Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-09-01
NEWS NOTES,
DOMESTIC.

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II Is probable that another call for S,5-
600, 900 3 per cent bonds will be made dur
ing the second week Of September,
The Edgembor Iron Company of Edge.
moor, Del, has contracted to construct q
large iron bridge over the Missouri river at
Ruo, Wis, on he line of the Chicago, Bur
lington a. Princeton railroad
The steamer Francis Smith, seized at Mac
kinaw by the Am rican authorities has been
released.
An old sea captain thinks that the allan
thus trees in New York parks are p Nisonous
and are the eau Z of many CASES of sickness
A special NEE ing Of the New York Yacht
Cub Will b. held Sept. 10 consider l. ell.
tenant Henn', challenge Tor an ocean race.
Rev. James C. Bee her of Coscob Com,
brother of Henry Ward Beocher and Rev.
Thomas X. Beecher, commit ID suicide at the
water cure at Albany, n. Y, August 2j. by
shooting himself through the head with a
small rife.
Famine is following in the whirlwind's
track in Texas
A special despatch to the journal says that
an arm d mob at Lakin, Kan, kidnappe
aud killed Colonel Sam N, Wood aud c.
Prize p omm mt lawyers over a county
scat fight
The chooner Ella Elliott of Portland is
total wreck at San Luis pass, Texas.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company's re-.
port for July shows remarkable gains
The Delaware & Hudson ,ght depot at
Sara oga has recently lem burned.
Ex-Councilman George Chambers of Pitts,
burg Pa. has decided TO swim the VIII RI
poo at Niagara. He will start next week.
and, If moody interreres, 20 through the
whir pool without cork ,cket, barrel or
anything else
The work upon the models for the oleo-
margarine tax stamps has Teen delayed, and
they wi not be ready for several days. The
deSig is sail o be simply n bull tranpling
n serpent under foot in the centre, whilo
around the margin are III, words "Oleo-
margarine and Internal Revenue" the de-
nomination of the stamp being indicated in
the corners.
Gov Hill of New York has approved of
the action of Mayor Grace in removing Com
missioner Squire
Willie Sells, the Kansas boy who murdered
his family, has been sen, enced to imprison-
ment for life
A Chinese arrested at San Francisco last
week had on coat Of mail that cos $500
Gov. Zuick of Arizona credits Geronimo
band Of Apaches with 300 brutal murders S
Allen O. Myers, managing editor of the
Cincinnati EHQuirCr has been arrested and
held in $1,000 for perjury.
A $1,000, 600 mortgage was recently re-
corded at Poughkeepsie, n. Y, from the
Poughkeepsie Bridge company of New York
and covers Il bridge to be built over thu
Hudson. 1t is given to secur, per cent.
bonds of equal amount to run fifty years.
Prairie fires are raging southwest of Hal
lock, MINI. The thermometer touched lO4s
Wednesday, and the grass i very dry. Sew
eral farmers have been burned out.
During the absence of the commissioner OF
Indian affairs and the assistant secretary of
the same office Miss Minnie Cook is acting
as the head of the Indian Office.
Ex-Chie' Pension Clerk Gays defalcation,
as Certitie TO by the examiners at Pittsburg,
Ohio, amounts to Sll,331. The populations
b gan five years ago. Sums ranging from
so to 500 were taken a most dliy.
Arrangements are in progress for i'dng
railroad between Marbehcad and Danbur5,
O., station on the Lake Shore road The
new road will be callel the Cleveland, Lake
side and Toledo.
Secretary Manning has greatly improved
in health.
General Newton has been appointed c IN.
missioner of public parks of New York city
and has sent in request for his retirement
from the army.
The New York tieup is ended, the men
having accepted proposition of the
company to give the SIX trip schedule a fair
trial.
The New York enginehouses are to be re-
modelled so that their capacity can be
doubled without the cost of rebuilding them.
H. H. Taft of Uxbridc, Mass, has two
curiostics which he will exh bit at some of
the cattl shows this fall--an eight-leggcd
calf and pair of trottng steers that have
made four m les in half an hour.