Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-06-09

and Newman furnished music for the dane
ing, to which the dining hall was devoted.
The following is the list of letters re-
naming in the post Office in this village
JuneS:
Gents-D. s. Brigham, Lon Baker, S. u.
Batcheder, James NJ. Hubbard, Edward
Lynch, Richard /. Newton, G. c. Pierce,
w. Plat, A. l. Smith, Robert II. Thomas,
Elary Woods.
Ladies-Mrs. Carrie w. Carson, Miss
Lizzie Davis, Mrs. Lizzie Davis, Mrs. j. B.
Hazen, Mrs. NJ. Il. Harris, Mrs. Lydia
Howe, Mrs. Mary II. Labounty, Miss Ma
ry Thomas, Mrs. Louisa Taylor, Mrs. Mary
Waldern.
Miscelaneous-Mr Spencer, inventor of
Spencer's lathe; Wood Working Machin-
cry Mfg. Coz Green Mountain Spring Med
icaTJournal.
FROM CHICAGO.
The following paragraph which has
been handed us from the Federal court re-
port of one of the Chicago dailies is Of in
terest TO our Brattleboro readers =
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed on yesterday against +. w. ST.
monds and Il. b. Stoddard, doing business
on State street between Madison and Mon
roe streets, as boot and shoe dealers under
The petitonlng creditors are as follows,
and represent the subjoined claims: Bay
State Shoe and Leather company, New
York, S4,559.0G; IL. L. Dodge a. Snirrell,
Newburyport, Mass, Sl,069; Hunt, Hol-
brook & Barber, Hartford, Conn, S55G.13 I;
Lilly, Young, Pratt & Bracket, Boston,
S2.Oll, and Woodmansee q Garsides, New
York, S2,3l5.14. The petitioners charge
that the debtors committed au act of bank
ruptcy by transferring on the 22d ult.,
portion Of their stock in trade TO McCOr-
mick & Clark, of Chicago, with intent to
delay, defraud, and hinder their creditors.
Also that on the 9th inst. they made like
transfer TO George p. Gore d Co., of Chica-
go. They further charge that the debtors
came TO Chicago within the past three or
four months; that they purchased their
stock largely, If not wholly, upon credit
tie of their paper, If any, has matured or
been paid. That they represented to their
creditors that they were opening 4 retail
boot and shoe store in Chicago, while in
fact they have been selling large quantities
of goods purchased by them upon credit in
job lots and below cost. Also that last Sat
urday they boxed up and removed from
their store TO Gore IL Co. auction and conf
mission house a large quantity of goods.
The belief of the petitioners is that the
debtors only object was to defraud their
creditors, dispose of their stock before the
maturity Of their paper, and flight out"
with the proceeds. They also set forth that
SimOnds & Stoddard, in removing their
goods to Gore d Co.'s auction room, care
fully erased from the packages containing
the same, old marks by which they could
be readily identified, and are to be sold to-
day at public auction unless Gore & Co. are
restrained from so doing. The petitioners
also show that the firm have been transact
ing their banking business with the Com
mercial National bank, and that they now
have money and sureties in that bank
which they will withdraw unless the bank
is restrained from paying out the funds so
so deposited. The prayer of the petition is
mentioned. Rule was issued 10 show cause,
returnable June 6, and provisional warrant
of seizure was likewise issued. The in
functions against Gore & Co., as well as the
Commercial National bank, were also is.
sued.