Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-11-19
GENERAL NE Tvs.


Smith Of New York, who claims his
health was impaired during the late
war by chills and fever Tie arear'
ages will amount to $4,000,
Since the Walllngiord, Conn, com
muaIly OF Socialists abandoned their
peculiar systems Its members are be-
Ing legally married to each other as
fast as possible.
Montreal has q corner In herring.
BY and by We shall hear from Some
where, OF a corner IN bullpouts, and
from Elsewhere Of a corner 10 tom
Gods.
Belfast, Me. claims TO have the smart
est woman on record, She was dlyorc'
cd at tho recent term OF court, married,
aud gave birth TO a ohild-all IN one
week.
President Hayeslhas committed
tho sentence Of Isaac, jacobson, q sal
lor convicted Of thu murder OF Charles
ID. Books, mate Of ship Sea King,
aud sentenced to be executed az Phil
adelphia, January 30lh, to emprison-
mcnt for eighteen years.
r.. J, Douglass, celebrated the
wedding of his daughter at his home
In Yonkers on Tuesday night. While
the family and guests were at the sup.
pcr table a thief made his way into
the parlor and stole the presents receiv-
cd by the bride
Postmaster General Key has de-
cided chat all lottery companies aud
LOTTERY agents are doing fraudulent
business and has issued orders for
bidding postmasters 10 pay any postal
money order, or to deliver and regis
tered letter addressed 10 any person
engaged in the business,
1t is asserted that satisfactory
adjustment of the Irish land question
is in progress, and that the English
government is ready to cooperate
with the landlords and the Irish men,
beers Of Parliament to secure the re-
suit
DR.. Clam, the great California
land monopolist, has this year sacked
100000 bags OF wheat, making 3d..
900 tons, and valued at S2.2oO,oOo.
Hon. J. II. Pope, Minister OF
Agriculture of Canada, has sued the
Examiner and A. McMaster OF Sher.
brook, Ont, for libel.
Speaking in 1868, Lord Bacons'
field said that the I'ishman is San
imaginative being, who lives on an
island with damp climate, contiguous
to melancholy ocean, who hos
extraordinary talents, but no variety
pursuits" He suits himself to II great
variety of pursuits in America ano
elsewhere, finding fields tor his talent
! Asa Magoop, who murdered
Streeter ut Barre in 1876, is to be ex.
ecu,ed at Windsor Oh the 28th day o
this month.
Charles Drew OF Troy was re
Gently fined 800 for pounding hi
father.
Hannibal Kittle, a young maj
at work near North Troy, recent
endeavored to commit suicide by tax
ing ceder oil. The attempt was
failure.
The annual meeting Of the Vel
mont State agricultural Society an
Wool Growers Association will b
held at Rutland on Thursday, Nov
ember goth. at ten o'clock a. IN.
Professor Proctor, the eminen
astronomer, will lecture at the Barring
} ton opera house, December LIST.
Mrs. Ruth Richmors Of Brown
ington, "a years old, has given up he
pipe after smoking 40 years, to set
good example.
The preliminary hearing in tn
case of Joseph B. Wood AND Alma r
Smith, charged with the murder o
LYMAN A. Smith, at Williston, Oct
18th, closed Thursday, at Burlington
resulted in the respondents being hell
on charge Of murder in the first de
gree.
The Bradford Methodlsts hav'
remodelled their church at an expense
Of nearly $4,000.
The Passumpsic railroad ba
raised all its bridge-rocfs, so tina
freight brakemen can now stand VI
without being knocked off,
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