Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-11-21
The Nezes.
GENERAL NE VS..

-1nree banking houses al lead
ing, Pa, failed last Saturday, and
there is great excitement in all that
region.
Germany is excited over another
plot to assassinate the Emperor and
Prince Bismarck.
Conrad Poppenbausen, late own
er of the Long Island Railroad, has
failed. Liabilities, $3,5O0,0O0; as.
sets, railroad stock which cost over
$5,o0O,0oO.
The Russians report that they
carried Kars by storm, and that the
battle ragged all Saturday night, end
ing at s o'clock Sunday morning.
The story that Theodore Tilton
and wife have become reconciled and
will live together again proves to be
without foundation.
"A large cotton mill in Fail River
was burned Saturday, causing 4 loss
of S450,0O0 and throwing over 400
persons out Of employment.
The President has pardoned
Thomas s. Benyou Of Georgia, CON
victed of false entries in the books OF
q National Bank and sentenced TO five
years Imprisonment.
The lnman Steamship Company
in New York city has been mulcted i'll
$1,000 for several casks Of wine
spoiled on voyage on one OF their
steamers.
The jury awarded verdict
against the United States Insurance
Company, of $4,000 and interest, in
the case Of Charles Mckinley. The
company set up the defence Of intem'
p-rance.
"A severe hurricane is prevailing
on the Bi itish coast. Numerous disas-
tels in shipping ale reported.
One thousand men are at work
On the new elevated railway in New
York.
The approximate loss by the San
francisco fire is $4,000 ; insurance,
$4,000.
The Secretary of the Navy has
informed the Senate, in reply to its re-
cent inquiry, that no further leglsla
ton is necessary to protect the active
list of the navy from the promotion Of
officers physically unfit for duty al
sea-
Extraordinary precautionary meas
ures are being adopted in New York
to prevent the introduction of the rim
deepest into this country The dis
ease is alarmiugly prevalent in Eu
rope.
--Advices from Cape Town, Cape
OF Good Hope, TO Oct. %, state thai
Stanley, the African explorer, arrived
there on the 2lst ult.
John Sherman, Jr, a nephew o.
the Secretary OF the Treasury, who is
Marshal OF New Mexico, has got into
trouble with the grand jury in tina
Territory, on account of irregularities
in the payment of curt expenses Al
investigation is talked OF.
The service OF papers in the sui
for the recovery OF $1,000, 700, stolel
under ring rule from New York, hav'
been served in Europe upon L. Is
Connolly, who acknowledged in writ
ing such service.
-S.zures OF logs, lumber and tut
peutine i'll Mississippi have been mad
by Special Agent Garter of the ln!e
lior Department.
Mrs. Dan Bryant, widow of tn
late popular minstrel, ii is rumored, !
about to marry a Spanish gentleman
Of great wealth, named De REVERB.
Colonel G. c. Long, native o
Maryland, who has resigned his plac
in The Egyptian army, has arrived il
Washington city, and says that onl.
about nine Americans remain in tn
service of the Khediye, and they hav
but little influence.
Jacob Parker, a farmer Of Minna
vile, near Amsterdam, N. D., wa
found murdered Saturday night nea
the village. He was known to hav
had 5000, which is missing Samue
John, on (coloredD has been arrtsie
with $50 ON his person and som
blood on his bosom.
"A Graco Roman wrestling matcI
on the stairs of a private dwelling
Friday evening in Brooklyn, betwee
a stout servant girl and a bold burg
lar, resulted in the burglar beiuI
thrown down stairs, his head breakin
brass stair roc, land his speedy cap
TUE by a policeman.