Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-07
Local Intelligence.


week which IS oil special interest 10 tne III
dies.
Pratt Wright 4 Co., are ready for the
fall trade with full line of goods In every
department.
Rev. VIM. II. Claiming will preach in
the Unitarian church next Sunday. Seats
free, and all cordially invited.
Capt. and Mrs. II. w. Clarke and their
son LEFT on Wednesday afternoon for three
weeks visit to Illinois and Kansas.
%. J. Pratt has just received large and
attractive stock Of fancy and staple dry
goods and carpets for the fall trade.
The Estey Guard will decide tonight
whether they will attend the soldiers and
sailors monument dedication al Boston, on
the 18th inst.
The Rev. Cornelius Il. Smith Rector of
ST. James church, New York, will preach
In ST Micbael's (EplscopalD church on Sun
day evening next. Service at 1870.
The Rector of ST. Michaels (Episco pail
church having returned from his summer
vacation, there will be the usual services in
the parish church on Sunday next at 1920
A. NJ, and 7.3O p. NJ.
Only a small number Of Brattleboro
people have gone 10 Lake Pleasant to-day
TO hear Mr.. Moody. The railroad company
anticipated a crowd and had provided extra
cars for their accommodation.
Miss Blanchard will open class Of ele-
mentary drawing at $3.50 o'clock, Saturday
morning, September s, at Kindergarten
Hall. Glasses are being formed for the
painting of china, pottery, tiles, panels, etc.
Prof. Cbarlier returned TO New York
last Saturday 10 prepare for the opening OF
his Institute, which takes place about two
weeks hence. His eldest son, Ellie, goes to
Yale college this fall, entering there upon
the junior year.
The Valley Railroad Company have re-
Gently purchased and put upon their road
very fine new freight engine which bears
was bought at the Taunton, Mass, loco
motive works and cost $500.
The favorite and popular occupation on
bright evenings just now, is the study of
Mars and his newly discovered satellites
with the aid of a mirror. BY securing a re-
Election of the rays of the planet in the
glass his moons are distinctly seen.
The public schools began their fall
term on Monday with full attendance,
and with the corps of teachers in all the
grades unchanged. Both teachers and
pupils in the Grammar school were glad
to find that Miss Roys had reconsidered
and thought better of her determination to
leave the school.
Owing TO the fact that he was unex-
pectedly called back to Boston last week
TO attend to his duties as organist at the
First Baptist church, in the Somerville dis
trict, Mr.. Lucien Howe's organ recital,
to which many of his friends had looked
forward with much pleasant anticipation,
has been indefinitely postponed.
r. G. Hardie, Jr., has just completed a
fine crayon portrait of Mr.. Ebenezer Cola
more, a~well-known Boston gentleman
who has been spending some time in Brat
tleboro. For sharpness and vigor of touch,
and skilful handling of details, we regard
this portrait as the best which we have yet
seen from Mr.. Hardie's hand.
The friends of Mr.. c. A. Miles, formerly
of this place, will he interested TO learn
that he has recently assumed the charge of
the Anthem Grammar School, situated on
Madison Avenue, New York. The school
is an old and well-known private institu-
ton, of high standing, and under Mr..
Miles's competent and skillful manage
ment it will be sure 10 maintain its old
time excellence and prosperity.
John Fitzgerald came up on the 8 :: As
train Monday night with a two gallon jug
of the ardent, which he said he got in Mas
~ L.
rested by Officer Wood, at his tenement in
the "Omnibus," for being drunk and max
ing disturbance and, after SOLDERING of in
the lookup, was discharged the next morn
ing. The jug awaits the orders of the bal
lifts.
"A note from the Doctors Sweet OF New
Haven, Conn.,, dated at Burlington, in
forms us that they are about TO return
homeward from their trip through the
State, feeling well pleased with the cordial
reception which they have everywheSe re-
ceived. They will reach Brattleboro Sept.
oath, and will stop for few days at their
old quarters at the Brooks House, where
they will be glad TO see their former pa
tients and friends.
The hOmeward travel by the New
York and White Mountain express train
is very heavy this week, while nut few
passengers, by comparison, are going up to
the mountains. Two drawing-room cars
are now run regularly on the train and on
Monday three went down, with every seat
taken. The experiment with this train has
| proved great success. and in future it is
likely to become a settled institution dur
ing the season of summer travel. 1t is es-
timated that by the time the train is taken
| of, about the Goth inst, it will have carried
COCO people each way, and 1000 of them will
have been drawing room passengers.
Although September usually brings
| cooler days ADD nights the change from the
| last of the summer months TO the begin
ming of fall is rarely so plainly marked as
| II was this year. On Sunday night and
| Monday overcoats and shawls were well
| come aids 10 outdoor comfort, and it is
not strange that SO sudden a fall of tenn
peraiure made the seaside and mountain
jewellers turn with longing eyes and hast
eniug steps toward home. 1t is only the
permanent country residents who realize
that tue best days OF all the year are yet O
come.
| We find this item in the New York
Evening Post of recent date:
| "Mr. Ellie Charlier, Jr., a son of Profess
sor Charlier of this city, has bought farm
house at the upper end of Spofford Lake,
in Chesterfield, n. H., where he has been
entertaining his friends this summer in
| truly rural STYLE"
| What inference the Post might have gath.
| ere6 from the fact had IL known that this
farmhouse was dubbed the "beggars' re-