Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1882-04-26

II ermuda onions are In market, ~
mild as new milk and a. tender as the
eye of sweet slxtcen-besideS being
very expensive.
Women adore millinery openings
but man-what stirs his soulf Well,
the opening Of n saloon or a drug store
early IN the morning, comes pretty
near It,
The papers say the Rcy, H. Ger
~, of West Randolph, walks Il miles
to his place of preaching aud back tho
same day. This Is not So His place
of preaching is Bethel, and the dis
tancc Is seven miles,
Our Rutland correspondent stated u
short time ago that =. Il. Pingree, OF
Hartford, would deliver the Decoration
Day address at Rutland. Such is not
the fact. II is his brother, Col. \. NJ.
Pingrcc, who is to deliver 1t, and il
will DO good one too, don't you for
get ii. Col. S. l., Pingrec delivers an
address at Bradford ON the same day.
There were sixteen applicants for
certificates at the public examination of
teachers on Saturday, of these four
withdrew before completing the exam
nation, and certificates were refused to
three others, thus leaving nine who
passed the ordeal safely.
The time for young people to spoon
in earnest is when the ice cream season
sets in.
Windsor County Court opens here
Tuesday, May 23. Judge Rowell will
preside. There are 1877 Court and "a
Chancery cases on the docket.
News comes to us from over the bor-
der, that the editor Of the Standard is
pnshing for scat in the upper House
of the Legislature next Fall. The cit
liens of this town are an ungrateful
set, and have neglected to recognize his
merits by sending him to the lower
House, although he has put himself be-
fore them several times, so now he is
going to "wade in" to the long boat.
PENCIL thanksgiving is wrest-
ling with old winter, but winter seems
to have the best hold thus far; the re-
mains of the late Mrs. Kenyon were
inferred in the Taftsvlle cemetery
Tuesday; Miss Mary Taylor is teach
ing the young ideas how to shoot at
Bridgewater Center; the Alvin Hatch
store block, on Elm Street, is being
shingled; VIM. Ransom started for
Mandan, d. T., on Monday; nothing
like "printer's ink"-l7Oo have in
quired for that baby carriage adver-
tised last week, which shows that the
baby crop is "booming;" is it not
about time to clean up the park? the
sick folks are all getting er,-Uncle
Tim Perkins has concluded he would
not 60 over the line yet awhile, and we
are glad of it; don't shed your fannels
until it is warmer, unless you want to
to Join the 'innamerable caravan" on
the other side of Jordan; fellow of
unsavory odor over at Castleton had
better pay for this paper or he will hear
from US; Hon. j. S. Morrill, has our
thanks for public documents the new
meat market opened Tuesday; Fred
Howes, typo in this office, is rusti-
eating at his home in Bridgewater for
q week; a copy of the Evening Bulls-
tim, containing an able editorial on
CALIFORNIA; Devotion to Free Labor,
has been received from our friend G..
O. Carlisle, Esq, of San Francisco
H. H. Woodbury. is very sick with kid
ney complaint a new shoemaker ar
rived in town Sunday, and is taking
board and lodging with Mr.. Samuel
Wells; Fred Gushing is at work in
Mr.. Charles Dana's store again c. j..
Taft has new advertisement in to-day's
paper from reading the Landmark,
we take it that the editor has preju-
dice against our representation in Con-
gress; +. P. Archibald is giving his
buildings coat of paint; how do you
get along with house cleaning? does the
..nervine" hold out? the rem pants of
winter linger on "Biscuit Hill )" Miss
Mary Vose is clerking in j. B. Jones
Store; Frank Hatch returned to New
York Tuesday.
Henry Taft has taken the super!n'
tendency Of Hon. Frederick Billings
farm, w. H. Seaver retiring. Henry
is the right man in the right plsce, and
Mr.. Billings will find it 80.