Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-08-29
Local Intelligence.


Brafffeboro.
Il. X. Allen has removed his lumber
yard to Flat street.
Farmers In this vicinity are beginnin
to cut their TOBACCO.
The September magazines have been
received at Carpenters.
The prospect now is that the Fisk mon
ument will not lie completed In season for
dedication this fall.
A Brattleboro typo Is among tho dis
appointed aspirants for a trip to Europe in
Prof. Wise's balloon.
%. j. Pratt is opening large assort-
ment of new fall goods this week, at ex-
tremely low prices.
%. J. Pratt comes out with a column
advertisement this week, TO which the par
ticular attention of the ladies is invited.
"A side track long enough TO accommo-
date 100 cars is in process of construction
Just above the bridge over MILESTONE
brook.
An egg weighing 30 ounces, the prod
uct of a hen owned by J. +. knight of
Marlboro, was deposited on our desk a few
days ago.
Mary, wife of NJ. ID. Herrick, formerly
of Middlesex, VT, committed suicide by
hangi ng, at the insane asylum in this place
on Monday night of last week.
Five quires of commercial note paper
can be had for 35 cents, or five quires octave
note for 30 cents, of +. G. Edwards. He al
so pays cash for rags and papers.
-Simonds, our enterprising boot and
shoe merchant one day last week received
ninety cases of goods-the largest invoite
of similar goods ever opened in Brattlebo-
70.
-Butternuts promise to be very plenty
this fall, the trees in this vicinity being
heavily laden. The other day we were
showna cluster of Is nuts growing upon
one stem.
The Edwin brood" man has been
heard from in his retirement. The work
of revising his story will be completed in
about two weeks, and the book will proba-
bly, make its appearance before Oct l.
The Springfield Mass races culminat-
ed on Monday last, when Goldsmith Maid
won s35OO purse in three straight heats,
her. contestants being Judge Fullerton,
American Girl and Lula. Time 2.2l; 2.22
1872. Several persons were present from
Bfattleboro.
Our Brattleboro engine companies will
have TO look to their laurels. At the an
nual parade of tho Rutland fire department,
last Saturday afternoon, Washington en-
CINE company, playing through 800 feet Of
| hose, scored 22S feet, 2 inches. The play
H.
| the parade in June. was 223 feet 10i inches.
| Try again, boys!
The new school books adopted by the
Slate Board of Education will be supple
for introduction by Cheney & Clapp, the
| authorized agents Of the several publishers
| at discount of one-third from retail pric-
es, or in exchange for old books at one-hal
discount They will also furnish teachers
| and superintendents of schools with sam
| pie copies for examination free.
e. Crosby, Esq, of the firm of "E
| Crosby & Co." started on Thursday of THU
week to make his annual tour West
The business of the firm being so intimate
| ly cor nected with "Western mllers," they
find it necessary to inform themselves ful
/ .
| in different localities, that they may be ablt
to give their customers as good flour a.
| the country affords at the lowest mark ell
| price. Mr.. c. will go west as far as Min
nesota and Missouri, and south as far as
| Kentucky. He expects to return in abou
| three weeks.
| Joseph King Of Marlboro brought sui
against Richard Flemming of this tow
for the killing and manning of five of hi,
sheep and lambs by Flemming's dog, abou
the 2lst of last July. The case was triet
| by jury before Justice Newton, on Tuesda,
of last week, and resulted in verdict of "a
damages, with costs amounting TO S6l.74
the action was brought under the 9th sec
ton of Chapter l04 of the General Statutes
| by which the plaintiff is entitled TO recov
er double the amount of the actual damag
sustained, and the C SIS are also doubled
Flemming appealed.
The following is the list of letters re
naming in the post Office in this villag
August %. 1873:
Gents.-E. Adams, Anthony Brown, Gee
w. Bryan, j. C. Bartlett, l.. o. Ball, Coz
neius Connell Louis b. Davis, A. l.. HoI
den, Frederick Hawks, Thos. Homer, G
w. Sargent.
Ladies.-Miss Eta Bennett, Miss Emm
Chase, Mrs. Jas. Crawford, Mrs. Je
hiel w. Doolittle, Mrs. w. Fish, Miss Bes
sic Houghton, Fannie Hammond, Mis-
Jennie T.. Hall, Mrs. Eliza Morse, Mr.,
John C. Moore, Mrs. David Robinson, Mrs
Susan q. Stone.
| Miscellaneous.-B. Il. Shaw & Co.
Held for postage.-Margie T.. Graves
Marbehead, Mass, Fred Durham, Por