Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-05-21
Calender for May 1870,
Miss L. +, woodward will reciyee
pupils for SINGING aud tho Piano.

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pupils for SINGING aud tho Piano.
The Park Ia the handsomest thing
out doors just now.
They say there Is "death In the
pot" Well, there Is "deatl," In other
things lust AZ much, Look to yonr
cellars, drains and sink.spouls,
The death of Hon, Calvin French,
one Of the judges of the County
Court, at his home in Cayendsh, on
Thursday OF last week, In the S0th
year OF his age, removes one OF the
strong men Of the county. lie leaves
many friends here.
Billings has q new column ad. In
this weeks AGE. Read il.
The Woodstock Cornet Band gave
on open.ar concert in the Park Satur.
day evening. Lots Of people ont 10
hear them.
Or republican friends have let 90
Of the imam and brother" entirely II
would have been well with him if
they had done so before. Promises
Of twenty acres Of land and mule ;
highly colored chromos Of cottages in
the promised land;' political emolu-
ments from carpet-baggers for their
votes ; hollow-hearted abolition sym
patty in the North; Freedman's
Bureaus and Banks, were all day.
dreams and decisions, and have lett
him high and dry on the sands Of
desolation. When the colored man
believes in democracy and equal rights
and is content with his "old cabin
home" in Virginia and on the banks
Of the Mississippi, he will have made
some progress in wisdom and civiliz.
alton. The democratic party is the
true friend of the colored man to-day
it is the true friend of all laboring
men--men who till the soil men who
WELD the hammer and tend the loom.
But we are getting away from what
we intend to write about. "The Mis-.
sissippi Jubilee Singers six in mum
Der, put in an appearance here last
Saturday, representing that they were
travelling and giving concerts for the
benefit of their brethren South, and
advertised that they would talk and
sing in the Methodist church at seven
o'clock Sunday evening, and at eight
o'clock they would give a sacred con-
cert. consisting of negro melodies,
ETC., at the Town Hall, and would |
charge an admittance fee of rs and
IS cents. A union meeting of the
several orthodox churches was held as
above-nearly 800 people being pres
ent. At the close of the exercises the
that" was passed and our ''colored
brothers" received the magnificent
sum Of $500! At the close the sing
en repaired to the hall, but the
friends" ofthe "colored man. repaired
to their homes, and the patronage at
the hall was principally from demo-
Gratis, which was small, owing to a
rumor on the streets that the author
ity would not let them perform, as II
was contrary to law 10 take a door fee
Sunday, but they did perform, and
performed we'll. These darkies have
learned something Of the "true in,
wardness" of republicans here. When
the boys come TO figure up they were
strapped" and had it not been for
the characteristic l,berality OF Hon.
Frederick Billings, who gave them
800, they would not been able TO have
left. How is this for "chromo ?"
Miss L. F. Woodward will open a
juvenile singing school, should there
be sufficient number Of applicants.
All who wish to join are invited to
meet at her residence on Monday,
May rs, at half-past four o'clock p. m.
Terms 80 for thirty lessons. ,
The sudden warm weather is sub. .
Jet for remark by loquacious citizens I
and weather prophets generally. 1t {
zane on so sudden here that Boston 9
drummer" in the suburbs was sun t
struck before he could pull his ulster. ,
We don't youch for the truth Of this
INT it might have been 40.
The warm weather continues and {
vegetation IS progressing rapidly. t
Nothing like it has ever been seen In I