Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-10-12
VERMONT.

The Addison county Jail now
holds fvo men awaiting trial for rape,
The mother Of Logcc Of So. Royal
ton, the brakeman who was allied
recently near Milton, on hearing the
sad news. went into commissions and
died the next day.
"A man IN the Brattlcboro Insane
asylum imagincs no IL Il prominent
Brooklyn clergyman, and the way he
makes love TO every woman hc meets, is
q caution 10 eats.
"A general term Of the supreme
court is ordered to t0 held ut Mont
pclicr on the last Tuesday of October
inst.
The siSty-ninth annual meeting of
the Vermont Bible society, will be held
at Mortified, Wednesday. Ootobcr
10Th, commencing ut 10 o'clock II. m.
C. +. Pcct of South Starksboro,
ha, raised this season 100 bushels OF
Burbank potatoes from three bushels Of
seedlings.
There have been sixty deaths in
Montpelier during the nine months
ending October lst.
Henry Gale, living two miles
from Jacksonsvill, Windham county,
was logging the other day when II great
log rolled upon him, fatally crushing
him. 1t was twcnty-four hours before
he was found and the log rolled off, and
he lived only twenty minutes after.
lie was thirty-iive years Of age and
leaves wife.
There ara scventy-two prisoners in
the house of correction, of whom eight
are women.
Six persons III Aionzo "illey's
family at Guilford were poisoned re-
Gently by eating toadstools for mush-
rooms, One little child four years old
came near dying, bloat!ng up and SUI
fering terrible distress. The other
members merely suffered from nausea
and drowsiness for about twenty-tour
hours.
"A number of families from Water
bury, went to Kansas and California
three years ago, and have this fall re-
turned to Vermont to stay. They tell
no very Aattcring stories of the West.
During recent severe thunder
shower, Robert Craigc and his two
grandsons were driving in Danviile,
when the horse was struck by light
ming and killed in the thill, and what is
so strange is that the occupants OF the
wagon were unhurt.
AT Rutland, Wednesday, the
defendants in the case Of Alexander
Stewart, vs. Henry Hilton, in the
United States circuit court, asked q
continuance of the case until next term,
as defendant is i'll and unable to be
present. A continuance was granted,
defendant paying costs.
In the trial of Mrs. Smith at Bur-
lington for the murder of her husband,
the state introduced testimony showing
Smiths statement in his dying mo
ments, and his repeated declarations
that he was going to die, and that
either of the two principal wounds was
sufficient to cause death. Smiths
dying declaration was put in as evil
dence. Respondents counsel claimed
it was inadmissible, because Smith,
did not believe in a future state or fl-
ture reward or punishment, but the
Judge ruled it sufficient to show that
the man expected to die and his relig-
ious belief was of no consequence in
this regard. The dying declaration
recites that his father-in-law, Wood,
drew his revolver on him without prov
ocation. Smith threw him down,
when his wife came running out with a
revolver and a struggle ensued, in
which both fired at Smith. He was
forced to release Wood, when Mrs.
Smith cried, "Give it to him, father J"
and he shot at him three timss.--
Smith then lot 60 his wife, who thare