Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-12-19

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.


ADJOURNED VILLAGE MEETIsG.--At the adjourn
ed village meeting, On Monday evening, Charles
Chaplin was unanimously elected Chief Engineer Of
the Fire Department, under the act Of 1867, in
amendment Of the village charter.
A committee, consisting Of Charles Chaplin, Dam
iel Kellogg and Arnold ]. Hines, was appointed to
draft an act, to be presented to the next Legsla-
ture, bringing the fire department under control
Of the village, instead Of having it lodged with an
entirely different organization ms at present.
FInB socIgrr.-The Fire Society in this village
met at the Brattleboro House on Tuesday evening,
when the following officers elected for the
suing year
erk,-Larkin G. Mead
Udrden,. Charles Chaplin. James II. Ester
brook, S. NJ. Wait, Rufus Pratt, Keith White, Geo.
Newman, E. J. Carpenter.
committee was appointed to amend the by
laws il, in their judgment. they needed revision,
and report the same to future meeting to be call
ed as as possible.
LARGE PoKKERs. MIR. Benjamin Besls Of West
Brattleboro, killed a hog last week, seventeen
months old that weighed 775 pounds. II 1.-THE Ar
gus had raised him he would have been n regular
buchanan" hog.
Mr.. Samuel Brown, Of williamsyille, recently
slaughtered pig the day it was eight months old
that weighed 800 pounds. Mr.. Brown takes the
first premium.
RAILROAD CHANGES The Vermont g. Massach-
usetts Railroad Corporation will run but three
freight trains per week over their road until fur
Their notice. Their trains will leave Brattleboro
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and Boston
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
The passenger train over the same road and the
down passenger train in the morning from Bellows
Falls. leave the depot in this village together, Mt
$50 A. NJ.
The Cheshire and Sullivan Railroads run one Of
their passenger trains in connection with their
freight rain the present winter.
There seems to be general reduction in the
number of trains nearly all the railroads in this
vicinity. The present depression of business has
diminished the travel and freights.
BRrcxExRfpcs Coal Or LANP.-we have tried
Church Burnham's Patent coal oil lamp for
burning Kerosene and Breckenridge coal oils, and
find 1t the best Office lamp we have used. The
light emitted has great body and it is steady, with
out flicker, and free from all unpleasant gases
The great merit Of this lamp is its cheapness the
same amount Of light casting not more than one
fourth much MS that from ordinary burning fluid
We advise our friends to give this light trial.
Mr.. S. Z. Brewer is at the Revere House with
al. l. 4 .-.ltA l..
psciy to al who have interest in the matter.
JouN L. DIcKERNAS, NJ. D., died at his residence
in this village, Tuesday morning. He was a ma
tive Of this village and had been in the active prac-
tice Of his profession for nearly half century, He
was much esteemed rs a citizen we'll as physi-
clan. lie was nearly 6s years Of age.
HArp TrNEs.-we have received a photograph
from j. L. Lowell. of Amherst, Mass, formerly Of
this village, representing man in n seedy, dila-
pdated condition, with his last dollar in hand, and
that worthless bill 1t indicates the present con-
diton Of many persons just at present. The pic
ture, as work Of art is worthy Of all praise.
y The arrest Of Kemplin and Slate, in this
village last week, he's led to other discoveries Of
the whereabouts Of thieves and receivers of stolen
goods. Dwight Pervcre, Henry Hastings aud Je-
sephus Slate. have been arrested in Franklin Coun-
ty and lodged in Greenfield Jail. The Greenfield
Gazette says that from " information thus far OBJ
tanned, it is probable that there is gang of ten or
twelve in number, connected together in their de-
predations, who have committed all the burglaries
about here for the last year so, going back as
far as the robbery Of Lymans store and it is hoped
that the clue obtained will lead to a revelation
Of the WHOLE
The Gasefie also says that q" the chicken thieves
who desolated the hen-roosts about here Of late,
have been discovered, as will be manifest in due
time ditto ss to the chaps who made bonfire of
the judges stand on the ground. There is a
fair chance for general day Of reckoning with our
rogues."
SAD ACCIDENT IN AsuUELor.-A very sad affair