Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-11-28
The .Nezeys.
GENERAL NE VS..

ter, Florence Adele, in marriage to
Hamilton Mex. Twombly, at st. Bar
tholomew's Church in New York
CITY. Mr.. Twombly is from Boston.
Mr.. Vanderbilt. presented the bride
with a diamond necklace valued at
$4,000.
Pretty soon Hayes can make all
the Democratic appointments he wants
to, and a Democratic Senate will con-
firm them
MIR. VIM. II. Vanderbilt gave his
new son-n. law 500 shares of Western
Union Stock, worth 100000, Tor Il
wedding present.
The marriage of Henry Fitzalan
Howard, fifteenth Duke of Norfolk,
to Lady Hastings, at 'the Oratory,'
at Brompton, Eng, was grand Sc
cial event that stirred all fashionable
London Wednesday.
Coal has fallen in New York to
$3.50 per ton.
Boston Companies had $S5,oOO
insurance in the last Chicago fire.
The Treasury Department has
decided that cod liver oil, the product
of Canada or Prince Edward Island,
imported in bottles, prepared for Use
as a medicinal preparation, IS not free
Of duty under the treaty of Washing
ton.
The jury in the murder case Of
Henry Matson, at Chicago, accused of
killing Henry Boerner, found the de
tendant guilty, and sentenced him to
eight years in Joliet Penitentiary.
The New Testament revisers
have reached their second revision,
the 26th of the Acts.
Dr. Howard, 4 temperance lee
turer of Philadelphia, went to New
York city, got drunk, and stole a
watch t1onl friends house. lie Is in
jail therefor
The lawsuit now under way in
New York to break the will of the
late Commodore Vanderbilt is devel'
oping the skeleton of that household.
"A cattle plague is carrying Of
thousands of animals in Southern Rus
STA, and in many villages there is
scarcely COW or an OK left.
There is an Indiana Congressman
who declares openly that the Pmladel-
phia exhibition last year was Of no
profit, and the money spent for 1t was
wasted. Queer men, these Indiana
Congressman and Governors,
"A Richmond (Va.,) special says
a decree has been entered in the City
Circuit Court against the Chesapeake
& Ohio Railroad, for 100000 arrears
of taxes due the State.
One Abel is trying to collect SIS
from each New York Custom House
Inspector Tor the use Of the Republi-
can State Committee.
The amount of Indian corn eX-
ported from the United States last
year has been understated at 6O,0OO,-
900 bushels in the figures published
by some papers The Bureau OF Sta
tistics reports it at 7o,S00,9s3 bushels
For the year ending June 80, 1876, it
was 49,493,572 bushels. There has
been a steady inerease for some years
in this line OF export
George Washington Chiids has
discovered himself to be descendent
Of Aristotle. This is the gentleman
who used to write epitaphs Tor Praxi-
teles, the marble cutter.
Lieutenant Robert Hinble, U. S.
A. has been sentenced to three months
imprisonment at St. Louis, Mo-, for
burglary.
Vigilance committees have been
formed in northern Pennsylvania to
protect lives and property from hordes
of tramps.
The accounts of Treasurer Meach.
am of Laporte county, Ind, are short
$4,000 through embezzlement by a
fast son, who was his assistant.
The United States Consul at
Pernambuco says the drought in the
interior Of Brazil has very disastrous
effect, in one province alone $4,000
cattle having died, and $4,000 people
were on the verge of starvation.
While mourning was gong on in
New York the other night, over the
body Of a man found dead and sup
posed to be Isaac Samuels, the man
himself walked in to see his corpse.
General Hancock, while boarding
at the st. Cloud Hotel, in New York,
was robbed OF $4,000 worth Of jeweIry.
He sued to recover, but the court rul-
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