Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-04-05
Local Intelligence
Hrdfffeboro.

-Glctufo framing OF all Kinds done
promptly at Cheney & Clapps.
Amy stones dramatic troupe are an
nounced TO visit Brattleboro, April IL tb.
Union Fast Day services will be held
at IL o'clock, at the Congregational church.
The A. b. Diggins place on Cemetery
Hill has been sold TO Willard Lindsey for
$500.
New maple sugar was brought in by
the farmers on Saturday, in considerable
quantity.
The biggest April fool of the season.
the man who moved and expected his stove
pipe would ft.
There will be fast day Sc vices in the
Unversalist church on Friday morning
at II o'clock.
H. f. Taylor has added new depart
ment TO his hat store Read his announce
ment on next page.
Our readers who are in need of materi-
al for wax flowers can always find full
supply at Cheney & Clapp's.
%. c. Doolittlc's house on Cottage street
was sold at auction on Friday to Mr..
Putnam of Winchester, n. H., for s3035.
The Phillip Pulen farm in the south
west part of the town was sold at auction
the other day TO Henry NJ. Cutting of Gull
ford, for $3.50.
Owing to the storm on Sunday, and the
consequent thin attendance ut the Good
Samaritan meeting, the choice of officers.
was postponed one week.
New music received from Cheney< =
Clapp: "The Afternoon Crawl" danube
River" transcription, "La Diabolique,"
"The BailiT's Daughter of Tslngton.'
Several persons are TO be baptized at
the Universalist church next Sunday
morning. The quarterly concert of the
Sunday school will occur in the evening.
The Fayetteville road commissioners
meet here today Thursday for the pur-
pose of e-proportioning the amount to be
raised by the several towns Interested for
repairing the road,
Instead of going 10 the Weston House
at North Adams, as stated last week, Henry
Campbell has accepted the more agreeable
situation of clerk Of the Island House at
Bellows Falls.
About Il foot of snow fell on Sunday,
so that we had the unusual spectacle of
people moving the first of April on run
ners. The streets are now mostly bare,
but the hills are still covered with solid
body of snow
We learn that II. w. Simonds has dis
posed of his interest in the boot and shoe
business TO his brother, f. W. Smonds.
He purposes to go to Kansas in May, hav-
ing accepted a position in a new banking
institution at Manhattan.
The annual election of officers of the
Sabbath school connected with the NJ. f..
church took place March 81. VIM. Fuller
was chosen SUI erintendent A. G. Daven-
port, assistant superintendent; S. o. Min
err, librarian; Z. Hudson, assistant librari-
| an.
Remember the drummer Boy" on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday eve
nines ofnext week. The proceeds, we I'M
derstand, are to be appropriated TO the pur-
chase of uniforms for Company c." and
Of course the boys want to come out hand
somely.
The many friends of James NJ. Tyler,
Esq, will be pleased TO learn that he has so
far regained his health as to resume his
connection with Charles X. Field in the
law business, after years absence. Il.
w. Stoddard retires, and has taken an Of
lice in Union block for the prosecution of
his profession.
The door locks used in the Brooks
House are of a-kind recently patented and
never before used. Their popularity con-
lists in an arrangement by which when
one enters his room, by simply turning a
bolt he locks his door in such manner
that no key from the outside can unlock it
or no eavesdropper take observations
through the key hole. The inventor ought
to realize n fortune frCm ii.
"A concert is TO he given nj the town
hall this Thursday evening, by the sing
ing school under the direction of Prof
Kimball, assisted by Misses NJ. c. Cooke
and NJ. A. Sprague. 1t is desired 10 raise
funds enough at the concert 10 open a free
school of twelve lessons for old and Young.
and-so read the bills, ito awaken deep
er interest in music in the village of Brat.
tleboro." We hope this worthy object will
be furtheied by a full attendance.
The little one story building at the foot
of High street, which is shortly to become
|
one of our historic landmarks. The orig.
inal building, now constituting the west
portion, was built in 1920 by Jonathan
Hunt, Esq, as a law office. Ten years af-
terward, when Mr.. Hunt was Il member o.
Congress, occurred the great Hayne contro
versy, in which Webster immortalized his
name, and which is said to have had its in
| I'm luNv II inI
street. Uniting as it may seem, the old
relic is probably destined during the re-
mainder of its days to fill the humber
purposes of a paddy shanty.
The following is the list of letters re-
naming at the post-oflice in this village, OF
Thursday, April 4, 1872;
Gents.-Lyman NJ. Darling, Michael Eel
liz, o. d. Fay, Nathan Gould, J. d. Hol
brook Il Co., Willie Hortain, Theodor,
Johnson, l.. I. Knapp, j. II. Lewis 2, s
w. Nash, j. Il. Robinson, G.. +. Sargent
+. f. Thomas, G.. b. Woodbury., Mr.. vii
lams, American sewing machine agent
Carpenter Smith * Co.
Ladies.-Miss Hattie Bemis, Miss Joan
ma Baker, Miss Lucy A. Bailey, Miss Jo
anna Flavin, Mrs. Abbie d. Harris.
Held for postage Anna NJ. Whit
aker, Charlestown, Mass, Hon. Townsend
b. Cock, Albany, n. Y, Miss Mary Rood
Brattleboro, VT, Miss Mary l.. Gallup
Jacksonville, Vt.
nRATrLEnoRos $4,000 HoTEL-rHE
BROOKS HOUSE.
In accordance with the builders con
tract, the new hotel in this village, which
since the laying of the first brick, May l,
1871, has formed the chief object of local in
terest, is now practically completed. Thu
building is of modern style of architect.
ure, four stories high, surmounted by I
French roof and towers, and occupies the
| oornar of Main and Hioh straots Thu