Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-05-01
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peeh llihde hufliis Tue past Wiiilef, an
? and II has been transported Al the rat
Of a carload q day TO Bangor wher
a quantity nov awaits shipment
"A Connecticut couple have bee
twice separated by lag, were recent,
married for the third tine,
Over 5000 applications hay
already been filed 10 the Pension Oillc
by soldiers Of tho war Of 1912 an,
widows under tho late net Of Con
gess, When the bill was beior,
Congress II was stated that thor
would DO but few hundred II vii
require over 100000 annually to pay
those ALREADY presented, aud still lhey
come,
Miss Susan u, Anthony IL about
to give series Of lectures for 10 beno'
III OF tho Kansas German In aigration
Society,
"A new Connecticut industry that
beats wooden nutmegs all hollow has
bOen developed, Some East IIaddaul
men are buying female dogs and
raising pups 10 kill aud sell them 10
the town at ~ each
The barquo Azor sailed from
Charleston :, G., Sunday morning,
with $50 cclored people bound for Ii
bCria.
Dennis Manning Of Thompsonyillo,
Conn, who was claimed 10 be 1903
years old, is dead,
Chaplain Henry Ward Bcecher OF
the Thirteenth Regiment, n, G, S, N.
Y, has named May ~ rs tho date Of
his annual sermon TO that regiment
On Decoration Day he will mount his
high horse for the first time in full
uniform.
Colonel o, l.. Shepard, United
States army OF Newport, r. l., recently
sentenced to one years imprisonment
at Fort Adams, has arrived from New
York and reported to the commander.
AN Indian missionary who is
now at Washington, and who has
spent very many years among the
tribes. a gentleman Of ability and
integrity, draws n gloomy picture OF
the condition of the Indians on both
sides OF the Rocky Mountains, and
his information would seem to indicate
that n few months will see inaugu-
rated our annually.recurring frontier
war. lie says that while the "peace
policy" was doubtless well intended
IT'LL in many quarters it has proved
IN utter and most disastrous
failure.
-Machlas. Me-, boasts of girl
Is years of age who weighs III
pounds.
The Chicopee Manufacturing
Company at the Falls are shipping
arge amount of their heavy flannel
goods to Alaska.
General Curalto, who served in
he Union army in our war is now an
officer in the Cuban army, states
hat there quite a number OF negroes
n Cuba held as slaves, who were
aiken from the United States. The
Secretary ofState is to have the matter
urther investigated.
"A Nevada female assaulted
mother Nevada female because the
after asked the former why she did
lot furnish one of her shoes and go
ousekeeping on her own account.
Nearly 200 colored emigrants did
OF get off on the lship Azor for Liberia
nd the people of Charleston S c.,
re making provisions for their :,
Import. ]
The county papers say that there
an old gentleman In Montague spry
nd well, and nintey two years old, I
ho has used tobacco almost COLI .
since he was nineteen. His G
aughter says he now smokes twenty a
mes day, and uses full barrel S
tobacco in year. f
The Montreal Orangmen will
,rade the 18th of July, and bloodshed {
feared. s.
New York, Long Island and e
ew Jersey are alarmed over numerous Fl
ses of mad dogs biting children.
The Canadians are sending fish Il
London packed in ice. G
-Twenty.six States have adopted tt
e system Of biennial legislative n
ssions. W
The widow Oliver is pressing her IL
each of promise suit aginst Simon IL
llneron. n,
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