Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-02-28
VERMONT.

deress, will be hanged at Windsor,
March 23d.
Valentines knitting mill at Benning-
ton was burned on Monday Of last
week; loss about 100000. 800
hands were thrown out of employment.
Mrs Il. p. Satterly, of Ferrisbugh,
recently paid ten dollars for pointing a
pistol at her husbands nose.
A snow slide on the roof of the
court house at Montpelier on Saturday
took the chimney off smooth with the
slate and landed u part of it in the
press room of the ITatchn,an office.
1t is said that the Burlington medi.
cal college gets nearly all its subjects
from the Dominion of Canada.
Bird's-eyc maple is used for fire.
wood in Vermont and is sold for Sl60
a thousand feet in Liverpool. Why
don't some Yankee get his birds-eye
on Liverpool ?
The state treasurer has received the
full amount Of the savings bank tax
due for the semi-annual period ending
December 3lSt. 1t amounts to over
$50. 900.
Joseph Greene Of Swanton is l02
years old and in good health and clear
mind.-Er. How many cords of
solid hard wood has he sawed this
winter!
Charles +. Ranncy, associate editor
of the Newport Express and Standard,
has accepted position as managing
editor of the New England Home
journal, a new paper just started at
Worcester.
Oscar W. Richardson, on Friday,
at the Brattleboro insane asylum turn
ed the hot-water faucet in the bath
room, and sat in boiling water until
fatally scaldcd. lie died during the
night.
Charles Webb, Of Lyndonville, has
lately lost horse by taking advice of
a mischief maker to administer dose
of spirits of nitre by way of the nostrils
instead of the mouth.
John L. Mason of Pownal, aged ~,
has married Miss Anna Winslow, aged |
%. Mason is wealthy farmer and
an old resident, has son 40 years old
and Il large family. The mother of
the young bride formerly kept house
for Mason.
A North Bennington man went to
five miles distant, few
days since taking his wife as comp any.
When he was ready to return he drove
home, leaving his better half, who was
calling upon Il friend, and did not dis
cover his mistake until called to supper.
The FIRST COMET OF TIE IEAR.-
A little before seven o'clock on Friday
evening last, while Prof. Lewis Swift,
Director of the Warner Observatory,
Rochester, y. Y, was scanning the
western sky, he discovered brilliant
comet located in the constellation Of
Pegasus near the star Beta. The new
comet is moving eastward and is very
bright. This is the first comet dis
covered during the present year and
also the first discovery made by means
of the new telescope of the Warner
Observatory, which is the largest pri-
vate telescope III the world.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A Keene gentleman in Florida has
sent home Il seven and a half foot ALI
gator for the Kcene Natural History
society.
John NJ. Whipplc has been reap
pointed postmaster at Claremont,
There has been a cut down of 10
per cent in wages at the Gilmanton
mills in Belmont.
OF III convicts in the State prison
five are serving 80 years sentences.
About S2j, 1000 is being spent in i'm
and repairs on the Rock
insham house, Portsmouth.
The las. rail on the Pennigewasset
rT;lroeG main line has been laid. A
few side TRACKS nJw await construction.
The Cole Manufacturing company
of Lake Village have reduced each
workman's wages 2j cents per day.
The body Of male infant, evidently
strangled soon after birth, was found
Saturday near the locomotive works in
Manchester.