Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-07-09

Another of our old and estimablS
citizens has been called to join the
majority. Mr.. Charles Dana, who has
been in feebleahealth for few months
with no apparent disease except gen
cral breaking down, of nature, died Sat.
urday last, aged 20 years. His funeral
was attended on Sunday afternoon by
II large concoursc of friends and neigh.
bors, Rev. Mr.. Brodie officiating. Mr..
Dana was widely and tavorably known
as Il citizen, merchant, and business
man generally. He has been engaged
in the mercantile business here from
his youth, always gave his patrons sat
istaction, and consequently retained
their esteem and good will. AS o
Judge of the goods that he dealt in
principally dry goods-hc had no
equal in the country. He was man
Of self-culture and refinement, and a
writer and speaker of no ordinary ab!l-
ity. In religion he was consistent,
faithful and hopeful, always following
the preccpts and teachings of 'the
Pilot of the GaliIcon lake." Death has
taken good man, and the family and
the community mourn the loss.
We have communication before US
rejecting severely and teaching upon the
social, moral, and intellectual character
of the place. The article has eight
paragraphs. In the first the writer
says "that Woodstock is one Of the
most beautiful towns in New England. /"
That's so. The second, ''that the peo-
pie don't take the slightest pains to adj
vertisc this beauty" This is true,
also. Third, "that Woodstock has
given the largest number Of famous
men to the country Of any town Of
equal size in the country" All admit
this. In the other paragraphs, the
writer touches the town on its enter
prise, morals, the amount paid out for
the poor each year, our bonded rail
roadidcbt, that the young Woodstock
ans are not likely to come up to the
standard of their "daddics" under the
present regime, and that something
must be done to remedy growing evils
in our midst, if the town would pros
per. There is good deal of truth in
what the writer says, but it is put in
such personal way that it would not
have thc.desircd moral effect for don't
Bailey say in "FeStus, -
Men might be better if we better deemed
OF them. The worst way to reform the
world
Is to condemn it.
Further on the writer says: "Wood-
stock has temperance lodges, schools,
a public library, and churches in
abundance yet neither temperance,
soberness nor chastity rcisns supreme
here-especially chastity.
Mrs. O. A. Bryant, who was taken
down with q severe pain in the region
of the base of the brain or top of the
spinal column doctors call it spinal
meningitis, about two weeks ago, and
had fingered on the shore of this world
in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES state ever since,
walked up on the other shore and
found she had crossed the river Sunday
afternoon last, aged about G7 years.
The death of Mrs. Bryant is sad in
deed, as Mr.. Bryant is out of his mind
and has been so for three or four years
by softening of the brain, and has
been her constant care, and now he is
left to the care of Miss Hattie, the
youngest child, the others having gone
out into the world to build homes of
their own. Mrs. Bryant was q good
wife, a faithful and indulgent mother,
and an obliging ncighbor. She was
ever found where duty called, especial
ly in the sick room and the chamber
where death had entered, and if she
don't find friends cover there" no.
body will. She had hosts of them here,
and her death is deeply lamented. Her
funeral was largely attende! at 10
O'Clock to-day.
o. G.. Kimball, took from the stihed
joint of Isaiah Benson's horse, one
day recently, a splinter, IA inches
long, j inches wide and inch thick,
which had been in it for 80 days
Mr.. Klmball is an expert and ex-
pericnced veterinary surgeon, in fact
far ahead of the MANY who advertise