Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-08-20
General Vermont News.

| correction,
Isaac Gould, a we'll known resident of
| Dover. is dead.
Barre is SO quiet that deer appear in
the city limits.
Dr. L. A. Smith aspires to represent
Brandon in the next legislature
The Merchants association OF st.
Johnsbury now has 725 members
The barn of George Fairbanks at Sax
toms River was struck by lightning and
burned.
The date Of the Northheld fair is Sep
tember 2O-23. A new feature will be a
coaching parade.
During the great thunder storm at
St. Johnsbury 4.95 inches Of rain fell by
actual measurement.
Walter f.. Ranger of the Johnson Nor
nal school is candidate for state super
| intendent of education.
There are so Smiths. 80 Browns, "a
Joneses, 30 McDonalds, in Barre city, ac-
cording to the new directory.
A crested heron shot at Queen City
park recently by w. II. Craven meas
ured 73 inches across the wings.
John Wheeler of Bethel has pet in
| a female deer that spends considerable
| time on the lawn in front of his house.
w. j. Strong, who has been teller in
the Farmers bank of NcrGennes the
past five years, has resigned to engage
| in business.
Mrs Frederick Billings and family,
who have been travelling in Europe for
six months, have returned to their sum-
mer home at Woodstock.
Allen c. Cummings, principal OF the
| Aver, Mass, high school has been secur-
ed to succeed Professor A. l.. HAIRY as
vice principal of st. Johnsbury acad-
emy.
The Soldiers Aid society of Brattleboro
is looking for Il lecturer to whom they
paid Sl4O for the Red Cross society. The
latter never heard of the man. He Sc
cured about as much more from individ-
uals there.
Nermont's great state exposition at
| Billings park August 80 to september
will fully recognize those two elements
of modern progress, the cycist and his
Wheel. There will be a mammoth par
ade Of cyclists and races galore.
Barns are not good places for amateur
photographic studios as w. II. Weston,
of Montpelier. has discovered to his Sor-
row. The fire destroyed the barn and
burned three horses and property 20 the
value of $4,000. Insured for $1,000 i'll
Union Mutual
Arthur w. Tarbcl, 81, of Mount Hol-
ly, brakeman on the afternoon mixed
train for Bellows Falls on the Rutland,
was thrown down between two of the
cars at Chester His left leg was cut off
just below the knee and his right foot
was crushed so that amputation was
necessary,
The managers of the Burlington fair,
to be held at Howard park, Sept. 60. an
nounce some fast hotDes as entered in
the ee-forall pacing race. Among
them Lottic Lorraine. 205la; Ole Hutch.
2:1lA; Kentucky Star, 2:0Sh; George
st. Clair, 2:l0A Barney, 20S, and AM
bulator 2l0R.
A former well known BrattIeboro boy,
who rose to the rank of sergeant in the
EStoy Guard, is now saluted as Captain
Walker at Chickamauga. He is in COM
mand of the Portsmouth. n. H., COM
pany. After going from Brattleboro a
few years ago Walter f. Walker was
elected second lieutenant and later first
lieutenant, in which position he went to
Chickamauga.
Thomas Billings is again calling on
friends in Orange county after an alb
scnce of four years. He was born in
Highgatc in 1900, and is stifl travelling
around the country on foot. standing
erect and with an elasticity in his step
OF Il young man. He was reporter in
congress for the National Intelli-
g"ncer during Jackson's administration
and has a gold headed cane which was
presented him by Henry Clay for re-
porting his speech accurately. He is
well versed in the history of this and
foreign countries, in fact is travelling
encyclopedia of knowledge
The Democrats of Windsor county
have nominated the following ticket
Senators, Don C. Pollard, Cavendish;
c. A. Fitzpatrick Hartford; George II.
Tupper, Bethel; side judges, T.. b. Bald
win, Sharon; A. B. Hutchinson Chester;
sheriff. Fl. II. Miller, Hartland,; states
attorney. S, t. Emery Cavendish; county
commissioner b. NJ. Newton. Reading:
judge of probate, Windsor district, Levi
Rice, Springfield; Hartford district, Har-
vey n. Bruce, Pomfret; county COM
mittee, o. &. Sawyer, Sharon; James
Conlin. Windsor: Frank O'Neil, White
River Junction; Col II. Peabody, Ando-
yer; Will d. McMaster, Wood stock
The resolutions reaffirm the Chicago
platform.
Jason Hinman prominent lawyer of
New York who was found dead in bed
was born in Holland in 1862. He was
educated at st .Johnsbury. and was
graduated from Amherst college in 1865
His start in life was in a publishing
house in New York, where he passed two
years, and after being admitted to the
bar he entered the law firm of Merrill &
Rogers. Afterward he continued his
profession alone. He was a United
States assistant district attorney un-
der Wallace Macfarlane and chairman Of
the tariff reform club of New York city.
He was a member of the Bar a ociation
the Reform club. Amherst alumni and
the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He
is survived by widow and a son.
The two-year-old child of George Con-
nor Cf School street, Montpelier has met
with a peculiar accident. 1t had in its
hands large glass bottle, in which had
been placed Il box of toy caps. There was
also n small piece of lead in the bottle.
The child ratified the contents of the
bottle so much that some of the caps
exploded. setting fire to the others. The
bottle was corked and the explosion
blew it to pieces. The child had the
bottle tied up in the end of its dress.
which was torn into shreds. Several
pieces of the glass struck the child in
the face. barely missing its eyes. The
little tot was SO dumbfOunded at the
explosion of the bottle that 1t forgot for
a few minutes to cry. Its escape from
a mcre serious injury is looked on as be-
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