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

Take notice, that the number OF
Policies issued by the Vermont Life
Insurance Company at Burlington,
Vermont, during the first three months
of 1877, is ninety two greater than
during the corresponding three
months of last year, and that the
amount of insurance written for the
same period Of time is STAT 900, in ex-
cess Of the whole amount written dur
ing the year 1876
This unprecedented degree Of sue
cess may be briefly accounted for by
the following facts The Vermont
Life Insurance Company is prudently
and economically managed is sound,
secure, and strong in its finances all
its Policies are Don,forfeitable it is
actually controlled and supervised by
its Board of Directors and that their
agents are able to prove these impor-
tant facts to the lnsuring public, who,
in these days Of distrust as regards life
insurance companies, very properly
scrutinize the management and affairs
of the company to which they entrust
their funds. G. NJ. Marsh, ESQ,
Agent, for this section of the State.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
The government has been inves

The government has been inves
tlgatlng The discrepancies between the
two confessions made by Lee, concern
ing the Mountain Meadow massacre,
one, originally published by the
New York Herald, charging the mas
sacre on Brigham Young, and the
other made public by District Attorn-
ey Howard Young, as the
Springfield Republican has tin
which very little is said about Brig
ham. A telegram reports that At
torney-General Devens is Of the opin-
ion that only q part OF the confession
has been made public by Howard, and
that "the remainder is withheld in
"order to secure the ends of justice"
Knowing, however, Sumner Howard,
as we do know him, to be unscrupu,
lous as lawyer, INSCRIPTIONS az a
politician, and INSCRIPTIONS as a man,
we are inclined to believe that the
second confession was garbled in the
Mormon interest either for money
consideration or for political advant-
age, and that unless the government
can bid higher for the exact confess
sion than the Mormons can that it
will never see light.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
The memorial presented to the

The memorial presented to the
President by the executive committee
of Orthodox Quakers upon Indian af.
fairs, on the 9th inst, gives a very
hopeful account of the results OF their
dealings with 26 tribes and portions of
tribes having a population of more
than fifteen thousand Indians of all
grades Of civilization. The committee
have full faith that the native red man
can be civilized and they give the
most positive assurances that under
their management the work OF educa-
ton is going on so surely and steadily
that in few years all the tribes under
their care will cease to be u source of
trouble to the Government. We have
no doubt that the pacific policy Of the
Quakers has been more potential than
all the other methods that have been
tried, and it is gratifying to know
that President Hayes, after patiently
listening to their memorial, stated that
he had every confidence in the policy
which they had inaugurated.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

Mr.. Carrigan of the Boston
Globe, aud his associate made bat
little progress in his attempt to ''hull,
doze" the residents in the vicinity of
the late residence of Mrs. Freeze, be-
cause they would not give statements
to suit his purpose He had better
come to Rutland again on the mission
of proving John p. Phair, ian in.
nocent Christian gentleman. - Rut-
land Daily Globe, 14lh inst.
a CAUTIoN.-The other day, as
Mrs. E. N. Morse, of North Mont
pelier, and daughter, aged 10 years,
wee looking over gladiolus bulbs,
they Sere tempted to see what they
tasted like. Removing the outer
skin, they inserted their teeth into
one, but not biting it. Almost i'm
mcdiately after, they were taken with
pains in their stoniachs and cramps
through their whole bodies. Rene
dies were at once given that counter
acted the poison, though they were
very sick all night.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

BENNINGTON, w., April 16. Doc
tor r. II. Green of Hoosick, New York,
died suddenly some two weeks since.
His funeral was attended and the body
placed ina vault. 1t appears that
some years ago he was for two days
in a trance and supposed to be dead,
but survived and exacted solemn
promise from his wife that should he
suddenly die she you'd place his bodyin
vault and visit it daily until no doubt
remained Of his demise before burying.
This his wife has done since the OBJ
sequies mentioned before, and | nave
it in good authority that last Saturday
DR.. Green's supposed body was found
to be warm, and it has been removed
to his residence, where he now lies IN
sensible and that DR.. Goldsmith of
Rutland, having visited him, pronoun.
c.s the man alive and yet in trance
state. DR.. Green was an able physi-
clan of Rensselaer, county, and Lis
sudden death was regretted by the
whole community.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
&DR @gR.
Wednesday, April 10, 1877.

