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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-02

SPRING STORY !!
The Vernal Equinox has
passed and we must have
Spring weather, now, even if
we have some severe relapses.
With the coming Of Spring
we look for
Seasonable Spring Goods,
and we are happy to inform
the readers Of the AGE, that
the same can be found at
F. N. BILLINGS
WOODSTOCK, VT.
1t is useless to summarize, but
among them are
New Styles Room Papers,
New Borders,
New Floor Oil Cloths,
ga, A, j-4, GA and 2 yds, wide.
NEW CARPETS T. MATTINGS.
Plain and Fancy Tickings,
Unbleached and Bleached Sheetings,
Fine Bleached Cottons,
Fine Table Damasks.
New CretOnnes and
Furniture Prints, Oil COlOrs,
New Dress Cambrics,
Prints & Ginghams.
Those who wish to sow
Clover Seed on the snow can
find a full stock of
Michigan, Northern and Pea Fine
Clover ;also, choice Timothy, Red
Top, Orchard Grass, &C., &C.,
with full line of GARDEN SEEDS,
for starting in house boxes.
Groceries & Flour.
Always in Stock, the best goods at the
lowest prices.
Granulated Sugar 9 cts. a pound
Everything else in proportion. The
best Teas and Coffees in Market.
CALL AND SEE.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-02
FOR SALE!
A Business of 100000

Per annum, with nv good will to the pur.
chaser. Also, the good will Of the leading
houses of the United States from whom we
buy goods.
This is the best paying business in the
State Of Vermont or Northern New York. -
The business is well advertised and our
establishment Is always thronged with GUS
toners from far and near
Possession given at any time after January
LIST. 1881
For further particulars call or address
A. BOUTIN,
IN .-.- Burlington. VI.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-02
THOMAS SMITH.
SDe St,o1.
NEW YORK, 1854.

About sixty million copies of THE Sun
have gone out of our establishment dur
lug the past twelve months.
Ifyou were to paste end to end all the
columns of all THE SUNS printed and sold
last year you would get continuous
strip Of interesting information, common
sense wisdom, sound doctrine. and sane
wit long enough to reach from Print
ing House Square to the top of Mt.
Copernicus in the moon, then back to
Printing House Square, and then three
quarters of the way back to the moon
again.
But The Sun is written for the nhahit-
ants of the earth; this same strip of in
telligence would girdle the globe twenty
seven or twenty-cight times.
If every buyer of copy Of THE Sun
during the past year has spent only one
hour over it, and if his wife or his grand
father spent another hour, this newspaper
in 1888 has afforded the luman race 10000
years of steady reading, night and day.
1t is only ty little calculations like these
that you can form any idea of the circula-
ton Of the most popular Of American
newspapers, or of its influence on the
opinions and actions of American men
and women.
THE sun is, and will continue to be, a
newspaper which tells the truth without
fear Of consequences, which gets at the
facts no matter how much the process
costs, which presents the news Of all the
world without waste of words and in the
most readable shape, which is working
with all its heart for the cause of honest
government, and which therefore believes
that the Republican party must go, and
must 90 in this coming year of our Lord
1884.
Ifyou know THE Sun, you like it al
ready, and yon will read it with accustom-
ed dilirence and profit during what is sure
to be the most interesting year in its his
tory. you do pot yet know THE Sun,
it is high time to get into the sunshine.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-02

Has DR.. r. B. found out anything
more about Mrs. Pleurisy Simmons
and that junction board bill? "Do |
dream, do l doubt, are things what
they seem, or are spirits about!'
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-02

A. Hatch, longtime merchant here,
has sold out to Wood & Gillingham.
Mr.. Gillingham has been clerk in the
store for some time, and Mr.. Wood
moved here from Bridgewater some
time ago, where he sold what what
known as the Woods Mills. -
Success to them
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-02

An eclipse of the moon viii be visi-
BILE in this part of the world on the
morning of April 10th. This is the
only eclipse of any kind visible in this
locality during the year.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-02

1t is said that they have day and
night shift of liars down at the juno
ton, and that Earle and Cummings do
most of the work.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-02

Whitmore & Clark's Ministries have
disbanded after disastrous season.
For the first time III its history of the
company lost money, and closes some
$4,000 behind. Hanks absence made
big gap in the company. He is a
trump card every time.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-02

Remember, No Cure, No Pay!
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-04-02

Anthony Hagerty, who has been in
poor health all winter, started for the
South few weeks ago, and is now in
Jacksonville, Fla.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
A Bonaparte Who Wants an ONE.

