Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-07-23
General Vermont News.

new city building at Barre.
The sawmil Of NJ. J. Hapgood at Peru
was burned recently. Loss $1,000
Thirty one persons Joined the MethO-
dist church at Bennington JulyS,
New camps :, of V. will soon he orsan-
ized at East Barre and Bakersfield.
William Marshall. we'll known citi-
zen uf Middletown, is dead. aged -.
Hon. h, =. George OF West Faree is
able To be out after Il long ana severe
illness.
W. r. Scott, for 1. years publisher of
the Barre Enterprise has moved To Bur
lington.
Both Brattleboro hotels were raided
recently and one bottle of beer was seized
hi each.
Burt Hooker 10 years old, fell from
load of singles at East Montpelier and
was run over.
Hon. J. G. Mccullough is a candidate
for the senatorial nomination in Ben
ninSton county.
The We'more & Morse granite COM
pany of Montpelier has declared Il diyi
dend of : per cent.
The Barre city and the Spring Water
companies are having II big fight over
the water question.
Admiral Dewey has acknowledged the
receipt of the vote of thanks rendered
him by the legislature.
A new pest has apepared in the south
end of the state in the shape of worla
hat -. at,
ID. V. Page of Braintree was thrown
from IL load of hay recently and his neck
broken. He was native of Lincoln
George Pettngill of SaXtons river has
been appointed private secretary to Dr.
Albert Shaw of the Review of Reviews.
Thomas Gisborne of Montpelier was
struck in the face by II piece of board
dying from II splitting saw and serious
ly injured.
The Fuller battery of Blattleboro will
be reOrganiZed into an infantry COM
pany and will then offer its services to
the government.
The receipts at the Montpelier post
office for the year ending June 80.
amounted to $l9,7ll. an increase overt the
previous year of $I36.
Senator Morrill, has ordered Il line
monument to be erected at Stratford. He
specified that it he made from Vermont
granite and cut in this state.
The candidates for the chaplain of the
next house are Henry Lincoln Bailey,
minister of the Congregational church or
Middletown Springs, and Rev. A. j.
Hough of White River Junction
An extra freight train of 2S empty
care came into Barre over the Central
Vermont road recently to transport
granite. The next morning 10 of them
We're sent out loaded with granite. This
indicates Il good business in the granite
line in Barre.
Among the list Of wounded at the bat
tie of Santiago is the name of Arthur
McAllister. He is a son Of the Wagner
car conductor, Carl McAllister. Ar
thur was q member of the Ninth Mas
sachusetts volunteers and was wounded
in the left shoulder.
+. e. Pritchard, the Orange county eX-
aminer has arranged for two weeks
summer school at Randolph. beginning
Aug. |. 1t was claimed for the RAN
dolph summer school last year to have
been the most successful in attendance
and instruction held in the state.
Some % years ago resident of Bel
lows Falls owed bill of $40 to a local
physician and was unable to pay ii. He
left town and nothing was ever heard
from him till the other day, when he
showed up and paid to the widow OF the
no pf
the interest.
While driving Thursday morning, Mrs.
A. f. Lamb of Bellows Falls was thrown
from her carriage against tree ana
frightfully injured. The horse was
frightened by lot of boxes left in the
street since the night of the Fourth. She
was a near relative of Mrs. w. b. Wall
of Randolph.
Lewis Sprague was attacked recently
by a full grown deer near ReadsbOrO
The animal ran at him and striking him
on the head knocked him down. 1t then
ran away. 1t is unusual for deer to
make such an assault, and Sprague
thinks that only his sudden appearance
surprised the animal into the attack.
Judge William X. Kibee of Farlee has
just died at Chelsea. aged - years,
months, Ii days. He was indisposed
and did not attend the county court
Friday. John Kibee was highly re-
spected citizen and man of strong in
tegrty and character. He had been
one of the side judges of Orange coun-
tw two terms. j. X. McLane of Top
sham will probably be appointed to sue
ceed him.
John Clark Mellendy. former resi-
dent of Guilford, but now of PleasantOn,
Has, has shown his interest in his old
home in securing fund for the care OF
the Guilford cemetery, by generously
deciding the association strip of land
through the center of the burying
ground, consisting of Il unoccupied lots,
which, with the addition of one given
by Clifford X. Field, will be kept by the
association for plot to beautify.
The death of George w. Reed of
Montpelier removes the last of the
founders of the Lambda Iota society of
the university, nd among his associate
founders were Ex-Governor John Greg
ory Smith of ST. Adams. the poet Chas.
G. Eastman of Montpelier. and John N.
Baxter of Rutland. Among the oldest
living members are Rev. j. Isham Bliss
D. D., of Burlington, Charles Dewey Of
Montpelier, Henry Clark of Rutland,
and John H. Converse, LII. d., Of Phil
adelphia.
Orin Cutler has recently died at Bar
ton. aged Ss. He was living at Green's
bOro at the time of the battle of Platts-
burgh. He distinctly remembered be-
ing taken out into a field and hearing
the firing. After leaving home he went
to Cambridge and lived in the Lowell
family. James Russell Lowell was then
q youth in college. Jared Sparks. Hen
ry w. Longfellow and other were fire.
quent visitors a the house. Returning
to Vermont he married Mary j. Leav-
enworth of Danville May 26, lS40, and
moved to Barton village in 1856. His
business had been that of farmer and
drover. taking stock to Boston.