Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-08-10
Domestic and Foreign.

There ARE demonstrations every night
against the Jews nj llnmmCrslCln, West
Prussia, and further cSccssCs nrc feared,
The gendnrmcs nre powcrlcss, There
were similar riots nj pacrwald, POmc-
ranla, recently, when some jewish pro-
pcrty was destroyed.
The British House OF Commons Inns
received 1909 petitions with $50, sos sig
natures against changing the law eS-
cluding atheists from Parliament, aud
673 petitions with 1884 signatures In
favor Of changing the law.
l.. W. Grove of Peoria, H., pr0claims
that hc Is the manufacturer Of the infer.
nal machines discovered ut Liverpool.
More Of them, hc says, are making In
Peoria.
The Spanish government las address
cd nm energetic rcmonstrancc 10 France
concerning the alleged plundcrlng Of the
Spanish vicc.conSulate during the cup.
turc OF SiaX.
A powder magazine exploded n, Ma.
zatlan. Mex, recently. a whole square
was blown up and n any families we've
buried under the rpinH. About 60 bodies
have been recovered.
October IL has been sclcc, cd us the day
on which the Yorktown centennial ccrc-
monies shall begin, II was thought inn
practicable TO begin the ceremonies
earlier, rs Washington and Baltimore
propose entertainments to preccdc the
Yorktown celebration. and IL was not
thought desirable TO have conflict
Though the national ceremonies begin
October 10, the centennial association
will open the celebration five days cMi-
o..
A man in Indiana fired revolver ut
another within three feet of him. The
ball struck the latter squarcly in the
forehead and was ilattcned against the
skull without even stunning him.
There was II terrible explosion in u
mine ut Lourches, In the department of
Nord. France. Ten persons were killed
and 90 grievously injured.
Patrick w. Grove, the originator Of
the dynamite policy and the skirmishing
fund, was arrested recently ut Peoria,
Ill.,, by United States officer, on the
charge of being implicated in the ship
ment of the clockwork and explosives
that have excited so much interest.
A correspondent at Munich reports
that throughout upper Bavaria n danger
GUS disease has appeared in the deer
parks. Hundreds of deer have persisted.
The disease is spreading to cattle.
The harvest prospects in Schleswig
Holstein have never been so bad MS this
year. Most of the farmers arc getting
quit OF their cattle and horses, owing to
the scarcity of fodder.
The cornerstone of the monument to
Gov. Caswell, the Revolutionary COVER
nor of North Carolina, was laid in Ra-
leigh recently with Masonic ceremonies,
Senator Vance and Gov. Jarvis speak
ing. In the parade some soldiers were
overcome by the heat, and one of them,
on leaving the ranks, drank two glasses
of iced beer and died within an hour.
There is a strange and fatal cattle
disease in Nova Scotia, on-contagious
and confined to the vicinity of towns.
Iowa crops were fearfully injured by a
recent storm.
AT New York, George Walker was
convicted of the abduction OF Kate Hen
messy, aged 7 years, from her parents
residence on the Ath of last June, and
sentenced to state-prison for 10 years.
A late dispatch from Natal, South
Africa, says "The American ship CAL
cutta, Capt. Smith, from Cebu, Philip"
pine isles, May 3, of and for Boston, was
totally wrecked on the coast of Kaffiaria
on the Sd of June. Only three of her
crew were saved"