Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-11-22
Local Intelligence


$500.
There will be services in the Univcr-
saist church Thank sgiving day at eleven
o'clock A. NJ.
New Chromos opened this week at
Cheney h Clapp's will claim the attention
of our readers.
The public examination of teachers in
the several towns of Windham county will
take place on Saturday next, Nov. 23d.
-Estey & Company are putting up gas
works for the purpose Of lighting their
shops, the present supply being unsatis-
factory.
MIR. George J. Brooks and his sister
Miss Il. NJ. Brooks, left town on Monday
for California, where they intend to remain
until the first OF April.
Crosby & Co. are preparing to make an
experiment with the new Excelsior gas
machine, manufactured at Warren, Mass,
| for the purpose of lighting Crosby block.
The odd Fellows dance, the night be-
fore Thanksgiving, will undoubtedly be
pleasant affair. The Brattleboro band will
| furnish the music, and supper will bo had
at the Revere House.
MIR. and Mrs. \. p Wilder of Topeka,
Kansas, formerly of this place, were the
recipients of some choice articles of silver
ware from Brattleboro friends on the ami
versary of their crystal wedding, Nov. 9th.
! "A knock down scrape occurred last
Saturday in the west part of the town, in
which several parties were engaged and
Canadian named Brownell received a Sc
we're pommelling. No arrests have yet
been made.
During the rain OF Thursday last, Il
young lady of this place performed the re-
markable feat of walking all the way home
from jamaica distance of q miles, with
out an umbrella. How about modern fe-
male degencracy now?
-Messrs. Churchill, Watson Il Co of Bos-
ton, having escaped the great fire announce
| in our advertising columns to-day that they
have large and complete assortment OF
| Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, TO which
| the attention of our dealers is especially di-
rected.
JORDAN, MARSH d Co. sent a check for
| $4,000 TO be appropriated to the fremen
who exerted themselves so nobly in stay
ing the Boston conflgration, especially re-
questng that the firemen of all cities and
towns, who were present, should participate
in its benefit.
That elegant Black Walnut Chamber
Suite we saw delivered at our neighbours
on Green Street is but sample of the
nice work of the New England Furniture
Co. Their Ash Suites are very attractive
and just what the people want. 1t is only
a short journey to their new factory al Cen
| terville.
The equines are recovering and the ia
miliar rattle of the coaches seems a well
come sound. The IIinsdale express, which
has been running with stays, appeared
| with horses on Saturday. and the Towns
| bend stage and village coach resumed the
same day. The other stages made their APP
pearance on Monday.
The legislative committee appointed to
| investigate the insane asylum were in town
| again on Thursday of last week. Fur
Their personal investigation was made and
a number of witnesses examined. From
here the committee were TO proceed to
Northampton, Mass, and Concord, n. H.,
to inspect the asylums at those places.
Coughs lecture on Friday evening was
as grand, as stirring, as Incompatible As
his addresses always are, and whether one
hears him for the first or twentieth time,
his last lecture always seems the best. The
man couldn't be uninteresting if he tried.
Unfortunate is the speaker who must fol-
low Cough, but Robert Collyer's lecture,
Dec. 9th, will, We suppose, be wholly in a
different vein. Subject, "Our Folks and
Other Folks"
A bl ief notice was given last week OF
Tuesday evening" Nov. 18th. twas very
stormy evening and only 200 were present
Supper was served from 6 to 3 o'clock
concert at s. The organ solo by ]. f. Hall
was well performed. Song-"I heard q
voice." by Alice Hunt, was well sung. Pi-
ano solos by Miss Noyes elected great APP
plause. A duet by Mrs. Green and Miss
Cooke was well received. A Swiss song
by Mrs. Green created great enthusiasm
Mr.. Burnetrs cornet playing was very line
Miss Cooke has u sweet voice highly cui.
tivated, and was cncored every time she
appeared. II was a success. The second
sOciable and concert will take place Dec. Sd
No postponement.
George Colgrove, the bigamist, former
ly of this place, escaped from Springfield
Mass Jail last Sunday morning, in com
pany with fellow prisoner, by breaking
through the roof and letting himself to the
ground by a rope made of torn sheets
Both were overhaued and arrested Mon
day, on the up train near South Vernon
but Cogrove, though handcufied, broke
away and jumped from the train, followed
by one of the officers. He escaped, how
ever, and succeeded in Guiding pursuit un
ill Tuesday night when he was arrested in
bed at the house Of Sidney Harris in Yer
non. The next morning he was tlken back
TO his old quarters in Springfield, where ht
has an engagement for the next twenty
months.
Persons interested in botany will bC
delighted to know that the beautiful Camp
tosorus rhizophylium Link, or Walking
Fern has habitat in our town. Last weel
, our botanist, Mr. G. C. Frost, was present
, ed with many iino specimens by Mr.. JOIN
, GoSdenough, which he had discovere'
growing on neighboring farm. Its local
| ity is generally on calcareous rocks, an,
3 therefore abundant in this State only a
, Burlington and its vicinity. Here it is OF
q | micaceous schistose rocks and equal
/, large and flourishing, The name "Walk
: ing Fern" is from the prolongation Of tn
apex, which acts as sort of runner, an
; bends over arching, and whore it touche
o the soil 1t takes root and forms new fronds
: and this is generally repeated till 1t tray
Y erses the whole surface of the rock.
Y The following is the list Of letters re
: naming at the post Office in this village
| Thursday, Nov. q, 1872:
= Gents.-George Blodgett 2, Thos. Brown
e NJ. II. Clark, o. Cunningham, Pat X. Cum
= mings, Patrick Dooling, c. T. Frost, Sam
k uel p. Flint, Geo. II. Haynes, w. B. In
L Al LII L..