Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1884-02-27
VERMONT.

A fish worm, i - inches long was
found on the snow in Brattlcboro the
other day, and no fellow can tell where
it came from.
You would hardly believe it, but it
is fact, that the Jews resident in
Burlington have synagogue, pre-
sided over by Il Rabbi, and hold rcgo-
lar services every Sunday.
The knitting mill Of Geo. \, Wat
ties, ut Bennington, was burned Fri.
day morning last, Loss, $4,000;
insured, S22, 900.
Clark p Whitney, who tried to
kill himself at Westminster, has been
sent to the insane asylum.
A Burlington man is lccturing ON
"thc day we are living in" Some
people in that vicinity live mostly in
the night.
There are G0OO bushels Of potatoes
for sale on one road in Jericho Center,
in a distance of two miles.
John +. Tyler died in Brattlcboro
from blood poisoning. lie cut off Il
finger while choppig kindling three
weeks ago, then caught cold and
crysipclas followed,
The dwelling belonging to the estate
Of the late Hon. A. b. Gardner in
Bennington Center, was burned on the
morning Of the 10Th Loss $4,000;
insured.
Apmty of IIungorions, who have
been working around among the farm
crs in Addison county for the past ten
or eleven month, having laid up $50
or 800 each, started for their native
country again last week.
1t is stated upon good authority that
there is Il school district in Bennington
which has a population Of lorty-cight
children of school ace, and the average
attendance upon school for the year
has been four.
Herman Post Of lIincsburg has I'M
ported span of bay Clydcsdalc mares,
two and three years old, and weighing
fourteen hundred and sixteen hundred
and ten pounds respectively. They
ar2 from Scotland,
john C.. SAKE, the poet, now sixty
eight years Old, is gradually growing
weaker at his home in Brooklyn, n. Y.
\ Vermont man has Il hen 80 years
Old The other day hawk stole it
but after al hour came back with a
broken bill and three claws gone, put
down the hen and took an old rubber
boot in place ofit.-L Boston Post.
George NJ. Colt, aged 80 years,
fatally shot himself twice just
bcIow the heart while alone at his .
home in Bra,ticboro. Friday. in fit
Of dependency. He had been in poor
health Tor some time. lie was an old
soldier and odd Fellow,
\ negro named jackson, aged 10,
Of Castlcton, was found frozen tc dcata
in Il barn at Poultncy recently. The
body lad been there some time.
Harding Moore, Of Montgomery,
was fined S., with S27 costs besides, !
for beating lis wife, got bail. promised
to do better. and is again living with
her happy as eyer.
A portion Of the members Of the
Congregational church of Winooski |
have locked the church against the
pastor. the Rev II, Newman Wright,
claiming that he has been too attentive
to young ladies in his flock, though he
has Il wife and five children. lie has
served successfully in the ministry OF
the Episcopal, Methodist and Con-
churches.
As Il son of VIM, Dudley. OF Mid
dlcbury Springs, was leading Il horse
that had been newly shod across a
piece of ice. he slipped and fell; the
horse also went down, and in getting
up stepped on tic boys hand, cutting
a hole with the cork Of his shoe clear
through his hand.