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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05
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Salisbury has just had a lawsuit
Wherein the plaintiff claimed twenty
five cents and was awarded thirteen.
John Boyle O'Riclly lectures on
"lIlustrious Irishmcn Of the Century"
for the young meD's temperance and
BENEVOLENT society at Bennington,
MCrch II.
Ella A. Mills, n Johnson young
woman Of 80, has save $2l00 by work
Ing Ii years in II Manchester, n. II.
mill, aud the other day she lifted a
$1,000 mortgage on her fathers farm
and gave him life lease of the prop.
crty.
George NJ. Chase of Westminster
has been feeding five hogs this VIM
ter on clover hay twice Il day, and re-
ports them thriving finely. He says
they will walk up and eat hay like an
OK.
Gen, Alonzo Jackman, aged 70
years, professor at Norwich Universe
ty, died Monday. He was The first
graduate of that university.
The Troy Methodist conference
holds its annual session at Bennington
beginning May %, and the village ex,
tends its hospitality to 800 ministers,
but declines to provide for their wives
many of whom want to come.
Hear Brother Chase OF the Lyn-
don Union. "a Girl ! Prayers an
swered. Eight pounds of it, includ-
ing suit OF clothes, pillow, one Or
two bed quits, an India rubber rat
tie and bottle ofparagoric." Hip
--Hip--Hur-, Ho--o-o--ld!
But if there had been several OF 'em
we should nave ho]orored right out.
Je-e-rushe But that amt her
name"
The next week he says Eight
pounds and quarter is the notch this
week, including the fixtures of course.
If we could catch that baby alone
outside OF dry goods establishment
we would find out how much the raw
weighs. There is grounds
tor suspicion that we have less actual
baby than has been reported. We
shall watch tor opportunity to get
ahead of the nurce and find out the
facts.
On Thursday next March 6, Hons.
Charles N. Davenport, Charles B.
Eddy, John +. Dean and Josiah w. |
Dean Esq, will appear before Gov.
Proctor in Rutland, and present new
evidence discovered in the case of
Henry Gravelin, under sentenced to
be executed March IA for The murder
of Herbert o. White. The new oyi
lence will be voluminous, and contain
matters discovered since January 9
asst. Counsel will simply ask Gov.
Proctor for six months reprive of
Grsvelin, that they may be able suit.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05
The Leading Musical Monthly.
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MUSICAL WORLD

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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05

st. Louis has been agitated over
the striking of musical clock in the
tower of the Pilgrim Congregational
church. The clock is an expensive
affair, and every quarter hour rings
out one of Handel's airs ON The chime
of bells. Some Of the neighbors
thought this was rather too much mu.
sic and asked the city council to reg
ulate the noise. Other residents then
rushed in their statements that they
rather enjoyed the chimes, and, after a
long consideration of the subject, the
council has concluded to let the
chimes ring on.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05

J, w, Forncy says no wants no
more Grantism, because II has nearly,
il not quite, ruined tho republican
party, Grant went into Office, he
shows, with 40 republicans to 81
democrats In the House, aud left II
with 1907 Iepublicansto 1874 democrats
This great change cannot DO a'lribu'
ted wholly to a shotgun policy IN the
South, because the change In many
sections OF the North has been about
as remarkable rs these, Indiana, Hi
nois, Massachusetts,, Michigan, New
Jersey, New York, Ohio aud Penn
sylvania in Is6s-70 were represented
by 93 republicans and 81 democrats,
how they are represented by IS rcpub-
leans and 81 democrats, Such Chang.
es Us these, Forncy thinks, eau only
be attributed to popular disgust AT the
vices Of Grants administration,
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05

The relations between Zach Chan
der and Senator Conkling could new
sr properly be called intimate. Their
common alteration of Grant was the
only tie that bound them. Zach once
summed up the situation exactly when
he SAID: 81 can't stand man who
wears fril)ed shrt.iront and puts
grease on his hair"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05

The interest which the Republican
newspapers take in the subject OF the
next democratic nomination for the
presidency, is an example Of the HON.
age which winning cause generally
cxcites.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05

PLEASANT 70 TAKE, is what most peo-
pie like and this is found in DIR. a. J.
FIagg's Cough and Lung Syrup and
yet it does the work every time.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05
MARRIED..

