Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-08-22
Local Intelligence.
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Prof. Charlier is expected home from
Europe this week
The August meteoric shower was not
much of n success
Rev Father Lane has gone on trip to
Ireland for his health.
Fruit trees are blossoming out unusual
ly full with worms nests.
b c. Colby has sold his addressing sa-
loon to George Wells of Guilford.
Mrs. Col. Hooker, who has been quite
i'll from dyspepsia for some months, is now
convalescent.
The Brattleboro Knights Of Honor, with
their friends, are to have basket picnic and
clnmbake at Norton's grove, Veilon, on
! Tuesday next
The general desire for moisture was
abundantly gratifod by the storm which set
in last Saturday morning and continued until
Tuesday morning.
Mr. c. f. Thompson, having bought up
the outstanding claims against the late firm
of G. f. Thompson Co., has resumed bust
ness at the old stand
Mr.. E. II. Chase of Louisville, Ky, son
of the oldtime landlord Chase of this town,
is revisitng the scenes Of his boyhood. He
stops at the Park house.
Several Brattleboro people are to-day
| Thursday in attendance upon the laying of
the cornerstone of the new educational insti-
tuition at NOrthfeld Mass.
Services will be held as usual at the NJ
f. church next Sunday, notwithstanding
quite company of the congreg CATION are of
at the Claremont camp-meeting, which con-
tinues a week from Aug. 90
Miss Frances L. Willard of Chicago one
of the most gifted temperance speakers now
in the field, viii lecture at the lower town hall
at st o'clock Friday evening. Seats free
Everybody will be interested in hearing her
The meeting of old soldiers, Saturday
evening, TO make arrangements for attending
the Montpelier reunion. was wen attended
but 1t is not expected that many of the
vets in this vicinity will feel ike incuI.ing
the expense of a two days trip to the capital
The railroad bridge across the mouth of
West River, built for the Brattleboro ~
Whitehall road, has just been completed 1t
is a substantial looking structure of the key
stone combination pattern, and is about 80
feet i'll height and 2lO feet in length in the
clear.
And now the young people of Mortified,
Mass, have caught the "Pinafore" maria,
which play they propose to bring out in that
town on the evenings Of Sept. I'd, Sd and 9TH, as
| per advertisement elsewhere. Brattleboro
people desiring to attend may obtain their
tickets at WIZARDS dug store.
-Workmen are 'eady engaged in clear
ing away the debris of the old Revere House,
| preparatory to the erection Of the new block.
The new structure is to be Of three stories,
and the ground floor viii be occupied in pal t
by the Peoples National Bank j. d. Plum
mer is to do the brick work
Mr.. G. w. Thomas, who is now engaged
in numbering our streets, appears to be gem
tleman who understands his business and is
DESTROYS of giving satisfaction. Now that
this needed work is in progress, it is to be
hoped that eveIy encourage ment will be Civ
en- him to make the work complete.
- AT the final hearing in the case of Bur
dett VS.. Estey, begun at the Brooks House
on Wednesday, several noted experts from
Boston, New York and Rutland were present
as witnesses for the defense. The hearing
was finally concluded on Thursday The f.
nal arguments before the Master wi proba-
bly, occur before the October term of the Cir
cult Cou..
Herb. Conant, the barber at the Brattle-
boro House, lately confded the care of his
shop to wandering mulatto, who was allow
ed to sleep ON the premises. On entering the
shop Sunday morning Conant found that the
mulatto had exodus-ted to parts unknown,
taking with him all the available tools of his
employer, valued at some $40.
The small boy of the ReJormer talks as
though he rea''y hoped to make somebody
believe that he had come of victorious in the
recent raj '-oad controversy Die IT throw
you fairly and squarely!' asked boy who
had been uppermost in a street fight. mo,
you didn't" replied the other as soon as he
thought himself at a safe distance, Il laid
down a-purpose and pulled you on top of
mel"
An unwelcome effect of the recent rain
was the appearance in op- streets of several
i6'e railroad employees in an advanced state
of ntoxication. On Saturday John Callahan
was arrested and fined by Justice Newton for
drunkenness, 81 and costs, and on Monday
he was again arrested and subjected to like
fine, as was also another employe named
John Allen. In neither case could evidence
be obtained that the liquor was fun lished by
Brattleboro parties.
Judge Wheeler has rendered a decision
in the suit of Christopher Campbell VS.. Thom-
as L. James and Charles Eddy, which was
lately argued at the Brooks House. This
was suit brought for relief against alleged
infringements of letters patent for improve
ment in postoffices, post marking and can
Gel 1g hand stamps originally S 'anted to Mar
Gus p. Norton. The defence set up among
other things that Norton was not the inventor
and that there was no patentable invention
involved The case was very impol amt
one, the amount involved being several mn
ions of dollars. The Judge in his decision
holds that Norton was the first and original
inventor and orders decree TO be entered
that the patent is valid; that the defendant
has infringed and must account for profits
and damages with costs. The counsel for the
government will appealthe case to the United
States Supreme Court
The New England Musical and Iitea:
A'NA'"Nf ApAs A@oSh lbf' Zee OI DOhlOn, man
ager have issued their circr'ar for the COM
ing season. The bureau offers wide range
of popular entertainments, and Brattleboro
people We understand, are to have IN oppor
tunity for enjoying some Of them ere long.
Among those positively engaged lisa combina-
ton entitled "The Rivals " in which Mrs. Mere
dith appears as dialect reader, VIM. II. Say
ward as impersonator, Walter Emerson as
cornetist, Leon Reach as pianist, and Mrs.
Ju'a Houston-West as soprano also an en-
tertainment consisting of "AIiles Standish's
Courtship" illustrated and reeited by eight
young ladies' in fu" costume, under the direc-
ton of Prof. S. r, Kelley. Both these ent ,r-
tanments are unique and original, and have
been received with enthusiasm by the most
cultivated audiences in Boston. The date of
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