Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-07-31
Local Intelligence.
BrattlebOro.

IL. G. Willard q Co. announce clos |
ing out sale Of choice teas.
Reports from the hay crop In this VI |
clnity are uniformly favorable.
"A. X. Green has sold bis dwelling |
house on High street to John Wright.
The Democratic County Convention Is
called TO meet at Fayetteville, August 20.
The camp meeting at Claremont juno
ton will commence on Monday Aug. 90,
and close Sept. 2.
Rev. ID. o. Mears OF Cam bridge, Mass,
will preach In the Center Congregational
church next Sunday morning and evening.
The call for our town Republican eau
Gus, on the sth OF August, appears in its
appropriate place In our columns this
week.
The tobacco crop is reported TO be look
ing we'll up TO the present time, and the
prospect IL that the quality will prove bet
ter than for two years past. Less ground
than usual, has, however, been planted 10
the weed In this vicinity.
An Irish girl employed in the family
Of Hon. Il. d. Harris died very suddenly
OF cholera MOI bus on Wednesday evening.
No alarming symptoms were developed
until early In the afternoon, and her death
occurred at hslf-past ten. Tho remains
were taken TO Bellows Falls, the residence
Of hor parents, for burial, on Thursday
morning.
The school In district No. g. Brattlebo-
70, taught by Matte Stole, closed July
18th. Number Of scholars, IS; average at
tendance, II. The names of those neither
| nl,spui nj tar6v Iaruuha G,oiIh Hat
tie Roadway, Ella Smith, Lucia Kelley,
Georgia Smith, Lester Smith. Tardy but
not absent: Fred Pellerin, Frank Tan,
Willie PellOrin.
Full up trains are the rrle now a-days,
although the volume Of summer travel Is
hardly equal TO what II usually Is at this
season. majority Of the pleasure seek
ers passing through here are bound for the
White Mountains, but quite liberal pro-
portion (sensible folks are tcketed for
Newport and Memphremagog Lake.
MIR. Henry NJ. Bnrt has just issued a
new edition OF his "Guide through the
Connecticut Valey TO the White Noun
tans and the River Saguenay." The book
Is Of special local interest 10 the people OF
Brattleboro and vicinity, and is quite in
dispensable to any one contemplating a
summer trip up or down the Connec ticut
valley. For sale by Cheney & Clapp and
L. J. Carpenter.
Howe, the photographer, has recently
made a series OF a duzen or more views OF
Chesterfield Lake and vicinity, which arc
as good specimens Of out door work ms are
ofien seen. We do not remembc r, BY the
way, that we have ever mentioned the fact
that Mr.. Howes view wagon is the neatest
aud most complete establishment OF the
kind in the country. 1t is, we believe, a
subject OF admiration, and envy, even, to
brother photographers.
Our good friend "Joe" Elliot, the gen =
ial popcorn man, evidently believes In
} keeping up with the times, for we observe
: that he has just come out with bran new
basket built amer the most approved de-
, sign and pal nted and ornamental vii hout
} regard 10 expense. The front OF the bas-
ket bears a really fine copy Of The painting
Excelsior" executed by Davis " Spring
/ field, Mass, aud wo have no doubt this
new and attractive "vehicle" will materi-
ally enhance the sale vf MIR. Els wares, as
: he vibrates during the season between this
point aud Newport, VT.
The family OF Mr.. Putnam, keeper OF
the toll-bridee house had an unusual aud
not altogether welcome visitor on Tuesday
evening. AS Mr.. Putnam's daughter was
: going up stairs soon afier nine o'clock she
discovered a large black snake coiled about
the level post at the head of the stairs,
| xuiih 10 ft,a
on the young lady's appea rance ON the
scene his snakeshi greeted her in the man.
ner peculiar to his race, and Miss Putnam
very naturally beat a somewhat precipit-
Gus retreat, aud Immediately informe heI
father that there was company in the house
Mr.. Putnam paid his respects TO the reptile
with a club, or something OF the sort, and
when he got through, found that the In
truder measured just FIVE feet In length
We hope, by the way, that none OF our dis.
tant readers will get the impression from
this item that anything like this Is a mat
ter OF frequent occurrence hereabouts, for
II il no such thinG,-and moreover, this
happened over in New Hampshire, where
the De mocrats are in power.
q 1t Is 10 be presumed that the following
. from the Chesterfield correspondence OF the
Keene Sentinel "hits" somewhere, but We
hope 1t don't mean anybody In this vii
laGe:-
Plcnlcs at the lake still hold out attraction,
for people from other towns as well as this
: We regret 10 say that some "persons dress.
Il ed like ladies and gentlemen" do not al
A ways deport themselves In manner thai
obllges us TO give them the dignity ofthos,
titles when passing through the village
z Usually, their remarks are met with thai
y silent contempt that is sometimes more ex.
I, pressive than words, but whom those who
wear the Rarb OF ladies, so far forget theil
o position, u they hare any, as TO Offer rude
Q remarks 10 those of the opposite sex, whom
:, they chance TO meet IN the street, they
: must not complain If they sometimes re.
ceive words In return that are more peril
}, nent than poetic. Even "outside barbara.
Il ans" like Chesterfield people, sometimes
A know "lddies and gentlemen" ,0hen they Sc.
them, whether they hail from Brattls 6or q
T or any other "big city," Mirth and good
r humor arc always In place, in such com.
n pany, but when II assumes an insulting DO
siIion 1t Is simply disgusting.