Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-02-23
Local Intelligence.


"praise meeting" at their reading room
this Thursday evening.
The members Of the new fire police
may be known by their badges which they
received last week and are now wearing.
The Spring announcement of Goddard
Seminary, wel-known institution at
Barre, in this State, appears in our columns
to-day.
The subject of the lecture in the Uni
versalist church next Sunday evening will
be, 1.-THE Doctrine Of Endless Punishment
Unreasonable"
New sugar is offered in the market in
small quantities, but, with now and then
au exception, only few lots of trees stand.
ing in open land have been tapped.
A new quadrile band has lately been
organized by some of our young men. The
members are-C. X. Jones, leader, w. II.
Crosby, Fred Lightsinger, Winthrop Ad-
ans, Ben Perry, and Fred Baker.
Thirty or more persons met at Har-
rnony hall last Sunday, a; p. M, and took
steps for forming a local organization for
the free discussion Of religious and other
subjects. A plan for organizing will be
presented next Sunday.
Vermont accepts Minnesota's challenge
as reported in The PBGNIx last week, and
reports batch of lively and healthy young
grasshoppers that Matched ont on Thomas
Lynde's farm in Guilford during the warm
weather Of the past few days.
Men who have spent their lives on the
railroad say that they have never seen so
dull time for travel As this winter. As
soon as the Centennial closed travel stop
ped, and a stage coach would carry the pas
sengers on most Of the trains.
With a somewhat intimate knowledge
of what our orchestra has been doing this
winter, we feel morally sure that three
fourths Of their audience next Thursday
evening will be entirely and most agree
ably surprised at the proficiency which
this organization has attained.
The roofing-in of the boiler house at
the asylum has been completed, and con-.
paratively few traces Of last weeks fire are
now visible New stores are purchased, as
needed, TO replace those destroyed, and ev-
erytbing about the institution goes on as
usual. The work of permanent rebuild
ing will not he begun until spring opens.
The warrant is posted for the annual
town meeting which occurs Tuesday, March
@. The articles are few in number and re-
late almost entirely TO the usual routine
business. We trust that the subject Of pro-
viding proper means OF exit from The town
hall will come UP under the head of "other
business"
Mr. Newton, the town clerk, is ready 10
register dogs and issue licenses under the
new law. Dog owners who fail to obtain a
license before the first day OF April are liza
BILE to fine Of SIS and costs OF prosecution.
The cost Of a license is 50.
Few persons, probably, can call to
mind four weeks of finer winter weather
than has been enjoyed in those just past.
Our last snow storm was on the night of
January 18th, and now, even in the hill
towns, the sleighing is reported poor, from
the fact that the high winds which accom-
panied the snowfalls blew the ground bare
in many places.
The town clerks records show that
there were los births and ZIG deaths Ia the
town OF Brattleboro in 1876. OF the deaths
rs were at the asylum. ono person-Mrs.
Mary Lsng-was aged o. six-Mrs. Sam
uel Root, Mrs. Mary Moynihen, Mrs. Lucy
Buttertield, Miss Caroline Field and Mr..
John Reeves-were between 50 aud 90, and
nine others were upward of 20. Il marriage
licenses were issued.
The blue-glass mania has promptly
reached Brattleboro, and some remarkable
cures are already reported. One of our vii.
lage physicians was called ON last week by
an out-of-lown patient who wanted some
blue glass whether liquid or solid we don't
know but the worthy doctor was away and
his good wife in furtherance of the Joke
sent The sufferer 10 Willard's-aud Willard
says he has more calls for blue glass Than
for any other remedy.
"A dramatic company OF amateur per-
formers appeared at the town hall on
Thursday and Friday evenings of last
week in the four-act drama entitled Dark
ness and Daylight" Two of the charac-
tiers were sustained by young men OF this
village, Mr.. l.. X. Willis appearing as
Harry Morton and Mr.. c. L. Miller as
Judge Grufier. Both did themselves cred
it, and, in fact, the entiie company sus-
tanned their several parts in manner that
IS
Unfortunately, however, the attendance
was small.
The following Is The list OF letters re-
naming at the post Office in this village
Feb. %:
Ladies-Jeanie Chapman, Mrs. Eta NJ.
Norton, Sarah Stratton, Alice Taylor, Julia
II. Tracy, Miss A. l.. Worden.
Gents-G. w. Barton, John A. Bond, Da-
vid Doyle, Jimmie Bowling, j. +. Esta-
brook, Timothy Murphy, Louis Peltee.
Julius l.. Stockwell, Asa Thayer, Rufus
futile.
Held for better direction-Sanford May,
Saratoga County, n. y.
The burning of the house, barn, live
stock, ETC., of Asa ii. Stratton of West Dunn
merston, last Wednesday night, appears TO
have been one OF the most daslardly out
RACES ever perpetrated in this vicinity The
buildings were all connected, and the fire
was set in the farther corner Of The barn,
and when Mr.. and Mrs. Stratton awoke tho
flames had made such progress toward the
house that they at once saw it was OF 20 use
to attempt to save the live stock and their
first act was 10 wrap their baby in the bed
clothing and start with it for the front door.
where they met their neighbors who had
just arrived TO render their aid. 1t is said
that Ten minutes more would have wrapped
the house in flames so as TO have made the
escape ofthe inmates impossible. five are
correctly informed the chain of circumstan-
stial evidence in the case is very strong, and
1t all points in one direction. In the inter
est of justice, as well as for the proper pro-
lection of human life and property, we trust
that either the Farmers Mutual Fire In
surance Company, or the proper officers of
the law, will follow the matter up until the
guilty parties are BROUGHT TO trial and con-