Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-03-04
EDW ARD G. DANA.
General Vermont News.

| Rev, W. =. Smart OF Brondin presided and
DR.. and Mrs Phillips were presented by the
| visiting clergymen with u small table OF
oNyN and gold.
| With the recent closing contract the long
desired construction of water sys EN- for
the village of Chester /, assured. \ reser-
| voir will be constructed some two miles dis
taat from the village, which will be fed by
natural springs and the water brought in
Il large main lo Chester Several hydrunts
will be constructed for fire protection. The
cost of the undertaking will he S30. 900. and
IN work will be commenced ut once.
Mrs. Susan skinner Cramcr. u descend
ant OF Richard, the 10th governor OF YER
mont and daughter of Mark Skinner aud
| Elizabeth Williams Of Chicago, passed away
very suddenly recently. Mis-. Cramer hnd
b zen semi-invalid for some months. but was
not considered to be in any danger until
noon Of the day she died. Like her father,
| Mrs. Cramer was devotedly attached to Man
chester. VT, and with her husband and chill
dren had been frequent visitor there.
Herman A. Buck. postmaster ut Troy, was
brought before United States Commissioner
| John Young recent Y by United States Mar
sha Field charged with cmbcazling postoiilce
| funds by issuing money orders without funds
| To pay them to the amount Of nearly sliOO.
, Buck waived examination and was held in
$500 for his appearance ut court. John
Gar,lynr of North Troy furn shed bail. Tho
mon"y has been covered back into tho
| United States treasury, which accounts for
| til. small bail.
Charles w. Russell n well known business
man Of Bennington, while taking dinner ut
II hotel in lioosick Falls recently was choked
| by II piece Of fried potato. which lodged in
his throat. He tried there to dislodge it but
was not successful. He returned home and
| physciuns tried to remove it the next day.
BY that time the throat was so intamed thnt
it could not be done ut Bennington and he
was taken to the Troy City hospital. Tho
s;ruction WAS removed by cutting through
the tissues of the neck
Rev. DR.. J. Clement French, pastor OF the
Park Presbyterian church at Newark, Nj,
has just died in that city after an illness of
more than two months. DIR. French was
born at Barre, VT, on Mays, 1882. He grad
uated from Williams college in 1853. Ho
| completed II course in the Union Theological
seminary in New York in 1855, and in 1875
the degree Of doctor of divinity was con-
ferred by Williams. He held pIstorates ut
B.ookine. Mass. and at Il number of
rhlrchrs in Brooklyn. In 1879 he accepted
III raI to the Park Presbyterian church.
Rev. John Henry Hopkins, who spent his
youth in Burlington has been unanimously
called to the rcctorship of tho Church of
Epiphany in Chicago as the successor OF
BlShop-elect u. N. Morrison. His grand
father was the first bishop of Vermont and
his father u preacher and educator OF dis
liz. 'tion. Tue son graduated from the Uni
v'rsity Of Vermont in 1888, and then engaged
in the ilre insurance business until 1857 En-
terinsthe theological seminary In New York,
ne graduated in 1880 He was assistant for
II I me at Calvary chapel in New York until
he was called to Chicago
The leading professional and business men
of Braulehoro joined in letter which was
presented to Rudyard ipling by personal
friend. The letter expresses qualification ut
Mr.. kipling return TO this country and the
wish that he will visit Brattleboro and make
his residence there AS heretofore. The letter
also states that tn" siyners would like to
give II dinner and reception there in his
honor ON any date that he may name This
letter is called ont by statements which have
appeared IN regard to the relations between
Kipling aad his brotherin-iaw. The SYM
pathy of the people there Is entirely with
Mr.. kipng.
I h. St. Johnsbury town liquor agency has
dohe thriving business the past year, but
the matter is explained in part from the fact
that several OF the nearby towns OF this
equity have abolished the town agency sys-
tenn. and. consequently, the "sick people
fthosc sections have patronzed the st.