In Hartland, Feb. 10th, by Rev. j. Boy
den, Thomas Clark of Fall River, Mass.
and Alice L. Pixley of HartIand.
In Vernon, Feb. 18th, by Rev. NJ. II
Harris, Norman 2. Wood, A. M. Of Wood
stock, and Nellie NJ. Weatherhead of Ver-
non.
In White River junction, Feb. Goth, by
Rev. A. j. Hough, Willis E. Pierce and
Iantah S. Hackett.
In Woodstock Feb. 25th, by Rev. Moses
Kldder, Andrew S. Hardin and Valera
Hodges both of Pomtret.
In Woodstock March 4th by Rev. Moses
kidder Frank Z. Gates and Minnie NJ.
Richmond both of Taftsville.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05

Thoro must be strange deficiency,
either of heart or head, in the man
who can look on child with indiiler.
euce or contempt. There isa poetry,
a purity, beauty about childhood,
which is in this world perfectly
unique.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05
ID y n.

In Chicago Feb. 18th, Eliza Tlnkham,
wife of the late Seth ID. Churchill Formal
ly Of Woodstock, Vt. y aged s. years.
In Castleton, March 2nd, Mildrid, only
child Of Richard and Frances Dana, aged
years and III months.
In Stockton, CAL, Feb. 23ult, by injuries
received by boiler explosion, Arthur
Tinkham aged IL years, and grand SOU
OF H. T. Marsh, Of Woodstock, VT.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05

The only fools to be despaired of
are those who never find themselves
cut.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05

Speaker Randslps integrity stands
completely vindicated against the base
attack recently made on it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-03-05

Iie who loves little, suffers least |;
he who loves many, suffers most I
while lle who loved all, was crueifed,
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The Maine Senate has passed a res
olution calling for the reduction of the
presidents salary TO $4,000, and of
members of congress to $4,000.
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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-03-07

SAVE TIE MANURE.-Even by farmers,
who should'be the ones who would realize
tho value there is In it, there seems to be
but an indifferent effort made to save the
hen manure, for much of its value is wasted
by not taking care Of it properly or in time,
while it is often used on such crops as are
not capable of utilizing it to the greatest
advantage or profit. Good hon manure
from fowls which have been literally fed is
worth as much as guano, for all kind
OF crops for which guano is used, .and if
farmers and those who have small garden
patches would only realize this fact, they
would pay more attention to collecting and:
saving the droppings from their hens than.
they do. We do not think there is much
necessity for cleaning the fowl house out
every day, as some do, but clean it out
every week, giving it good sanding every
time 1t is cleaned, SO as to keep the floor
clean from droppings aud make it easier to
clean out when necessary. Some sprinkle
ashes, sawdust, chips, etc, on the floors, but
we consider sand preferable, for it seems
70 separate, to disntegrate, the droppings
better, soon making it by little care in,
working over almost as fine and as easily
applied as guano or any of our superphos-
phates. We always put it into barrels as
soon rs it is taken up from the chicken
house floor, and convey it to some dry, airy
place where ge let it remain until wanted
Tor use, when we empty it out on q heap
and work it over well before applying it to
the crops.-Poult,y Bnlletin.
Pay the printer what you owe, and renew.
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NUMBl94ll

