Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-11-07
Feed those turkeys, boy

shows--hen shows no exception
The managers of the coming her
show in this place are all game apd
think they will be able to pulle'
through successfully. All should aid
them in the work.
The Woodstock Cornet Band
We're unfortunate in the evening set
for their concert-it rained hard all
the afternoon and evening-and con.
sequently deferred people from ventur
ing out, and the managers adjourned
it to the next evening, Saturday, but
the weather continuing untavorable,
the attendance was light. It was an
excellent concert--the best of the kind
ever given in this burgh. They pro
pose to repeat it again on the 18th
inst, with additional pieces, dance,
etc They ought to have full house.
The Woodstock Brass Band
(new) will give that concert spoken of
last week at Pomfret Center this
"wednesday evening, sure. Owing
to a "local surprise party" in the Vi
entity on the evening set, it did not
come off as we stated 1t would.
READING FAT THE UN1vERsALsT
CHURcH.-Next Friday eveeing, the
9th inst, Mrs. PURPLE, of Chicago,
will give Public Reading in the
Universalist Church in this village
There is reason to believe it will he q
rare entertainment. The following
very appreciative notice is taken from
the Montpelier Argets and Patriot of
Oct Sd Mot long since the people
of Barre were highly entertained by a
froe reading given by Mrs. Purple, of
Chicago, in the Academy Hall. Her
selections were Of character calling
for much diversity Of expression, and
in the rendering Of them she held the
large audience listening attentiyely
for more than an hour. "A voice
clear and flexible, q freedom from all
that atfectatlon sometimes styled the
professional air, and the faculty of
putting her soul into her work, are
qualities which she possesses in such
marked degree as to give assurance of
her continued and increasing success.
1t was 1.-THE verdict of many Of her
hearers, that no other reader who has
visited us has given such general and
decided satisfaction as did she by her
choice selections, rendered in her own
impressive Manner JAMES VINCENT,
Paste of Universalist Church, Barre.
The proceeds of the evening will
60 to the benefit of the Universalist
Society. Doors open at 7 o'clock. -
Exercises will begin at Il O'clock
Admission rs cents. Tickets at the
door. By ORDER OF COMMITTEE.
Our people were shook up "right
smart" Sunday morning at 2 o'clock
by a good sized earthquake. 1t last
ed several seconds. Some rushed in
to the street to look for the cause of
the disturbance while others slept on
III peaceful ignorance of the phenome-
non. Some genius who was consider
ably frightened, said Mt. Tom settled
two feet Scientific men take no
stock in this assertion.
One or two drunken rascals who
had some imaginary grievance against
Leonard Pratt, attacked him back of
the block Monday afternoon, dragged
him from his cart, beat him, and one
of them, young Lewis Pratt, threw a
rock at him, striking him on the ribs,
inAicting serious injuries. He is now
under the care of DR.. Cotton.
The friends of Mr.. O. N. Wood
in Windsor, and elsewhere. will be
sorry to learn of the death of his old
est son, Willie, at Cleveland, Ohio,
on the oath ult., where the family
now reside. While out hunting with
a couple of companions, he stopped
suddenly to remove or adjust a string
that troubled him, laid his gun down,
and in taking it up again, something
discharged it, the contents striking
him in the forehead, killing him al
most instantly. His companions
heard the report of the gun, looked
back and saw him fall to rise no more.
He was an estimable young man and
his death is deeply and universally
mourned where he was known.
See advertisement Of the Neao
York Sun in another column Every
Democrat and Conservative ought to
subscriber TO the Sun,