Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-09-01

Temperance meeting at the town hall
next Sunday evening at 81 o'clock.
The town representative question is
very quiet on the surface, but there is ru
NOR in the air.
1t is expected that the Republicans will
hold a grand closing outdoor rally next
Monday evening.
Rev. Mr.. Burchard is expected to re-
turn from his vacation this week and &C.
cupy his pulpit next Sunday.
Prof. o. S. Fowler will commence a
course of lectures on "Phrenology" at the
town hall on the 14th inst.
The Hayes and Wheeler club have sus-
pended very handsome banner between
the Brooks House and the savings bank
building.
Maj. John c. Tyler exhibited in our
office, the other day, cluster of five ripe
tomatoes, weighing three pounds, growing
on a single stem.
Rev. Joseph Chandler will preach at
the Centre Congregational church next
Sunday morning. Monthly missionary
concert in the evening.
1t was said on the street the next morn
ing that Thompson & Rangers block bore
off The palm for the brilliancy of its illu-
mination on Friday evening.
The Estey Guard and Fuller Battery
left for st. Adams Monday morning, with
full ranks, to attend the annual encamp-
ment of the first regiment VT. National
Guard.
Mr.. Moody, the evangelist, will preach
in the town hall next Sunday morning at
9o'clock. His service will close in season
for he regular morning service of the vari-
Gus churches.
- The Universalist picnic at Lake Pleas
ant last Thursday, and the Catholic at
BE rnardston on Saturday were both well
attended, and, as usual, were occasions of
. great enjoyment.
H. C. Willard has just taken the agency
for Cooks bottled ales, which are the best
American goods of their kind, and are
the equal of any foreign product.
Did you hear any kissing on the part of
the Republicans last Saturday evening
while Mr.. Dickey roundly denounced their
party, or when he INDUCED in his unwar-
ranted and unmanly talk as to what Mr..
Hayes would probably do in case of his
ell ection? We don't think you did, for
Republicans ''dre gentlemen ~
Col. Haskins spoke to a crowded house
at st. Johnsbury on Tuesday evening. The
enthusiasm when Horace Fairbanks, the
Republican nominee for governor entered
tn hall, Mr.. Haskins says, was immense,
and carried the whole house as if by storm.
MIR. Dorman b. Eaton of New York,
and Hon. d. d. Harris accompanied Mr..
Bristow's party to Rutland on Saturday
morning, and at the mass meeting held
there in the afternoon Mr.. Eaton delivered
a powerful address. He is engaged to
speak at Putney on Friday evening and at
Montpelier on Saturday evening.
"A pompous young man who came up
on the Southern train Tuesday night was
arrested at the station by officer Wood, on
complaint of conductor Gould, for evading
payment of his fare. He talked a good
deal with his mouth at first, but when he
found that the only alternative was TO pay
or go 10 the lookup, he chose the former
with com mendable alacrity.
A Night Blooming Cereus belonging to
Mrs. +. A. Nash brought three magnificent
blossoms TO perfection last Sunday eve
ming, and the rare and beautiful sight was
enjoyed by large circle of friends who had
been notified of The long anticipated event.
The blossoms were the welcome result of
six years of patient care and waiting on the
part Of Mrs. Nash.
j. NJ. Tyler has accepted invitations TO
speak upon political issues the last four eve
nings before the State election, as follows /:
At Jamaica Thursday, Townshend Friday,
Jacksonville Saturday, and Wilmington
Monday. As the election draws near the
interest of the people increases. Public
meetings are being held in nearly all the
towns, and the indications are that large
Republican vote will be cast in this county
next Tuesday.
The remains of Mrs. Mary ]. Mead,
widow of the late Larkin G. Mead, reached
Brattleboro last Saturday morning, and the
funeral was attended at the Congregational
chapel, Rev. Joseph Chandler officiating.
The burial party consisted of the children
and immediate relatives of the deceased,
and the chapel was filed with Mrs. Mead's
old neighbors and friends, in whose minds
her death recalls flood of tender memo
ries, and to whom she was endeared as well
by her strong and superior character as by
her many virtues and qualities of true wo-
manhood. OF her II is truly said that "her
children rise up aud call her blessed"
Mrs. Mead was a daughter of the late John
Noyes, formerly of this town and men,
Der of Congress from this district.
That was a very sharp and whitening
bit of sarcasm which the chairman of the
Democratic meeting INDUCED in, last Sat
nrday evening, when in response to a SEN
timent by Mr.. Dickey he said "No, sir
Democrats are gentlemeR!" Had We moi
been present at the speaking from the
Brooks House balcony on the previous
evening aud heard the Kissing and the in
solent remarks on the part of the Demo
Gratis in the crowd, we might have thought
this expression TO have been intended as &
compliment, but under the circumstances
there can be no doubt that II was meant fol
a severe aud merited rebuke. We CON
graduate our friend on his courage and tao
in thus publicly ceusuring the disOrderly
and rufianly behavior of his political fol
lowers.
"A case of unusual interest came befort
Justice II. Tyler last Saturday. Some two
years since one Susan Phelps of Dover wa
deserted by her husband, and, being in
sane, wandered into Massachusetts, wher
she was picked up and placed in the asy
lum for the insane at Northampton. Las
week, the Massachusetts, Stale Board o
Charities, which has the supervision Of al
the poor of the Stale, having learned tina
Mrs. Phelps's legal settlement was in Do
yer, and having by letter requested III
oyerseer of the poor of the town to TAX @ car