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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-06-25
Captain EriossOn's TOrp d y AZ, the D..

Captain Ericssona Torp d y at, the De-.
stroyor,
The New York Times g." hat what
looked like q long black b =, rapering
at both ends, with a len r red box
on top of it and bIach aokc-stack
running up through the ~ lille, lay n.
the New York wharf. J. aas Captain
John Ericsson's torpedo b =, Destroyer,
which the inventor think, will destroy
vessels that are impregnahr to shot
thrown against their sides, In the gun,
which pointed out at the bow, about
eight feet below the surface OF the wa
ter was long steel cylinder. This
was the projectile which in war should
be supplied with torpedo at the conf
cal-shaped tip, to explode on striking
the side of q ship and blow hcrto pieces.
In the experiments n net will be low
cred into the sea to serve rs target and
to BIO fired at at distances OF from 300
10 800 feet. On the bow of the little
craft, which was almost submerged,
were two wooden floats to support tho
net in the water. The projectilcs arc
hollow and made so that they will float.
The tendency to rise is so carefully ad-
justcd rs not to interfere with the flight
under the water or to destroy the aim.
They are expected to come to the sur
face about 700 feet from the vessel, and
they will pursue q perfectly horizontal
course for 800 feet at least. They will
travel the first 800 feet in three seconds,
or q little less, They weigh 1900 pounds
each In the experiments there will be
no occasion to use the torpedoes. The
object will be to test the distance OF
Hight and the accuracy of aim. The
experiments heretofore have been con-
Quoted in still water and the firing of
Sandy Hook will be the first deep sea
practice The Destroyer has attained
speed of seventeen knots an hour, and
her fullest capacity has not been reach
cd. Although her hull proper is almost
entirely under water, she is scaworthy,
for everything can be battened down
and no water can get into her, Blowers
vcntilatc the boat perfectly. All her
working apparatus is below water, and
1t would be next to impossible to dis
able her in IN engagement. If the iron
house built on top of her and her smoke
stack were knocked off entirely it would
make no difference. She would be rs
scrviccablo rs ever. A steel plate IS
inches in thickness is set in front of the
pilots position to deilect balls if they
should strike there. The pilot is entire
ly surrounded by iron-work. and looks
out through small hole on level with
his eyes to get his bearings. He can
touch off the gun when he goes in exact
range, and Immediately back of to
safety. There is dummy plug at the
opening in the boat where the proioctile
goes out. This is shot away with the
projectilc, and q valve closes over the
hole TO keep out the water. Only
enough water to fill tho gun can get in
anyway, andthis can be quickly pump
ed out by steam siphon. SO there is
no danger from this source. There is
no room to spare on the boat, but suili-
cient for the uses required. The De-
stroyer is the only craft that shoots
torpedo under water.
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The Modern Son-in-Law.

The son-in-law. What is this? This,
darling, is. the son-in-aw. Oh! he is
the victim of mother-in-lawp Yes,
dear, of rich mother-in-law, who sup.
ports him. That is what makes him Sc
tired and ricketty? Partly, my prec.
ious. And the other cause? Well, he
has been to dinner at the club. But
why does he 90 home in that condition!
Because all the other places are closed.
Gracious! what will his motEer-in-law
do? She will help him upstairs and as,
sist in removing his boots. Then the
poor son-in-law will not be dubbed
with a soup-ladle, lectured for two
hours, and scalded half to death with
boiling tea? Oh, no. But if no is SC
dissipated why does the poor mother.
in-law put up with himP Because he
gives her daughter position. How
'positionp" Well, before marriage the
mother-in-law was very rich, but was
not "known" in society. WellP Now
she is not quite so rich, but she is
known" Through the son-in-lawi
Exactly. But the poor wife-her
daughter' 1t is the same with her.
Are they satisfied Quite so. But is
getting into society % desirable that a
girl will marry such man to accom-.
plish itP Yes, myprecious. My! But
how for tho poor girls who cannot mar
ry such men? They are unfortunate.
Have they no consolation? A meagre
one. And thatP They can die and &c
to heayen.-Lffe.
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Very Bad "Niggers."

