Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-02-19
Local Intelligence.


Newfane.
Rev. l.. j. Chalee will lecture in the
Universalist church next Sunday evening.
Subject, "Socisl Life"
MIR. o. l.. Il. Bennett of Dummerston
enters the arena with a specimen Of hen
fruit weighing q ounces.
-Chas. c. Miller has sold his chestnut
gedlng "Glen," to o. l.. Marshall Of Prov
idence, r. l., on private terms.
The Methodist society will hold their
annual festival at the lower town hall on
Wednesday evening Of next week.
j. w. Simonds has bought the dwell
ing house on Flat street formerly owned
and occupied by A. Ii. DunkIee, deceased.
r.. G. Cressey and Noah Perry are re-
ported to have bought the shoe store of f.
w. Simonds. Possession given April lst.
The Record and Farmer OF last week
says: 1.-THE report that Mr.. d. w. Leonard
has become proprietor of this paper, is in
correct
One result of the present cold term is
seen in the cracking of trees. The trunks
Of SOME on Main street have cracked near
ly their whole length.
An article will be embodied in the
warrant for town meeting to see If action
will be taken for reducing the grade of
High and Green streets.
Francis Curtis, machin,t, has bought
the dwelling house and shop at West Brat
tleboro belonging TO Leonard Worcester,
who proposes to go to Southern California
for his health.
The Supreme Court for Windham
County is now in session at Newfane. The
Brattieboro school case, which Is the most
important one on the docket, is expected
10 be brought up to-day.
Voter! Have you consulted the check
list posted at the town hall, TO see if your
name was duly enrolled thereon2 If IL is
not, see that the selcclmcn put il on before
town meeting day.
The lecture to be given by Rev. Lewis
Grout at Harmony hall next week, is 10
come on Thursday instead of WednC sday
evening at y o'clock. Rev. Mr.. Bass fol-
lows one week after with a lecture on IA
Dor"
a stray dog on Elliot street that had
bitten two Of Estey's work men. made a
second attack on one of them, Wednesday,
when the attacked party went for him with
broom and an AK, and now there is one
nuisance the less on that street.
The fair and festival held by the ladies
of the UniVersalist society on Tuesday
evening, was attended by the usual throHg
OF happy-looking people, and was the sue
cess which the fairs of this society always
are. The receipts amounted to about $3.50.
The weather last Saturday morning,
Feb. 10, was the coolest ever known in tn is
town, the mercury registering in various
localities from % TO 3G degrees below zero.
In some sections hereabouts il went as low
as 400. The three following mornings were
but 10 degrees warmer, and there have
been few mornings within the last forty
days, that the mercury has not been below
zero. The winter of 1915 will always be
remembered for its special severiiy-or, at
least, let us hope 1t Will.
"A subscriber in Willoughby, Ohio, in
RENTING for the PHHNIx under date of
Feb. IL, says: ave have had the coolest
weather since January first up to to-day
that l have ever seen in this town In forty
years. Thermometer 50 below this morn
ing; snow about four ivo inches good
sleighing. We think that seven degrees
below zero is terribly cold. but suppose
yon can stand il at 27o below" We notice
that we hare 20 stand il, whether we can or
not.
We learn that the Choral Union are to
repeat the cantatl Of Queen Esther about
| the 4th Of March. We are glad of il for
many OF our citizens were deprived of the
nri ytlaup pT atfonHinu a ~
and besides the Uaion deserves the very
highest encouragement. The next rehears-
al of this society will he held in the Meth
odist chapel on Thursday eve at u o'clock,
when they take up opera choruses for prac-
tlce. New members for this worthy socl-
ETY. will be gladly received at that time.
The annual report of the financial con-
dition Of The town of Braitleborc, for 1874,
as made by the auditors, shows the dis
bursemenls TO have been, on orders drawn
by selectmcn, sl7, 5J9i6 on orders drawn
bv overseer Of poor, SSI4.Os. The total
disbursements for poor amounted to ST.
60s.26, of which S7l.5O was for transents.
The sum Of Si,ll2.2l was expended on
| highways. In the village district 1877
was expended on highways, of which sum
the Brook road ABSORBED 81 800. The NOM
inal Indebtedness of the town is 49,, 526. 80,
but the estimated value of property held
by the town exceeds this sum by over S.
600. The estimate or expenses for 1873 is
| 81, $50, and the auditors advise the levyins
of tax of GO cents ON the dollar,
Many people hereabouts have doubt
| less noticed the presence about their dwell
in2s, this winter, of very tame and socia-
| bic little bird about the size of the cat bird,
but with which they are not familiar. 1t is
called the Pine Finch or Grosbeak, and
comes from the northern regions. The plu-
mage of the male is exceedingly beautiful,
Beard describes it thus:
General color carmine red, net continu-
| Gus, h jwever, except on the head the
| feathers showing brownish centres on the
| back. Sides and poslerior parts of the body
ashy. Wings with two white hands across
the cOverts. The female Is ashy, top of
head and rump yellOwish. Wings and tail
| like those Of the male"
These birds are quite domestic, and are
very sociable among themselves, having
| pleasant cooling note. In the summer sea
son they are very musical and their plum
| age is more brilliant even than now. 1t is
at rare intervals that they come so far south
and their presence here is indicative of a
severe winter in the arctic regions.
-"Psrsons," was the subject of Rev. DIR.
Matteson's lecture in the Harmony hall
course on wednesday evening. The topic
was one on which the lecturer was we'll
qualified to speak, and the manner in
which he handled it, If at all uusatisfacto-
ry TO himself, certainly was not to his au-
dlence, which gathered 10 nearly the full