Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-10-30
The NezVS.
GENERAL NE VS.,

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cases Of yellow fever are belng con
siantly reported
Minister Noyes has sent $4,000
from PARIS TO SECRETARY Rvarts for The
relief Of the yellow ieyer suherelS
st, Lawrence Hall the leading
hotel At Montreal tor ~ years has Just
beeu closed, The estate going inlo
bankruptcy,
On autopsy, the hrain Of Nobel
Ing, tho would,be assassin Of Emperor
william, appears normal, but tho skull
was somewhat obliquely shaped, as Is
often found in persons OF unstund
mind,
"A man In Santa Barbara county
Catalonia. Ia making a living by clear
Ing farms Of squirrels at ten cents an
acre, aud guarantees thorough work
MIR ID | Thornton, u 81 Louis
drummer, while In Columbia last week
sold bill Of goods In Rocheport by
telephone.
On the 9Th Inst, while Joseph
Court way aud hands wee engaged
with q steam thresher in thrcshing
Col Deals wheat south OF Madrid Mo-,
the straw caught fire from spark" from
the engine, and II was all the men
could do to save the machinery One
stack Of wheat and $50 bushels In
sacks were destroyed, making about a
thousand bushels In all.
James Miller started from Ohio with
bis family or,hc far West, travelling
in an emigraut wagon drawn by two
horses. In Missouria one Of the hcrses
died, be stole another to replace it. IL"
was arrested, convicted, and sentenc.
cd to eight years imprisonment Late
~ his term expired, aud he resumed
his Journey, his family having lived in
the neighborhood Of the prison while
waiting Tor him to be released
Two freight trains. collided on
Thursday at Guthrie, Ky, one car was
telescopod and three tramps were
mangled fatally.
Lilly Crab'ree Of Lowell, Mass
and Alice Tough Of Boston, two rret
" young girls, were found in New
York Wednesday and taken in charge
by the police. They were led astray
by q procuress, who escaped.
--"Red.headcd" Anderson is in In
diana, and has been telling long
story there Of what he knows OF the
infamous work Of tire Republican
politicians in Louisiana and elsewhere.
Professor King, the we'll known
aeronaul, had narrow escape from
death on Saturday last. He made an
ascension during gale near Norris
town, Penn, his balloon was wrecked
and flung into a high tree, but the
daring navigator escaped unhurt.
Dean Stanley says that the gov.
eminent buildings in Washington are
among the grandest structures in the
world.
AN attempt was made to assas-
sluate tie King of Spain Friday while
he was riding in the streets of Madrid
The King was not hurt. and the
would.be assassin was arrested.
"A party of hunters near the
Canada line, one day recently, dis
covered one of the moose let loose last
spring by the Adirondack Club in the
northern wilds, holly pursued by a
panther. The moose as soon as it
saw the hunters made for them for
protection, when the painter was driv-
en- away and the moose allowed to go
on ita way rejoicing.
Fred A leak and Carrie + Myers
went to Muscatine Iowa. As leak
was married and not divorced from
his wife, he could not marry the girl
and 30 he shot her and then shot him
self Both left letters saying that
they wished to die unless they could
live together
Whittier, the detaulting town
treasurer and collector Of Methuem,
Mass, has been sentenced to six years
in the state prison.
"A new crater on the disk Of the
moon, estimated to be about three
miles vide, has been discovered by
DR. Klein, q German astronomer.
Memphis is now the Niobe OF
Southern cities its population of
10000 only two months ago has been
reduced to $500 whites and 5000
Africans.
"A Negro named Thomas Smith
in under arrest is New York tor put
ting little colored girl on a red-hot
stove, burning the flesh off one side of