Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-06-17
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EDWARD G. DANA.
General Vermont News.

$3.50 to close an estate.
William Smith of Barre has been fined 300
Tor illegal liquor selling.
Maude Norris Of Barton fell down stairs
recently, breaking one wrist.
Francisco Barruzzi OF Barre has paid
slOS.76 for illegal liquor selling.
u. u. Haley. the Montpelier tailor, has
failed. Assets, SIS; liabilities, S7sl.
Mathesan 4 Brown OF Barre have just
shipped large monument to Findlay, o.
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Darling OF Groton
will celebrate their golden wedding on July
good farm of 81 acres in good neigh
oorhood in Barnard WAS sold recently for
Sl00.
Edward McNulty of the NJ. Il W. railroad
has been seriously injured while coupling
ears.
There are nfty-nine graves OF soldiers of
The civil war In Chester and two OF the 1917
war.
Alexander Peters Of Barre has paid $40
and costs for second offense of lntoxica-
tion.
The Black river creamery OF Coventry
made 70S3 pounds OF butter the week ending
June 2.
Solomon Buell's dry house and guam
tity of lumber were burned at Hancock re.
Gently.
Oma Ward of West Derby was fined $40
and costs for disturbing religious meeting
recently.
The grand list of Randolph is $3.50 less
than IN 1898. There are $40 polls, de-
crease of 49,
Fifty thousand white perch fry were re-
Gently placed in the head waters OF Silver
lake, BIrnard
The large Chandler mills at Barton Land
ing have been sold to Parker Il Young OF
Lisbon, n II.
Five hundred Italians OF Barre had pie
mic June in grove near that city. Barre
Is cosmopolitan city.
The supreme court has sent the famous
Barney will case back to the Chittenden
county court for retrial.
Alexander Bordo, of Essex Junction, has
been arrested for cruelty to animals and
lodged in burlington jail.
Mrs. Emily Cuss of Rochester, SO years
old. has. within one month, pieced up
quilt containing 20SO pieces.
The little daughter of Dan KIlbourn, OF
Leicester took carboic acid by mistake re-
Gently and died the next day.
Ida. Widow Of Major Richard Smith OF
Chelsea, was married May 23. just one month
from the death of her husband.
George A. Ryan of Sutton and A. Sw tier
have been fined for dealing in liquor lille.
gally +25.Gl and $3l respectively.
Judge +. l.. Alfred of Newport has bought
II beautiful electric yacht which he will run
on Lake Memphremagog this season.
Pearl Flint. 49, and Matte Dunsmore II,
were married at KoXbury recently. They
will live with the bridegrOom's parents.
Fifteen little children from the Home for
Little Wanderers have found homes among
mn IN mar n hp Mpt st al ~
The village water of Bristol has been an
alyzed, and j. II. l.insley says, "Chemically
and bacteriologically, water is OF good quail
ity.'
Harkwick and West Burke parties have got
taste of the temperance law. One man paid
fines amounting to $49.5l, and another was
lined S179.04.
Bellows Falls will have free mail delivery
beginning Oct. l. There will be three car
riers AMI one substitute carrier, with twenty
two street letter boxes and one package
box.
One of the citizens Mt Windham who re-
Gently bought Il farm through which flows
fine trout ook, has put up sign bearing
the legend: Fish and be ID. Worms
behind tho barn.
The new Methodist church at Rutland has
been formally dedicated. The sermon was
by Ensign McChesney, ID. d., of Syracuse,
n. Y. The cost of the edice. ST. 500, was
all pledged before the dedication.
The musical festival at st. Johnsbury was
n financial failure. The deficit is nearly
$500. In every other way it was success
Sousa's band was there soon after and took
over $500 In good money out OF the town.
The Barton lecture course is one Of the
most successful in the state. 1t has $549 In
the treasury and made !l19 the past winter.
The most popular lecturers were r. H. Corn
we'll, ]. b. DeMotte and George Kennan.
Mrs. Nancy Stevens OF Middesex held up
the road commissioners of that town and his
men with Il revolver because they were wild
ening the road in front OF her house. She
was arrested and taken to Montpelier after
u lively fight with the officers.
The sxtieth anniversary OF the marriage
of Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Wilson has just
been celebrated at Corinth. There were
present four children, sixteen grandchildren
ana fOrty-twO great grandchildren. Both
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson were born and have al
ways lived in that town. He is 80 and she
is S6. No deaths have occurred In the FAM
lily for 81 years.
Rev. Henry Cummings and daughter.
Sarah OF STAFFORD, met with very serious
accident recently. They had just started
for Pompanoosuc. At the top OF the mill
hill they met a farm wagon loaded with
tools. The horse became frightened and
running against same logs by the roadside,
threw them ont. Mr.. Cummings right
shoulder was dislocated. both hands badly
cut and received a severe wound over the
eye. Miss Cummings was severely injured
In her right side and her lip cut through.
Both required several stitches to be taken.
DR.. Henry F. Walker Of New York city,
native OF PittsfOrd an the donor OF the
beautiful Walker memorial. is about to pre-
sent to his native village another substantial
token OF his love for his bOyhood home In
the shape of a one bridge over Fur ,are
brook. 1t is to cost sll 900 and will be built
OF native blue stone, which is being quar-
ried in Chttenden.a n new lerige being opened
for the purpose, as Dr. Walker was espe-
cially anxious that native stone should be
used. The bridge will be In the form OF an
arch, and stone will be used entirely In its
construction.
young man giving his name as F. L.
Reynolds came to Randolph recently. He
claimed he was working on the section and
being asked to give an order for his board
produced one bearing Section Boss Nc.
Kenna's name. The same day he did this he
disappeared Reynolds had good deal to
say about the Mayo block fire at Northfield,
which he saw. He claimed 1t was set by
parties who placed a lighted candle In a pile
of cotton and left it to burn down to the cot
ton. In fact. he appeared to know so much
about the origin OF the fire that people be>
came Suspicious VI HIN.
The directors Of the New England com.
pany that founded New England city. near
Fort Payne, Ala. held meeting recently.
There is II little prospect that the property
may he sold and the stockholders get a
small dividend. The options OF Thomas
Cummings and r. J. Hall were renewed fot
90 days at $IOO, 900. Dis patches have since
been received from both these gentlemen
claiming that they had sold the property.
The company has 1900 acres OF land In
Georgia containing valuable deposits Of coal
and iron. The 800, 900 for which the prop
erty is optioned is bit less than the com.
pany paid for it. But it is believed that the
purchasers with the necessary capital to de-
velop the resources OF the land can make the
investment yield big returns.
Spain Not Liable.
Halifax, June 13.-The owners of the
Halifax schooner Ida have received the
of no. Rrifich foreign nffica