Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-12-03

There II q rumor Ia the air tia
Judge Hilton Is soon to start NJ
the woodward Factory" on q new
line OF goods, We hope It may
prove 10 DO fact,
That individual who confessed 81
tho Montpelier Insurance Company,
spoken OF last week, "a SAID TO be u
Hartland man.
Brother II, II, Woodbury. has our
sympathy Ia the loss Of his eS,imablo
wife, whose death Ia chroniced In
another column,
Mr.. and Mira. Charles Mckenzie, Of
Franklin, Mass, arc visiting friends In
town.
Some poultry thieves, by no means
new articles, have been doing q brisk
business up West Woodstock way,
prior 10 Thanksgiving, Take a shot
gun TO EN-.
The Drawing Room Novelty Go.
gave two excellent entertainments at
the Town Hall here Saturday and
Monday evenings. Balabrega's Illu-
sions were the best we ever saw.
Miss Legion performed tcats of sec.
ond sight which were simply marvel.
Gus. She sat on the stage blindlolded
and to tho question, "What is in"
told with exactness what the thing
was, even NJ the extreme end of the
hall. The xylophonc and drum solos
by A. Il. Darlington, were splendid.
Mr. Eustis excels on the piano. Bal.
abregas marvel, suspending Miss Ley
ton in mid.air, in full! light, and with
out any support sohatever. was the
wonder of all who Witnessed it. The
table movement on the stage elected
great applause. Six gentlemen We're
called from the audience-any one
who had mind to go--and requested |
to place their hands On the table.
With all their efforts to keep it down
the table rose up some two or three
feet in air, and caused the boys to
dance al Irish reel on the stage, to
the great merriment of the audience.
Our friend, John D. Powers, was the
first to put Lis hands OH the table, and
he thinks it was done by those who
have passed on" but the performer
attributes it to "Natural Cause and
effect" 1t was a clean performance
throughout and deserved better ouses
The New York Weekly Herald is
announced in another column. The
Herald is the greatest newspaper in
the world. You want the Herald
anyway-see if you don't
Olive Logan's advice to g'rls, in ibis
paper to-day, is somewhat edapted to this
latitude. A drunken sailor may be seen
In New York sometimes with his aims
thrust under and around the arms of O
couple Of prostitutes drunk as himself,
and all staggering around for another
cellar or low place where they can get an
other drink, but who could expect to see
this fashion adopted and practiced among
ladies and gentlemen of education and re-
hnement. and heightened moral culture
What would Queen Victoria think, while
walking in park with her ladies', if some
drunken young lord should come along
behind her and thrust his hands and arms
inside Of hers, and hugging her up very
lovingly, should burst out with, "How
are you, Vic ?" She would look round
with establishment, and the fool would
Immediately be arrested by the guard
constantly attending the Queen, and the
drunken idiot would not see the inside of
any Of the royal palaces while grass grows
or water runs.
Shall we see our Springfield friends
this Term Of the Court? We will
be ready to-shake pT "a
D. A. White wants 100000 feet of
Hemlock Logs for which he will pay
cash, see lad" in this paper.
"The old Stage Man," Billings lost
a heavy|gray cape from bis Stage on {
the route to Bethel Monday. The :
finder will please return and be re.
warded.
Michael Myres slaughtered a 8.
months old pig Monday that weighed b
4Ol4 pounds. How is that for high I
A CARD.-l feel under lasting n
debt of gratitude to friends and neigh. e
bors, for their sympathy and aid dur
ing the sickness and death Of my wife,
and hope their last hours of life - 7
may they he far distant-will be =
minlstered TO by as kind and wiling '
hands Gro. H WHITcoap. E