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, June 22.-
In a drunken row among party of
negroes at Hinsdale, early this morn
ing, Charles Anderson shot and dan
gerously wounded Leslie II. Persip,
Is years old. DR.. Collins was called
and dressed the wound, but could not
extract the bullet, which lodged in Per-
sips skull, an inch above the eye, and
will probably cause his death. Andcr-
son with an accomplice, A. Jones, also
attempted TO break into James Daw-
lings' house. On being driven away
by Mr.. Dawlings, who had armed
himself with an axe, they set fire to
his two barns, which, with the dwell
ing house and its contents, were burned
before the neighbors arrived. Loss
$4,000; insured for $1,000. During
the fire the other negroes were insoleut,
and the family barely escaped with
their lives. Anderson and Jones were
captured by Deputy Sheriff Goodrich
and brought into Pittsfeld, where they
will be tried Monday. There is great
excitement in the vicinity.
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to the extent of retaining the patronage

to the extent Of retaining the patronage
not only of his own state but of the
whole Northwest, wherein he has
made places for that never-to-be-sati-
ated host of place-seekers nestled in the
ranks of the G.. A. r 1t is with this
most nnsavory record that Logan now
goes before the people of this great
country asking to be given the second
highest position in 'thc Government in
which the opportunities of an increased
patronage are the sole inducements for
his ready acceptance of the nomination.
The Senate has had genuine sensa-
ton this weck-the first, and probably
the last of the session. 1t was an
emente between the massive Ingalls,,
of Kansas, and Father Brown, of
Georgia, in which it is generally con-
ceded that the conceited ingalls, came
off second best. The Interpolation of
the Record that Ingalls, charged upon
Brown, amounted to nothing, even if
true, ard it only shows that Ingalls,
was attempting to gain little cheap
notoriety as q Senatorial blackguard,
in selecting for his victim one whose
age at least should have shielded him
from public insult Of this character.
1t is possible, though not at all prob
able, that Congress will adjourn in the
early part of July. Should the House
at once take up the business that the
Senate has prepared for it, and which
has been on the Speakers table for six
weeks, it can rush it through and adj
journ by that time. But there seems
to be disposition on the part of both
Senators and Representatives to await
the action of the coming Democratic
Convention, in order to inject u few
hundred campaign speeches into the
Record and have them printed and
circulated at Government expense.
PHONO.
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guilt and that of Flint. Now they
ought to try the choke on Blair and
Flint.


Can any one OF us, who has il, rca-
son of birth and residence IN 'uS Re-.
public, been debarrcd from H., Giamg
with cmperors and kings. th;nkol ino,e
rulers rs human boingSw u-r HH,r, !rt
ont of order as do the liver, 4 T., WarN
mortals, and who have the AN iruHbie
with dandruif in their har Stat We
haveP With the exception nj Colonial
Ochiltree, we must ropiy; "lS.n!rdIy
not.h
We cannot imagine Il kim IN i linen
buster, neither can we think %; thr heir
apparent to q throne with his ,uSpnn-
ders tied together By string and a
sample of his hair sticking ont through
hole in his hat. When we think of
kings we Immediately associate them
with crowns and royal sceptcrs. We
picture to ourselves magnificent,
stern, no-admttance-except-on-
specimen of humanity, with crown
on his august head, sitting bolt upright
in q gorgeous gold and pearl inlad dem
lists chair, u jewelled scep,er in his
hand and row of noble dukes bowed
to the ground before him.
Have we not seen such royalty on the
stage, and would it not be impossible
to imagine man with gliltcring dia-
dem on his head, and diamond-hilted
scepter under his arm trying to put an
old set of harness on u sore-backed
mule? We have tried to conjurc up
such q tableau, but it won't conjurc.
The kings of the Eastern Hemisphere
do not 90 to the theater or TO the circus
with scepters in their hands or crowns
on their heads. If u king at 4 circus
put his crown under the seat, some one
might spit in it or put his foot on it,
and if he should wear it on his head,
the people in the seats behind might
shout, "Shoot the crown" and that
would make the king angry, and he
would 90 out and demand his money
back at the door.
Editors do not wear crowns, although
the temptation is great, for crowns are
really cheaper than hats. The crown
that the Gar of Russia wears has been
in use over 600 years; it has never had
to be repaired, and is yet good for
many years service. The number of
hats that a man has to buy in 600 years
would cost more than two diamond-en-
crusted diadems. TEXAS Settings.
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''lotNbNipnEs ouDC -cs 't'
EDITOR AGE:-The fact that the
republicans in national convention did
their Every worst" should inspire the
democrats to do their "lcvel best"
Blaine really nominated himself.
While pretending to write "A book he
has been four years scheming, and plot
ting and buying votes. The conven-
ton was carried with rush and howl,
against the wishes and sound judgment
Of the better part of the convention.
When one part of such a convention
refuses to adjourn, for fear that the
sober second thought will iniure the
prospect of their fraud, they do very
unwise thing. If the democrats should
by any now unforeseen probability
nominate the strabsmic demagogue,
who like Blaine is using every means
to nominate himself, a cry would go
up, more piercing than the VOLTS long
howl, in the forest. The jargon of
pandemonium would be harmony COM
pared to it. After the democrats have
canvassed the field of candidates named
so prominently, if they fail to agree,
they can safely turn to the soldier
statesman, Hancock, with all conf
dence and certainty of success. A. b.
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from our regular correspondent:
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. c., June, 81,


