Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-05
m Massachusetts.

lcnlplarS met ut Boston recently, The
annual report showed the lodge to be IN
good condition, The next meeting will
hc held In Lowell,
The schooner Cosmos Of Swnmpscolt
took u catch Of %, 900 mackcrcl 10 Boston
aud sold them nj four cents apiece. stock.
ing over 800 per man, They were taken
ut .JCllrlCs. and other boats caught rs
many. The Cosmos was loaded 10 the
,cuprcrs and had her dorics full.
1t Is reported that j. =. Il j. q. Ray
are to build u cotton mill near the Bel.
bingham depot.
A new railroad Is talked Of between
Boston aud Mcdicld, and u corps Of sur
vcyors under cy.Prcsident Blood Of the
Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg road
are making n surrey OF the proposed
route.
The steamer Norman colidcd with the
schooner Porto Rico OF Bangor, Me-, for
Salem, recently, opposite Quick's holl,
sinking the latter, The captain and crew
took 10 their boats and rowcd to Vine
yard Haven.
The New York aud New England
road began last April TO sell tickets to
stations within five mi les OF Boston for
cents. They had sold 3i9o)j to date.
Alice H., daughter of Lieut., W, NJ.
Foster Of Lowell, was born the day Gar
field was elected, taken i'll the day he
was shot, and died the day Of his buri-
al.
William Wheelwright of South Am
crcan celebrity, left Sl3S,0O0, which is
now ready for use, to found Il school in
Newburyport. to educate young men in
practical business knowledge.
There will be Il number of changes in
connection with the appointment of Il
new superintendent of the state reform
school ut Westboro.
The New England furniture exchange
at Boston resolved recently that the
worlds fair project ought to have due Mt
tention. that the exchange will &C rate
with any system of canvassing to find
what Boston folks think about IL, and
asked the committee OF % to report the
total subscriptions promised.
President Garfield wrote letter, late
ut night before he was shot, to Boston
man of his family name. lie intended if
possible to leave his formal escort ut
Concord on his New England trip, and
take with his friend n wagon-ride, incog-
nito, through the towns near Boston and
see the old homes of his ancestors and
Rinsmen.
Rhode island.
An E,s. Providence school-house has
well in the cellar that has not been
used during the vacation, and at the
opening of the term gavea large number
of pupils diphtheria
A chapel to cost 800, 900 is TO be built
at Newport, and will take the place OF All
Saints chapel which is supported by
summer residents, who, it is understood,
contribute the money for the new chap
ell. 1t will only be open summers.
The drapery in the Broadway Method
list church at Providence took lire from
the gas-light recently, and created pan
ic in the audience. who rushed to the
doors. But the fire was extinguisEed
before they could get out.
Mrs. Esther Ashe died at Central
Falls recently, aged l0i. She was sup.
posed to be the oldest person in the
state.
Mrs. Colt of Hartford has sold her lot
on the corner of Cliff and Narragansett
avenues at Newport, to Robert Goelet o.
New York for 100000. Goelet will
build II costly summer residence there.
Connecticut.
Fish Commissioners Hudson and Pike
have returned from Maine, where Con
necticut gets its supply of young land
locked salmon. The hatching-wOrks art
at Grand lake, about IS miles from Cal
ais. the fish spawn in November, anC
last year $500 were taken out, stripped
of eg IS and milt and returned to the lakt
without the loss of single fish. Con
necticut's share of the eggs was 4SD,OOo
and this year rs many more will be re-
ceived.
The last instalment of 81 Chimes
students, with Commissioner Woo. LEFT
Hartford for San Francisco, by way o
this city, recently en- route tor China
They went by u special Wagner coach
One student Is left behind because OF III
ness. A large crowd saw the party OIL
The mission house is closed and left il
charge of Yung Wing.
Joel ThOrp of Mortified was gored tt
death by his bull last week. The mat
beast tossed him in the mir and tramplet
on him as lie lay unconscious.
Frederick Tucker of Hampton, l
years old, was accidentally shot AM
killed at Westvile. He tried to take
gun from wagon, holding the muzzl'
toward him, and both barrels were dis
charged into his abdomen.
Rev. Jabez l.. Swan of New London
an evangelist well known in eastern
Connecticut was crazed by the news o
the presidents death while on his wa!
from Baptist conference, and has bcel
taken to the Providence asylum.
An old Connecticut copper coin mad
in 1888 has been found in overhauling al
ancient house in Middle Haddam. l
was in rats nest between the walls AM
had evidently slipped off the old mantel
piece and fallen inside the casing. Tb.
old house was once n tavern in whicl
Gen. Lafayette staid over night on hi