Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-31
Local Intelligence.


Mr.. G. b. Rice and family start for Aiken,
S. c., next Tuesday, to spend the winter.
j. L. jacobs will break ground next week
for house on Western avenue, near H. G.
Fields
-Hawlcy has been in the New York mar
ket again this week and bought another big
lot of cloaks.
F. II. Harris is building house for Hen
ry Potter on Canal street, a few rods south Of
Aliens greenhouse.
-Chanfrau is expected to appear here in
Kit the Arkansas traveller, about the mid
die Of November.
Commencing with Saturday morning, LIST
inst, the post Office opening hour will be
half-past seven.
-Frink is settled in his new quarters, md
this week pays his respects to the public
through our advertising columns
Rev. Geo L. Martin will give the usual
preparatory lecture at the Congregational
chapel on Friday evening.
Edwin Earl has sold his interest in the
Brnttleboro bakery to T. S. Estabrook, tax
ing in exchange Mr.. Estabrook's house in Es-
teyyille
Herbert Z. Taylor has received the ap-
pointment of deputy collector OF internal
revenue for this district in place Of G. A.
Hunt. deceased
The large eagle recently killed by one of
Mr.. Balestier's men has been stuffed and
mounted by Louis Clary, taxidermist, and
now adorns one Of b. n. Chamberlain's show
windows.
Rev. James Eastwood, formerly pastor
of the Univcrsalist society in this village, has
received and accepted a call to the pastorute
Of the Uniyersalist society in Clifton Springs,
ny.
The annual meeting of the Windham
County Poultry and Pet Stock Association,
for the election of officers. will be held at No.
Engine hall next Tuesday evening full
attendance is important
-Myron Ward, Il former employo at j. Is
tey n Co. 5 organ shops, who has just return
ed from six years residence in France,
where he has applied himself to the art of
portrait painting Is in town on visit among
lis old acquaintance, and will probably re-
main hereabouts for the present in the prac-
ticc Of his profession.
The New York papers chronicle the sale
Of II valuable plot Of ground on the corner Of
Fifth avenue and j4th street to Il Windham
county boy-Mr Hollis L. Powers. formerly
Of the Grand Central Hotel-the price paid
being 5000. 600. Mr. Powers will 60 abroad
for time, and on his return intends build
ing I'm, house on his plot.
A. 81 q Al
held last Friday evening it was unanimously
voted to extend IL call 10 Rev T. W. Whitney
Of Peabody, Mass, to become the pastor of
the society. The trustees Of the society will meet
this evening to decide upon certain details
which were left to tloir discretion, after the
arrangement of which formal call will ut
once be extended to Mr.. Whitney.
Miss Margretta Scott, who has been sew
eral years in Africa as a missionary Of the
Episcopal church, made two very interesting
addresses in st. Michaers Episcopal church
on Sunday last, the first being given before
the Sunday school and the second after the
evening service. Her object in visiting the
different parishes in Vermont is to obtain
funds for the purpose Of erecting school
When the entire amount has been obtained
the building will be erected at some place in
Liberia where the bishop may think best
Her mode Of presenting the cause was both
novel and interesting, and the ofertory after
ward received was devoted by the rector to
the cause she represented
-Mirth and music will reign supreme at
flta
'Reyellors' are TO appear in their comically
absurd musical extravaganza, Trouble "
The company is the same which was one Of
the leading attractions at the Gaicty Theatre.
Boston, last season. and the manager prom
is,s us positively the best entertainment
ever given in Brattleboro" That the even
ing will be brimful Of the jolliest kind of fun,
We have not the least doubt The entertain
ueut, which is modelled after that given 10y
the cel,hrat, Vokes family, the Troubndours.
and similar organizations, includes songs,
dances, character approximations and uumer-
Gus other amusing features, in which the par
~ exhibit great skill. The papers Of Boston,
and of other leading New England cities
where the company have appeared, praise
Nllht uluhlC tA4t ull, anu lLt ACTING III lIt
warmest terms.
The weather record Of the past week in
cludes cold, raw day on Friday last, when
a few fakes of snow, the first of the season,
fell in this vicinity, while on the highest
lands in the county squalls of snow prevailed
all day Friday aud Saturday nights brought
exceptionally hard freezes, the thermometer
on Sunday morning being reported all the
way from 20 down TO 10 degrees above zero.
Vegetables standing out doors suffered Sc
verely, and celery which had not been bank
ed up was a total loss. Richard Brown lost
no less than 5000 plants in his Frost street
garden, and numerous private gardeners woke
up Friday morning to find their carefully
tended celery rows gone 10 ruin. Warm and
beautiful days on Sunday and Monday were
succeeded by the unusual phenomenon at
this season of long continued thunder show
er on Tuesday afternoon, during which the
rain fell heavily.
Capt. Boyton started from East Hereford,
Canada on his voyage down the Connecticut
in his rubber life-saying suit, last Thursday.
On Friday he was bothered by squalls of
hhbh anu tue Npiu "tdAltIf bul inter VARIOUS
adventures he succeeded in reaching Lunen-
burgh Friday night. Saturday and Sunday
he made the descent of the famous Fifteen
mile falls, McIndoes dam Barnet pitch and
other dangerous rapids In doing this he got
only one slight bruise but says he did the
finest padding Of his life and had some thrill
ling adventures Sunday night he remained
in the water all night, but was so badly chill
led on reaching Oxford that be stopped there
to warm up and remained most of the day.
The Dartmouth students were out i'll force,
in spite of Tuesdays rain, when he passed
Hanover, and party of them escorted him
past the rapids and falls below. Wednesday
night he reached Caremont N. H., and our
Bellows Falls correspondent chronicles his
arrival a. that place this Thursday morning.
At this writing Capt. Boyton has not left the
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