Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-06-14
Local intelligence
Hrafffcboro.


--Fans-a fine variety at Felton's, :
Brooks House.
Republican caucus Saturday evening
We,hope to see Il full attendance.
-Croquet, 80 sets at wholesale aud re-
tail, prices low, at Feltons book store.
The annual parade Of the village firt
department is TO take place next Thursday
The ladies of the Congregational socie
ty arc making preparations for fair on
the Goth inst.
Grossly Hall" has become non est, tn,
space occupied being more proftably de-
voted to other purposes.
A full supply of all materials for wan
flower and fruit making can be obtained n
Felton's 3 Brooks House.
Rev. L. II. Stone, agent of the state
Temperance Society, lsexpected to address,
the Good Samaritans next Sunday eve
ming.
A large number of eople hereabout,
are making preparations to attend the Bos-
ton jubilee concert, which opens on Mon
day next.
Next Sunday morning the conservation
of children will take place in the Univer-
salist church. The house will he beauli-
fully decorated for the occasion.
Thompson d Ranger have for sale a
magnificent assortment of fans Ladies
wanting tine latest fashions can find them
among this variety.
"A concert will be given AZ the town
hall this Thursday evening by the Arion
Quintette Club Of Amherst College. They
will furnish some good singing. undoubt-
eddy.
The strawberry festival given on
Wednesday evening by the ladies of the
Cniversalist society was very pleasant
affair. The receipts amounted TO about
$50.
AT the meeting of the Good Samaritan
society last Sunday ev ening, proposition
was made TO hold the meetings hereafter
only once a month. The motion was laid
upon the table.
"A mass jubilee rehearsal at Rutland on
Tuesday and Wednesday of last week.
drew together nearly two hundred singers.
Six societies were represented, several per-
sons being present from Brattleboro.
The pastor, Rev. Mr.. Matteson, being
absent on months vacation, the pulpit of
the Baptist church was supplied by Rev.
DIR. Hodge of Vergonnes. Next Sabbath,
Rev. l.. ii. Stone of Castleton is expected
TO preach.
The entertainment given on Thursday
and Friday evenings of last week under
the management Of G. b. Bartlett, was full
~ equal to any previous exhibition of the
Kind, but the attendance was decidedly
thin.
John Houghton, an old offender, was
arrested for drunkenness, on Monday, by
Policeman Wood, and taken to the lookup
for the night He was brought before JUS
uce Newton the next day and fined S. and
costs. Appealed.
Mrs. Brigham's discourses on Sunday
afternoon and evening" at the town hall
were well attended and are highly spoken
of. She will speak again next Sabbath and
every Sabbath during the month. Hours,
and u o'clock, p. NJ.
AT the caucus held on Saturday eve
ming, c. n. Davenport and Il. F. Brooks
were chosen dele gates to the Democratic
state convention held at Montpelier on
wednesday. resolution declaring in ia
vor of the Greeley ticket was defeated by "A
large majority, only three voting in favor.
"A thunder shower occurred "Wednesday
afternoon. In Vernon the rain was follow
ed ny hail accompanied by a heavy wind
which Frustrated trees and did considera-
Die injury to crops. J. o. Frost's large barn
was blown down, destroying a valuable
sleigh and carriage. The horses and cows
were eStricated from the ruins without in
jury. Two men in the barn seeking shell
ter from the storm, barely escaped with
their lives. Forty panes of glass were
broken in the house Of n. III. Brooks. and
other houses suffered in a similar manner.
Harris Brothers & Co. (B. d. and +.
W. Harris) of this town, have taken the
contract TO build the Cattaraugus railroad
from Salamanca, the eastern terminus of
the Atlantic &Great Western railroad. TO
Machas, n. Y, on the the Buffalo. n. Y.
& Philadelphia railway, distance of A.
bout twenty-six miles. The work is to be
completed on or before the first day of No
vember next. These gentlemen will finish
during the present month the division of
the Buffalo, n. V, Il Philadelphia railway.
upon which they have been engaged since
October last.
Somebody in Bratlleboro writes to the
Golden Age:
I'VE, In Vermont feel Il peculiar interest
in Horace Greeley. He is our man. We
raised him. We feel proud of him. When |
anybody asks us up here what we have done, |
we point to the Tribune and the man who |
made 1t. The honest yeomanry of Yer
mont have their representative in Horace
Greeley, and will never go back on him.
Set us down "A unit for the Farmer of Chap
paqua."
That unit will want line drawn under
1t and figure placed below, to represent
the result next November.
C. G. Allen of this town has a heifer
three years old this spring, of the Alderney
breed, from which he made during the last
SIX days in May, 10 lbs. 10 OF. of butter,
besides supplying family of four persons
with all the milk and cream for family use.
lie has also made during the past week 10
o. OF butter besides supplying family Of
SIX persons with all the milk and cream for
amily use. The weight of milk during
.he past week was pa lbs. Her feed il
plain land pasture with one quart of oats
per day. In May she had hay and one
quart of wheat bran and one quart of oats
per day. Those who have got better heif-
'rs, will please trot them out.
The heavy rain of Monday caused
of a rise in the Connecticut riy-
IT. and brought down the logs from the
north In large numbers. At Windsor, one
bier of the railroad bridge was swept away
md the entire structure endangered by the
of logs. Fears are still on
eriained for the safety of the Hinsdale
bridge in this place from the same cause.
At South Vernon, on Wednesday, a party
# about dozen men were mt work remoy-
ng the logs which had accumulated at the
abroad bridge, and while carelessly TAX