Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-05-30

To-day is Decoration Day, it opens
nice, and many are coming into town
to witness the ceremony over graves
of the country's defenders.
Ever since father Adam was tipped
out of the garden, his descendants
have sought out many inventions to get
back, and have succeeded only to be
chucked out again, and left worse off
than when they entered. Anything
you can have or take wont make you
always happy and contented. "Man
never is, but always to be best" Let
lis hope that the "Garden of Paradise"
lies beyond this life. One of our col
ored citizens, whom we will call
"Sam' for short, thought he got into
the "garden" the other day. Well,
he did, for brief space of time, as
usual, but it was a different garden
from the "Garden of Paradise" and
required more hard work to carry it
on. The owner of the garden had
little "spring medicine" and he gave
Sam some, and it "kettled up his no
tons" of things promiscously. He
has always been an ardent republican.
On this occasion he addressed the
"boss:" "Say, Mr.. -, | have
always voted de publican ticket, but
you can shoot me if l do so any mo-
Then the "boss" would say, ''take a
little more cider, Sam" And things
went on in one act, without any drop
of the curtain, until noon. When the
whistle blew for noon, Sam went to
the bosom of his family, to which he
is very much attached, all right.
His wife noticed that he was a little
more clipper than usual, and that
words came tripping off his tongue
more lively and frequent than COM
mon. She said "Sam. who have
you been at work for to-day?' And
he replied, "a Democrat o, land O.
cats, Mary Jane, democrats are the
men to work for. | hain't been so
happy since de clos OBJ de wa J"
Whether he will have the heart to hold
out against the "'publicans," we know
not, but ever since he took that
"spring medicine he is loud in praise
of Mr.. and the democratic
party. We wish our friend would adj
minister some more of it to other
"publicans.
A rumor having gone abroad, in some
way, that our railroad could not or
would not accommodate Forepaugh's
show to get here, consequently he was
going to pitch his tent at the Junction,
we took the liberty to interview Super
intcndent Porter on the subject. Mr..
Porter assures us that there is no truth
in the rumor. Mr.. Forepaugh or his
agent has never passed a word with
him on the subject of drawing his train
over the road, or anything else. and if
he don't come here no blame can be
attached to the Woodstock railroad or
its managers. We are inclined to
think that Mr.. Forepaugh will come
here, Notwithstanding the rumor in a
Boston paper TO the contrary. That
he can get better accommodation here
and draw bigger crowd, is well
backed up fact.
Nathan T. Churchill, well known
and highly respected citizen, died Fri
day morning, aged 8S years. Most of
Mr.. Churchill's life was spent on a
farm in the west part of the town,
where, by constant industry and tact
he accumulated competency. He
sold his farm and moved to this
village number Of years ago to spend
the autumn of his days. Here he
lived a quiet life, filled many offices of
public trust, was liberal with his
means, his bequest of $500 towards
building the beautiful iron fence that
now adorns our handsome park, will
always be remembered and appreciated
by every citizen of Woodstock. With
in the last few years his memory failed
him, yet he was about and enjoyed the
society Of his friends up to within an
hour or two of his death. His funeral
was attended at the Uuiversalist church
Sunday afternoon, Rev. O. X. Crosby,
former pastor of the church officiat-
ing.
DR.. Charles L. Dana, con of our
townsman, Charles Dana, has been
rendered the Professorship of Nervous
Diseases in the New York Post Gradu.
ate College. This is high honor to DR..
Dana, but he deserves it.
ID. c. Halls concert, at the Town
Hall, Wednesday eve, is said to be the
best given here for some time. Halls
bugle notes cannot be discounted. He
was assisted by Miss Sara Barton, the
noted mezzo soprano; Edith Christie,
miss of 1G years, who ranks with
the best violinists in the world Mons.
Calixa Lavallee, the great French plan.
ist and composer, and Henry d.