begin to think that it will make
but very little difference who the DEM
ocratic nominee at Chicago will be, or
where he comes from, for he is going
to be elected anyway. The revolt
against Blaine and Logan has already
Gin two weeks after the nominations)
penetrated every portion of the coun-
try, and evoked from the decent por-
ton of the grand old party an univer-
sal cry for change. There was not
among the bakers dozen of republican
candidates before the Chicago conven-
ton, any one man so positively bad as
Blaine, yet there would have been
open and bold rebellion against the Sc
lection of the best of them, because of
the old feud which has finally effected
hopeless disruption of the party.
Granting that New York cannot agree
upon the presentation of candidate,
there seems to be sentiment enough
outside of the Empire State to make a
selection for her, and the choice cannot
but fall upon Governor Cleveland, who,
next to Tilden, stands for all that is to
be sought in the way Of reformation
of our political methods.
suppose that John Logan's military
record is not to be questioned, and !
don't know that anybody desires to
question it, but in these piping times of
peace we naturally inquire something
about the record of men who arrogate
to themselves a claim to leadership in
civil affairs. Logan had no sooner en-
tered into public life than he began to
precipitate his family and friends upon
the public exchequer, and his family
was the largest that has been known
since the days of Maccabeus. He has
quartered upon the military ard civil
list horde of political cormorants
larger than any Senator or Representa-
tive was ever responsible for before,
and has adroitly cultivated the friend
ship OF each succeeding administration
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All Sorts

The prohibitory law in Iowa goes
into effect on the 4th Of July.
The Bartholdi statue is completed
France will detail ship to convey it
to America
A man drank n glass Of lager in II
New YOlk saloon tho other day and
then hanged himself. If it was any
thing like the article sold in Vermont
under that name, we don't blame him..
The heavy rains have inflicted great
damage on the crops in California. -
There has not been such heavy fall
since 1850.
Emily Faithful says there is no coun-
try in the world in which husbands are
so good, so kind and so affectionate as
in the United States. That's so, Emily,
look at us.
An old violin, supposed to have be-
longed to Tom Paine, was found in an
attic in Bordentown, N. J.
An inquirer asks of an exchange -
when does lady cease to be young?'
Never.
The minister OF the interior of
France has issued a decree forbidding
bull fights. Disgusting scenes of
cruelty have recently been witnessed in
various parts of France.
The opportunity to do mischief is
found Il hundred times a day, and that
of doing good once a year. [Voltaire.
The directors of the Chicago driving
park have resolved that hereafter races
shall be run there on Sunday as well
as on any other day. How is that for
Chicago?
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~ The Republicans at their State
Convention at Burlington, last week
put the following ticket in nomination {:
S. f. Pingree of Hartford for COVER
nor; Z. j. Ormsbee of Brandon for
lieutenant governor Charles w. Por-
ter of Montpelier for secretary of state,
and Henry f. Powell of Richford for
state auditor. 10 d. Hatch of Bur-
llngton and Hiram Harlow of Wind
sor. were nominated for electors at
large, and George T. Childs Of St.
Adams from the first district.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-06-25