WahnlngIOn Letter.
1t is thought that Jerome Bonaparte, who
now lives in Washington. would be pleased to
have diplomatic appointment He is Demo
crat, although he has never been active in pol
itics. He was adjutant in his class at West
Point, and very popular with his associates.
He left our army about 1856 to enter the House
hold Guards of Louis Napoleon. He was
a great favorite with the Empress
Eugene He never had an opportunity to
distinguished himself until the Franco Prussian
war. He then raised regiment at Rouen and
served with distinction all through the war. He
was obliged to leave France at the close of the
war in order to save his life He returned to
this country, where he soon after married Mrs.
Edgar, a granddaughter of Daniel Webster.
They have resided in Washington the greater
part of the tine since. They live
very quietly in their new house on
K street. They have plenty of money,
but make no display. Jerome Bonaparte is now
fifty-six years of age, but still retains fresh,
youthful look. He is very fond of long, lonely
walks He appears to prefer walking to riding.
He does not have the look of satisfied man.
He somehow seems to have missed just the ca
reer he would have liked all around. His edu-
cation is purely military, and since his return
from France he has had no special occupation.
His brother in Baltimore is a successful lawyer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09

Dwight Heaton, an old member of the Lee
county bar, died at his residence at Dixon of
gangrene brought on by the scalding of a leg
some two weeks ago
The Rev. w. Tibbals pastor of the Methodist
Church at Paw Paw, mas resigned at the request
of leading members of his church. The pastor
talked for Saint John during the recent cam
paign, hence, it it said, the opposition to him.
Mrs Henry Oakman of Galesburg, entered
the room where her husband was sleeping at
night and beat him over the head with stick of
wood so that his recovery is doubtful. The wo
man has been subject to fits of lunacy for some
time.
More cases Of hog cholera are reported from
Decatur. The plague is most fatal in Wheat
land, MHroa and Friends Creek townships, but
1t is raging in all sections of Macon county The
loss in Friends Greek township alone is placed
at $50, 900.
Hon. Chauncey L. Higbee, justice of the APP
pellate Court, Third division. fell dead from
apoplexy at his residence on Sunday. He was
born in ClerInont county, Ohio in 1920, and
went to Illinois in 1847. He leaves widow,
several children and large estate.
At Centralia proceedings have begun to un-
seat F. L. Harpster, the apparently elected Judge
of the Circuit Court, and to place in Office J. NJ
North, the Republican candidate ut the late cleo
ton, irregularities and Illegal voting being
charged upon the defendent by the contestant.
The announcement of the inehgibility Of F.
p. Taylor, memberelect to the Legislature from
the Adams county district recalls the case of
Mr. Gearing elected from Sangamon to the
Twenty ninth General Assembly. 1t was shown
that Mr.. Gearing had resided and voted in In
election, but the Democratic combination of
that session dalled with the question for sew
eral weeks until finally nothing was done, and
Mr.. Gearing retained the seat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
JAY-EXE-SEE.
Failure and Assignment of the j. 1. Case
Pillow Company, of Racine.

