Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-29
General Vermont News.

The opera house block, Barre containing
the postonicr. city clerk Office and two
stores, has just been burned. The total loss
Is about 800. 900. The fire started from some
cause unknown in the basement of the dry
goods store of the Il. :. Carrier COMPANY
The lamrs spread rapidly and were in pos
session Of the block before an effective stream
could be turned on. The llrrmen experienced
much delay during the early part OF the fire.
owing to the frozen hydrants The weather
was very cold and this also proved him
drHncr t. them. The postotice was the only
section OF the block that was saved from the
lamcS and this WAS badly damaged bv
water. The Curri"r Go, aud VI. l.. rown" 4
TO-, gru'ers. lost large part of their stock.
Ihe former "nmpaGys loss is practically
total. There is an insurance of Sl6,0OA ON
their stock. Tuwnc 4 Co. loss is estimated
at =5oo0 and i- insured Cor $4,000. The city
clerk saved all his property. The block will
probably bc rebuilt.
The Orleans county musical festival will
be held a. Newport Feb. Ill and promises
to be an exceedingly interesting affair The
conductor will he Professor Blaisdrli Of
Concord. ana his orchestra will also br in
attendance. Mrs shepard has retired from
active serviccns pianist aitera long and hon
ortblr car"rr,bat her place will he ably lillrd
lay Miss VI. Josephine Page of Iaronia. \.
ii. brGVo. Clark oi Boston is to be the haSsu.
Miss Iurlla Wagner of New York is to be So
prauo. and commands the highest salary
ever given II soprano by the association.
Miss Black and Miss Barnes of the Priscilla
quartet. will b. the rontraltos. Miss NJ.
ErncStinr Banks of Boston will br the reader
ri the festival There will bc tour grand
concerts hcsides the promenade Wednesday
evening. The usual rourtrsirs will be-
granted 10y railroads and hotels. c. 4. Ran
nry. Newport, VT. will give full particulars
Thomas McGrccn while crossing the Rut-
land Railroad bridge over the canal at Bel
lows Falls, recently, was struck by the eN-
press mail from Rutland and killed The
body was thrown by the collision into the
canal. 1t tioatrd down the canal into the
boat house, Il distance of 200 yards. and was
sacked by the currents under the gates.
The water was at once shut Oft but extensive
search disclosed only fragments OF the body.
Mr.. MrGreen was II years old and soWc-
what deaf. and it is thought he did not hear
the train. lie was born in Dublin. ireland,
came to Bellows Fails in lSis.'and had lived
there ever since. He was for several years
employed IL II laborcr by the Valley railroad.
and about 10 years ago acted rs bridge
tender for the Cheshire road. For 10 yeuts
past he had done no active work.
Charles 4. Scott has Just died at his home
II, Tyson. He was born January 6, 1919. at
tayendish. His grandfather, Thomas Scott,
was II soldier in the war of 1872. He studied
medicine with DR.. Abraham Lowell of Ches-
ter. and graduated from the Castleton medi-
cal college in 1s43. He commenced the
practice OF medicine in Plymouth in 1874,
and continued until within II few months OF
his death. He was II member of the Yer
mont House of Representatives in 1869 and
1870. nni II member Of the Senate in 1872.
He married Betscy L. Watkins January %,
1915. She survives him. He also leaves
fl.,., r.
New Haven agricultural college, and Charles
H., of Tyson.
The following tale is told as truth of the
daughter of Il Montpelier man, who is for
tunnte in having IL weather prophet In his
family. The prophet is his daughter. and
the sign the family goes by il II little ridge
in one of her ears. Twenty-four hours
before it storms this ridge swelis out After
the storm is over or clearing is in pros
pcct, the lump fades away. 1t has never
been known to fail. When any one Of the
family desire to go off on n journey they
look into the girls ear. and If the ridge is In
its normal shape they can go without any
fear of II storm. The girl is II years of aga
and attends school every day. She will
probably shine in the future as u weather
bureau.
Hon. Rollin j. Jones has Just died ut his
home in West Cornwall. aged 10 years. He
ley and was pioneer in the American mer-
ino sheep industry, and for many years was
the most extensive merino sheep dealer in
the United States. Early in life he took an
active part in political affairs and had al
ways identified himself with tho Republican
party, serving his town rs representative
four sessions. member of tho state Senate
I lhree times. also II member of the cons,itu-
tiOnal convention, and from 1870 to 1874 col
lrctOr of internal revenue for the First dis
trict Of Vermont.
The monument which is being built at
Bennington in memoriam of the Fourteenth
Vermont volunteers will be set upon the
battlefield at Gettysburg next month. The
structure is of Barre granite and will be-
lj 12 feet high. The column and all bases
are circular The pedestal is six feet in
diameter. second base is five. and third four
feet in diameter. The column which Is three
Iret in diameter is II feet high. The inscrip-
ton reads: Fourteenth Vermont Volunteers,
Colonel W. I. Nichols, StannarI's Brigade.
July ana 3. 1868. Killed 10. wounded 7G."
The monument will cost $3.50
A creepy story is floating round the st.
Adams yards and round houses rcgar,iin.
the ghost of the late lamentei Rugg Darby.
You cannot get the boys to say much about
it. but the story goes that Rugs is in tho
habit OF riding on his old engine l07 at times.
getting on when the train is running fail
speed taking his Old seat and remaining
there q weird and silent figure, until he hn,
ridden arenough, when he drops off quietly.
Several very sensible and matter-of-fart
drivers are talking this thing over seriously.
Marshal A. Howe, a Ncwfane boy, n gradu-
ate OF the university of Vermont and former
ly assistant principal of the Bratteboro high
school, will publish some of the results of
his botanical researches in the January
number of the Botanical journal. Mr..
Howe is now taking post graduate course
in botany at Columbia university Before
going to New York. he was instructor in the
University OF California.
Some one entered the barn Of Rollin Tay-
lor Of Bennington recently and taking his
horse hitched it to his wagon and started to
drive away. The horse is balky and ii struck
with whip will stop and remain quiet. II
Is supposed that the would-he-thicf hit the
horse. which stopped in its trucks and could
not be urged ahead. and it was found stand
Ing in the road by a neyhbor who notified
Mr. Taylor.
The latest business change in Woodstock
s the sale by D. H. Freeman to Charles W.
Cox of the stock and fixtures of the freeman
drug and hardware store. Mr.. Freeman has
been in the store nearly 30 years. having
built the block himself on part of the site
Of the old Henry hotel in 1863. Faiiin.
health has compelled him to Withdraw from
active business.
The mill and several smaller buildings
he plant of the Brandon Italian
Marble company at Brandon. have just been
destroyed by fire. The total loss will
amount to !2l 900. The buildings and their
contents wern insured for SIG, 800. The
cause is not known at present. The mills
will probably be rebuilt.
Mrs. Mary HoweLavn is now starring in
ilferent opera houses with local companies
II Germany. under the management of u
musical bureau. She has been in Lcipsir
md is now in Machbury and notices give
highly complimentary opinions of her ap-
)earance there.
Thomas Fitzpatrick of Kirby while dig
,ing foundation for Il dam across small
brook recently. opened hole from which he
ook % snakes.
Three towns in WnIham county report
'ver two feet of snow. which WAS consider
lbly increased by the late storm.
1t is announced that the Vermont militia is
o BE- equipped throughout with new rifles.
he L. :. Springfield, Is caliber.
Woodstock's census January iG. III gave
population of AZ now it is 25Ij.