Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-04-08
General Vermont News.

w. f.. Narney ha been appointed city at
| orney Of Barre.
Miss Margaret Brown Of Rutland, aged 20,
is dead. OF consumption.
Hattie Mason an T.. l.. Wells of Brook
Held were recently married.
Among the recent deaths in Braintree is
that of Mrs. PhTbe Loomis, aged Is.
The lodge ofGood Templars at Lyndonville
celebrated its 10th anniversary ON April ].
| c. W. Martin OF Proctor was severely in
jured recently by being thrown from his sled,
Owing to legal technitail,ies. Rutland is in
| doubt rs to who Is fire marshal OF that city.
Tie tax rate of the village OF North BE l.
| nington just voted Is % cents ON the dollar
Rev. II. VI. Goddard of the Eoyalton Con
! greSational church has resigned his pas
| torate.
W. $. Fletcher will build large two-story
| business block ut ESSEX junction this
spring.
Waldo $. Harwood OF Bennington is prcs-
i"nt of II prosperous Cripple Greek mining
company.
The real estate Of the French estate nt
| Blrre has been sold at auction. over S45OOo
was realized.
Mr. Monahan of Centre Rutland was scr
ously in urel while handling big block OF
marble recently.
Rev. Dr. A. l.. Cooper will retire from the
! Methodist ministry and settle ut randolph,
where he has bought place.
Norman F.Shedd died at Worcester. Mass.
recently. aged so. His daughter is the wfo
Of George A. Hall of Burlington.
The Island Pond Savings bank gives notice
that it will reduce the rate OF interest to IL
per cent. beginning May l. 1899.
Judge A. II. Hubbard and Mrs. S. W. Tay-
lor were recently married ut Mlllbury.
Chester &. Nose of Company Il. LIST Yer
mont. died of typhoid fever recently ut Sac
ramento. cal. where no was employed.
Barre has IA lawyers who are members OF
the bar. and there are Others who dabble
with the law who do not belong to the bar.
Westminster at i;s belated town meeting
voted to refund is indebtedness ut per
! cent and voted a tax of Is cents on the dol
| lar
J. Foster Rhodes of Woodstock lost val
uable horse recently. The animal was i'm
| palrd on Il sharp post in II fence it attempted
| t. jump.
Mrs. Minnie Barker. wife Of Mack Glove
| JOY. proprietor of the Green Mountain Inn at
Stowe. is dead Of Il cancer. She was 81
| years old.
William Langlois of Burlington will spend
| =
! liquor selling. Prohibition is beginning to
| prDh!bi. in Burlington.
Edward Demag of Essex Junction, became
| too ultimately acquainted with II buzz saw
at the bobbin factory recently and carries
one arm in sling.
The Voice Of New York attacks Fort Ethan
| Allen and charges that the officers are run
ming "a canteen'' contrary to law. This the
latter cmphatically deny.
The Mortified 4 Wells River railroad was
obliged to run its snow plows March "a to
| keep the track clean, something unhcard Of
in the history of that road.
Clinton Lunt. u tive-year-old boy. while
PLAYING in the grist mill at North Wiliston,
! recently had one hand drawn into Il cog
wheel by belt, and bndly lacerated.
Private Iugerhan,, the barber at Fort
Ethan Allen. had his hands badly burned
recently in putting out Il fire in the waste
| paper basket into which Il match had care
lessly been thrown.
| There is now standing in Newfane q maple
tree that since the ilities has yielded from
~ to "a pounds of sugar annually. A few
| years ago IA gallons Of syrup were made
from the same tree.
There is u possibility of Il wood alcohol
plant at Bethel. +. I. Arnold. who Is in
| tcrested in this business in tho west saws he
anteed 100 600 cords of wood for ten years.
| BY the recent change in the town lines
Morristown gets lll3 acres valued ut Sll.-
| 1877 from Hyde Park. and Hyde Park gets
| 1882 IL acres valued ut S9l5O from Norris
| town. MorristOwn gains $50 l-2 acres and
$3.50 In value.
Woodstock has sold its interest in the
county buildings to Windsor county. The
part occupied by the town heretofore will
be made into rooms for the county clerk,
Judge of probate, etc. The town will erect
u new building.
| Mrs Alice Blood, who has Just been tried
| in Iowa for the murder of her husband Nov.
| I6. was acquitted on the ground that she
was mentally irresponsible. She and her
husband were natives OF Goshen. Her pres
| rnt condition Is the result of the inhuman
cruelties Of her husband.
j. Simonds, the day clerk at the Addison
House. Middlebury, sustained severe in
jury to his leg the other day. He attempted
the Office when the chair slipped. In trying
to save himself he twisted leg out of joint
and is laid up in consequence.
The state Odd Fellows Home Mt Ludlow
has been criticized as being ''whte ele-
phant," that 1t cost $4,000 n year to run and
had only. four inmates. etc. The Ludlow
Tribtne replies that it only costs $3.50 to
run it. that the tax is less than one cent
week upon each Odd Fellow in the state,
that said tax has been promptly and cheer
fully paid and the order is satisfied with tho
home. II will fill up fast enough in time.
The New Hampshire Weekly Sentinel pub
lished at Keene is 100 years old. In COM
en:oration of the event the publishers is.
sued q handsome centennial number. and a
facsimile OF the first ;.ssue. The Sentinel has
always been an excellent paper, and old ago
only adds to its vigor and usefulness. 1t
enters upon its second century OF existence
with the best wishes OF the newspaper fra
ternity. and the loyal support of numerous
readers
Orrin W. Orcutt, aged 80, died ut Roxbury
recently after few days illness from pneu-
monia. He was we'll known among the older
residents of Washington county, having
been deputy sheriff and sheriff in the county
for 40 years, continuously holding the office
of sheriff in the years Of 1865 and 1866. lie
was born in Roxbury and had lived all his
lifetime there, with the exception OF one
year spent In Massachusetts. For "a years
he was postmaster Of Roxbury, being ap-
pointed in 1861 by President Lincoln and re-
iieved in 1885 by President Cleveland.
The Argus has the following stories con-
cerning the Hoyt's Milk White Flag which
recently filled date In Montpelier. After
reading the big bill boards advertising the
company Ouc ldTlHcE went lutO u nOtel anu
wanted to know where the new creamery
was to be opened. A Montpelier youngster
who had never been to but one show in his
life asked his mamma to take him to the Skim
Milk show. the bills Of which he was just able
to decipher. as he believed it was going
to be fine. The members of the company
we're chatting at the supper table at the
Montpelier House about the Mrs Place case,
referring to the jury and other things about
the case, but not mentioning the case by
name. The arson case jury, Of county court.
was in the room at the same time, and the
deputy sheriff. supposing they were discuss
ing that case went to them and asked them
to refrain from talking about the case as the
jury was in the room. The theatre people
were Il surprised looking lot tor few min
utes.
Bandits CaptuI ed In Cuba.
Santiago. April 4. - Four bandits,
among them Antonio Nunez, a notorious
desperado. were captured five miles from
San Luis after livel? fight with men Of