Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-02-18


Hc singeth it night, us well ms day,
To bill collector and tramp and bore
The editor singcth it DER and Ger,
For he fceeth the chilly, searching blast
And fireworks of his song are, first and last,
6 -, shut that door,"
-[BoSton Post
Mr.. Fred NJ. Whitcomb has hired
and moved into the +. A. Smith house
(whcrc John Fuller livedD on the hill
overlooking Central street. This is a
nice house, and pleasantly and central
ly located.
Lorenzo d Kidder, who stole horse
from James Bates, in Hartland, and
has just served a six years sentence
for it in the States prison, was re-
arrested, on Thursday, on emerging
from that institution, on an old charge
of horse stealing in Orange county,
He was brought here the same day by
deputy sheriff G.. II. Guernsey, and
delivered up to jailor Hewitt for safe
keeping until he has his trial. Horse
stealing is not success in Vermont,
and if any fellow has u mind to 90 in
TO the business. our advice TO him is
the same as Punch's was to the young
man who was about to get married.
"Dont." Mr.. Hewett has two of the
fraternity now as boarders.
Mrs. Joseph Harvey of Pomtret
met with quite an accident in this
village Friday afternoon. She hitched
a colt that sho drove in front of Danas
store, and in her absen &C, it became
frightened by couple of dogs chasing
each other, and rared and kicked,
making total wreck of the sleigh,
but did not got away from its fasten-
ing, being seized by Fred Sherwin and
another man. 1t made Mrs. II. a
little nervous, and fluent in speech
for her.
SIGNS OF SPRING. The sun strikes
warmer on the south side of buildings,
and in the middle of the day the snow
melts a little; the loafer vacates his
seat on the cracker barrel in the
grocery for sunny corner on the
street, where he can swap lies with
his brother loafer from the country;
the man with the saw and buck on his
shoulder, vending his way with mcasur-
cd steps, for the greenwood pile; the
swill merchant on the street; the good
housewife preparing the Spring med-
cine for her sold man. and the mer-
chant looking up his remnant stock Of
last years garden seeds to palm off on
an unsuspccting public, are few Of
the cayly signs of Spring.
One of the worst storms for years
visited these shores Monday afternoon,
and continued during the night with
undated fury. About It foot of snow
fell, with heavy wind blowing at the
time, which whisked the snow this
way and that, piling it from to 3)4
feet high, as to locality. 1--WE put on
the half foot so nobody would think we
lied about it.) The mails were all
thrown out of time. The New York
mpil due here ut s a. M, did not ar
rive until p. m, a snow plow aud
two engines managed to get over the
Woodstock r. II. in the afternoon,
Tuesday, and returned 10 the Junction
when tie mail train came up.
We had very interesting letter
from our "black republican" friend,
Hon. Prosper Merrill, this week, who
is sojourning for his health in the land
of balmy breezcs and orange blossoms,
at Jacksonville, Fla. He basks in the
sun on the veranda of the "Windsor, "
eats oranges and bananas, while the
gay and sportive alligator Ito be a
republican voter down there in the
near future) smiles on him in the dis
STANCE, and the cockroach and the bed
bug lays for him nights. No place is
perfect in this imperfect world. lie
says business is lively, hotels full Of
guests, that the roses blossom and
give forth pleasant odors the same as il
Blaine had been elected President
We know he is well from the remark
he makes :-''Send me the lying AGE.
This sounds like the social and political
discussions we used to have before the
election of Cleveland and Hendricks. -
Somehow we like Prosper.
The Northwest develops an extra.
ordinary number of billiards. ant
snow storms, this winter, We DON
object to this, but we do object t'
having them packed off East the mo
ment the Northwest gets through will
them. This isn't fair.