Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-08-01
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small.
"A good chance for investment see adj
vertisement of Is. II. JENNIE & Co.
james Fisk, Senior, and Mrs. Hooker
Cate Minnie fisk are at the Revere House.
Grand mark down of dry and fancy
goods at Silsby Il Co.'s. See advertise
ment.
Prof. Crowell OF Amherst College will
preach at The Congrega tiona church next |
Sunday.
About % persons from here Joined the |
Odd Fellows picnic at Lake Pleasant on
Wednesday.
Oak Bluff tickets are on sale at Grouts
Corner at $3.50 rorthc round trip. Who will |
stay at home now?
DIR. II. d. Holton of this town has been
elected professor in the medical department
of the University of Vermont.
Jonathan Hoyt, who has been in bust
ness some years at Davenport, Iowa. is now
on visit TO his friends in this section.
Hon. George Shea Of New York, one
of the counsel employed by JEFF Davis in
his trial for treason, is a guest at the Brooks
House.
The BATTLE of the Bullfrogs," of which
an account was lately published in the
Montpelier Freeman, is said to have had
its real location in Windhani, Conn.
The committee have made arrange
ments for the coming lecture course as fol-
lows: Thomas Mast, Oct. 81; Mrs. Liver
more, Nov. 10; Hon. VIM. G. ParssnS,
Nov. "a; John b. Cough, Dec. 4.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 young shad
were placed in the West river on Thurs
day, Oath ult., by fish commissioner An
DIRE VS.. They were Matched out at Eol-
yoke, Mass, and were about three days
old.
A party of finy-three persons from this
place, under the escort of +. Goodhue,
Esq, one of the directors of the VT. and
Mass railroad visited Hoosac tunnel, last
Friday, in car specially engaged for the
| occasion.
The Fitchburg Sentinel says that en-
gineer David Wright has been in the SER
vice Of the Vermont and Massachusetts
railroad company twenty-five years, and
has travelled over that road in the aggre-
gate about S26, 900 miles.
The Elm street bridge over MILESTONE
brook in in process of thorough rebuilding.
The west end will he elevated about six
feet, and the street across the flat will be
graded TO correspond. The expen Sc is es-
timated at about $4,000.
james II. Capen, the well known tele-
graph operator in this place, has received
from his brother. in-law in California, an
interesting and suggestive relic of the late
war in Oregon, in the shape of the scalp of
Modoc brave taken at the lava beds.
james Herney has sold TO II. j. Turner
his half of the house on Elliot street previ-
ously owned and occupied by both, for
$780, and has bought of b. r. Jenne & Co.
the Widow Hapgood house on Forest
square, paying therefor the sum of $500.
-"Old Probabilities began his promis-
ed weather bulletins on Monday. They
are received and posted every morning on
arrival of the 1923, A. NJ, train from the
SOUTH being put into type at Springfield.
Whether these bulletins will be of any
practical benefit 10 farmers remains to be
seen.
; The ladies of the Unitarian society are
preparing for their annual festival and fair,
which will probably be held week after
; next. Among the articles to be offered on
the occasion is a bugle of elegant design,
which will he awarded by vote to the most
popular fire company. The bugle is now
on exhibition at Perry's jewelry store.
Den Stones circus, last Saturday, drew
a large crowd of people. The street pro-
cession was not "f so snowy a description
, as we have seen, but the ring performance
and menagerie exhibition were no hum
bug. The company remained here over
Sunday, and four tons of hay were con-
sumed by the animals during their stay.
, An old man about 20 years OF age
named Cobb, who for the asst twenty-five
or thirty years has been an inmate of the
insane asylum at this place, while employ
ed as carpenter on the new buildings o.
that institution, last Friday, fell from the
third story and was instantly killed. He
, formerly belonged in Weslmoreland, N
;, II.
: w. II. Walker, who went into thu
J.. sheep raising business near Denver, Colo
n RADIO, two years ago, finds that his anticpa
# lions were not all dream. He writes tina
l. his sheep are divided into three herds, ant
q all are remarkably healthy and productive
n This spring, out of one herd of 900 ewes
n including yearlngs, 800 brought forth twins
d and even his yearings yielded from five t.
nine pounds of wool PER head. His buck
e, were from Vermont.
g, Vacation notes: The Misses Higgin
!. son stareC for the White Mountains OF
5, Thursday of last week. Deacon Daniel Il
10 Thompson leaves next week for Saratog
a and the Adirondacks. Judge Tyler's fam
v lily return this week from Hewetts Point
d he having preceded them by few days
10 Geo. II. Clapp and Henry Thompson re
IS turned on Saturday from a trip to Cohasse
10 beach. The Cudwortbs have also returne
m from Oak Bluff. Capt. II. w. Clarke an
daughter have gone 10 Oak Bluff.
4 We are indebted TO Cheney d Clapp 70
j. copies of the American Naturalist, a month
III ly magazine of popular science publishe
a. by Estes x Lauriat, l43 Washington stree
" Boston; also No. s of the Half. Hour Recrt
ie ations in Popular Science, issued by tn
is same publishers. Tie increased deman
ut for publications of this class Is n hopefu
re sign of the times, and we know of non
a better calculated TO awaken a thirst fc
e. scientific requirement in the minds of III
of young than the periodicals above referre
le to.
The following is the list of letters RI
1t naming in the post Office in this villag
SO July 81, 1873:
Up Gents.-Geo. +. Allen, ID. q. Boyden, /
en- II. Cooley, Jaspard Charland, John
s. Carr, r. S. Dana, Edward Edwin, Ferd
3, nand Evans, Henry Eels or his heir, Wn