Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
VERMONT NEWS.


and $50 q month can now get only
from $l2 to $l7 and some farmers
who have Kept a hired man are get.
ting along without.
The parting of Townshend (sen,
fenced at Newfane recently to twenty
years in States Prison for arson) with
his bright five-year-old boy, who is
left without father or mother. the
latter having left her home some time
since to get a divorce, was touching
scene.
Preston Powers. of Florence, is
making rapid progress on his statue
of Hon. Jacob Collamer for the State
of Vermont.
DR., E. N. S. Morgan of Benning-
ton has been elected President Of the
Bennington county and Hoosie Medi-
cal Society.
Warren Smart of Pownal, a Uni
ted States pensioner, aged % years,
was found dead in Hon. Fl. G. Roots
barn at Bennington, the 18th.
John Fl. Burbank of Londonderry
backed a horse and sled, loaded with
wood, over a precipice Saturday
The horse, sled and wood landed 100
feet below, Killing the horse.
The laws of Vermont are silent
ucon the subject Of reprieves, but the
Constitution provides that the Gov
ernor "shall have the power to grant
pardons and remit fines, in all cases,
whatsoever, except in treason and
murder, in which be shall have power
to grant reprievcs, but not pardon
until after the end of the next session
of the Legislature
The famous burrows stand
tavern at Vernon, formerly valued at
100000, was sold at auction recently,
to Tyler johnson, OF Guilford, for
$lO,4O0.
-The President and all the Gov
ernols Of the United States have been
invited to the Bennington Celebration,
and Wade Hampton's presence is to
be vigorously urged.
Two children of North Benning-
ton family died OF diptheria few
days since, and because of dread of
the disease only the immediate rela-
tivcs attended the funeral, and the
sorrowing father ard mother sang the
hymns.
William NJ. Eyarts was once a
writer on New York weekly, though
it does not appear that he accumulat-
ed great wealth in that occupation.
The headquarters OF the Connect
lieut. river and Cheshire railroad are
both to be removed to Bellows Falls.
The Bellows Falls Times says, "Brat-
tleboro, at one fell swoop, becomes an
interesting suburb of this-city.'
Miss Harriet Taylor, who died in
St. Johusbury last fall, lett by will
$1,000 for public library in Derry,
N. H., her native town.
Mr. S. Phelps, instructor in logic
to Yale Juniors, has accepted Il profes.
sorship at MiddIebury college.
"A case of infauticide was recent
Iy discovered in Rutland. A box was
|ound floating down East creek which
was taken out aud opened, and the
body of a child two or three days old
was found laid in coal ashes ard COW
sred with papers. The body was
buried. Nothing has been discovered
as to parentage, Or where the body
was consigned to the water.
The village of st. Johnsbury has
been waiting FOL a fire, to test the new
Holly water-works, ever since they
were put in last summer A small
fire last week gave an opportunity,
and the efficiency of the new WORKS
was fully demonstrated.
"A meeting of the stockholders Of
the Vermont and Canada railroad is
to be held at Bellows Falls, Wednes-
lay, April 25lh, to take action on a
plan OF re organization with the Yer
mont Central railroad, which it is un
ierstood has been submitted to them
BY the Central Vermont Railroad Co.
AT meeting Wednesday even
ng OF the Bennington battle monu'
ment association it was determined
that at least two days be celebrated,
the 18th and 10th of August-Ver-
nont's Tooth birthday on the 18th
and the Bennington battle on its an.
nlversary day, the 10th.
e. A. Turner, retail grocer OF
Bellows Falls, has failed. Liabilities,
$500. Assets, $4,000.
Simeon Blanchard of Corinth put
bis pipe in his pocket a little sooner