Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-01-23
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f25,OOO for the East India famine
fund,
In The Supreme Court NJ haco,
Me, Saturday, IN the assault case Of
Berry vs., Folsom, the jury brought
in q verdict Of $40 tur plalnlih,
There were estimated 10 DO about
$50 match girls, 700 hoolblacks, 100
swetpeg, aud 25O flower girls daily
aud nightly buy in New York streets,
The meeting q tho National
Convention oi United States Export
Trade, 10 have been held NJ Washing
ton on tho ED, has been postponed
until Feb, ~,
There h u movement IN Maine
Tor biennial elections, but there Is
small prospect Of It's success this year
MIR, Beecber gets $4,000 less sui
AIRY this year than last, but II In not
necessary lor him TO 50 on u bread
aud water diet,
The highest wages paid 10 the
train men 10 the railways VI Austria
are given 10 engineers aud 4 y amount
IL 1927 u year
About u dozen lie insurance
companies Of New York aro reported
TO have combined Tor protection
against frauds, and hereafter will
weekly iulolm each other Of those
who have applied aud been rejected
1t cost sl77,4i4,7l TO supply our
troops with tobacco last year,
-licy. James II Ross, Of Troy, y,
y, has been unanimously called to the
paslolalc Of the Prospect Street Con
gresaiional Church OF Newburporl,
Mass, which has been held for 40
years by Rev Randolph Campbell
The salary is $1,000,
The exports Of American cheese
were nearly double the past year what
they we've in 1876.
during 1877 there were trans
ported over the Union Pacific road
265O cars OF bullion and 500 cars oil
ore, Il total Of 32i9 cars, mostly e.
ceiyed at the Omaha smelling works.
For 1876 the amount was PAIL ears OF
bullion and COZ OF ore-total, 3lGS
cars.
President Hayes depreca,es the
departure OF the colored man from
America for Liberia in II letter to Rev.
Mr. Stark, the agent Of the colored
people.
president Bascoms OF The Uni.
versily Of Wisconsin, comes out EN-
phaiically in favor Of the mixing OF
girls and boys in schools.
john Nroom was arrested in New
Brunswick, n. j., Thursday ON 4
charge Of bigamy, madc by Julia A.
Vroom, his WIFE, The complainant
alleged that the prisoner was married
to her twelve years ago, and that on
the evening OF Dec. 20, 1871, he mar
ried Miss Hannah Seaman, with
W HON he has since lived.
John Simms, an ex-convlct, was
shot through his heart willie attempt
ing to break into i store in kirkwood,
Mo-, early on Saturday last. The pro-
prietor has been in the habit of sleep
ing in the store ever since he was
made the victim OF burglary some
time ago. The breaking Of glass
aroused him, and taking his revolver
he went to the front of the store and
shot the burglar dead.
Two employees in brewery in
Lebanon, Pa, quarrelled on Christmas
eve, and in the light one bit the 9TH
er's hand. The injured man began to
feel considerable pain in the bitten
hand on the following Thursday, and
on Monday morning he died.
"A little school, girl IN Woods |
town, N. j., lost an eye a few days
ago by blow from carelessly swung
skipping rope.
"A bot with nine boys swept
over dam on Shines creek, near
Huntington, Va, on Thursday, and
four boys were drowned.
H. G. Secrest was arrested at
Monroe, N. O., on Thursday, for the
murder OF his wife and step. child
Their bodies were found buried in the
woods.