WASTE In HoUsEkEgpINa. .EAmericans
are industrious, money making people, but
they are not economical Our housckeep.
ing is proverbially wasteful, allowing leakage
at every point, sufficient in the aggregate,
in many households, to support European
family. Some writer Owe know not to whom
to give the credit has made the following
extensive, but by no means complete emu.
meration:
Much waste is allowed in cooking meats.
Unless watched, the cook will throw ON.
water in which meat has been boiled, with
out letting it cool to take off the fat; or she
will empty the dripping pan into the sxill-
pail. The grease is useful in many ways.
Again, bits of meat are thrown out, which
French cook would convert into an excel
lent hash.
Flour is sifted in wastefu manner. or
the bread-pan is left with the dough stick
ing to it.
Pie-crust is left over, and laid by to.
sour. instead of making few tarts for tea.
Vegetables are thrown away which would
be nice if warmed over for breakfast.
Cream is allowed to mould and spoil.
mustard to dry in the pot, and vinegar to-
corrodc the castor.
Good knives ar, used for cooking in the
kitchen, silver spoons are used to scrape
kettles, and forks for toasting bread.
Tea, roasted coffee, pepper and spices, are
allowed to stan1 open and thus lose their
strength.
Dried fruits not cared for in season be-
come wormy, and swect-mcats are opened
and forgotten.
Vinegar is drawn in basin, and permit
ted to stand until both vinegar and basin
arc spoiled
Soap is left in the water to dissolve. or
more used than is necessary, and the scrub
brush is left in the water.
Barrels and tubs are left in the sun to
dry and fall apart; tins put away without
being properly dried are rusted. =
session. r.
Pork spoils for want Of salt, and beef bes
cause the bsine wants scaldipg. - a =:
- f6yn, opt. areessly 7epdah-
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the wind on the lines; fine eambrics aro,
rubbed on the wash-board; and laces are
torn in starching.
Table-linen is thrown carelcssIy down,
and nibbled by mice is put away damp and
mldews; or the truit-stans are forgot
ten and the stains washed in, or "set"
Table napkins are used to wipe dishes,
aud tea-pots arc melted on the stove.
Lard is not well tried out, and becomes
tainted, and rats destroy tho ';soap grease.
Bones are burned that might be broken
up and thrown into the compost heap.
Old shoes, woollen rags, and such accu-
mutations are permitted TO lie round loose
instead OF being compostcd for your favor
ite grape vines.
Sugar is spilled around the barrel, coffee
from the sack, and tea from the chest
Wooden boxes are used to take up ashes.
then the box is pushed aside and forgotten.
Many family has been made houseless and
homeless in night by such an inadyer.
tencc.
Each of the above items is a triffe in il.
self and yet in house where all these
trlfes were "happeDing"-jnst imagine
what place it would be In these and.
many other ways careless and mex pcriep-
ced housekeeper will waste without needing
may, even without knowing that she
wastes On the contrary, because sho en-
terta'ns but little company, buys no fine
clothes, makes her own dresses, and cooks
plainly, she may imagine that she is an ex-
oeedingsy economical woman and a yerv
ssperior housekeeper.
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THE BRAZILIAN FAMINE.
: Th4 Narrowing Story Of q Dreadful Calamity.

Y ~ &~AhoWAnB otoEy VI OFeaoIul Calam1ty,
: Half Million People Carried Off by
Starvation and Psstticace.
"a The famine of IS77-79 is confined to
2 chat part Of Brazil which is known as the
Sertao. This region is utterly unlike the
s matted forest fats Of the Amazon or tho
Gneiss Mountains of Rio. 1t is rolling
.plain, ascending gradually from the sea.
coast and diversified everywhere with iso.
lated hills and mountains. There is forest
growth, but it is low aud not thick, much
s-more like our Notthern woo1s than one is
apt TO Imagine for tropical growth. In
the Sertoa the seasons are very sharply
divided. The rainy months proper extend
from January to june or July; the remain
der Of tho year is dry, so dry that the trees
: shed their leaves and the grass is all with>
cred. People can only obtain water by dig
ging for it in the dry beds of streams, for
there are no perennial rivers in the Sertao
1t sometimes happens that the winter
months remain dry like the others-a terri.
bic calamity for the poorer people, because
they depend for Lying on the products of
their little plantations, and the crops can
only be raised during the rains.
A POVERTY STRICKEN POPULATION.
In this part of Brazil there are no manu-
facturcs whatever, very few mines, no fish
cries bf Importance, no forest Industries.
The community is extremely agricultural aud
pastoral. There are immense herds of cattle.
considerable plantations of sugar, cotton,
&c, and tho poorer people plant mandioca
aud corn, using the land of their richer
neighbors, for whom they do a little work
occasionally. Whether it be for the pastur-
age of cattle or the growth of crops the
whole community depends on tho soil, and
hence on the fertilizing rains Of winter
If the rains do not come the people starvc.
Again, the population has to suffer terribly,
because it has no help in itself. Of the
100000 nominal Inhabitants of the Ser
stoa not 100000 are rich men or even rea-
sonably well off, The vast majority are an
Arab-like race, produced by the intermix.
ture Of the blacks, whites and Indians
sSlisople who have no property aud never
! sfFy 20 rise above their normal condition.
sss4f0pb Tstietthe most degraded class
{ is id@bfa ijsssssatapd abopins-
,issy wsss3aa
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tH p<@r}t x S3ul14ot yk38 H2fA8ka2n0 aDOpllna-,
I ibh sy; hssa!y wsssiaf
people live in palm m-thatched huts the wo-
mon do most of the farm work; the men
gain few dollars rs herdsmen or by hir-
ing themselves out for day occasionally
The upper classes, on the contrary, will com.
pare favorably with any in Brazil. Most
of them are pure whites ; they are intelli-
gent, brave, domcstic--tar ahead, in fact,
of the Rio or San Paulo Brazilians. This
mixed population was distributed through
the Scrtao, much as the people are in our
Western communities. There arc numer.
Gus villages and hamets, Joined together
by tolerable roads, hardly any railroads, and
as have imtimated, no navigable rivers.
1t is important 10 note this, as it explains
much of the suffering brought on by the
drought. The Sertao is strip averaging
500 miles in Misunderstanding from the
Parabyba River southwark along the coast
or near to the St. Francisco; thence be-
tween the coast range of mountains it is
continued southwestward to Minas Geraes,
almost in the latitude Of Rio. The drought
of 1S77.78 was felt all over this tract, but
its black nucleus was in the Province OF
Ccara. This Province, to which my obsor-
vations were confined, is about as large a,
the Middle States. In 1876 it contained
100000 inhabitants, Of which at least 750,-
600 were n-proprietors--the poor people
of whom l have written. The Province
contained only one port of importance, its
capital. This is indifferently set down on
tho maps as Fortaleza, or Ceara. Its nor
NAL population is $4,000. The streets are
well laid out, and in general the little city
Is one Of the prettiest and neatest in Brazil
There is no harbor; vessels anchor in the
open roadstead and passengers are taken to
md fro in little sailing rafts-tangadas or
catamarans.
THE BEGINNING OF TROUBLE.
visited the place in March, 1877. The
drought was then subject of general con
~ersatiou, but nobody understood the cx-
tent Of the calamity. Suddenly, like u
thunder-bolt, there came to the quiet town
a message Of terror. Mems faces grew white;
mems heart. sank within them, for they
knew what the words prophesied. It was
from Telha, ia the interior Of the province,
a letter dated March 8, so that it must
have reached Fortaleza about March 90
The words we're simple enough: "People
are dying here Of hunger" Now this was
carly in March, when tho drought had
lasted no moro than two months, when il
was not yet certain thae the year would be
altogether bad one. But the poor Ser.
tanejo is so evenly balanced with nature
that he cannot stand fresh strain. His
mandioea field is for year only. In a
year and month he starve unless he has
new crops. 1t was sad month in the
Sertoa this one of March. In some pla.
ces there had been light showers, but the
young grass wrowth from these had dried
up on the black plains. There were nc
leaves on the trees. The cattle were crying
for water as only mute nature can. Chill
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-09
PIGEON SHOOTING.

