Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-12-30

MIS-, ouTuu Ashley.
Mr. Freeman b. Atwood.
G. r. Carlton.
lSJ~ Persons calling for the above
letters will please say, advertised"
WM..D. MCMAsrER, p. M.
We wish the patrons of the AGE a
"Happy New Year.
Rev. Mr.. Tillotson attended funeral
at St. Johnsbury last Friday, and re-
turned in season for the supper at the
parlors in the evening.
There will be no meeting at South
Woodstock next Sunday-not till two
weeks from next Sunday.
The Christmas supper at the Uni
versalist church parors, last Friday
evening, was enjoyed by about one
hundred and twenty-five members of
the society and Sunday school. When
supper was over, huge Christmas
pie was opened, and its contents fur
nished presents for all the children.
Although the pie was nicely made,
there was no dyspepsia in it.
The Annual Meeting Of the Quechee
Valley Pomona Grange will be held at
South Woodstock, Saturday, January
End, at 10 A. Nj.
Our friend of the Kimball (DakD
Index is about as fresh as he was
when he published the "Flea" here,
which died on his hands almost "still
born" He accuses us Of stealing three
or four lines from the Boston Post re-
lating to Dakota's coat of arms. (No-
body but fool will ever steal any
thing from the Index.) We laid no
claim to the item editorially, but SIM
ply inserted it as a news paragraph
AS the old Corinthian Justice told jeff.
kidder, "Young man, you'll know
more when you are older,' but you
get along awful slow.
Captain j. II. Simonds died in
Greenfield, Mass, Friday, Dec. 18th,
and his remains were brought to Wind
sor Tuesday for interment in the new
cemetery. He was the we'll known
proprietor of the Windsor House, of
which he had the management for
nearly forty years, previous to 1882,
when Captain r. j. Cofey became
landlord. Before engaging in the
hotel business he was one of the most
famous stage drivers in the Connecticut
valley. About forty years ago he had
a narrow escape from death. He was
then on the route from Walpole, N.
~ ID. to Windsor. One morning he
drove on to the bridge to cross Cold
River, near Bellows Falls, and when
nearly across, the bridge was swept
away by the ice, and the team and
passengers went into the river. Mr..
\ Simonds grabbed II willow on the
pix and saved himself. Three ladies
wo horses were drowned. A Mr..
pension agent, grabbed
Whitney of this place, "pulled
!or the Shore and had almost got
there, when cake of ice swept her
from his grasp, and she was drowned.
We got the above facts from tie sold
stage man." William Billings" who
was waiting for the Walpole stage at
Windsor the day of the accident. Mr..
Simonds was democrat through and
through, was widely known and highly
respected, and died full of years and
honor, aged 81.
The WEEK OF PRAYER fol-
lowing are the topics for the week of
prayer, Jan. So, 1886, as suggested
by the Evangelical alliance: January
3, Sunday, subject for sermon, "Occu-
py till ! come" Luke xix rs 4, Mon
day, 'Praise and thanksgiving" Ps.
cxvi: Heb. xiii: 10; 5, Tuesday,
'Humiliation and confession" lisa.
Wi: lila, III Cor. vii :G-11; G,
Wednesday, Home and foreign mis-
sions," Zech. iv, Acts x:34-4S; Z,
Thursday, "The church and the fam
ily," Eph. iv: 1-1G, Col. iii 1926 !;
3, Friday, "Nations and govern
ments," Ps. Xxi, Rom. xiii lis {;
., Saturday, "Thc Christian life," |
Cor. Kill.
Mr.. Murray's Adirondack Read
ings" have given greater satisfaction
and are more cordially received by
press and people than any other con-
tribution ever made by him to the pub
lie. Nor is the reason of this hidden.
They are novelty in the Lyceum.
They are not like the Conventional
Lecture and the Readings of the Elo-
cutionists. They deal with actual
characters and incidents of real life.
They are full of wit and humor, and
pathos and description of Nature, and
in his Interpretation of the various pas
sages, his knowledge of them as the
Author, and his training as a public
speaker, enable him to give his audi