Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-10-23
The NezVs.
GENERAL NE JPs,

Ing IN London, recently sent $4,000
to lhe Mayor Of New Orleans Tor The
yelluw,teyer sufferers,
Kansas aud California stand side
by side in grain crop the present year
From the eight place rs q wheat state
10 1876, Kanlas jumped 10 the first
place. llel crop Of wheat will DO over
so, 900 900 bushels, and tho corn 100,
100000 bushels,
In Norwalk, Conn, they have
had the same town Treasurer tor my
year,, aud his accounts have never
been wrong, lle ought 10 be turned
out, aud a man who Is better up with
the times should be put IN his place
Savage & Lyman Of Montreal, the
largest jewely firm In the Dominion
aud the oldest, has succumbed 10 the
hard times, II Is expected that 10
per cent, on about 100000 will DO
paid.
The supreme court Of Virginia
has decided that white and colored
persons cap not lawfully iutermarry,
aud recently fined oolored man $500
for marrying u white woman In tho
District of Columbia 10 1874,
Bears are said to DO very abund-
ant III the Nonhern part Of New York
They ale said to come nearerlhe settle
mcnts and houses than Tor years 10
the nsighborhood oil Norwood they are
more numerous than ever before, One
followed farmer who had honey IN
his buggy some distance aud even ap'
preached the door 81 the house
Heavy robberies Of money and
freight from the Texas and Pacific
and Houston aud Texas Central rail
road have been detected aud many
men IN high business aud social stand
ing, including officers, conductor aud
agents and citizens from st. Lonis to
Galveston are implicated.
Reports from the South indicate
some abatement in tho plague, the
approach of cooler weather having
brought relief The deaths are now
fewer 10 number, and the suffering is
not so great. Good reports come
from vicksburg and Memphis,but from
Louisina and other parts Of the South
no frost has yet been felt and the peo-
pie await with anxi,y its coming. The
scarcity of provisions still continue
From information received from
reliable sources it is estimated that the
cotton crop for the present year viii
be 2,25OO,OoO to 100000 bales, the
largest crop ever grown
The Indians have committed al.
most unparalleled atrocities in Kansas
within a few day. Twenty or thirty
settlers are konwn to have been killed
many women ravshed and much prop
erty stolen and destroyed.
Two officers attempted TO arrest
a tramp near Akron, Ohio, on SUSPECT
on of being connected with a robbery
when they were set upon by a gang OF
thirty tramps and had to flee for their
lives. Thereupon a militia company
was called ont, and arrested eighteen
OF the tramps, the rest escaped.
The New York city grand jury
has made a presentmen1, declaring the
Metropolitan Elevated railroad Il nul'
sance and an invasion of private rights
and asserting that many Of the an
noyances caused by the road could and
should be removed.
The Rev. Wayland Hoyt, for
merly of Boston, declares his intension
to preach some sermons to his con-
gregation in Brooklyn, N Y, on his
recent journey to Montana. He says
OF the graves Of Clusters massacred
men that they are in disgracetnlly neg
lected condition.
The bookkeeper Of the Man.
tacturer's National Bank of Newark,
N. j., Daniel Dickersop, who EN-.
bezzled $4,000, was sentenced to ten
years in the States Prison. The trial
OF his alleged accomplish, Writ, was
postponed until next week.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
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