In order to find out what watch is
doing, it should be closely compared
every day with 4 standard chronometer,
and its rate of variation noted. The
finest watch is not necessarily the one
which shows the smallest variation from
standard time AT the end of some
lengthy period. such as a month, or
three months, or six months; it israther
the timekeepcr which shows slow,
but regular variation. Regularity is
the test, and very few watches will
stand it, when rigdly applied from day
to day. 1t is possible, you see, there
fore, for a mans watch, set exactly on
January /, to be only thirty seconds
out of the way on July /, and yet it has
been alternately forty-tive seconds fast
and the same amount slow two or three
times in the interval. Such a watch,
of course, is not TO be 'sneezed at but
its running cannot be called 'tine,'
hence it is irregular, The most valu-
able watch is one which regularly gains
or loses just so many seconds per day
let us say, for example, five or six sec
onds per week, steadily and surely. y
Boston Herald.
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e. j. NJ. Maloney, editor Of the
Richford Gazette, who has been SLAM
dering the best men of the State, was
brought up with short turn by Judge
Royce, the other day, and placed under
$4,000 bonds for trial. He obtained
bail, and was set free, when he was
re-arrested on another charge of libel
ing, and now languishes in Jail.
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"We do hereby certify that we super
wise the arrangements for all the Monthly
and scm-Annual Drawings of the Lousi-
ana State Lottery Company, and in per-
son manage and control the Drawings
themselves, and that the same are con-
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faith toward all parties, and we authorize
the Company to use this certificate, with
fac-similes of our signatures attached, in
It's advertisements.
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Forty years ago Monday, the 18th
inst, Vermont was visited by cold
snap. In the morning the ground was
frozen, as also vegetation, and some
two to four inches of damp snow had
fallen during the night, covering the
ground and breaking down many trees.
Farmers replanted corn, potatoes, ETC.,
and the crop of "pig" corn was quite
good. The crops, generally, that year
were light.
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The remarkable results in disease so
universal and with such a variety of
characteristics as Catarrh, prove how
eflectually Hoods Sarsaparilla acting
through the blood, reaches every part of
the human system. A medicine, like
anything else, can be fairly judged only
by its results. We point with pride to
the glorious record Hoods Sarsaparilla
has entered upon the hearts of thousands
OF people it has cured OF catarrh.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
SAMUEL WHITES ESTATE.


The undersigned, having been appointed
by the Probate Court of the District of Hart.
ford, Commissioners to receive. examine and
adjust all claims and demands OF all per-
sons against Samuel White, late of Wood
stock in said District deceased, and the claims
of the deceased exhibited in set.ctf, to
the claims of the creditors hereby give notice
that we will meet for the purpose of exam
lining and allowing said claims at the
Store Of NJ. s. Myers in said Woodstock, on
Thursday, the 10th of July, A. D., 1884,
from one o'clock p. NJ. until four o'clock p.
NJ, on said day, and that six months
from the 4th day Of June, A. d. 1884, is the
time limited by said Court for said creditors
to present their claims TO US for examination
and allowance.
Dated at Woodstock this 10th day OF Juno
A. d. 1884.
JOHN S. EATON, Commits
NJ. s. MYERS, sioners.
PAYSON A. PIERCE, Admir-.
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We are in receipt Of one of those
beautiful family Bibles published by
the National Publishing Company Of
Philadelphia Burlington Clipper.
How did the National Publishing
Company know what Kinsley needed
most!
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-06-25

A European scientific journal Is try
ing to start controversy by pointing
out that if the whale swallowed Jonah
in the Mediterranean and throw him
out again near Nineveh, he must have
been carried through the Straits Of
Gibraltar. around the Cape Of Good
Hope, up the Persian gulf, and into the
Tigris,
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Avoid by all means the use of calomel
for bilious complaints. Ayers Cathartic
Pills, compounded entirely Of vegetable
ingredients, have been tested for forty
years, and are acknowledged to be the
best remedy ever devised for torpidity Of
the liver, costiveness, and all derange-
mcnts of the digestive apparatus.
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BIRTHS.

In Woodstock June 90, u son to Mr.. an d
Mrs. Charles III. Rood.
In Bethel, June 10, II son TO Mr.. and Mrs
Eugene Tucker.
In Tunbridge, June 10, II son TO Mr.. and
Mrs. Don A. Chappcll.
In Braintrec, June G, Il son to Mr.. and Mrs
Walter English,