Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-06-28

cd by Brooks, owen & Cartoons band of
Lowell, Mass. At half-past eleven the par
ty adjourned TO the dining room, where the
tables were spread with the choicest edi-
bles of the season, and handsomely deco
rated with flowers. Supper ended, the
guests returned to the parlor, where a hand
some Hag-the gift of the ladies-was pre-
sented to Mr.. Brooks, the proprietor of the
block, in brief speech by c. +. Thomp-
son, to which Mr.. Brooks responded with
thanks. Most of the elder members of the
company then retired TO their homes, while
the younger portion returned to the hail
and continued the dance until three O'Clock.
The affair was highly creditable to those in
charge of the arrangements, as well ny 10
the gentlemanly propriclors, who we trust
will meet with the success which they mer-
IL.
The following Is the list of letters re-
naming at the post office in this village,
Thursday, June p, 1872:
Gents.-Henry Bryant, Henry Billings,
Mr.. Isaac Beasley, n. w. Dunklee, 2, J. ii.
Emerson, Geo. L. Faunce, Larken d. Farr,
Lura Frost, b. w. Hilliard 8, Dir. Elepha-
let Kimball, Robert King, A. II. Pratt, l..
II. Plumb, Chas. Raymond, p. +. Shaw,
U. C. Streeter, Elias ID. Underwood.
Ladies. Miss Frank Baldwin, 2, Mrs.
Clara II. Bosnel, Miss Nellie Crosby, Mrs.
+. l.. Dewey, Miss Adelia Eastman, Miss
NJ. ID. Moody.
Held for postage. Daniel Mather, MARI
boro, Miss NJ S. Pondir, so University
Place, n. Y.
= Held for better direc.ion.-Miss Alice
l.. Woodwork, 1912 st. Clair street.
| Miscellaneous.-Ed Democrat.
! Rev. j. l.. Matteson " this place
preached the annual sermon before the So
clety Of Religious Inquiry at Madison I'm
iversity, Hamilton, n. T., on Sunday eve
ming, June 10th. A correspondent of the
I Utica Daily Herald says of Mr.. Matteson's
effort:
at is worthy of more extended comment
than your space will enable me to give it,,
for it certainly was sermon of great in
terest, and was listened TO with profound
attention. Isaiah's words Il girded thee
though thou hast not known me- were
shown to be prophecy in the providential
dealing of God with nations. The Jews
were not prepared to carry out the designs
of God properly, so they were sent TO Bah
Yl0n Tor seventy years at boarding ScnOOl.
God needed a nation to spread Christ's gos-
pei over the earth. Accordingly lie raised
up successfully Alexander and Caesar, by
whose well written language the gospel
went into all the known nations of the
earth. These nations became corrupt and
God then girded northern nations TO over
throw them. Thus has he dealt with ma
tons. To-day, England and America are
being strengthened, and the Catholic and
Mohammedan powers weakened. He is
grdng them by material wealth, by COM
merce and intellectual improvement. These
nations need not fear the combined anti
Christian world. A great event, the preach
ersaid, would soon take place, which would
revolutionize the world. What that par
ticular movement would he he could not
define, but that it would result in great
good to the Christian world there could be
no doubt. The sermon formed full epito-
me of Biblical and profane history and
showed The author to be well versed in his
tory and an accurate reader of the signs Of
the times. The final triumph of the Cos
pei, he asserted, would soon come, and the
nations mainly instrumental to that great
result would, in all probability, be Eng
land, Germany, and the United States. TC
be worthy of Gods approval as nation
we should ever be governed by pure
Christianity. Every one speaks well ofthC
sermon, and every one would seem to bt
right"