Failure and Assignment of the j. L. Case
PIow Company, of Racine.
RACINE, Wis, Dec. 6.-Tho j. L CasePlow
Company, of this city, executed, this morning,
and filed with the clerk of the Circuit Court. an
assignment deed to Charles II. Lee for the ben
eft of its creditors. This course was rendered
necessary on account of foreign attachments be
ing levied against the company's property, and
because of similar actions being threatened at
home For these reasons there was no other
way for the directors to protect the assets for
the benefit of all creditors alike No
preference was made in the assignment ex-
cept for wages accrued since Nov. l.
The nominal value of the assets is $66s. 0DO;
Total liabilities estimated at about $50, 900 to
$S00O00 1t is hoped arrangements may be
made hereafter for dischargng the assignment
and allowing the company to 90 on with its bust
ness Except an Indebtedness to Mr.. Case indi-
,viduaily, and a few small scared claims, the
debts of the company do not amount to more
than $50 900 to $40, 900. The failure will not af
feet any of the other institutions with which
Mr. Cases name is connected. The banks are
secured for ali advances made and Mr. Case is
undoubtedly worth in availableproperty upward
of So, 600 600 The assignee has filed bonds In
the sum of $615, 900 with j. l. Case and Stephen
Bull as snnetieS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
Reviral NToetings lad Malison.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MADISON, Dec. S.-The union revival meet
ings, under the direction of L.. W. Munhall,
are still in progress. with the interest greater
than at any time hitherto. Every part of the
large audience room of Trinity NJ E. Church
was crowded last night dong before the hour for
service and hundreds were turned away unable
to get in During last week the entire city was
canvassed by workers from house to house.
Tuesday will be observed as day of humilia
ton and prayer. A meeting will be held be-
ginning at 10 o'clock A NJ. and lasting until 4
O'Clock P. NJ, led by the pastor and prominent
workers The work will be continued until
Christmas if not longer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
Wealthy Distillers Arrested.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Dec. st. j. Miller and G..
W. Mustodan, proprietors of the Coon Hollow
distinery, in Nelson county, were arrested to-
day, by revenue officers, charged with gaining
access to the government warehouse, in the alb
sence of the proper authorities and removing
Coon Hollow distillery was burned about a
month ago, with large quantity of whisky.
Before the burning the revenue officers began
investigating alleged crooked work, which result
ed in the above arrests. Miller and Musician
are both wealthy, and their arrest has caused a
sensation in Nelson county and here where they
were brought for trial 1t is now thought the
distillery was set on fire, and sensational devel-
opments are expected. The whisky burned was
valued at $40 600
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
Have They Made a Spoon or Spoiled Horn?
To the Editor OF the Indianapolis journal:

Have They Made a Spoon or Spoiled Horn?
To the Editor OF the Indianapolis journal:
L. D. Ratliff, Of Marion, Ind, evidently St.
John Democrat, in last weeks Monitor journal,
among other things, in rejoicing over the acct
dent of Democratic success says
1.-THE last bloody shirt campaign has been fought. "
Cur meanest enemy is down"
sit is foderol to talk of prohibition being set back
because of Republican defeat"
First-Who authorized this co-Democrat, or
rather who enlightened him to the knowledge that
while there exists a Democratic party this coun-
try will ever forget the bloody and costly war
into which it plunged this Nation Who
gave him forekEowledge to say that the
Republican portion of this country will ever
cease to tell his co-friends, North and South, of
the infamous and damnable course they pursued
in the late rebellion-from soldier on the field to
assassin at home? How does he come by the
knowledge that an unrepentant and lawess sec
tion-lately in open rebellion, and still in open
hostility to our nstituhons-shall never again
be told of their offenses, neither they who met
us on the field of battle nor they who plotted
against the life of the Nation from an assassin 8
retreat in our midst!
Second-1f your ''meanest enemy is down"
now it will watch with extreme interest what
the party you have assisted to power will do for
you Mind, now, don't whine to your 'meanest
enemVn for favors in the future. ReTemb Der,
you have killed it (?), and you ought to have
more pride than to beg for the crumbs that may
fall from the table Of corpse. Don't forget
thisl
not to speak of prohibition being set back be-
cause of Republican defeat" l can assure you
that in this section, the home of the late DR..
Gerrish, nothing is SO pronouncedly dead rs pro
hibition. And it was killed by its own friends,
who we're deceived into following the course of
leaders, several Of whom in the pay of the
Democratic party. The Good Templars' lodge
here, which has for years been known one Of
the first lodges of the State, is now practically
dead | do not mean that it will close operations,
but do mean that it has lost whatever intiu-
ence or power it possessed Its leading mem
bers-men whose influence and energy kept it in
the lead-abanGoned it weeks ago. The bone
and siuew of the lodge are gone. And outside
of the lodge other pronounced Prohibitionists
declare they are done with prohibition-at least
while it is to be used as a stepping-stone to
Democratic ascendency in State and Nation.
SEYMOUR, Dec, 8, 1884 V. II. MONROE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
BUSINESS AND WAGES.
Failure Ofthe widely-Fxnown Banking House
of 0pdyke g. Co,

