Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-05-07

fhhtOf. SUNDAY 9ervlceF-Btgh mass lO:bO n.
yespers and Benediction I 80 p. m.
UNITARIAs.-Main st. Rev. W. L. jenkins, Pastor.
Services discontinued until further notice.
FlnsT UsIVHRsALIsT.-CanAl 81. Rev. NJ. II. Harris,
Pastor, residence foot Of High IT,. Sunday sermon
1880 =. IN Services Monday and Friday evenings
1850
--Seas0nable--the Brattlehoro House il
putting on a lighter coat.
The maple sugar season is over. Good
sugar IS plenty at 10 ~ IL cts.
Mr.. II. Guellow has opened a barber
shop in the Brattleboro House.
A good soaking rain fell Saturday
night, and grass is beginning to start.
Now is the time for the tire companies
to begin to climber up'' for the season.
The Estey Guards are to play the
"Ticket- Of Leave Man" at Greenfield, May
18th.
The new Catholic school on Walnut
street opened on "Wednesday with good
attendance.
Albert Taylor has taken the contract TO
water the streets this season, and began OPP
erations Tuesday.
Arrangements are being made for a
trot at the Park ground. on tue 22d inst.
for home horses only.
Rev. l.. II. Stone of Caslielon lectured
on temperance at the town hall last sun
day evening TO good audience.
We have len, for sale, few copies Of
the PHOENIX of April -, containing Rev.
DIR. MattesOn's farewell sermon.
The Fuller drum corps, Frank Put
nam leader, was out Saturday afternoon in
full uniform, presenting handsome ap-
pearance.
Rev. y. +. Perry, for the last three
yeas stationed al Ludlow, " to succeed
Rev. Mr.. Bass as pastor of the NJ. T.. church
and society In this place.
-Thirty-four persons were received into
the Centre Congres a!ional church last sun =
day, OF whom twenty-five were by profess
sion and twelve by letter.
Mrs. Theodore TIom, son, formerly
night. watch at the BratlleLoro Asylum,
proved to be the champion speller at the
spelling match held la 81. Deeriield. Mass.
recently.
May bay WAS quite a comfortable day
compared with what we have lately had,
and the children went Maying in Groves.
The flowers they gathered. though, were
mostly In the bud.
c. c.. Tenney OF Dummerston didn't
lay an egg on Our table, but there Is one
there which his old hen laid al home, and il
measures inches one way by7l the other,
and 1t weighs - ounces.
Two runaway boys rrum Boston. aged
respectively IL aud IL, were arrested in this
place, Thursday night Of last week, by Of
iirer hood, In obedience to "A telegram re-
ceiyed from Chief of Police Savage.
John Housbtou, for drunkenness, was
brought before Justice Field last week
Monday, and fined - aud costs: aud AS he
swure that Two other nIen bought The liquor
for him, they we're arrested aud fined each
$40 and costs.
-Enma, eldest dtushieg Of John Ret
ting, died I hui>da! morning, amer u very
brief Illness. An erysips!as snre appeared
on her lace 4 few days previous. but little
attention was paid 10 it Until Tuesday, and
Wednesday she look to her bed. Its ma
lignanI character rapidly developed and
she died at all early huur the next day.
Willard BaucgoH Of Mortified, Mass,
was found in The depot the other day in a
stale OF bcastlv inioxicaliOn. with Jug In
his possession which still contained i've
quarts Of liquor. lie was carried To the
lookup, and avinG been allowed two nights
and day 10 sober of, was brought before
magistrate aud tinel the usual s. and
costs.
We are informed hy the officers of the
Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
through Benz. r. Jenne, Agent Of the
Company, that all losses up 10 date, ipclud-
ing the last fire at Montpelier, since Au-
gust LIST, 1874, will not require over two
and thrse-fourths per cent assessment,
which, with ordinary losses hereafter dur
ing the fiscal year will not make the asses
nient more than the average Is per cent?
This company is nearly finy years old and
has capital Of over four million dollars.
-Au Interesting event of Tuesday last
was the marriage OF Mr.. Walter II. Childs
and Miss Clara NJ. Davis. which lo0k place
at the Baptist church, at $50 p. NJ, Rev.
M. II. Harris performing the ceremony.
The event was Witnessed by a large assem-
blage OF citizens and Invited guests. Love-
ly flowers and other emblems decorated
the altar; the sun, which had been becloud-
ed all the morning. shone out in warmth
and Beauty when the hour for the ceremony
arrived aud ererythr K passed off pleas
anlly and auspicOusly. The newly mar
ried couple took the $3.50 train south, with
Washington for their objective point.
MI. A, 4. Miner, a machlnist in Mr..
Cranes shop, has invented new protract-
ing trigOnOmeter which Is unqueslionably
very much superior 10 any instrument of
the kind now in use. The chiefexcellence
consists In its giving any angle that may be
desired, while instruments Of the kind now
in general use only give a minimum of
some sixty degrees. Mr.. Miners instru-
ment may also be used on the top of the Ia
BILE just rs we'll US on the edge. II ls very
handsomely made, and when II becomes
generally known Its use will be a necessi-
~ TO surveyors, civil engineers and
draughIsmen OF all kinds. The invention
will probably he patented.
Mr.. Chss. Il. Barrett, a young mechan-
ie In the employ of Mr.. l.. II. Crane, show
cd US little device, the other day, which