Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-12-22
Local Intelligence.



The Meth odist Sunday School will have
Christmas concert on Sunday evening.
Sale of pews and tea party at the Con-
gregational church and chapel This even
ing.
Mr.. James T. Esley's customers will
be interested In a card which lie publishes
this week.
Box stationery, new styles for Christ
mas and New Years, this week, al +. c. Ed
wards.
Mrs. Emma Malloy Of South Benz,
Ind, speaks on temperance at The town
hall this evening.
Appropriate services will lie held at
the Episcopal church on Christmas Eve
and also on Christmas morning.
There will be Christmas services in the
Universalist church next Sunday morning,
and Christmas concert in the evening.
-Brattleboro's Mrs. Partington went to
the Centennial, and she still delights in
"reminiscences Of her visit to the exhibit
tion-aso 10 the theological gardens. Facti
Warren A. Hescock is about opening
new job shop in district No. Is, AND will
soon he ready to do all kinds of iobbng,
sucL as making and repairing sleigbs,
sleds, sap-yokes, Jumpers, etc., cheaply and
In work manlike manner. All orders by
mail or otherwise promptly attended to.
The tea-party held at the Baptist ves-
try, last Thursday evening, was very
pleasant affair Music was furnished by
the Brattleboro sextelle band and orches-
ira, which added greatly to The enjoyment
of the evening. The receipts from the sale
Establishments, fancy articles, etc. amount
ed TO about 500.
We learn that prominent business men
of Whitehall held n meeting last week and
pledged themselves to raiue $4,000 In that
town for the Brattleboro and Whitehall
railr DAD. One of the most favorable indi-
cations about this new enterprise il the fact
that leading and experienced capitalists are
ready and willing to put their money into
It.
The Unitarian Sunday school will hold
Christmas gathering at Harmony hall on
Monday evening christmas hight; on
ednesday evening Qnnocents' Day. the
Episcopal Sunday school will have gath
ering at the same place, and on the same
evening, Wednesday, the Baptists will
have a Sunday school entertainment at
their church.
DR.. Henry Gray OF Greenwich, n. Y,
assisted by Drs. Gale and Gray Of this town,
re moved a tuberculous tumor from the
breas of Mrs. Rev. Thomas Gull OF Mid
dletown, Ohio at the residence Of J. ]. Es-
tey-whose wife is twin sister of the pa
tient-on the 18th inst. Friends Of the par
lies viii be glad 10 learn that the patient is
now doing finely.
Notwithstanding hard times the agree
| able custom of making Christmas pres
ents will I've continued as in better times. if
appearances at the store of Cheney & Clapp
may be taken Is an indication. The de-
crease in price and substitution OF the taste-
full for the more expensive renders it prac-
ticable TO provide suitable presents at a
small outlay.
In look ing for really valuable and de-
sirable gifts for the young Roberts Broth
ers bright new juvenies-"Bits OF Talk for
Young Folks" by II. H., Jan of the Wind
mill, D." I'VE Boys" and Miss Alcolls de-
lightful Rose in Bloom, "-should not by
any means be passed by. Fresh and health
ful in tone and beautiful in mechanical
execution, our current literature contains
nothing more attractive than these little
volumes. Cheney & Clapp have them for
sale.
We are glad to know that our readers
were pleased with the concise and couyen-
lent form in which we were able 10 present
them with the laws passed at the recent
session OF the legislature, in our supple
meBt last week. 1t has been a pleasure to
US, as well as n benefit To our patrons, 10
present them, as we have done in the past
two weeks with the Presidents Message
and the Laws in the form of supplements,
thus relieving our regular reading columns
from undue pressure at a time when so
many matters of both local and general im-
portanco claim the public attention. LISA
fact that THE PHOENIX has given its read
ers during the past year greater amount
OF reading matter than any one of its con-
temporaries in this section, aud greater
than ii ever gave in any one previous year.
During the coming year we hope 10 in
crease both the quantity and the quality of
its contents.
The weather deserves irst-class no.
tice again this week. Amer another furi-
Gus wind on Saturday and a severely cold
ed TO the novelty of heavy snow storm
with the mercury at zero in the morning
and the temperature rising in a hardly per-
ceptible manner during the day. About
eight inches of snow probably fell, but the
wind didn't permit it TO lie still enough to
be measured. On Monday night and Tues
day the trains were badly delayed-the
Monday afternoon Northern mail being
three hours and half, and the river train
two hours and half late. AT White Riv-
err junction and on the '.Snmmir' two feet
Of snow are reported. In the hill towns of
this county about a foot fell and the wind
has made lively work with ii. The stages
have generally arrived nearly on time, with
the exception of the Wilmington, which
on Wednesday, owing TO the drifts and the
bare ground, did not reach here until four
o'clock in the afternoon--six hours late
Wednesday morning people walked up
shivering and found the mercury ranging
from 15o and $50 below zero in this village
to 240 below in West Brattleboro
THE VILLAGE MEETING.
There was a large attendance at The
village meeting held on Monday evening.
The meeting was called TO order promptly
at six o'clock and opened with the reading
of the warrant, followed by the treasurer's
statement and the report of the chief engin-
eer, both of which were accepted. An alb
straet of the treasurer's statement has al
ready appeared in our columns. The chief
engineers report stated the fire depart