Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-03-13

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twin relic" Mrs, Young is a fan
speaker, and to all appearance tells 4
truthful story Of the horrors OF Poly
gamy, which We all know Is as black
as the hob Of hell, She ID modest IL
appearance aud dress, aud enlisted the
sympathy Of her audience At once,
Elmer Abbott, longtime ''iirsI
man" IN Solomon Woodlands mill
yard here, has leased the saw and
grlst-nllls, aud grocery ut "krglisl'
Mills" Of Johnson a. Boynton, and
moved thllher with his family next
week,
The Lecture Committee, having
had so good success In tho course,
have decided to give IN extra lecture
for the benefit Of season ticket hold
ers, and have engaged the services OF
the the talented and eloquent Wallace
Bruce, who will on Thursday evening,
March 2lsI, give his most popular lee
ture, "Womanhood In Shakespeare,
The price Of admission to non'ticket
holders has been reduced TO 25 cents
and reserved seats 10 cents extra, A
special train will run over tho Wood
stock Railroad from White River
Junction and return after the lecture.
The jail here was ,enantless for q
few hours last week, Il. l., Holmes,
OF Royalton, confined on a shooting
affair, being the last TO yacale on the
Governors pardon, when in popped
Hannah Randall, u non cOmpos in,
dividual, from Springfield, charged
with setting the town poor house on
fire, OF which she was an inmate
She is Queen Of the upper lott, The
cells are vacant,
The Burlington Hawkeyc says Of
Phelps poem, Essex Junction"
which we dug up aud re'publishcd
a short time since, and which the
IIawkeye copied from the Rutland
Leader; "They are bad, both in
sentiment and syntax. First in,
vented is bad-very bad"
The one hundredth anniversary Of
the birth Of Robert Emmett, the Irish
patriot, was celebrated in several OF
our large cities on Monday the 4th
inst, lie and his brother, Thomas
Adds, were the leaders OF the Irish
Rebellion in 1893, which had for its
object the freedom of Ireland from
British domination. 1t failed, Thomas
Adds escaped 10 New York, Robert
was arrested, tried for high treason,
and executed in Dublin in 1903. The
N. Y. Irish World of March 2nd,
gives an illustration OF his execution,
which is gastly enough, and illustrates
the devilry Of the British government.
1t also gives Lis famous speech to
Lord Norbury, the judge who sen
fenced him. He was an exalted pat.
riot, and Il man of great nobility Of
purpose. He did not wish his epi,aph
written until other times and other
men could do justice to his character,
and his country should take her sta
ton among the nations of the earth.
Tom Moore, the Irish poet, inter,
pretted his dying words most ex-
quisitely when he sung,
Oh breathe not his name, let it sleep in the
shade,
Where cold and unhonord his relics are laid (;
Sad, silent, and dark bottle tears that We shed,
AS the night,de that falls on the grass DER
his head.
But the night dew that falls, though in silence
itweeps,
Shall brighten with verdure the grave where
he sleeps
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it
rolls,
Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
The first Legislature OF the State
convened at Windsor 100 years ago
last Tuesday.
See ]. B. Jones new spring adver.
tisement, ]. b. has the latest styles.
Eugene V. Smith has just put into
his sash and blind shop "the boss
palmer, 1t is simple in construction,
occupies but little space, and does
thorough and quick work. 1t does
not leave the end of the board Jagged
as the old style palmer does, and con-
sequently waste lumber-it does the
work perfectly to the end, There Is
money in it, 1t is manufactured by
NJ. Wright u Son, Montpelier, Vt.
Mud-more mud