on
he dollar.
-Tatro, the murderer appears 10
'e anxious for his trial. He says he
will plead guilty.
The justly famed Whitmore IL
Jlarkes MINISTRIES are to begin their
Usual concert tour about the 1st of
January, with company that cannot
,e eXcelled
Royal D, Farr son OF the land
ord of the Glen house, East Middle
Jury, was so severely beaten by roughs
he 25th, that his life is endangered.
-Messrs. A, w. Gray Il Sons Of
shipped lot of their
hresbing machines to Chill last week,
nd will ship a load to Germany ere
0ng.
The salary of the Bridport post
flee, which has come into so great
rominerce, within a few days, is
PIP.
Miss Ida DIN of Pownal, made
ne shirt on Il Wheeler & Wilson 1
ewing machine in fifteen minutes and
full dozen in nine hours.
Mr.. G. Horace Hubbard has re- I
red from the position of agricultural
ditor of the Vermont Farmer.
The Senate has given woman
18th certain pecuniary qualifications, 4
he right to vote in school meetings.
his is a step toward universal wo-
ian suffrage.
st. Johnsbury has the small pox {