Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-01

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Bellows FaIIs.
The river is full of logs here this week
the rear of the drive being between Hanover
and White River Junction The logs are
passing the falls much more easily than usu.
al as the water seems to be Just about tbo
right height.
Harry Elliott who has been in Boston
attending school the past year, is at home
spending his vacation
Some years ago Mr.. Chaplin, who lived
across the river, sold a tract of land on the
north end Of Mount Kilburn to Warren Walk.
err It was woodland, and as the boundary
lines were not very definitely fixed by the
deed Mr.. Chaplin thought after a while that
Walker was clearing more than the law al
lowed and brought suit against him This
has been running along since the death Of
Mr.. Chaplin until this week a commission Of
four or five lawyers, and about as many sur.
veyors, have been running the lines again.
working two days in the heat at it. Wted
shirt bosoms and collars have been the prom.
nent features Of the lawyers offices evenings.
Camping and picnics are still in full
vogue A large number of our Irish friends
visited Warren's pond Wednesday A large
party Of young men are going down to Ches-
torfield Friday to stay a week or two. There
were about forty persons at Warren pond
last week from here, including j. D. Brdg-
man and family and W j. Conant and fami.
~. O. f. Woods and wife are at Staten Is
land
VIM. Hulett of Saxton's River, who was
so badly mangled in Farnsworths mill last
winter, died last week, gangrene having set
in
John Wilmanth has retired from the firm
of Brosnahan q wilmanth, and the grocery
business is being continued as formerly by
ID. W. Brosnahan.
C. G. Caldwell baggage master between
here and Boston, has been laid up for the
past three weeks with rheumatism in one of
his hands.
Miss Morrill,, music teacher from Keene,
has class of 80 juveniles practicing for the
operetta of Red Riding Hood, which she in.
tends bringing out sometime this fall
PinGtore is still in rehearsal by the Mu-
steal Union.
-ltaV $. II. Emory, our esteemed Baptist
pastor, has been i'll for the past week OF two,
and goes this week with his family to the vi
entity of Moosehead Lake in Maine for rest
aud vacation.
Geo Griswold of the firm of W H. Girls.
void a Co. grocers, has gone this week to
Chicago. He owns a silver plating shop a
few miles from Three Rivers, Mich. and
goes there to attend to business connected
with it,
But few people are aware of the exist
ence of SO large a spring of the purest cold
water runs out from under the hill Just
below the mills here, only q few feet from the
bank Of the river about opposite the Vermont
Valley engine house The Fall Mountain
paper company have put in hydraulic ram
which raises it and sends it to all parts of
their mills, filling a fo=< inch iron pipe and
twice as much more running to waste all of
the time.
A young man, a boarder at the Island
House, fell through one of the large lights of
glass in front of Towns hotel office one day
last week, cutting one of his hands seriously
He was sitting in chair in the office and tip
ped''against the window, and his chair slipped
from under him.
-DAvis's mail stage was attached one day
last week at Saxtons River by F. * H. Phelps
of the hotel at Grafton while on its trip to this
village. 1t was run IA few days by keeper
and then released. 1t seems from Daviss &C
count of the affair that the account for which
suit is brought is a disputed one and lie pro-
poses TO bring suit now for damages The
express business at Grafton is now done by
w. G. Wyman instead Of at the hotel as here
tofore
Your Bellows Falls correspondent thinks
it would show much more ,nterprise on the
part of the Reformer Of your place if they
would scape round and get up a few items
of news for themselves instead of rewriting
his. They may get hold of something not
authentic one of these days
N. H. Farr is building wo-story brick
store house for storing wool at the south
east corner of Mammoth block next to Dew
eys, He has for some months been specu-
lating in wool and will now have good
place to store it.
e. A. Brooks and family of Hartford ar
rived here Monday to stay during next month
at Col. Hydes.
Boys will be boys, and Bellows Falls
boys are not an exception to the general rule.
One of our wealthy citizens has twice this
summer erected Summer house" on
grounds connected with his residence, and
twice has it been leVelled between two days.
The owner has endrayOred to hire parties TO
watch and protect it nights, but failing in
this has evidently decided not to rebuild