Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-17
Local Intelligence,


no o'clock Saturday evening. There should
/ be a full attendance.
The programme Of exercises for Decora-
/ ton day has not yet been completed, but will
/ be announced next week.
-Rcv. c. A. Paddock Of IIinsdale, n. H..
! is to speak ut the meeting Of the Reform Club
| to be held at the Baptist vestry this evening
The Fuller Battery will probably attend
! the reunion Of the Sixteenth Vermont regi-
ment which is to be held at Chester next
month.
! -Winhall voted last week against aid to
| the railroad, but the sum Of $1,000 was new
ertheless raised by subscription in the town
last Friday.
DR.. Hoton this week closes his annual
course Of lectures at the University or YER
mont as professor Of meteria medica and gen
eral pathology.
-Estey 4 Co. report the shipment Of 500
organs from their factory last month. and a
prospect that the number will reach 800 for
the present month.
Hon. Horace Bemis of Hornellsville, n.
! IA brother of Dr. Bemis of Dummerston
gave an interesting Temperance address at
the town hall last Sunday afternoon.
Rev. W F. Bacon Of Chelsea, Mass,
will preach in the Congregational church
next Sunday. At the evening service there
will be sermon TO children. All are in
| vited.
Mr. W. +. Richardson is serving his Gus
toners this week with cuts from one Of the
finest oxen ever slaughtered in this market.
| The animal was raised by II. c. Bellows Of
Marlboro and dressed 52G pounds.
John b. Lowell Of Putney presents The
| PHOENIX with three mammoth eggs samples
Of a dozen Of the same sort laid 10y one Of his
hens The largest of the trio measures 81 by
g inches and weighs quarter Of pound.
MIR and Mrs +. c. Crosby returned
home Wednesday night We are glad to
learn that Mr. Crosby's health is much i'm
proved. and that he has every reason to an
ticipate a continued improvement and per-
manent recovery.
We learn that we were in error in stating,
las, week, that the late Col. O. +. Austin be-
gan his mercantile career as a clerk with Cune
4 Bracket Mr. Austin was at first. and for
some four years, clerk in the store Of
Wheeler 4 Pratt, who were then in trade
here.
Rev d. +. Miller. the new pastor,
preached at the VI. Z. church last Sunday
with much acceptance Mr. Miller has been
located during the past year at Bradford,
having previously been stationed for three
years at st Johnsbury and the same period at
Windsor
In addition to the list already published,
the superintendent Of schools has licensed the
following persons as teachers until April LIST,
1879: Miss Mary b. Dennison, Vernon, Vt.
Miss Helen NJ. Gibbs. Dummerston, VT,
Miss Amelia Butterfied, Wilmington. VI /:
Miss Eva J. Miller, W. Brattleboro VT.
A West Meriden, Ct. subscriber. writing
under date OF the 18th inst, says Mr. Levi
Newton, formerly of Brattleboro, while at
work on IA saw last Friday, the 10th, cut his
hand losing his little finger and small por-
ton Of his hand He is doing well. lie
came down short time ago to work in the
organ factory. Business is good
-Bnttleboro's champion sportsman is a
young Irish schoolboy named George Wilson.
Last fall he shot fox on the run, in the west
part Of the town, and within few days he
has caught n sucker foot and q half in
length from the Connecticut river and an eel
almost three feet long and a trout weighing a
pound. out Of MILESTONE brook.
DR. Draper. accompanied by his wife, is
in Washington, d. c., THIS week, in attend
ance upon the session Of the Association of
American Superintendents of Asylums for the
Insane, now being held in that city. On his
way home DIR. Draper will visit the new asy-
lum at Morris Plains n. j., and also the
| Trenton, n. j.. asylum, where lac was for
merly an assistant physician.
The Brattleboro base ball nine organi zcd
last Monday night at the Brooks House, and
the following officers were elected: +. X.
Bauows, president, Arthur Williams cap
tain Dennis T. Tasker, secretary and treas
urer The boys say they have got the strong
est nine that they ever had and would like to
hear from any club in the State Communi-
cations should be addressed to D. f. Tasker,
secretary
DR.. ]. NJ. Clark is engaged in making e1-
tensiye repairs and improvements upon the
King place, recently bought by him, and
which adjoius his own residence on Green
street. The repairs include the demolition of
nearly the whole of the old L part, the re-
modelling of the main part, the grading of
the lot, the enclosing of the whole with a neat
fence. etc. The house will now be rented MS
u single tenement, instead of for two or three
families as formerly.
| COL Fuller was so unfortunate as to lose
his pet deer, Dolly by a curious accident
on Wednesday morning The deer were all
a.,
one, which was one of twins born on the 18th
of June last, caught its horns in the wire
fence, and in its fright and struggles TO get
away it dislocated its neck so that it was nee
essary to kill it. The beautiful little animal
was the pet and fayorite of the whole family,
and no little sorrow has been caused by its
untimely taking of
1t is definitely announced that the White
Mountain fast express train is to go upon the
road July LIST. 1t will leave New York at sos
A. NJ, Springfield at l:O5 T. NJ. Brattleboro at
3 O'Clock, and will reach Fabyan's at s;15.
The exact running time of the train for the
whole distance Of 3ii miles will be 2 hours
the apparent time in excess OF this being
due to the fact that the train will leave
New York ON New York time and arrive at
the Mountain, on Boston time.
The patent case, Burdette Ds. Estey Il Co.,
which was set down for trial at Windsor on
the 2lst inst, is, by written consent of the
parties interested, TO be heard at New York
on the 2sth inst, before Hon. r. NJ. Batch
ford Judge of the United States Circuit Court,
and Hon. H. II. Wheeler, Judge of the United
States District Court for the State of Yer
mont. 1t is understood that the counsel in
the case are f. j. Phelps and Geo. F. Ed
munds for the plaintiff, and Edmund Burke
and VIM. NJ. Eyarts for the defendant