The regular monthly handicap meeting of the
Fountain Gun Club took place at the Brooklyn Driv-
ing Park, Parkvle. Long Island. yesterday. Tho
attendance was not large and there were only few
members present. The prize offered by the club to
be competed for was beautiful gold badge. Four
teen members entered and each shot at seven birds
The afternoon was very pleasant and the shooting
about the average. Mcssrs. j. Lenikin and NJ. j.
Kearney killed seven birds straight and tied. In shoot
ing off the tie at three birds Mr. Kearney captured the
badge by killing two birds TO his opponents one.
The following is the
SUMMARY.
BROOKLYN DRIVING PARK PARKyILLE, L. L-PIGEoN
SHooTING-WEDNEsDAy Jan. 8. ls79.-The regular
monthly handicap shoot of the Fountain Gun Club
for gold badge; shot for at birds, handicap dis
lance rise; so yards boundary; q OF. shot; from
III and traps; ties shot of at birds each.
I,..a
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-09
PUGILISM.

Squire McNullen of Philadelphia. has been 30
lccted the stakeholder in the coming fight between
John H. Clark. of Philadelphia. and John King. Of
New York. Arthur Chambers the choice Of
ground for King. but this will not be given away
except to the parties Immediately interested in the
affair The battle ground however. has to be in Can
ada within 600 miles of Philadelphia. Clarks weight
is now 1877 y pounds while King turns the beam at
l23la pounds. King is big-litte man. with broad
shoulders and of good build. He was born in Man
chester, England, June o. 1858. He is an iron
puddler by trade, and came to this country
in 1872. going to Fall River Mass where
he worked for time, and afterward to
Cohoes, n. Y, where he employed in u rolling
mill. His first appearance in public on the 18th
Of January, 1877 ut Cohoes, in sparring match with
a bruiser named Cafirey. He appeared in the ring
against Walker at Cohoos. the following month"; and
won the fight in twenty-five minutes. Next he had
draw with Tim Drscoll. the Mechanicsville road.
after hour and twenty minutes battle. The police
caused the draw. Last juno he whipped Johnny
Riley alias Mctiinty, i'll ono hour and twenty-five
minutes. He has been training for some time past
with Arthur Chambers, Ridge avenue. Philadel-
phia and is regarded in good condition Tho
match il 900 side and the light weight cham
pionshp of the United States, aud must take place
between the hours of eight and ten A. Al. the 2lst
day of this month. next Tuesday week.