Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1880-05-26
VERMONT

VERMONT,
Edward Dover, q ,, yemaker,
aged 8s, committed suicide ia Rutland
by hanging, Cause, insanity.
james Stewart, q colorcd man,
had ono of his legs so badly injured
by being caught in somo machinery
at tho rolling mill in st, Albans, one
day last week, that ampuialion WA
necessary.
"A man was recently nearly suiio'
Gated by gas NJ the Bardwell House
in Rutland, lie probably oarelessly
turned off tho gas aud turned It on
again. Bright boy,
"A subscription paper is being
circulated az Sutherland Falls Tor
erecting aud keeping in repair u chap
81 for public worship. Gov, Proctor
heads the list with $500,
AT the eight town liquor agencies
in Washington county during the
year ending May lst, the sales amount
ed to S7lO7O5.
AT Rutland, Wednesday, Mrs.
Mary Jane Woods was held in $500
on 4 charge Of adultery, and Mrs.
Jane Daniels in s4OO on charge Of
keeping a house OF 'll-tame. The
Woods woman left her husband some
time ago, it appears, and has since
lived with Mrs. Daniels.
"A suit involving the value oil
duck occupied the justice court and
all the legal fraternity of West Rut-
land Saturday afternoon. The plaintiff
got the value Of the duck and paid
his counsel So. The deIcndan. paid
the costs and hts lawyer, and all went
home satisfied.
Flora Heath, who has been re-
siding at the house of DR.. M. E.
Smith, in Johnson, died on the 18th
inst, from the effect of malpractice,
perpetrated, as she intimated by Smith.
Smith has been committed to jail
The public feeling is against him and
runs high.
AT East Sbelburne. Amasa Ish
ans barn was struck by lightning
Sunday night and splintcred pretty
badly, though not setting it on fire.
One COW was killed and aDother was
singed.
H. II. Wright nt SO. Starksboro
recently found hedge hog in the hog
pen of John Wright, and after killing
1t, found that a large snake had coiled
itself around the hedge hogs tail, and
had been wounded with 279 quilts.
The Cheneys, Moses and Simon,
with Professor A. N. Johnson Of New
York, propose to hold a musical con-
vention in Montpelier at an early day,
and, also providing sufficient interest
is shown in the scheme, to hold simi.
lar meetings III Windsor, Newbury
and Woodstock, and so celebrate an
niversaries of conventions held in
those places IN 1910, lS4l, 1912.
The Montpelier Freeman says
A book agent went to Peacham Pond
Sunday to fish he fished and with
good luck but on that quiet Sab
bath he fell into Peacam pond and
came very near making the text for q
new Sunday school book. They roll
ed him and kneaded him to life again |
and he is still of 1.-THE earth and its
inhabitants. -
e. w. Humphrey OF Jericho,
was struck by lightning and killed on
Thursday.
The Rev. Franklin Butler, of
Windsor, died on Sunday morning,
aged Is years. Mr.. Butler was a
graduate of the University Of Ver-
mont in the class of 1886, among his |
classmates being the Right Rev.
Bishop Bissell and OF Andover
Theological Seminary in 1872. For
several years he has been the editor
of the Windsor Journal.
The hearing on the application
for pardon by George E Miles, the
Barre bank robber, has been postponed
to the latter part of June. |