Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-01-10
Local Intelligence.

Diaries for 1873 at Felton's.

Diaries at Cheney d Clapp's.
There was a beautiful auroral display
Tuesday evening.
Recruits wanted for the snow-shovel
brigade Steady employment guaranteed.
The Barnabee concert, which termin-
ates the lecture course, Is set down for
Feb. 18th.
The NJ. Il. church is observing the
"Week of Prayer" Meetings each eve.
ming at "a o'clock. .
Another bslf-foot of snow fell Wednes-
day night. We now have about three feet
depth in the woods.
Rev. NJ. II. Harris will give lecture
in the Universalist church next Sunday
evening. Subject, "Talent and Genius"
Mr.. Frank Bradford, the young and
talented recitationist of Bennington, is ex-
pected to give an entertainment In this
place on the goth inst.
The Congregational Sunday school will
hold praise meeting next Sunday eve
ming at o'clock. A cordial invitation to
attend is extended TO all.
The Brattleboro Savings Bank has just
declared semi-annual dividend OF three
per cent. Deposits made previous to the
10th inst, will draw interest from Jan. LIST.
Misses Pickette & Hatch, milln-
ers, have dissolved partnership, owing to
the continued ill-health of the latter, and
the business Is continued by Miss Pick cite.
%. Bailey, proprietor of the Brattlebo-
70 granite works, has gone into bankrupt
cy, and the first meeting of his creditors is
TO be held at the Office of Clarke & Has
kins on the 23d inst.
The sale of pews at the Congregation
al church, Wednesday evening, was quite
enthusiastic. The premiums paid amount
ed to $500, and the total receipts of the sale
will probably reach $500.
Timothy Vinton, who owned half in
terest in the paper mill property on Canal
street. has bought of the Woodcock estate
the remaining half, for $4,000, and will start
the mill again in the spring, after thorough
repair.
Rev. f. II. Chaplin OF New York will
deliver the final lecture of the course at the
town hall on Tuesday evening next. His
subject we are unable to announce, but the
man-of course, we shall want to hear Mr..
Chaplin.
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scarcely less bad for the railroads than that
of Sunday. The owl train due here from
the south at 1920 Wednesday evening, did
not arrive until A. NJ, Thursday morn
ing, and it took four locomotives to bring
it from South Vernon up.
Rev. NJ. Ii. Harris, pastor of the First
Universalist church in this village, has re-
ceived a unanimous invitation from the
Universaisit parish in Portsmouth, n. H.,
to become their pastor at large salary.
Mr.. Harris, we understand, after consider
ing the matter, declined accepting the call
Last Sabbath was day of unusual in
terest in the Baptist church. Eighteen
members were received-12 by baptism,
four by experience. and two by letter. The
Week of Prayer is being observed with
much interest. There were 405 persons
present at the Sunday school last Sabbath.
Post Sedgwick, G. A. R., installed the
following officers on Wednesday evening
last: Geo. +. Selleck, Commander; II. r.
Chase, S. V. c.. A. d. Alden. J. v.
Geo. L. Greene, @. NJ. Newton Phillips,
Adj. Roscoe Fisher, Surgeon; W. T. AL
den, Chaplain job Long, o. D.; A. c.
LOOMS, o. c.; III. E. Taylor, Serg't Ma
jor; Fred Root, @. NJ. Serg't.
Mr.. f. NJ. Douglas of this place has
bought the ste neil tool establishment of A.
L. Graham, of Springfield, VT, and will
transfer the business to Brattleboro. Mr..
Douglas is thoroughly acquainted with the
business, having been for several years EN-.
ployed in the well known works of s. NJ
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cation, on Market square, he will probab
occupy.
The quarterly concert at the Univer
salist church last Sunday evening, was ont
of the most interesting ever held. Those
who took part gave evidence Of thorough
drill. The church was we'll filed notwith-
standing the terrible storm. The school is
continually growing under the superintend
ence of Mrs. NJ. H. Harris. The Univer
salist Sunday school is the largest, except
ing one, in our village.
AT the annual meeting of the Brattle
boro East Congregational Society, hell
on Monday evening last, the old board o
officers, with the exception OF Treasurer
were reelected, as follows: Trustees, C
b. Rice, A. H. Wright, c. l.. Howe, R. w
Clarke, w. A. Dutton; Clerk, Malcon
Moody Auditor, d. B. Thompson. N. B
| Williston declined to serve as Treasurer
having served forty-hve years, and S. e
Howard was chosen in his stead.
} The population of school district Nc
4, (Centreville) on the first day of January
1873, was 29S; under s years of age, SO be
tween s and 10 years, 81 between 10 an
Is years, %: and between Is and 20 years
/ l6. Number OF births for the year ending
} Dec. 31st, 1872, "a males and S females, al
) OF American parentage. Number of death
Give children and one adult. Disease o
! cause of death, typhoid fever, l; liberation
,, of bowels, L; dysentery and congestion O
r brain, Il measles and scarlet fever, 8 :
T, males 8, females 3.
The Universalist parish in this village
: was never so large and prosperous as at tn
) present time. The Sunday morning con
l gregations are very large, and the churcI
Is filled on Sunday evenings to hear tn
/ lectures. The slips are all rented except
b ing one or two, and the present auditori
UNI is too small to accommodate all VIII
y would like to worship there. The socet
/ is looking forward to no distant day whe
9 there shall be In some other section OF tn
village a larger ediice, and one better q
: dapted to their needs.
. The storm of Sunday was very sever
) on the railroads and telegraph lines. Con
e ductor Carroll's train from Springfield
n Monday morning, ran off the track abor
o three miles below South Vernon, and dl
not arrive until II o'clock, p. NJ, whe
. both that and the afternoon accommodi
r ton came up in company with the ov