Johnsbury agency whenever 'medicine'
has been required. either during illness or
ha ing tim" At the beginning of the year,
III, agency had on hand liquor valued at
S6il.5O: during the year, lituor valued mt
S7509. 3G has been bought; rent, agents sal
AIRY, license and other expenses amount to
$3.50, and the years business figures n bal
ance to profits something like 1912.
In its annual report to tho taxpayers of
Montpelier the city council estimates the re-
ceip,s for the year ensuing as 79,407 and
the estimated expenses are S78, 800. The liza
bilites Feb. /, 1899, were MS follows: NJ. Il
W. II. II. II. bonds, $4,000; water works
Green Mount cemetery fund, $5Ol9.55;
bridge bonds. SIT, 900; funding bonds, $l7,-
500; street improvement bonds, $4,000: due
sinking fund, Sl7425; temporary loans. ST.
500: total, $l53, ,JS6.9O less cash in treasury,
$204o34; less uncolectel taxes, $lS7.56;
total s22sG9O; net liability, Sl5l, $50. The
net liability last year was sl7, 1854 less
than the above igures.
The sui. of l.. J. Hayes of Bellows Falls,
against Conductor Lyman of the Rutland
railroad forthe alleged conversion of a mile
age book was heard before Justice g. H.
Williams in Bellows Falls recently. A jury
was empanelled and rendered verdict In
favor of the plaintiff. The railroad company
took IN appeal and will carry the case to
the higher courts for a decision, the hear
ing having no bearing on the case as ques-
tion of law. The case has excited much
attention throughout the state and Is most
important one hingng on the alleged right
OF II passenger to travel on mileage book
i sued to another party and used In viola
tion If the companys contract and con-
TIA y to the established rules and regulations
OF the road.
Bishop Hall has made his appointments
for Lent as follows: First Sunday, February
holy week. st. Paul's church, Burlington;
second Sunday February 26, Vergennes; third
Sunday, March 5,Northiield; Monday, March
3. Barre; fourth Sunday, March ~, st.
Albans; fifth Sunday, March 10, Middlebury;
sixth Sunday. March 26, Rutland; holy
week, March 27 to April /, Bellows Falls;
Gaord a The S Sshop viii assSHs9 mshs Ss annual
spring visitations as follows: April to IL
Bennington Arlington, Manchester Centre,
st. Johns ury. Lyndonvile, Island Pond,
Newport, North Troy. Richford, East Berk-
ahire, MONTGOMERY Enosburgh Centre,
Enosburgh Falls, Bakersfield, Cambridge,
Jericho Fairfax; May 81 to %, Burlington,
WinoOski and Shelburne.
While the little school on the Chelsea road
in the town OF Williamstown was going
through the exercises Of the last day of the
term in walked Deputy Sheriff Nichols Of
WILLIAMSBURG, accompanied by Police Ser
geant J. I. O'Dowd Of Manchester, N. II.
I'm afraid you will have to leave your
school, said the sergeant to the teacher,
L. s. Tewksbury. II want you to come
with me to Manchester, N. H., where. you
are wanted for stealing bicycle Tewks-
bury objected, but when told he would be
uuiiged otherwise lie in the Williams
town lookup for two or three weeks
he went along wi h the officer. The offence
for which Tewksbury is wanted is the alleged
theft of a bicycle in Manchester last April,
which 1t is claimed he rented OF dealer and
later pawned for Sl2. Tewksbury has lived
in various parts OF Orange county for Il
number OF years and was a volunteer inem-
ber Of Company F last summer. He has an
estimabie family who are now living in Viii
Jamestown. Officers and teachers left the
school without dismissing it, and the schol-
ars locked on Mt the proceedings in open
mouthed wonder. Tewksbury has been
teaching the school since last fall.
Texas Stricken With Meningitis.
Fort Worth, Tex, Feb. 27.--Texa3 IA