The Chicago Times figures that
the Democratic majority in the next
House will be fifteen at tie lowest
computation, and that if Mr.. Adams,
the Clerk, is so disposed, by emitting
from the list the names of those whose
seats are contested, it may be made
thirty for purposes of organization.
The contest for the Speakership lies
between Randall Of Pennsylvania,
Blackburn Of Kentucky, Cox of New
York, Morrison of Illinois, and Sayler
of Ohio.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The coupons Of the guaranteed
Bonds of the Woodstock Railroad
Company, due the 18th inst, will be
paid on and after that date at the
Woodstock National Bank, Wood
stock, Vermont. and at the National
Revere Bank, Boston, Mass
FRANCIS w. CLARKE, Treasurer.
Woodstock, VT, April II, II.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The Philadelphia (Penn.,) Times
says it has but one mission, whether
its editor is in Washington, Philadel-
phia or elsewhere, and that IS Journal
ism. 1t seeks no favors from power,
no contracts with politicians Or states
men. 1t believes to day, as it be ieved
a month ago, that Mr.. Hayes was lot
elected President, and that Mr. Tilden
was elected. 1t accepted the electoral
commission as q measure of law and
peace, aud, having done SO, it accept
ed the judgment of the tribunal it had
favored grayely, as it believes the tri-
bunal to have erred in both law and
fact.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

chamberlain interprets it as the
dcath-warrant of the Republican party
in South Carolina, and protests against
the surrender Of himself and his asso.
ciates to the tender mercies of the
civil law. The Carolinian carpet-bag-
gers could hardly make more explic-
it avowal than this, that the United
States soldiers were put into the CAPT.
tai OF that commonwealth, not to es-
tablish justice, but to keep alive a
faction, and that they were kept there,
not to maintain peace, but to protect
usurping officials.-A. Y World.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
The Actual Result.

AS was said in the old Wing song
in 1914 "Every day brings something
new we find the truth of the express
sion daily verified by both important
and un-important events that tran
spire. This is said to be an age OF
progress. In some respects we are
inclined 20 dispute the truth Of the
adage. AS far as any progress" has
been made in the Government OF the
United States for the last sixteen
years-unless it is backward and tow,
ards mouied aristocracy-we dis
pote, and can produce abundant ties
timony to substantiate the above pos
tive negative assertion. But this is
not our purpose at this time.
Our object is to say that events
daily occur that substantiate the fact
that Tilden and Hendricks were legal
ly elected President and Vice, Presi.
dent Of the United States, by the
voters thereof, on the LIST Tuesday in
November last, instead of Hayes and
Wheeler who were traudulently "count-
ed in" Since the decision of the H.
legal swindling electoral Commits
sion" facts enough have been devel-
oped and even acknowledged by the
Republican authorities themselves, to
establish the truth that Tilden aud
Hendricks were elected last November
and cheated out of the election.
Since the Inauguration Of the us1r.
pers, Hayes and Wheeler, on the 9Th
of March. the tyrannical, un-constitu
tional, carpet bag, pluudering, niger
Governments of Louisiana and South
Carolina have been overturned and
their itinerant Governments utterly
abolished by the very men who up
held them only for selfish political pur-
poses. The bogus Governors Of
South Carolina and Louisiana have
been obliged to emigrate to other
quarters where they can obtain q
livelihood by other occupations than
by thieving and exercising authority
and power that does not nor never has
belonged to them. If the Democratic
candidates for Governors-Wade
Hampton and Nicholls-were elected
in then respective States in Novem-
Der last it follows that the Tilden and
Hendricks electors were chosen by the
legal voters of said States, which gave
them more than legal majority of
the electoral votes of the United
States.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

We have tried says the Nashua,
N, H., Telegraph, the gospel Of the
bayonet for ten years and still the in
timidation and slaughter continue at
the South. IT is time to try the gos-
pei Of humanity. That may fail and
it may not. If it should fail the bay
onet will still be in reserve. But it
will not fail unless Christianity, civil
lization and selt.government all prove
a failure on this continent.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

is this cowardice or treason ? In
1856 Senator VIM. II Seward of N.
Y, said III am to choose be-
tween UNFOLDING laws in any part of
the republic which cannot be main
tanned without a standing army, Or re-
linquishing the laws themselves, |
give up the laws at once, by whomso-
ever made, and by whatever authority,
for, either our system OF government
is radically wrong, or such laws are
unjust, unequal and pernicious."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The Washington Republican, be-
lieves that Wade Hampton will be
the next Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. No Democrat however
"believes' any such thing. But is it
any worse for the Democrats to nom.
mate Wade Hampton for the Presi-
dency than it is for the Republicans
to put live Rebel Generals into the
Cabinet and other places of honor in
the National Government.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The Hon. Abram S. Hewitt of
New York city, ex-chairman OF the
National Democratic Committee, on
being interviewed in relation to the
Fraudulent Electoral Commission,
says :-"Though I am firmly persuad-
ed that we have been cheated and de-
frauded, l Lave nothing to regret in
the course pursued. 1t was dictated
solely by a sense of obedience to law.
and though The result was especially
calling to me, l could not bonorably
or properly do anything but submit"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
DIR. Redfeld Of the Cincinnati

