Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-07-31

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knocked out by the blow received,
Montpelier u making q determin'
cd efbrd 10 'elan OUT IL dlsrepu-
table houses,
Raymond and Robinson, the
American Directors OF the Conneeli-
cut aud Passnmpsie Railroad, have
purchased COTS interest ~ tho Mon
treal, Portland aud lioston Railway,
and have got the road Into their
own hands
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
ID, T., Tillo lson Of Oxford, among
his other extensive cultivation, has
forty acres OF rye
M-lhe foldlels,monunent at Man
chester will DO dedicated September
iii, The Legislature will attend In q
body,
-Orlord scenes TO DO singulary
unfortunate this summer with It's
schools. Three schools were broken
up 10 one week, Two on account Of
illincs, Of the teachers, and the other
because Of illacs In the teachers
family, Now still another school has
been closeG on account Of diphthcfla,
one scholar having died ofthat disease,
"A Grafton man, rs years OF age,
through whose land the Northern
Railroad runs, has just taken his first
railroad ride, TO visit his brother who
lives In the lower part of tho State,
-Au Exeter father occupied the
lock up one night week before last,
his son the next night, aud the boys
mother the third night, all for being
drunk.
Mr., and Mrs. Benjamin Davis,
respectively 0G and 05 years, arc the
oldest citizens Of New Ipswic.i
"A good showing Of Democratic
management in Nashua Is the tact
that the pay for the laborcrs on high.
ways and sewers for the city during
month Of June footed up $5sG,7s /;
for the corresponding month last year
the city paid out SoO3,Sl.
AT DrewSvillc, on Tuesday NOR
ming, ebay. Rice, farmer committed
suicide by hanging. lie was seventy
years old lniemperance was the
cause.
john Z. Dockham. the Laconia
insraunce agent who has dccamped, is
said TO have forged his fathers name
70 several notes.
DAVID Webster OF Concord and
Thomas +. Drake OF Boston, liquor
spoilers, who were "bounced' at
New market the first OF the week, have
hoo" !" po.,amnnth ~, the purpose
Of getting assistance from officials to
make prosecutions there.
"A iicindish attempt to murder al
infant occurred in Nashua Friday aft err
noon. Mr. &. II. Baldwin, while
passing an old unoccupied house on
Temple street, heard Il peculiar moan
ing sound in the building, and tracing
it to its source found that it came from
child about three weeks old, which
had been placed under the flooring
and on the plastering Of the ceiling
below. Around the neck u banker
chief was tied tightly, but not SUI
ficient to interrupt respiration. The
child was pressed down so tightly
that the projecting plastcring of the
ceiling has been forced into its
taco. 1t is still living and is under
the care Of the County Commissioner
No clue has yet been obtained of the
wretch who attempted the murder.
MAINE.
--Franey O'Flanagan, aged about,
60 years, an old resident Of Dexter,
committed suicide Thursday by hang
ing.
The owners of the the Maine
Democrat, published at Biddeford,
have decided to close its publication
for the present. The business of the
concern will be settled by E. w.
Wedgwood, Trustee for the owners.
York county, with population of
10000, in now without Democratic
paper Of any kind.
MASSACHUSETTS.
The progress Of the Boston,
Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railroad
is witnessed by the passage this week
of the first engine over the bridge
across the Hudson river at Mechanics,
vile. The bridge is strong enough
to hold two trains of locomotives run.
ming forty.fve miles an hour The
second track across it is now being
laid, and another steam shovel has
been set to work on tie line east of