Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-12-06
Local Intelligence.


| God in Nature and Life"
For the next two weeks the ladies can
depend on finding some rare bargains in good
goods at o. J. Pratts. Particulars in adver-
Using columns
Miss Hemenway is in town on business
connected with the completion and pubica-
ton Of the remaining volumes of her Histori-
cal Gazetteer Of Vermont
Our readers should select their presents,
especially books, early, to avoid the rush as
the holidays approach. Cheney & Capp's is
the place. See advertisement
Rev NJ. IT, Harris was greeted with
congregation which filed his church in cv-
cry part on the occasion of his opening lee
turc in his ninth winters course, on Sunday
evening.
Owing TO confusion or nisunderstand-
ing Of dates of engagements for the use of
the town hall, the proposed concert by the
Lcominster, Mass, band has been indei-
nitey postponed.
Next Sunday evening the pastor of the
Baptist church will answer the following
questions, suggested by Prov. I 2G Are we
to believe that God laughs at mans calamity
and mocks at his fear ?
What with the Presidents message, and
| reprint of the public acts passed by the Leg
| islature at its recent session, THE PHOENIX
this week presents an extraordinary amount
| of solid reading matter, and with n prompt
ness which those of its readers who are inter
ested in public affairs will, no doubt, appre-
| ciate.
Rev. w. II. Collins, superintendent of
ara1g ,1s - Al.
Twenty fifth Vermont School Report, made
by the State Superintendent of Education to
the legislature is now ready for distribution,
and prudential committees can obtain copies
of it on application to the town clerk.
! &C. E. Allen, the florist, has large stock
| of the famous Californian Pampas Grass
| plumes, which have come TO be so largely
| used for parlor ornaments and for the Christ
mas decoration of churches. In combina-
ton with the beautiful Southern grasses, in
all colors, they make the most desirable and
lasting of winter indoor decorations.
-Clothes-line thieves were abroad Monday
night. Two or three lines were stripped on
Canal street, and several articles were taken
at Mr.. Herrick's on Main street On the
same night two lighted lanterns placed as
| danger signals at washout on Canal street.
were successfully stolen, which, we should
say was drawing the thing rather fine.
On Thanksgiving day the parish of ST.
| Mchaels celebrated its Harvest Home festi-
val with appropriate and interesting public
services. The chancel of the church was
beautifully decorated with autumn leaves,
grasses, fruits and vegetables At the close
| Of th. H.
suitable to the day. Many acceptable and
useful gifts were sent to the church by differ
ent Pensioners for the rector's family
Savings bank depositors may not all be
aware that the recent legislature enacted
| law which requires all the savings banks in
the State to pay all the tax on deposits. This
tax is one-half of one per cent. and is all the
tax which can be collected by State or town
| Under the new law depostors can have 5000
in the bank in one name. but this provision
does not affect deposits already made which
exceed this amount. All deposits are now
exempt from individual taxation.
! We have every assurance that Signor
| Patrizio, who appears at the town hall next
Monday evening, accompanied by Nine. Pa
| triZio in her remarkable feats of iustantane-
Gus memory, is one of the most marvellous
of eonjurors, and the entertainment which he
| will give will be by far the most wonder
full of its kind ever offered here. The Buffa-
| 10 Commercial Advertiser, a careful and reli-
able journal, says of Patrizio that 'he is full
ly the equal of the world-renowned Hermann
and far more startling than Heller"
At the session of the U. s. District Court,
held by Judge Wheeler at Rutland on
Wednesday, an application was made to have
| a decree for the orator entered in the organ
case. Judge Wheeler said, however, that, as
the case was heard by the circuit and district
judges sitting together, the question as-to the
| decree should be heard by them both. By
consent of counsel the matter is to be heard
at New York on the 18th inst, when, at the
same time a motion of the defendants for
re-opening Of the case to hear further evil
dence will also come before Judges Batch
ford and Wheeler.
1t would trouble the oldest inhabitant"
to tell when more water has fallen hereabouts
in the same length of time than fell last Mon
day afternoon and evening. During the lat
ter part of the afternoon aud early evening
the rain came steadily down in torrents and
the result was a rapid rise of MILESTONE brook
and more or less damage to all the roads in
this vicinity. The bank wall on Canal street
was washed out for distance of 30 or 10
feet, break was caused in two of the aque-
ducts near cave bank, Frosts meadow was
overfiowed, the water coming up to Flat
street, bridge near Curtiss shop at West
Brattleboro was carried away, and both Cur
tis's and Fishers dams at that place were in
jured, while numerous minor losses and dam
ages are reported. Some fears were enter
tanned for the safety of Estey's building near
the bridge, and the battery removed their
guns from its basement. bad washout is
reported on the stage road near the Marlboro
line, and there were numerous holes and gull
lies made on the river road to West Dunn
merstOn. The storm subsidized as unexpected
ly as it came up, and whereas, at 1870 in the
evening the rain was falling heavily. at $50
the moon was shining brightly aud mild and
balmy airs prevailed. Wednesday brought
the first snow storm of the season, but the
snow melted nearly fast as it fell.
1t has seemed to us, as we know that it
has to many impartial and fair-m minded citi-
zens, that an excellent opportunity offered on
Monday evening" in the nomination of Mr..
A. J. simonds for first bailiG, to quietly ig-
more the fractional feeling which has so long
divided and disgraced this community, and
to elect a man of whom it could be safely
said that he was nobody's imam" or "adho-
rent" And we believe that, as beginning
in the right direction, it was mistake that
the opportunity was not accepted. The
question at issue was not by any means as TO
the fitness of Col. Fuller for the chairman
ship of the board of bailiffs. 1t has never
been disputed that, two years ago, he made
fniihfnl aud aificient villnne nficnr non &. a