Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-11-26
General Vermont News.

| Midllebury is to have new laundry soon
| Joseph Duhes of Newport Is dead at the
age OF -.
| There were so eases Of measles at one time
| In Danyilie recently.
There are now $50 prisoners in the house
of correction at Eutiund.
Frank sullivan of Rutlani was shot in
| the leg while hunting recently.
Mrs Mary Halley Of Gassett died recent
ly at the ripe old age OF So years.
! The annual banquet OF Mt. Sinai temple,
Mystic Shrtners, was held Nov. II.
The; q is II great revival In progress in
the Methodist church at Hancock.
building association has been organized
At Chester with +. W. Pierce as president.
u. W. Weston of Montpelier has had his
collar bone broken while playing football
Revival meetings are being held II, Brad
ford by Evangelist Giiinm aad Singer tro-
| we'll.
A tramp was arrested NJ Bellows Falls
last week for stealing copper wire from
dynamo.
Tine Methodist aud Christian churches of
Woodstock are uniting in holding revival
mcrlings.
DR. Abrl Brown Of Newport Is dead at the
age Of 81. He was IA pvActicing physician
for 80 years.
4 concrete walk has been bu 1t from Pitts
ford To ritlsfurd Mills by private parties ut
cost Of $1,000.
In the Rulland cointy court two farmers
were fined for selling hard cider. one s"'. Il
aud the other Sl5.Gl.
Sheffield has experienced gennlne re-
viva under the prelchlng OF DR.. Duluiu
and l3 have been converted.
Ned Larkin was severely injured at thes-
ter recently by the breaking down Of stag
ing ON which he was painting.
The Starkstoro cooperative creamery re-
ceives about $500 pounds Of milk daily and
paid 30 cents u hundred for milk.
Rev. DR.. W. }. Harris. who has been state
missionary for six years. has been appointed
rector of the Episcopal church at Barre.
George Bropy of Mendon was caught
while crossing the elevator of a store in Rut-
land, where he was trading, and fatally in
jured.
Frank Cooley aud john Winters Of hut
land have been arrested, rhuIged with steal
ing $3.50 from Mrs. Sarah Chatterton OF
that city.
Henry Graves of Benson was found dead
in bed recently. He had evidently been
dead some two or three days when found.
He was ~.
Rev. Il. W. G. Hill Of New Bedford. Mass,
has accepted call to the Union Congrega-
tional church at Proctor and will begin his
duties Dee. l.
Some one tore down the flag OF j.. Bart
Cross or Montpelier Halloween night and
he offers reward of $40 for the arrest Of
the guilty party.
The New England magazine for November
contains "a nrnibsnlv illust "a tAl nrtipla
Montpelier, the home of Admiral Dewey, ny
Hon. Hiram Huse.
Ex-Governor Roswell Farnhum Of Brad
ford was severely injured by falling from u
platform Il. Pampanoosuc station. He sui
frred conclusion Of the brain.
The Montpelier Daily Record has started
In on its second year. The publisher says
II has lieen Il gratifying success and that the
outlook for the future is brigh'
Mrs. Lewis Rockford Of Bellows Falls was
found dead in bed recently. Her husband
had worked all the preceding night IN the
paper mill and returned to find her dead.
Two MontpeIicr men engaged in II free
fight recently over little debt Of 95 One
came out with u broken arm AMI the other
looked as though he had got In rang" Of
government mule.
Curt. kibbee of Randolph Con.ra, left his
meat cart recently to 90 into house VIII ,n
the team became frightened ant ran. The
!.art was reduced to Einhiing wood and one
horse WAS killed.
Mrs. Susanuah Green, widow Of Oliver
Green of Richmond aged 60 years was
struck by au engine on the highway cross
Ing in the village while on hef way HON"
from church sunday and instantly killed.
Samuel Noyes. vino was oa lily inlnre by
the oyerturning OF his carriage in II wash
t,uf Rannjnvtnn ra,.putlr. Is Sllll Il
serious condition. His WIFE, who was also
Injured at the same time, is a serious con-
diton.
Miss Lucia NJ. Gilbert. one of the best
known teachers in western Vermont, is
dead, aged 66. She was the granddaughter
of Rev John Ingersoll, Ole Of the early
ministers in Pittsford. She had taught in
Castleton, Pittsford Royalton etc.
John Kipp of Newport was accidentally
with a revolver. The hall entered near the
nose. DR.. McI.eay, assisted by DR. Blanch-
ard, probed the wound and took out the
bullet aud he will recover. He supposed it
was unloaded
Hugh Henry of Chester, the U. \. pension
agent for Vermont and New Hampshire. Is
considering the desirability Of moving the
office from Concord. N. H.. to Montpelier or
some other Vernon: city where it will be
more convenient uuu pcttVl
the business.
Abel Porter of Dnxbury and a young lady
accompanying him were thrown from their
carriage recently near MiddleseX, the horse
being frightened by the cars. Both MIR.
Porter and his companion We're dumped in
the road and narrowly escaped the river.
The team went into the river and the horse
was drowned.
Rodoephns Sunderson, "A brother OF Charles
Sandnrson Of Milton, who died at Battle
Creek, Mich, recently, is thought to have
been murdered. His body has been exhumed
and the stomach sent to chemists. His
widow has been arrested. She is only %
and no was over 90. Broken glass il alleged
to have been fed him with his food.
John Bean of Burton has 4 curiosity in
the shape OF a lump of maple sugar which
was made over seventy-twO years ago by
his father. Samuel Bean. 1t was taken from
a tub OF sugar and weighs five ounces. Age
has not seemed to hurt its sweetness at all,
and aside from being rather crumbling to
the touch, a person could not judge but
that 1t had been made this year.
Under the new law just signed changing
the time of holding county court sessions so
that they will not interfere with the sessions
of supreme court. the change will be as fol-
lows: Addison, Windsor, Orange, Benning-
ton. Calcdodia and LamoiIle county court
sessions will now be opened on first Tues
day after first Monday in the months OF De-
cember and June; in Rutland Washing
ton, Chittenden, Essex, Windhnm, Franklin
and Orleans counties on the first Wednes.
day after the first Tuesday in the months OF
March and September; in Grand Isle county
on the first Tuesday after the first Monday
In the months Of January and August. The
dates OF the convening Of the supreme
court sessions have also been advanced two
weeks, being on January "a, May 8, and
October "a. 1899.