Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-11-01
Local Intelligence.


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there will be Divine Service in st. MichaePs
(Episcopal) church with Holy Communion at
II A. NJ.
-Self-sown peas Of the second crop, and
large enough for eating, furnish Mr.. c. II.
Sleyenss contribution TO the list of remarka-
bic vegetable productions this season.
The revival meetings at the Baptist
church continue, with large attendance and
much interest. On Monday evening gos-
pei temperance meeting was held and a
rousng sermon was preached by Rev. Mr..
Dewitt
We shall have nothing more to say about
"last" Strawberries during the present season,
but we nevertheless venture to record the
fact that a good-sized and perfectly ripened
berry was picked in the asylum pasture last
Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Henry Campbell, who for nearly five
years past has filled the Office Of clerk at the
Brooks House to the entire satisfaction, not
only Of the travelling public, but Of all our
home people, leaves that post this week for n
needed winters rest and relaxation. Mr.. Fred
Franks takes his place.
Sullivan, the lightning-rod man, accom-
panied by his wife and daughter, T. Cumber,
wife and daughter Charles Newman and
wife, Linus Dickinson, aud a son of Abner
Allen-a party of ten in all-start this week
for a winters lightning-rod campaign in
Georgia.
The Hooker medal was contested for by
the Fort Dummer rifle club last Saturday at
their range in Centrevillc, and was won by
W. II. Childs The shooting was at 100, 800
and GOO yards. DIR. Gale acted as executive
officer, and large number of visitors wit
messed the sport.
New rife clubs have been formed by
members of the Estey Guard and Fuller Bat
terry, respectively. The former club made Il
trial of their skill at the Centreville range
last Saturday d. W. Tenney made the best
average score, d. +. Tasker the second, f.
w. Childs and Geo. II. Niles the third. Dis
tances 200 and 800 yards.
The rainy weather and the absence Of
several expected speakers married the success
Of the old soldiers campfire, at Grand Army
hail, Wednesday evening; but others will be
held occasionally during the winter, and un-
der more auspicious circumstances they will
doubtless be very interesting.
Last Thursday night, about 10 o'clock,
FIRE was discovered in the railroad wood shed
below the freight house, and portion Of the
roof, with a small quantity Of wood. was de
stroyed before the department got to work
and extinguished the flames. The fire caught
from portable engine used in saving wood.
The loss was small, not exceeding 500 or
$500.
The first biting white frost OF the present
season. accompanied by Il slight freezing Of
the ground, made its appearance in this village
on Tuesday morning, Oct. %. 1t is a fact
worthy of record that up to that time tender
outdoor plants like Madeira vines, dahlias,
tomato vines morning glories, etc, Lad gen
orally been left entirely untouched by frost,
and were as fresh and bright ~ in mid.sum-
mer.
At the annual meeting Of the Vermont
Pharmaceutical Association held at Montpelier
last week, |. n. Thorn a Son Of this place
exhibited packages Of thirty-two varieties of
medicinal herbs prepared by them. The prep
aration of native medicinal herbs for the
Mublehtlt lAhlC Has DtNOLnt tlAllt III llllOI-
tant branch of the business of this firm, and
the excellence of these preparations have
brought them wide reputation among drug
gists and physicians.
The lecture of Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
delivered at the town hall last Thursday even
ing, was listened TO by an audience OF respec-
table numbers, who were evidently more than
Ill
Girls Mrs. Stanton as lecturer is no less
pleasing than forcible, and her powerful APP
peals for q higher development Of American
womanhood fell not upon unappreciative or
unsympathetic ears. Keener than Mrs. Liy-
ermore in her satire, she is no less candid in
her manner nor convincing in her logic and
her eye has not dimmed nor her natural
force abated" in thirty-fve years of devotion
TO the cause of womans elevation.
The following is the list of letters remain
ing at the post Office in this village Oct 81.
Ladies' Mrs. b. NJ Dean, Mrs II. w.
Fisher, Annie McDermott, Mrs. Melissa Mich
OILS Eta Shaw.
ts-Azro Amidon, Franklin T. Dunk
lee Edward Garner Fred Gage, H. f. Halves,
Geo. +. Harvey, S. Higgins, John H. Os-
borne.
THE LATEST RAILROAD DEVELOPMENTS THE
CONTRACT AWARDED TO HARRIS BROS. a CO.
At the meeting of the directors of the
Brattleboro AZ Whitehall railroad held at the
Brooks House last Saturday afternoon, it APP
pearing that Col. L. NJ. Morrison, to whom
the contract for the construction of the road
was awarded on the 3Oth of September, had
withdrawn his proposition, and positively de-
clined to undertake the job, the contract was
awarded to Harris Brothers & Co.-they being
the next lowest bidders on the terms of their
bid as heretofore stated in our columns. 1t
appearing further, upon consultation, that
Harris Brothers q Co. would undertake the
construction of the road ON a threc-foot gauge
on the same terms as on n two-foot 1t was
decided to have it built as a throe-feet- gauge
road, it being understood, of course, that the
entertainments, cuts, masonry and the whole
road bed in fact, as laid out by the engineer
for the two-foot road would be ample in every
way to receive the wider track The only
difference in cost, therefore, viii be in the
rolling stock, and it is believed that the sum
specified for equipment (S25, 600 will pur-
chase nearly or quite the same amount of
three-foot rolling stock as of two-foot, for the
reason that nearly all manufacturers now
make three-foot cars and engines, as well as
those for the standard gauge, while only one
or two concerns have patterns and designs
for two-foot rolling stock so that the con-
tractor would have been largely deprived OF
the benefit of competition on this point in
case the narrower gauge had been adopted
The fact that the bonds of a three-feet-gGugc
road win find much reader sale in the mar
ket than those Of a two-feet- gauge was an ad-
ditonal consideration in deciding the direc-
tors TO adopt the wider gauge. There is, nat
urally, generally expressed feeling of salts
faction at this determination to give the peo-
pie so much more for the same money than
the original proposition called for 1t should
be said however that the question of the