Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-03-24
Local intelligence.


ed last week, is for sale by FELTON,.
L. X. Fuller and wife left town on Mon
day last on a two months trip TO Calfor-
mia.
Those oranges from the store of Il. l..
Cooper, in the Town Hall building, receiv-
ed the other day, were the best we have
tasted this season. Thanks.
Thompson & Ranger have received
new supply of the Diamond Gold Specta-
cles,-a most valuable article. Also Il new
supply of the Fountain Gold Pen.
Ferdinand Tyler has bought of the Ma
than Woodcock estate the land adjoining
his machine shop and milestone brook
bridge, at the lower end of Main street.
Price paid, $4,000.
Edwin Earl has bought the Wolcott
House in Waterbury, Ct, and will take
possession April l. This house is located
near the railroad depot, and is one of the
best hotels in Il city.
Our new dentist, DIR. G. S. Clark, pre-
sents his card in another column. The tes-
monials he brings are of the highest char
acter, and we trust the public will award
him fair share of patronage.
| The lecture on Saint Patrick, on the
evening of the day consecrated to his men,
DRY, by Rev. r. j. Halpin, is highly spoken
of by those who heard it. Unfortunately,
our reporter was not among the number.
i Following Davenport, Cheney & Clapp
and J. w. Frost & Co., have removed to
their respective quarters in Crosby block.
All seem delighted with their new location,
and well they may be. Now then for bust
ness!
-Messrs j. Lovejoy & Sons of IA Sum-
mer street, Boston, the wel-known carpet
dealers, make their annual announcement
| through our columns this week, to which
| the attention of housekeepers is particular
| ly invited.
We learn that the Adkins brothers,
printers, for the past few years in the en-
ploy of +. d. Coblegh of this place, are
about to open a job printing Office at New
| Britain, CT. We wish them abundant sue
cess in their undertaking.
| The success of the new government loan
| is evidently assured subscriptions averag-
ing about half million day. An adver-
tisement of this loan will be found in our
columns to-day, TO which we invite the at
tention of parties seeking a good invest
| ment.
| George Cutler, formerly in the boot
and shoe business in this village, and who
has been in the same bushes in Philadel-
phia for the last three years, is about to re-
turn, and will open his shop in the stand
now occupied by I. N. Thorn & Co., drug
gists.
We are glad to notice the removal OF
Cheney & Clapp to their new store in Cros-
by block 1t is handsomely fitted up, and
we doubt not the well-known enterprise of
the gentlemanly proprietors will make it,
as heretofore, one of the prominent institu-
tions of Brattleboro.
"A two horse team, with lumber wagon,
standing near the freight house last Satur-
day noon, took fright on the arrival of the
Boston train, and made for Vernon pid the
railroad track. The runaways finally
brought up near David Goodells, strange
ly enough without serious injury to horses
or wagon
I. X. Allen, our well known lumber
dealer has just returned from Burlington
where he has purchased one million cedar
shingles, besides large amount of spruce
| anu 'iut cldDuOuTuS, &C
There is to be some building here this sea
son, and Isaac" evidently intends to do his
share to encourage it.
VIM. r. Mead, formerly of this village
but more recently engaged in the office o
Russell Sturgis, Jr. d Co., architects, New
York, expects to sail for Europe early il
April. He will pass year in Florence
where his brother now resides and a
Rome, or other cities, where his opportun
ties to perfect himself in his profession viii
be the best.
The Holbrook pillow, invented by GU
well known townsman Ex-Gov. Holbrook
has gradually won its way to the from
rank among agricultural implements
position which ii seems likely TO maintain
against all opponents. OF the many takei
, on trial by farmers in this vicinity, not on
has been returned. Wood d Marshall hav
them for sale.
The last of articles announced to b.
sold at auction by the Merchants Unioi
Express Company, at their Office in Spring
, field, Mass, on the 9th inst, unless previ
, ously called for, include packages addressed
to parties in this vicinity, as follows: Brat
tleboro-E. p. Alderman, f. ID. Lincoln
. n. J. Evans, j. Estey * Co., S. Dunlery
DIR. A. Donaldson. Bellows Falls-L. Jane
Wilmington-E. A. Rice.
q Those rumors in regard to the erection
of new shops by Messrs. j. Estey & Co.,
, appears were not without foundation. Tw
y new buildings have been contracted foi
and their erection will commence mex
| No., 10 . IL
. and adjoining those put up last year. TIL
firm have some six hundred orders ahea
for cottage organs-which fact amply ex
i plains the contemplated enlargement.
The Connecticut River Valley Riff
I Club was organized at South Vernon o
1 Thursday, March 10Th, by choice of DR.. G
+. Gale of this village, rs President; A. II
# Wright of Greenfield, Vice President; L
+ S. Priest of South Vernon, Secretary an
: Treasurer. The first annual meeting wi
be on the first Tuesday of May. There ar
f some rs members in the club, who propos
, to meet once a month for target practice.
V The Scott-Siddon's readings, las
q Wednesday evening, drew good house
The program embraced extrac Is from Eng
q lish authors, including love scenes fror
n Shakspeares "Much Ado about Nothing,
q the death of Constance De Beverly, fror
p "Marmion," Tennyson's Lady Glare" an
o "May Queen" the sleep walking seen
! from Macbeth" and extracts from Sher
y dams "School for Scandal" To say tbs
# the audience considered themselves fairl
repaid for their attendance is small pras
n for so rare an entertainment. We were es
I. pecially delighted with the 'love pat be
n tween Lord and Lady Teazle, while tn
/ night walking scene of Lady Macbeth eS
\ hibted in the highest degree the wonder
I full power of the fair actress.
70 AT the meeting of the Good Samaritan!