Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-04-07
Local Intelligence.


BrattleDOro House.
There is a fair prospect for a good sized
freshet before many days.
b. r. Jenne adverlises some desirable
houses to rent in this village.
The village schools will commence
their Spring term next Monday.
The Universalists will eat hot sugar at
Harmony hall this, Thursday, evening.
Tho ladies will undoubtedly "Beholdw
Sllsby & Co.'s Spring announcement with
much interest.
The tramp patronage at the lookup is
falling oif-owing TO the unatlractivo ma
ture Of the accom- modalions, possibly.
| Prof. +. p. Crowell of Amherst, Mass,
will preach in the Centre Congregational
church next Sunday, morning and evening
--Brattletoro's business seems not TO DO
entirely dead. We notice that J. +. Estey's
freight bills for last month amounted 10
S23l7.sl.
III, as is commonly said, these late
Spring SHOWS are the "poor mans ma
nure," Vermont farms must be tremend-
ously fertile the coming season.
Those having cabinet work to be re.
paired, pictures 10 be framed, or job work
of any kind to he done, will be Interested
in Il. L. Emerson's advertisement.
Maple sugar of excellent quality begins
to come in quite freely. The season has
been quite late in commencing, but the
prospect is said 10 be good for large crop.
"A look at Mr.. G.. J. Roots store and
stock of goods will convince the gentlemen
that he is ready to meet all the require
| or T..
his card which appears in another column.
Next Sunday and during the PASTORS
vacation, the Sunday school and Bible class
of the Unitarian Free Church will begin at
lO4 o'clock at III praise meeting Of con-
gregational singing. Seals free, and all
cordially invited.
The following officers of Columbian
Lodge, i. & A. NJ, were elected at the an
nual meeting on Tuesday evening:
f. ii. Putnam, w. NJ. II. X. White,
S. W.; ID. l.. Herrck, j. W.; w. S. Guild,
Treas. y. T. Willard, Sccy.
The ladies tho Unitarian society gave
their closing socable OF the season at Har-
mony hall on Wednesday evening. The
use Of the hall was kindly given them for
the occasion by its proprietor, Edward
Crosby, Esq, and the music was furnish ed
gratuitously by Messrs. Hines & Knapp.
AT the annual meeting of Phoenix Hose
Company, held at their hall on Tuesday
evening, April 4th, tho following officers
were chosen: L. Wales, Jr., foreman; j.
Mcclure, assistant foreman H.. Phillips,
clerk and treasurer; d. w. Brosnahan, LIST
hoseman; ii. McMinimen, I'd; G. Turner,
3D.; Wn. Martin, 4th; VIM. McVeigb,
steward c. II. Nash, assistant steward.
The Forest and Stream Club, at their
meeting on Monday evening, reelected the
old board OF officers and passed vote in
structing the executive committee. 10 ac-
cept the gin Of 1000 land-lOcked salmon, ten
dered by the State Fish Commissioners, and
place them in an artificial pond to be con-
structed here, from which, at the proper
stage of growth they will be transferred to
various ponds in this vicinity.
The Brattleboro lecture committee an
nounce that positive engagement has been
made with Rev. Henry Ward Beecher to
lecture in the town hall on Wednesday eve
ming, April 10Th. This announcement is a
genuine surprise to tho community, as the
committee have already discharged all
moral obligation TO the patrons of the course
OF 1915, and much credit is due the man
ager for the enterprise and persistency
which has finally secured this engagement.
The subject of the lecture will be "Tho
Wastes and Burdens of Life"
The snow storm of Tuesday and Tues
day night was one of the severest of the
season. Hereabouts, nearly foot OF
heavy, wet snow fell, which, in the streets,
at once changed TO deep, muddy slush, rem
dering the travelling as difficult and disa-
greeable as it could well be. In the hill
towns the amount of snow varied from IS
inches TO y feet. The furious wind OF
Tuesday night drilled 1t badly, and the re-
suit was that Oh wednesday none of tho
stage mails reached Bratteboro except
that from Townsheud. Tho stages which
came in on Thursday morning report the
storm as being the worst for several years
in the back towns.
All of Mr.. Larkin G. Mead's Brattlebo-
70 friends, and they are many, will be glad
TO know that court of law has relieved
the eminent sculptor Of all imputations of
having stolen = poor Italians genius and
palmed it of as his own in the design and
execution of the Lincoln monument at
Springfield, Ill. The accusations of the
marble-workers, Passaglia and Bordo,
which were backed by the epstolary Healy,
fell Hat, last fall, in the trial of tho last
named individual, aud now the suit OF
Tommaso Gagliardi, who claimed to have
designed the architectural portion of the
monument, has been decided in Florence
in favor of the defendant. Meantime, Mr..
Mead is in New York, and Gaglardi, ailer
singing challenge at Mead through the
press Of that city, has gone to California, or
Australia, or somewhere else in that direc.
ton.
Nearly everybody in school district
No. @ has had the "surprlse fever" bad this
winter; but to cap the climax, on Tuesday,
March p, the ladies came with boxes, pals
and satchels, and took possession of the
house OF "Kapen" (of telegraph notoriety),
and had an old fashioned quilting party,
all to themselves and on KS return from
his daily labors, he found them drinking
their tea and gossiping right merrily. But
soon the tribe OF Adam began to come, in
single and double sleghs and sleds, until
the house was full, from cellar 10 attic.
Supper being despatched, all at once
"Tlagg & Adams" put in their appearance,
and at the sound of the "tinlbrel and Lutte"
old and young enjoyed themselves in the
merry dance until late hour, all voting
they had a "radI 0ude' time. But, not
content with this, about twenty fell in on
"Father Kelley" on Saturday evening,
April 1st-it being his SEVENTEEN birthday