DR.. Redfeld of the Cincinnati
Commercial thinks that the best thing
the solid South can do is to cease to
be solid, and adds that "the time is
not far distant when the Northern
States west Of the Allegheny
Mountains will be more than a match
TOR the solid South, to say nothing of
the Eastern aud Middle States" Now
what is the use of all these insulting
innuendoes as to the political supre
macy of sections ? Are we not all
one people? are not our interests
identical and is there now or need
there be in the future any occasion
for reviving any Of the old sectional
issues of the past or Of striving to
create any new ones in the future :
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
WOODSTOCK PRICE CURRENT
watertown Union Live Stock Market
April IT,

PRICES BEEF Cattle--A few choice. -
a SO rs ; eAra, 50 90 a s so first quality,
81 90 7 75; second quality, 30 rs o.;
third quality, 81 70 a G 90.
Working Oren-per pair, 300, 1925, $3.50,
SITS,
Mich Co,cs and Calues-S3O 90 As; extra,
$50 90 q rs 90; Farrow Cows, Sl8 90 80 /;
Yearlings, $40 90 q 20 90; Two Years Old,
Sl5 a so 90 Three Years Old, 925 40.
Fat Hogs-Live, 1-4c per Id Dressed, -.
per ID.
Sheep and Lambs-In lots, 50 90, IS 30,
90 Island 81 90 each Extra, 81 80 90, or
from to 1-2c per ID. Lambs, &c per ID.
Veal Calves, Lad. per Id.
Hides. Tdilow and Skins-Brighton Hides,
-a61-2c per lb. Tallow, "A &c per h.
Country Hides. 6 lao Tallow, lao
per ID. Pelts, 81 rs a l IS. Calf Skins, 10 q
lilo per ID. ..-.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
Hard but Honest !

Opposition and Necessity induces me to
Il still lower reduction in the pri of a few
EXTRA FINISHED
Tablets and GrayeStOnes,
which have now on my hand. all finished
from NEW DESIGNS Also, one
GRANITE HI0NUMENr
of entirely new and elegant pattern which
will not be quite
GE VEN aW AY
but must be sold soon, as l hare no place TO
keep them, having my family move in my build
ing occupied last season US shop, owing to
hard times and high rents.
This Stock must be sold at less than cost
OF stock as need the money and room, for
the erection ola new shop.
Call early and get the best designs before
they are gone.
Having had large experience in the
Marble business as a practical workman TO r
q years past, and having no other bushes s
on my hands, | am therefore ready to execute
MI OF ders in u prompt and unequaled man
ner, and at lower rates than any shop in New
England.
Look at my prices for the present season :
will furnish n Gravestonc all lcttercd and
set in u Granite Socke. for from si3 to $50
the stone, to be 3 inches thick, 20 inches
wide, usual height the price beng according
to quality of stock and workmanship; other
sizes in same proportion.
REM EMBER my New Marble Works were
removed i'll 1876, to the head of High Street,
Woodstock, VT, wh3re can no W be found.
All information by mail promptly answer
ed. Hoping for share of your patronage l
remain your humble servant,
FRANK. p. ARCHIBALD.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

Democratic candidates for Nor
tons seat in the Senate are already
plentiful in Indiana, though the legis-
lature which will choose his successor
will not be elected until next year.
The most prominent names mentioned
have been Hendricks, VOORHEES, and
Holman, but a note to the Cincinnati
Enquirer from a friend OF Mr.. Hen
bricks declares that that gentleman
will not in any event be a candidate.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
The indications of an immediate

The indications of an immediate
general war in Europe continue to
multiply, and Admiral Porter and
General Sherman predict that it will
be the most gigantic and important
war, both to Europe and the United
States, known to history, General
Sherman says that sit will keep our
people to work night and day to pro-
"vide for Europe"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The Democratic press of the
country is unit on the question Of
the army appropriation, at the coming
session. If either the States of South
Carolina or Louisiana are interfered
with by federal troops, Congress is
not to vote a dollar for the army, and
in this the country will sustain Con-
gress.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

"A single snowtlake-who cares
for it But a whole day OF snow
fakes, obliterating the landmarks,
drifting over the doors, gathering on
the mountains to crash in avalanches
who does not care for that ? Pri-
vate opinion is weak, but public opin.
ion is almost omnipotent.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

