Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-06-10
General Vermont News.

| The grain and feed stor' OF y. j. Scrihner
| ut Wallinslord has been burned.
Ara Stone, aged 3. wa, ran over by n
| team In Rutland recently and badly bruised.
Thomas Kinslev, one of the oldest nhnbi.
tants OF NorthiicId, is dead. aged 20
a. T.. +. Stnrklry of Wilmington is the
| new editor OF the Bennington Banner.
Martin kiddcr of Rochester got thirty
smart chickens from thirty-onc eggs.
The health of the inmates of the Soldiers
home Is good. and there are very few in the
hospital.
| Miss Anna Burkc died Mt ESSEX Junction
suddenly %! upnplrNy recently while eating
| her dinner.
| The steamer Vermont has been put in
| commission and begun her regular trips on
| Lake Champaign.
Mrs. 7. d. Poland OF WilliamStown has an
English ivy four years old that measures
| $50 feet in length.
| The tenth annual convention Of the Yer
mont State Firrmen will he held at Benning
| toa July ~ and 20.
There is much activity in real estate at
| Silver Lake. Barnard. and several cottages
will be built this wear.
Edwin Dwycr OF Hnrsburg is in Jail ut
Burlington ch Urged with attemp. ed rap" on
Susie Beri-o. aged IL.
CT. Parsons was arrested at Bennington
recently for attempting to skip his hotel bill
and for fraud generally.
Il !s;el 7. Ayers of the Burlington city
hotel was fined 900 and costs of S2O.jl for
liquor selling. He Appealed.
Samuel Hall of Chelsea came near having
his house destroyed by fire r,oentiy,a chicken
broodrr taking fire in the building.
4 Ia, a linn, hoc hnn
bought 10y the Chelsea EIrctri, Light COM
pany for use as an auxiliary lower.
Frank Carr of Middlehury has been fined
- and costs for cruelty TO hogs at Rutland.
II" overloaded the ear. it was claimed.
Rev. George Y.B.iss has been unanimous
W chosen to succeed his uncle, Rev. j. l..
D iSs. as rector of st. Paurs church. BurlinS-
ton.
John Marshall Shaw of Bethel aged "
years. was on deck for work last week. when
in one day he dropped corn for BOSS hills. by
actual count.
George Reyes of Morrtown. while step
ping from his carriage AT Montpelier, re-
Gently. caught his foot in the reins and was
badly injured
Thorn W. Wood. the great Vermont
artist. will iaint II portrait of Admiral Dewey
when he rrtur and p rspnt it :, the KEEL
'oES llDrafy III Mohtl'cll'r
The barn ON the Homer Alyer place in
,, Chelsea has been burned. Mr.. Alser wa
awakened by his house falling OF him and
barely escaped alive. Loss $500.
Judge Thompson ha, granted an injunr-
ton against the Exchange hotel of Mont.
prler. and all tenants anu la>secs, restrain.
ing them from selling liquor ON the premises.
The old board of directors Of the Barre
railroad has been reelected rs follows: W.
A. StowcIl and L. W. Stanynn of Montpeli n.
A. ID. Morse, l.. l.. smith and john Town of
Barre.
George Davis of Bethel was brought be-
fore Justice Adams charged with rape upon
his H. ear-old sister. He waived examina.
tion and was put under $500 bonds, which
were furnished.
W. T.. Ditty of Willinmstown. owns n COW
from which he has sold .75 worth of milk in
The last II months and supplied his family
with milk. During this time the cow gave
| birth to twin calves which MIR. Ditty sold
when four weeks old Tor ~.
Pensions have been granted Vermontcrs
| as follows: Restoration and incranse. OrriD
A. Thomas. dead. Belvidere, Sd to So. in.
crease; Dn Il. own. Brandon, 80 to SO,
Alroy A. Snow, Townsend, Sc to SO; orig
inal. WIDOWS, etc. LivoLa A. Thomas, Bel.
ydrrr. SS.
Joseph Peavey of East Braintree. is
smart old man of Is. Recently he measured
Coca pounds of milk, sowed five bushels Of
barley. went fiv" miles to Randolph with a
load of freight, helped furrowa large gar.
den, ground ten bushels of corn. besides
doing the work around his small place.
T.C. Phinncy of Montpelier scrgcant-at-
arms Of the Legislature. has been an officer
Of Montpelier council, Royal and Select
Masters, for u years. 90 of which he has
served aS their illustriOuS master He was
recently presented with an elegant gold
jewel "as Il testimonial Of the brrthrens love
and affection and II token of their gratitude
for his long and faithful service
Rev. Charles A. Savage minister OF the
Orange Congregational church. whose death
is announced, was born in Stowe In 1859
graduated ut Dartmouth college in 1871,
taught for three years in the academy of st.
Johnsbury and then was appointed professor
| OF mathematics in Robert college. Constan-
tinop!e, Turkey. where he remained for four
years. lie returned to this country in 1873.
and graduated ut the Yale Divinity school
in 1870. He held charges ut Berkeley, Cal,
and Enfield. Mass, and went to Orange in
1890. He married Miss Mary i. Fiske OF
Ncwbnryport, Mass. in 1882, and she sur.
wives him.
Rev. J. b. Cross of Estcyvile, has in.
Ncultu u IutcuI sun, Cutup SltuplS
machine. It is claimed. that takes any kind
of water salt or frcsh or strongly tainted
with minerals. and brings it forth sweet,
tasteless, pure water. These machines he IL
having made in Portland, Me. His second
invention is medicated vaporizer,
that will change the air of u sick
room. it is claimed. greatly to the bene-
fit of the patient in Il very shoIt time.
This is also made in Portland. Me. His No
is a preventative of deafness. which he is
having made in Andover. Mass. His No.
is a cabinet bath tub, portable easy to move,
takes but little room and is so constructed
that person can arrange his bath to suit
his own ideas.
Ten years of petty thievlng is a pretty
long limit to play. but man arrested re-
Gently in Burlington has in his possession
articles. the loss of which dates back a dec
| ade. The man arrested is Lewis Melo, who
lived with his sister On Blodgett street and
did cleaning about the city for different
people. Meo's specially was cleaning
house and the arrest removes him from the
business world at the very height OF
his season. He was arrested while
ut work for Mrs. j. s. Pierson.
A search for tire missing articles was
made at his room and II considerable guam
tity found in IA wardrobe, which was locked.
These were brought 20 the police headquar.
ters and Chief Smiths Office that evening
looked like Il secondhand store, in which
somebody had introduced the side lines
carried by n drug store. The list includes
sponges. chamois skins, purses, diary.
combs different kinds of soap. two or three
folding rules. n neckscarf, pocket knives. n
pair of opera glasses.a watch chain, q cigar
ette case and other things Of a like charac.
ter Much Of the stolen property came from
the store Of j. G. Bellrose, where Melo has
frequently been h red to do cleaning
Among other things was a watch chain
made flom hair, which. together with a
solid silver spoon, had been lost some ten
years ago from the home OF Clarence Hick..
The spoon will complete the set OF twelve
wnich have mourned the loss OF one Of their
number many years. The pair OF opera
glasses were the prop rty OF Mrl. II. T.
Wales, and Melo said he found them in the
|. yard.
Lowell Company Wants More.
Lowell. Mass. June G-At a meeting
| Of company NJ, Ninth regiment, NJ. V. NJ,