Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-06-20
Local Intelligence,


DIR. j. Il. Prescott of Danvers, Mass, the
well-known optician, will pay his annual visit
to Brattleboro next week.
The ladies of st. NIichaers Episcopal
church will give n supper and entertainment
at the town hall during the week Of the
Fourth.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. ]. Estey gave a recep-
ton at their residence last Tuesday evening,
which was attended by about one hundred
persons.
Rev. Geo L. Martin, by request, will re-
peat his sermon of last Sunday morning in
the Centre church next Sunday evening at q!
o'clock.
Rev. John b. Green of Montreal occu-
pies the Unitarian pulpit again next Sunday.
His subject in the evening will be: "Will
the coming man be Christian p
The annual meeting of the Vermont Val
ley railroad company of 1871 was held here
on Wednesday, The usual routine business
was transacted and the old board of directors
reelected.
A quick drive of logs which is being
hurried down the river to the Holyoke mills
in advance of the main drive, which is still
some distance up the river, passed this point
last Friday.
The Maine fishing party report bad
weather for their sport, and the only evidence
of their luck thus far is full-size portrait
of n four-p pound trout which bears the legend,
Caught by A. P. Childs in North Bay, June
! lG."
A parish meeting was held at the Uni
versalist church last Tuesday evening to act
upon the resignation of the pastor, Rev. NJ.
| H. Harris, which it was voted unanimously
not to accept. What the result of this action
will be remains to be seen.
Item for the season; A philosophic
pnrngrapher remarks that there is good deal
| of human nature about strawberries. The big
fellows naturally trample on the little ones,
and as a consequence are always seen at the
top of the box.
Charles d. Noycs, travelling agent for
the Boston firm of Timothy Gay & Co, whole
sale grocers, claims to have shipped, the 9th
er day the first car load of molasses that oy-
err came to Brattleboro. Mr.. Noyes reports
business unusually brisk just now.
Referring to the annual lawn party to be
| given by the ladies of the Baptist society ON
Wednesday and Thursday evenings of next
week, on Col Estcy's grounds, We hardly
need remind our readers that these gather
ings have become one Of the established Gin
stitutions' in our summer amusement season
at which good time is always assured.
Upward of thirty members of the Uni
tartan society attended the semi-annual meet
~ ii r
Unitarian and other Christian churches, held
at Mortified, Mass, on Wednesday Several
persons from the Brattleboro society were al
SO present at the installation Of Rev. Mr.
Marsh over the Mortified parish on the pre-
| vious evening.
The carefully prepared and splenddly il
Illustrated narrative of Gen. Grants Travels
Around the World, now being published by
the American News Company, New York, will
be shown our people by Mr. James +. Bolles,
who is now at the Brooks House for that pur-
pose. This work has no political significance,
and will possess genuine and standard value
aside from its great artistic excellence.
w. II. Alexander marketed his first straw
berries June 9TH, and his crop is now past its
prime. Fred NJ. Waite brought in his first
berries to Thorn & Som, very fine ones, on
Saturday, and owing to the variety of soil on
which he has them planted he expects to beat
the crowd in the length Of time during which
he will keep them in the market. On Mon
day of this week Willard got his first consign-
ment of Putney fruit, and splendid berries
they were, from the beds of E. NJ Wilson and
j. d. Willard. Some fine ones from White Is
beds are in the market this morning.
Rev Mr.. Burchard of the Baptist church
has made arrangements to join Prof. Tourjee's
excursionists for tour of eighty days through
Great Britain and the continent of Europe. He
will be accompanied by friends from Chica-
go, and the party will sail next week by steam
er Anchoria for Glasgow. We join with many
friends in congratulating Mr.. Burchard on
being able to look forward to so delightful
and profitable a time of needed rest and rec
reation from earnest and continuous work in
his parish. In Mr. Burchard's absence the
Baptist pulpit will be supplied by Rev. Chas.
Powers young man from Madison Univer-
sity, Hamilton, n. Y.
The Grammar school examination closed
on Wednesday afternoon with rhetorical ex-
ercises which were largely attended. The Sc
nior class in Language, the first which has
ever been examined and sent up, passed q
very creditable examination, and the senior
classes in Arithmetic and Geography are pro-
nounced by the committee the best and most
thoroughly drilled which have yet been turn
ed out Mt the hands of Miss Slason and her
assistants, and advanced to the High school.
The year has evidently been one of unremit-
ting and painstaking work. The High school
examination, as stated last week, takes place
to-day and tomorrow, closing with essays
and rhetorical exercises by the graduating
class tomorrow, Friday, afternoon.
The ladies of the Congregational Society
had fine weather for their festival on Wednes-
day evening" and the attendance was large.
The supper was excellent and bountiful, and
the tables were literally patronized through
out the evening The fancy and flower tables
were very attractive and sales were brisk.
We had intended giving n very minute and
careful description of the charming, instruct
i've and pointed entertainment with which the
evening closed but are obliged to fall back
at the last moment ON the original and COM
prehensive remark that ''where all did so well
it would be invidious to particularize." We
trust, however that none of the greater oleva-
tons in the remarkable Peak Family, from
which the famous Pixies Peak takes its name,
will feel themselves affronted if we remark
that the climax of the remarkable exhibition
was unmistakably reached when the least of
all the foot hills appeared in his favorite role
of Captain Corcoran and he was "a CW)rght
good captain, too The gross receipts of the
evening amounted TO about 1915.
The patent case against the United States
government, through Postmaster James of
New York, the nominal defendant, was be-
gun at the Brooks House before Judge
Wheeler ON Tuesday. The invention in con
troversy is the double cancellng stamp, now
in general use in the post offices of the coun-