Failure oftIle Widely-Known Banking House
of Opdyke e. Co,
New York, Dec 8.-The widely-known firm
of Opdyke &c Co., bankers, made an assignment
to-day, without preferences. A member Of the
firm said the failure surprised even him. owing
to its suddennesss and was due to customers
who failed to respond TO calls for margins. 1t is
believed the assets will ultimately yield nearly if
not quite enough to meet the liabilities The ma
ior portion of the liabilities is secured, but about
5000 900 is unsecured. The firm was founded
sixteen years ago, by ex Mayor George Opdyke,
who died in 1885, The firm suffered loss Of
81 ,000 900 in the panic of 1873, $780, 900 being
drawn from it in one run. Tho present firm
was formed in 1881, with an invested capital of
$3.50 900 and deposits of about 81 600, 600 They
state that their contracts on the Stock Exchange
will not exceed 500 shares. and that neither in
dividually nor as firm have they specuated to
the extent of one share. The firm was regarded
as a strong concern, and maintained high
grade of credit
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
INDIANA AND ILLINOISN NEWS
The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of
all Kinds in the Two States.
The Stupid but Successful Confidence Game
Played by LOganSpOrt Sharpers-Reviyal
at MadiSOn-BOiler Explosion.
INDIANA.

Facts Going to Show that the Crop of Fools
Is Unusually Large.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
LoGANsPoRT, Dec. 9.-No little sensation was
created in this city by the arrest of DIR. A. NJ.
Chord and viii Abernetha for bunko steering.
Warrants were also issued for the arrest of John
Ditz and Asa Pergo, but up to date they have
not been apprehended 1t now turns out that
these worthless have been working their scheme
since last March, and it is estimated that they
have, since that time quilted the unwary of this
county out of at least So O0O They have also
operated extensively in White and other adjoin-
ing counties They approach sucker and
represent to him that they are standing in with
certain officials of the government, who
have in hand large amount of money
that was issued for the purpose of carrying on
the Republican campaign. One hundred dol
lars paid down entities a new member to the
privilege of drawing out 81 200 of this campaign
money at the expiration of three weeks They
represent that the money will pass at any bank
in the land and by way of bracing up their vic
tins, give them ten dollar note in good money
to take to the bank to be changed The ''cam-
paign money" exists only in the imagination, and
after the newly initiated deposits his 500 there is
nothing left for him to do but grin and bear it,
or assist the robbers in biking some one else,
and thus share in the ill-gotten gains Some of
our leading men have been roped in. DIR. A NJ.
Chord has been practicing physician here for
years, and his arrest as a bunko steerer created
quite breeze. 1t is thought the scoundrels can
not be reached by the law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
IsAYmER, sEAGRAvE & co.
The Eastern Member of the Firm Gives Isea-
sons for the Failure.

for the Failure.
WORCESTER, Mass, Dec S.-The failure of
Raymer, Seagrave & Co., of Toledo, O., is of in
terest here as one of the firm has resided in
Uxbridge, and large sums from the Blackstone
valley have gone West for investment Uxbridge
and Douglass have over 100000 invested, and
the Rhode Island saving banks are said to have
made large loans through them The firm also
mad Boston Office, which was doing large
business. 0. b. Seagrave, the eastern partner,
says the firm has So 0OO 900 in loans on it's hands
for Eastern parties. He has sent $1,000, 900
West within a year. He says all these loans are
secured by firstclass mortgages, and are en-
tirely safe The firm has no connection with
these loans except that it has guaranteed inter-
est on $4,000. Seagrave gives two causes
for the embarrassment of the firm. In a con
siderable number of cases where interest was de-
faulted they have bought in estates at foreclos
sale at the face of the mortgage and inter
est, and, the property being unimproyed, the in
terest and taxes have eaten it up In other cases
they bought large estates with Others and the
others failing they had to assume the whole es
tate in self protection. The interest and taxes
on these estates have also drained them. He says
the firm suspended voluntarily, as precaution
airy measure, and its estates wall probably show
a surplus of over $780, 600 at settlement The
firm is dissolved, and the business will be con
tinued by Seagrave Brothers Mr. B. +. Sea
grave is remaining at Toledo to care for the in
terests of Eastern patrons in the old firm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
Religious Thrift in Connecticut.