Commodore Vanderbilt's will has
been admitted to probate at Benpipg-
ton, in virtue of a mortgage of $780,
900 he held on the Harlem Extension
Railroad and it is SAID that the fee
will alone more than pay the whole
expenses of the Courts of the district
for the year.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

Senator Lamar says it is absul d
to talk of dividing the Democracy
South by the distribution Of patron
age. Democrats may get federal po'
sitions, but very few Of them will
change their political faith, and il
they do they will lose all the follow
ing they ever had. Apostacy will be.
come odious. Mr.. Reagan says he
would see his right arm wither at his
side before he would 60 into Hayes
Cabinet, and he has no fear that the
President cancapture a corporal's guard
Of Democrats. General Gordon says
he would not take a place under
Hayes and would advise no friend to
do so.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

chamberlain and the troops have
with drawn from withdrawn from the
South Carolina State House, and Gen.
eral Wade Hampton is Governor de
facto now. No more carpet-bag rule
in South Carolina.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

"A man is never SO full OF longing
to be at rest in the grave, as when he
has just landed on the cellar bottom
with the handle ofhis wife's best Chi
ma pitcher in his hand. --Rome Senti-
mel
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

Tx Governor Chamberlain OF
South Carolina will on the first OF
May become a member of the new
law firm of Chamberlain, Carter &
Eaton in New York city.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The troops are to be withdrawn
from Louisiana and then the Nicholas
government will be recognized. The
Commission did nothing, and arc to
return home.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

Rev. Joseph Cook inquiries,
"Does Death End All % There may
be exceptions but it is safe to say
that it ends nine out of every ten.-
Worcester Press.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The National Democratic party,
which now embraces the Wing party.
stands for all that is worth preserving
in this laud. 1t stands for govern
ment based on the consent of the gov
erned, in which local liberty will be
preserved by State authority, and
State authority alone.-New Yorh
Erpress.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The indictment against MT. Ed
ward A. Jewett for embezzling funds
OF the United States government,
while deputy collector of internal rev.
enue for Vermont, has been with
drawn.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

"A "Garrison Abolitlonist" writes
from Georgia that the colored men of
that State have every political right
which white men enjoy, and that their
lives and property are entirely secure.
And all this in a pure and undefled
Democratic State.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

"A Republican deputy sheriff in
New Hampshire has been dismissed
for helping elect Frank Jones. There
is chance for civil service reform
missionaries to work .-Boston Herald.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
The way in which the Republ

The way in which the Republi
can party in Arkansas, Mississippi,
Georgia, Alabama and Texas collaps-
ed after the Genera. Government
ceased to maintain it with the bayonet
and feed it on public plumber is the
best proof that it had nothing good
about it. If it had been to live it
would not have died so contemptibly.
In South Carolina and Louisiana it
will perish after the same manner for
it is the same cowardly and corrupt
organization, with injustice, ignorance
and prejudice for its vital principles.
N Y. World.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The South Carolina State Prison
contains over 400 colored inmates and
80 whites. This excess cannot be ac-
counted for on the ground of preju.
dice or injustice, for the negroes gen
orally form majority of the juries.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The St. Louis Hotel 1.-THE largest
in the world except one-was com.
pletely destroyed by fire last week
w ednesday, The loss of life is esti-
mated at is or 20.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

One Of our contemporaries heads
an article, "Who Shall Lead !" A
very brief examination of Hoyle will
show that the man next the dealer
should do so.-BridgepoS Standard
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The moral courage that will face
obloquy in a good cause is much
rarer gift than the bodily valor that
will confront death in bad one.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
UP AND AT III !

Dress Plating. The heady Platter, with
printed instructions (Pat. Feb. ID, I'D, is
simply constructed, cheap and reliable Dress
Platter. Just out, and sells quick with good
profit. Canvassng and Local Agents want.
ed. Ladies are doing splendidly with it. We
send it by mail, post paid for 80 or Is cts. g
Sizes Send at once for terms, ETC., and Sc
cure the agency for your own vicinity. AG-
dress READY PLATTER CO., 30 Monroe
Street, Lynn, Mass.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18

The extra session of Congress
will probably be called about May Is.
Samuel J. Randall will probably be
reelected Speaker.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-04-18
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In Woodstock, April 10TH, Addison E.
Markham, aged 49 years.
In Norwich, April 7th Erastus Messenger,
aged Il years.
In Windsor, April 9th, Lucia. wife of the
late Ephraim Cleveland, aged 70 years.
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Hayes wants Tilden to be elected
U. S. Senator from New York.