Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-11-30
Local Intelligence.


The seIli-annunl interest on loans of the
Vermont Savings Bank is due December LIST.
Post Office hours on Thanksgiving day
will be from to II o'clock A. NJ, and to
I'm.
There will be services in the Universalist
church on Thanksgiving day at II o'clock
| A. NJ.
Beginning with next Monday. the Town
shend stage will not arrive in Brattlcboro I'M
til > o'clock, p NJ
Divine service will be held in st. Mich.
ael's (EpiscopaD church at II O'Clock A. 81,
on Thanksgiving day. The rector will preach.
The Congregational and Baptist societies
will unite with the Mcthodists in II service on
Thanksgiving day at II A. NJ. in the lower
town hall Sermon by Rev. N F. Perry.
Miss NJ. c. Cooke is now filling an en-
gagcment, which will continue till Jan list
rs leading soprano in the choir of the Payson
church. Ensthampton, Mass, taking the pnce
Of Miss Hallett
The Little Giant" corn shelter. adver.
tised in our columns, seems to exactly fill the
bill for perfect and reliable little machine
1t may be seen in operation at the Brattleboro
House or at A. c. Davenport's grocery store.
Rev. NJ. II. Harris will begin his eighth
winter course of lectures in the Unversalist
church next Sunday evening at : o'clock.
Subject. 1.-The Foundation of True Worldly
| Prosperity" All who desire to attend these
| lectures will find hearty welcome
We believe that during the past week We
have received greater number of new yearly
subscriptions to The PHRN1x than in any
! 4.
paper. Our thanks are due to our friends in
the various towns who are so cordially giving
II, their kind offices in the matter
We suppose there arc many people who
are determined to live up TO the best light Of
sanitary science" who yet do not find the
bone, muscle and brain-making oat meal an
altogether desirable and reshable dish An
Ohio article which Willard has on sale seems
to possess every possible good quality and to
come very near perfection in its way.
Mr.. Geo. j. Brooks leaves Brattleboro en-
route for his winters stay in California on
Thursday of next week After spending
few days in New York, he will leave that city
for the Pacific coast direct on the 10th proxi-
mo. and will be joined at Albany, n Y. by
his niece. Miss Cabot who, by his invitation.
is to spend the winter with him in San Fran
cisco.
Among all our other causes for thanks
giving this week, let us not forget to be duly
grateful that after n succession of years in
which lack of rain has come near being Sc
rious evil, mother earth has at last laid in
such bountiful store of water for the winters
use as must supply every possible want of
man and beast until the spring showers ''come
again. Virginia and North Carolina people
may skip this item.
Hon. b. ID, Harris returned on Tuesday
from visit to the new Billerica * Bedford.
Mass. narrow gauge railroad. Mr.. Harris
found the road just open for public use. and
the State commissioners were making their
official examination of the line ON the same
day that he passed over it. He reports the
working of the road. and all appliances con-
nected with it. TO be of the most perfect and
satisfactory character.
-Tramps are more numerous than ever
and their number is on the increase Five or
six has been the regular number in the lock
up each night during the past week. The
suggestion that these travellers be allow
ed to make Il suitable return for their lodg-
ing and breakfast by few hours work with
the shovel on the embankment in front of the
Estey shops, is by no means a bad one.
The elegant Clough d Warren organ. val
ued at $3.50, which Mr.. j. W. Hosford pur-
poses to dispose of through his picture sale
advertised in our columns, is now on exhibi-
ton at his music store in the town hall build
ing. The instrument possesses many strong
points of excellence, notable among which are
its powerful b-base and its beautifully full
and clear tone. The case which encloses it is
handsome and substantial
DR.. Calderwood, the present State Com
| missioner of the Insane, shows very praise
worthy faithfulness and thoroughness i'll the
performance of his official duties. His visits
to the Vermont asylum are frequent and on
each occasion he takes sufficient time to care
fully examine into all the inside workings of
the institution. He was nj the asylum over
last Sunday, having arrived there on Friday,
and remained until Tuesday morning There
seems to be good reason to hope that whatcy-
err the doctors final judgment of the iusttu-
ton may be. it will Mt Least have been under
standingly reached after mature study and ex-
animation.
On Sunday evening" about : o'clock an
alarm of fire WAS caused ly the wood work
taking fire in the office of L.rlr's feed and
meal store rear of the Brook House and
Crosby block The flames ro all out when
the fire department arrived, hut a stream from
No. was used for few minutes in quench-
ing the fire which remained inside partition.
The only damage WAS n bad scorching of the
pine sheathing of the Office the escape from
serious fire was, however, narrow one The
flames undoubtedly caught from an explosion
of gas in the Office coal stove, which blew
open the front damper and unjointed the stove
pipe
Important changes are announced to take
place next Monday in the running of trains
Boston-ward. On and after that day the 81
morning train will be discontinued below
South Vernon, and the old-time afternoon
Boston train will be restored leaving here at
>: II, Millers Falls Mt 3 81 and reaching Bos-
ton at / -. The present afternoon up train
over the New London road will be discontin-
ued above Amherst, and an evening train will
be put on aboN' Millers Falls, connecting at
that point with the afternoon train from Bos-
ton and reaching Brattleboro at I 30. The
regular morning express for Boston, which
leaves Brnttleboro at 10 o. will be continued
| same now.
The weather of the past week has been
the worst in many years for the Thanksgiving
poultry trade. An unusually large amount of
poultry has been raised and marketed, and if
all the dealers save themselves from loss they
viii do we'll The ruling retail price for the