At "holinessn meeting IN Connecticut the
other day, one of the speakers, business man,
who avowed that he was wholly freed from the
power of sin, spoke on missionary work as p
remedy for business depression. He said. on
either side of the equator there is belt of 500,
600 900 people living almost naked. "Christian-
ize them, and their demand for goods would be
so great that all the mills now in existence
would not supply them; running day and night. "
He must think less of the fact that, according to
his theology, those people all go now where
clothes won't stand the heat than of the possible
market for surplus products.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09

he did, and the jury believed the squire, rem
dering verdict of $3.50 for the plaintiff, after
being out all day and night. The jury fees
amount to SOC, the judge, clerk and sheriff
about $50. the witnesses about $50, the lawyers
at least $3.50, all in addition TO the $3.50 judg
ment. 1t will not be far from $500 spent over
five ears of corn-$100 each. The case is the
result of an old feud among neghbors.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
TWO FaiIures Al Madison.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MADISON, Ind, Dec. 8-Ascher N. Hofstadt, a
clothing merchant failed to-day His liabilities
are about s., 900; assets probably nothing as his
wife is preferred creditor for about s.. 000
McGuire 81 Bettens, proprietors of ''The
Planet" the finest saloon and restaurant in the
city, have assigned. Assets and liabilities IN
known
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
prirntion in the Lnnnher Rerion.

MrsKEGoN, Mich. Dec. ga prominent lum-
herman, who has Just returned from the north
ern pineries, says the condition of the people in
some of the camps is most wretched. Labor
among the Swedes can be had for ten cents a
day, and the food furnished the men is rye
bread and coffee, excepting three meals a week,
when meat is given.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
Nail-NIilI Closed Down.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
AURORA Ind, Dec. 8--Cobb's large nail mills
closed to-day, on account of the depression in
business brought about by tariff agitation and
the election of Cleveland and Hendricks The
mill shut down about ten days ago on account of
a lack of coal, but to-day the proprietors con
Guided to let the mill remain idle until there
was change for the better in business affairs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
Grave-Robbers Indicted for Burglary.

B1NGHAMToN, N. Y. Dec. 8-Dan Richards
a widely.known attorney, Robert Richards. his
tai;st IN have been ndictcd for desecraton Of the
Phelps tomb on the night of Oct "a. AS the
body was not removed entirely the indictment
is for burglary in the third degree The attack
was made on the tomb pending suit by physi-
clans to recover from the family fee for EN-
balmnC the body.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
Catarrh

Is a very prevalent and exceedingly disagreeable
disease, liable, if neglected. to develop into seri-
Gus consumption. Being constitutional dis
ease. it requires a constitutional remedy like
Hoods Sarseparilla, which, acting through the
blood reaches every part of the system, eifecting
a radical and permanent cure of catarrh in even
its most severe forms. Made only by c. L Hood
&s Co Lowell Mass
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
THE FIRE RECORD.
A Toledo Business Block Burned, Involving
Loss of S25O,OOO.

Toledo, O., Dec. 9.-One section of promi-
nent Summit-street block was Quilted by fire, to-
night. The three upper stories were
occupied by w. S Plumer, wholesale
dealer in fancy millinery, and the entire stock
valued at $27. 000 was lost; insured for one-half
its value. The lower floor was occupied by the
American Hand sewed Shoe Company, with a
stock valued at $40 000 insured for $50 000 their
loss is about one-third Of the stock. The loss on
building is about $l50,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09
Fatal Boiler Explosion.

Special TO the Indanapoli Journal
EVANSVILLE, Dec Sat IL o'clock this morn
ing the boiler of the engine owned by the Hen
derson Bridge Company and employed in driv-
ing piles, two miles this side of Henderson on
the Indiana side exploded, killing Jas. Wilkes
instantly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-09

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VINoENNEs, Dec. 8.%Blitehel Dubois fatally
stabbed Adoiph Nowatski, tonight, near the
heart, from the effects of which he will die.
The two men were te&msters, and became in
Volved in quarrel. Dubois was at once arrest
ed and lodged in jaiL