Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-09-10
Local Intelligence,


Reed place on Green street TO Il. NJ. Doug
las for S25O0
ON Sunday next the hour of evening
service in ST. Michaers (Epis.) church will
be changed to 7 O'Clock.
The Brattleboro Savings Bank Is 10 be
removed to the location lately occupied by
II. T.. Taylor's hat store.
No further spread of the Texas cattle
disease has occurred in this town, and the
affected cattle are doing well.
Rev. G. w. Wallace, d. D., of Man
chester, N. H., will supply the pulpit of the
Centre Congregational church next Sun
day.
-General n. p. Banks will deliver the
annual address of the Connecticut River
Valley Agricultural Association at Clare
mont, Sept. 10.
%. j. Pratt has just received his usual
large and well selected stock of dry goods
and carpets for the fall trade, and prices
are extremely low.
The Rev. DR.. Hull of Montpelier will
oliicale in the Episcopal church next Sun
day. Morning Service, 1870. Evening
prayer and sermon, 7o'clock.
The Baptist society of this village has
extended a call to the Rev. Horace Bur
chard of Chicago, who has occupied the
pulpit for the last two Sundays, and he has
accepted.
-PhmniX Hose Company, in practicing
for the North Adams muster, Wednesday
evening, with only eight men on the ropes,
ran a quarter ofa mile and laid 300 feet of
hose beyond, in one minute 80 seconds.
The teachers and scholars of the Sun
day School ofSL Michaers (Epis.) church
have presented their rector with an elegant
silver communion service TO be used in adj
minisiering the Holy Sacrament to the
sick.
-Brattleboro will be represented at the
North Adams freman's muster to-day
Thursday by The Fountain Engine Com
pany, No. 4, and the Phoenix Hose Com
pany, who go by special train this morn
ing.
-Whitmorc and Clark's Ministries arc
coming here next Monday evening, as APP
pears by their advertisement. No need of
pulling them. Their "last annual tour' is
always a success, and we hope will always
continue TO be. No better troupe travels.
All Of the 100000 stock for the new
National Bank in this place has been sub.
scribed and operations will soon begin.
Messrs. j. Estey & Co., and Hon. Farley
Starr of this place and o. S. Howard of
Townshend, are reported 10 be the heaviest
stockholders.
The sudden death Of Mis-. f. A. Lam
son from paralysis, mentioned last week,
ig Ihpnoh I la haxa 10 r.. -.
jury to the brain sustained five weeks be-
fore, when she was thrown from car
rage, though at the time the injury was
considered slight.
A grand vocal and instrumental con-
cert will be given by the Boston Philhar-
IN oDic Club, Tuesday evening, Sept. u,
assisted by Mrs. Anna Granger Dow, the
Gel LIBERATED soprano vocalist. We need not
assure our readers that this concert will
be one Of the very best ever given here.
Prof. Denton's course OF scientific lee
lures at Harmony hall, will open Monday
evening, Sept. 20, and continue each eve
ming during the week. The lectures are
designed 10 give the story of the earth as
read by the light OF geology, and will be
illustrated with numerous charts and fos-
sis. Mr.. Denton is the author of several
works on scientific subjects, and as a lee
turer is widely known and highly spoken
Of
We understand that j. Estey & Co. and
Prof Charlier have purchased "a controlling
interest in the Brattleboro Water Company
and propose lay three inch iron pipe five
feet deep, the whole length of their aque-
duet before cold weather sets in. Isaac
Hines also proposes to substitute iron pipe
for logs nearly the whole length of his
aqueduct, which supp les good many
houses on Western avenue and Forest
square.
Among the jokes in Eli Perkins, new
book is the best one ever perpetrated upon
the late James Fisk, Jr. That gentleman
was showing witty stammerer his new
boat, the Plymouth Rock, and called at
tention I o the portraits of JAY Gould and
himself, hanging a little way apart. The
visitor said They're very good, colonel
you hanging on one side aud Gould on
the other-f-i-r-s-t rate. But colonel" con-
tinued the wicked Mr.. Travers, buried in
thought, "W-w-rhere's our SdUiOr!''
Prof Edward Tuckerman and Charles
C. Frost Of Braltleboro, VI, "Ihe veteran
cryptogamist Of the Connecticut valley"
have just got out catalogue of plants
growing without guilty alton within 30
miles of Amherst college. The work was
begun in 1853 by Prof. Tuckerman, and,
the main portions were completed some
time since the recent additions are valua-
bic, and the catalogue is by far the most
complete ever made of this region, and,
probably, Of any section of equal size in
the country. The late President Hitchcock,
President Clark, Prof G. l.. Goodale of
Harvard, Prof. C. ii. Hitchcock of Dart
mouth, Rev. Ii. G. Jesup of Amherst aud
the late L. +. Bishop of &c, Amherst col
lege, are mentioned as having given val
liable aid in preparing the work.-SpriIlg.
field Republican.
The following is the list of letters re-
naming in the post office in this village,
Sept sthi
Gents-A L Blanchard, ii A PATTERSON,
II 1 Godfrey, Geo Downer, John NJ Davis,
Il Eddy, Horatio Eddy, Henry o Estey,
o S Esterbrooks, d w Gates, Patrick Grif.
fin, NJ II GoodanOugh John Hood, HI
King, Geo II Kenney, Geo G Martin, w
ii Mixer, Donah IL Nichols, IL NJ Pierce,
John Phair, Eugene Rice, John Riley,
G Scribner, Mr. Stone, 55 Green st, Luth-
er Shattuek, VIM C Stephenson, Warren
Spears, x G Thayer, Elmer Tucker,
Henry Tumor, James NJ Tarball, Herbert
Ii Wood, Il NJ Wecb, + p Willis, Joseph
Wood, Lucius L Wiley, P IL Williams.