Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-04-05
Local Intelligence,


| BILE tenement for rent on Green street.
Six persons received the rite of baptism
at the Baptist church last Sunday evening.
Rev Dr. Geo p. Tyler will preach in
the Congregational church next Sunday
morning and evening.
A union May-Day supper party at the
town hall is contemplated by the ladies in aid
of the library building fund.
The usual Lenten services will be OBJ
served at st. Michoels (Episcopa) church on
Fast Day, at II A. NJ, and I30 ?. N.
Union services will be held on Fast Day
at the Congregational church, at II A. NJ,
with a sermon by Rev. DIR. Geo. p. Tyler
The street sprinkler made its first APP
pearance on Wednesday. Last year it began
its rounds ON the 10th, and the year before
not until the last week of April.
The variety entertainments given by the
Guy family last Thursday and Friday eve
nings are spoken Of as having been the best
of their kind ever seen in Brattleboro.
Mr.. A. H. Gregg of Ludlow, Vt, has
leased the foundry formerly owned by Ferdi-
nand Tyler, and commenced business. Mr..
Gregg is an experienced foundryman and
brother of DIR. J. W. Gregg of this place.
We learn that dog belonging to Mr..
+. W. Brooks, which he kept at his farm in
Chesterfield, exhibited marked symptoms of
hydrophobia on Monday and was killed One
or two other dogs which he had bitten were
also killed
There will be Fast Day services in the
Universalist church on Friday morning at
II o'clock. The pastor will preach a sermon
upon "Intempernnce and the Pledge All
are cordially invited.
A paper is soon to be circulated by
committee of Indies soliciting subscriptions to
the library building fund. Some handsome
sums have already been promised, and gen
cral disposition is manifested to aid the
cause
Tuesday nights down freight train over
the Valley road met with an accident while
running upon the siding at East Putney about
10 o'clock, which piled two cars up in the
dirt, and delayed the passage of the up owl
train until four o'clock Wednesday morning
No serious damage was done, and arrange
ments were made so that the trains ON Wednes-
day were not subjected to any delay
The spring term of the county court
reached an adjournment last Friday. the case
of the State against Sidney II. Jones, which
was on trial when we went to press last week.
and which resulted in disagreement of the
jury having concluded the business of the
session. In addition to the divorces recorded
last week that of Franklin o. Downs VS.. Mary
E. Downs, for wilful desertion, was granted.
A fire alarm was caused on Sunday after
noon by fire in the office in Tyler's block
which burned a hole through the floor but
was fortunately discovered before any further
damage was done. The fire department were
promptly out, but their services were not
needed. The fire probably caught from
lighted match or bit of paper thrown into a
spittoon filled with sawdust and had probab-
" been smouldering since morning.
The Baptist Sunday school held their an
nual meeting last Sunday, and reelected S.
II. Warren for superintendent, and J. J. Is
tey and Mrs. II, Burchord, assistants. Mrs.
J. .. 7. smith was chosen secretary, /. o. p.
Smith, treasurer, and II. H. Hackley. libra
ran. The statistics of the school show q |
membership of GOO. Fourteen conversions |
have occurred during the past year and two
deaths. The school is in prosperous con- |
dition.
A good many people are at Il loss to un- |
derstand why any dog which was bitten by |
the big brindled dog that ran amuck through |
this section six weeks ago, should now be al |
allowed TO 90 unrestrained about the streets. |
Those, especially, who promptly killed pet |
dogs that were bitten by that animal rather |
than take any risk in the premises, fail to see |
the justice or propricty of this course. If |
any danger ever existed from the bite of that
strange dog that danger is not yet gone by.
Many Brattlcboro people, who have
pleasant recollections of comfortable and |
hoinelike days and nights spent with Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel Kellogg at the Crocker House
New London, CT, will regret to learn that
Mr. Kellogg retired from the management Of
that house on the first instant During the
coming season, beginning June /, he, with
his estimable WIFE, will have charge of a large
hotel at Shelter Island popular Summer re-
sort near the eastern extremity of Long Is
land
The temperance meeting to be held at
the town hall this, Thursday, evening. prom
ises to be of unusual interest d. S. Smons.
the reformed hotel-keeper of Greenfield.
Mass, who has done good work for the cause
since the Murphy movement reached Green
field and drew lima into its service will be
present and deliver an address, and a choir of
voices will sing the new temperance song.
Wearing the Blue" with which Mr.. Muir
ply was greeted in Springfield ON his return
to that city from his campaign in Washington,
d. c.
Mr.. Dorman Is. Eaton of New York, land
Brattleboro) paid flying visit here on Tues
day and Wednesday to look after some pro-
jected improvements on his newly acquired
estate, known AS the Pettes place. We learn
that during the coming season Mr.. Eaton will
replace the old barn now standing on the
place with a new one, and will make neces-
sary repairs upon the house. A beginning
will also be made in contemplated improve
ments about the grounds, Mr. Eaton has
bought of Mr. Bradley the small house with
the land belonging to it, which stands adion-
ing his estate, near the West river bridge.
The village schools began their spring
and summer term on Monday. The number
in the High school is smaller than usual ow
ing to the fact that about the same number of
pupils have left the school to engage in var-
Gus ayocations rs is usual at this season,
while, for the reason that the school year has
been changed SO as to end in June instead of
March, as formerly, no classes have been sent
up from the Grammar school, TO make good
the place of those going out, as has hitherto
been the case Mt this time of year 1t is no
to the pupils, however, that
more time is thus given them in which to
complete the course The primaries all have
full numbers, and Miss Thomass school, in
particular, is filed to OVERLOOKING, so that
some means will probably have to be devised
by which to relieve her of a part of her
charge