Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-08-17

AHahheDSEOs
The Brooks House Is well filled with
summer visitors.
--latest Centennial slang: To be on
ones last leaf.
e. N. Davis has hint 10 the prudent
and economical in our advertising col
umns
The regular session of st. Michael's
Episcopal Sunday School will be held next
Sunday at II o'clock, as usual.
Prof Charlier is building q fine bank
wall Of Hinsdale mica slate In front Of his
premises on Western avenue, made neces-
sary by the cutting down of the hill. q
Captain Dovens and family left Mon
day for Narragansett Pier. Madam Good
hue, Mrs. w. p. Cune and Mrs. Gov. Hol-
brook left the same day for Watch Hill.
Not few teams have crossed the bridge
from the New Hampshire side, bound for
Bennington, and from nearly every town
in the county comes the statement that
"large numbers have gone to the centen-
NAL"
Wood and Marshall, the old and relia-
BILE stove dealers, are Offering excellent
bargains TO purchasers OF their wares, and
in their advertisement they call special al
tention to the Magee Standard range, be-
lieved TO be one of the very hest in the
market.
The New York express train to the
White Mountains is we'll patronized aud
attracts many visitors to the mountains
who have never before thought of going
there. During the greater part OF the past
week it has been found necessary to run
two drawlng-room cars on the train.
-Taylor's four-horse team left for Ben
nington Saturday afternoon in charge OF
Mr.. Lewis s. Higgins. II took only some
half-dozen passengers from Brattleboro,
the remainder of the load having been en-
gagged at Wilmington. The party reached
Bennington safely Sunday afternoon.
Two children playing with matches on
the premises of J. d. Roess on Canal street,
last Saturday afternoon, set fire TO some
straw in the barn, and a general alarm was
given, but before any OF the engines reach
ed the spot the fire had been extinguished,
without damage TO property, by persons
near by.
-Lucien Howe purposes giving free
organ recital the last of this month, on
which occasion Miss Sprague will sing one
or two selections from oratorios. Those
who had the pleasure of listening TO Mr..
Howe's former recital, will be glad to avail
themselves Of this opportunity for hearing
some good music well played.
The nests OF The tent caterpillars
Ciisiocdmpd americana which cover both
fruit and shade trees in great numbers in
many paris OF the town, should be imme-
diately destroyed, If we are TO have either
fruit or leaves another year. This pest
seems TO be unusually numerous the pres
ent season throughout this section.
Lieut. Briggs of Fuller Battery returned
TO Brattleboro on Wednesday morning,
having been called home by the sudden
death OF his wife's mother. He reports a
pleasant and unevenifnl march across the
mountain and says that all is well with the
Bratlleboro boys at Camp Stark. Mr.. |
Briggs returned TO Bennington on Wednes-
day evening by way of the tunnel.
Last Saturday evening a procession,
headed by the brass band, passed through |
the principal streets of the village, exhibit
ing the large and happily conceived trans |
parences designed and executed by R. G. |
Hardie, Jr., for the use of the Windham |
County veterans in the grand torchlight
procession with which the Bennington cell
ebraion will close this evening.
While every body knows that baked !
beans are one of the peculiar institutions of |
this country, supposed TO be found in per-
lection only under the shadow of the State
House at Boston, probably not all are |
aware that the genuine Boston product is
now canned in large quantities and ship
ped to all parts OF the country. These "Bos-
ton Baked Beans" are sold in Brattleboro
by j. w. Frost & Co., and a nicer or more
perfectly cooked article OF the kind we have
never seen. What shall we have next for
venture Of this kindH
1t is hardly possible TO arrive at even
an approximate estimate Of the numbers
who have gone from BrattlebOro to the
Bennington celebration, and II is only cer.-
ain that very great many have embrace
ID this occasion to air their patriotism and
crafty their curiosity. About one hun
ired persons have gone by rail, as shown
by Mr.. Brookss ticket sales, aside from the
members of The Estey Guard aud detail
If Fuller Battery. Many more than this
undoubtedly, have gone by pri-
rate conveyance, as the residents of West
Urn avenue report an almost constant sue.
session OF carriages passing centennial
ward, many OF them carrying lunch bas-
Iets and picnic appliances. Those of us
Who are obliged ~ to remain at home can
t leastswish the patriotic travellers a happy
line, but We shall nevertheless be curious
learn what proportion of them found a
comfortable place wherein 10 lay their heads
n their absence.
The leading topic of conversation dur
ng the past week has been the centennial
and almost tho only local
vents of any importance have been the
arious departures for Bennington. On
friday morning at I o. clock Fuller Bat
cry left on their march across the noun
ain, and, IN paragraph elsewhere pub
shed, their safe and timely arrival at
amp Stark, on the following day, is re-
orded. Saturday morning the Estey
fuard left by a special train at 7:4S and
cached the camp on the same afternoon.
IN Monday morning the turn Of the old
eterans came. Promptly at half past sew I
n the line was formed, and, led by the
'rattleboro brass band, Col. Hooker, with
Is finely mounted staff OF 25 men, and