Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-02-23
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Town Meeting next Tuesday

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Town Meeting next Tuesday
J, u, Jones advertisement next
week, ile has the goods now
The weather continues mid with
frequent "snow squalls,"
Edward Dana has made up his
mind to become a resident Of New
York City, How no can leave a good
republican town like Woodstock aud
take up bis residence 10 wicked Dem
ocrAtio city like New York Is beyond
our ken, unless the new tax law has
something to do with II,
The Village Dads held their meet
Ing last Monday evening aud tho by
laws produced by tho committee APP
pointed for tina, purpose, were adopt
cd with some amendments, They
don't say anything about splitting to-
bacco on tho sidewalk-right down on
the beautiful snow--or drawing a bob
sled but wheelbarrows and velocipedes
have got TO keep of. No ball.play-
ing allowed In the streets. Wood
ashes must not be kept In wooden
vessels. No person is allowed 10
keep unslakod limo erpo'ed to water,
&c. &c, Most Of the claus" are well
enough, as amended, but very few of
them will be enforced, aud as Lem
Spooner would say, "prehaps It IS just
as WE'LL"
1t ought TO mako the ladies teol
happy to learn from the census report
that there are over million more
men in this country than women.
Dex. Capron can 30 10 tho head. lilo
makes tho late Samuel &. Pratts
place more than good rs a story teller.
lie is reported 10 have said after the
Bridgewater fife; ~ rang that old
church boil until one side Of il COM
menced 10 melt; and the rope burned
off,
Madam Ricard, elocutionist and
personator, gave an excellent enter
tainment ut tho Town Hall Saturday
evening + February 10Th. Her in,mi-
tation of the old gentleman
reading to his better half from the
village paper verbose and "toplofll-
cal" description Of "fatal accident
aud "Grandmothers Courtship,' caus-
ed the audience to shed tears of mirth.
The music on this occasion was rend.
eled BY Miss Carrie Streeter, II. II.
Murdoch and Phil. Persons Piano,
Violin and Cornel, and suited us about
rs well as any music we ever heard.
They were loudly and frequently APP
plauded.
The gentle spirit Of Eben Bridge, Of
Pomfret, passed quietly to its rest Mon.
day evening. He was widely known and
highly respected, and will be greatly
missed in private and public life. Mr..
Bridge was man In every sense Of the
word, and the world Is the better for his
having lived in 1t. His age was "A years.
One by one the solid business men and
pioneers of the place are passing away
As the wheel Of time revolves many active
souls and main.stays Of communities are
swept away into eternity. Places that
have been honorably filled IRE tenantless,
and tears full over the caskets that contain
the lfeless clay of former active and use
full beings. Whole communities mourn
and wonder who will rise up and fill the
vacany made by the hand OF DEATH
Still the world moves on, the conduct Of
family and public affairs pass into now
hands, and mortal man wonders who will
be the next to pass over the brink and
step down into that narrow house whose
four walls keep out all callers except the
worm. But such is llfe-such Is death.
That there is ss much to Srritualisn'
now a. there was In the time Of
Chrlst We have no doubt, but it re-.
quires a good perspective faculty to
detect bogus or slight Of hand perform
ances from the genuine thing. Mounte-
banks, too lazy to work and too proud
to beg, styling themselves "Megiums,"
are too nemurous altogether and
1, devotecs OF the faith should discon.
tenanue all such cramps" This s ny.
iix snalches of "Old John Brown
Away Down the Swanee River"
and whistling "Jim Grow" in dark
sued room to call spirits from their
rest to "kiok up jack and make
themselves ridiculous, is too much for
US, at least. Hudibras says, "the pleas.
ure Of being cheated 10 great" We
don't see il in that light exactly.
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