Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-11-28
Local Intelligence
Brdfffeboro


days some elegant plated tea sets at cost.
A rare chance for purchasers.
Our patrons can buy school books of all
kinds, school stationery and states on IA
vorable terms OF w. FELTON, q Co., Brooks
House.
Union services will be held Thanks
giving day at the Congrega ional church
commencing at IL o'clock. Sermon nv
Rev. Mr.. Mighill.
"A social party and hop will be held at
the Brooks House on Tuesday evening.
Dec. 2, with music by Brooks, owen &
Cartoons band of Lowell.
ID. $. Pratt has sold to Allen King of
Malone, n. Y, six head of Durham cattle,
selected with special reference to milking
qualities. Their cost was $1,000.
The Bratlleboro Furniture Company,
which lately gave employment to twenty
five or thirty hands, have discharged near
ly oil Of their help in consequence Of the
dullness of trade.
Come listen 10 me, Matte Bell" is
the title Of pretty now song and chorus
composed and published by Robert Chal-
Toner, 40 Fourth street, Louisville, Ky,
Of whom 1t may be obtained. Price 40 cts.
AS the canvass for the Brattlcboro Di-
rcctory is drawing 10 a close, ii will be adj
visable for any persons TO make known
any changes of business or locations that
may have been contemplated since the cam
vass has been made. Address Il. s. Dillon
& Co, o.
New music for sale by Cheney & Clapp:
saviour thou art ever near" song with
chorus, by II. p. banks; mo little one to
meet me-" song and chorus, words by
George Cooper, music by Oh. L. Pratt
Morning Zephyrs," mazurka de salon,
by Florence Kinkel.
Last Monday brought another snow
storm, adding six or eight inches of very
solid snow TO the foot already on the
ground. The storm caused considerable
delay TO the railroad trains. The forenoon
trains were stuck for several hours about a
mile below Bratleboro, and The noon train
from Boston did not attempt to come
through at all. The storm was rain no far
Their south than Springfield. Mass.
The "poor widow with two chldren-
girl of about seven and boy of fourteen
who have been wandering about in this
vicinity for the past week or two for the
pretended purpose Of getting employment,
tho woman usually passing under the
name of Mrs. Stiles, and sometimes claim
ing to be the widow of Mason or Odd
Fellows pronounced to be fraud. Look
out for her.
The social gathering at the chapel of
the Congregational church, last Thurs
day evening, was of very pleas
ant nature. The new rooms, including
chapel. parlors, kitchen, etc., were found
to be excelently adapted to occasions of
this kind, and all present appeared to he in
the social humor. Supper was provided
for all, and the exercises closed with a mu-
steal concert
The brandy-spillng item published
among our locals last week assumes the
following shape in the Springfield Union:
"a young man of Brattlehoro, convinced
of the evil results attending the use of in
toXicatiug liquors, took his brandy cask
aud emp,ied its contents into n small stream
that ran by his residence. The amount of
'sucke rs' in that brook was something
wonderful to behold
Wonder If the Union man didn't hap
pen down to the Connecticut for drink,
soon after.
The lecture on Monday evening, by
Hon. VIM. C. Parsons, was quite well at
tended, considering the travelling, and
those whp did attend were amply repaid
The lecture was mainly review of the
life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the Eng
llsh dramatist, orator and wit, and was in
illustrations, the whole forming literary
entertainment of rare interest. Few lee
turers upon the American platform have
the cultivated manners, the polished ele-
gance of diction, the rare ability to blend
interest with instruction, which this Eng
liSh orator possesses The next lecture of
the course will be delivered on Thursday
evening of next week, Dec. 4, by John b.
Cough subject, "Now and Then
The following is the list of letters re-
naming in the post Office in this village
Ncv. 90, 1873:
Gents.-Joseph Aud, VIM. Allen, C.
Barlow, DR.. w. N. Beach, Chas. w. Crouch,
Moses A. Dow, Appleton Gibson, Ed l..
Frenyear, VIM. Farr, C. r. Graves, 3, JOS
eph w. Jones, Warren II. Kimball, Simeon
S. May, Harvey Pond, James Phillips,
Henry Rugg, VIM. Russell, paper maker,
Henry S. Shaffner, S. NJ. Spring, James
Willard, j. II. Wellman, NJ. IL. Wilder.
Ladies.-Mrs. Chas. Brooks. Mrs. Ellen
Il. Brooks, Miss S. r. Butterfeld, Miss
Annie Collins, Mrs. Henry f. Clark, Miss
Hattie f. Dodge, Mrs. Chas. G. Eastman,
Mro l.
ter, Miss Lizzie Kenzie, Miss Ada L. Lamb,
Mrs. A. f. Pine, Mrs. Lizzie Rice, Mrs.
Mary +. Smith.
Held for postage.-S. A. d. Shepard, Bos-
ton, Mass.
BRATTLEBoRo POST OFFICE ROBBED.
The Brattlebaro post Office was robbed
on Monday night, Nov. "a, of money and
stamps TO the value of about $4,000. The
Office is in the town hall, and the robbers
effected an entrance through the rear room
Of the building, occupied for religious SER
vices by the Methodists. The door of the
post office was forced open with a hammer
and chisel, and entrance was effected to the
vault by the same method, no powder, APP
parently, having been used. The contents
of the vault were ''gone through with"
pretty thoroughly. The cash taken amount
cd to about $500, besides which tho villains
st lie $1,000 worth ofstamps belonging to the
Office. They also broke open five register
cd 'e'ters, containing in all about sos, end
took $40 worth Of stamps belonging TO the
Jacks lnvlle, W., post off'c,. Boyes and
packages containing the private papers of
the postmaster and assistants were over
hauled and scattered about the floor, but a
quantity of unmailed letters lying upon
tho table were apparently untouched. A