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


Rev NJ II. Harris has formally accepted
his call TO Worcester, Mass
Evening prayer will be held in st. Mi
chaels Episcopal church on Friday at Z. NJ.
Edwin Earl has sold his interest in the
Valley mills to his partner Gen. W. W.
Lynde.
-NIessrs Prescott 4 Shanks have closed
their meal store on Elliot street. and now do
business only at the mill.
C. L. Brown a Son had the misfortune
To fracture one of the massive panes of glass
in their show windows, the other day.
"A meeting of the directors Of the Brat
tleboro a Whitehall railroad is to be held at
the Brooks House at one o'clock this, Thurs
day, p. NJ
Jerry lIassen, proprietor of the saloon
on Elliot street, died very suddenly on
Wednesday evening probably of heart disease.
His relatives live in New Brunswick.
The union Sunday school picnic last Fri
day. ut Lake Pleasant was attended 10y up
wards of 400 people The day was a lovely
one, aud the many attractions found at the
lake were enjoyed to the full.
The Universalist Sunday schools of Brat
tleboro Vernon, Guilford, Bernardston, and
Hinsdale will picnic at Oak Grove, Vernon,
on Friday August sth. The Brattleboro
brass band will be present, and good music
will be furnished for dancing.
Three burglars broke into the railroad
station at Chester, Thursday night but, being
unable to brenk open the safe, got nothing
for their pains. They are probably part of
the gang who paid their respects TO the Brat
tleboro station two nights before.
We learn that responsible gentleman,
who has done good work of the kind in Green
field. Bennington, and other places, is desir
Gus of coming here to place street numbers
on the houses Of the village 1t is matter
to which our people ought to give favorable
consideration.
- Mrs Freligh will remain il town only a
fow days longer and those who desire to
learn to take care of their bodies in accord
ance with natures own laws will do well to
call at Mrs Kirlland's, Walnut street, and not
miss the opportunity of lettering their physi-
cal condition.
Our Brattleboro textbook committee
have recommended the following books for
use in the public schools of the town for five
years from the first day of next November,
under the provisions Of the new law Frank
lin Readers, Analytical Spoilers, Spenceriau
Writing Books, Reed and Kellogg's Gram
mars, Swinton's Biographies. Franklin Arith-
meties, Good Morals and Gentle Manners
The ladies Of the Unitarian society are
making their arrangements for their annual
fair to be held at the town hall on Wednes-
day evening of next week with their usual
care and the occasion promises to be an at
tractive one A great variety Of useful and
fancy articles will be offered for sale supper
will be served at O'Clock and during the
evening, and dancing will begin at o O'Clock
Everybody is invited.
Austin W. Morey and William Sweeney
of Leyden, Mass, and Ed. Hall of Greenfield
were brought before Justice Newton last Sat
urday, charged with breaking down aud in
juring the fume of Philip Franklin's mill
pond in Gulford, on the 18th ult., and
Sweeney was charged also with making al
assault on Mr.. Franklin and throwing him i'll
to the pond On the former charge they
were each put under $3.50 bonds for trial be-
fore the county court in September, and
Sweeney was put under 800 additional bonds
for the assault.
The lovely Love of the Burlington Re
view, who from time to time has taken such
lively interest in Brattleboro affairs, and
who has felt the weight of Brattleboro fists
is fairly entitled to the belt as the champion
pummellee Of We may coin word to fit the
| nneasin1al n ha no nf
Monday says 'The sensation of Saturday
was the castigation at his own residence of
| II. W. Love, editor of the Saturday EUeniHQ
ReUieic, by an indignant citizen. This is the
| fifth or sixth pummelling he has received dur
ing his brief stay il Vermont" From later
edition of the Free Press it appears that it
cost the pummeller in the affair the sum of
| Sl2.l for his luxury, the judge before whom
the case of the injured Love came for JUS
tice % having no alternative save to impose a
fine. That dignitary, however, showed where
his sympathies were by commenting severely
| on the character of the article which caused
the attack and on that degraded kind of
| journalism of which it was the outgrowth.
Our Bellows Falls correspondent com
plains this week that the Reformer gets its
Bellows Falls news by stealing his correspond
ence from our columns. We must ask the
gentleman not to mind it. 1t is only way
the editor of the Reformer has. 1t seems TO
have been something born in hin-a trait
that he cannot help. Ever since his paper
started he has depended on THE PHOENIX for
his local news, offering our items regularly
and shamelessly, without hint of acknowl-
edgement. In no instance has there been an
event of local importance, when the time of
our issue permitted him to do so, that he has
not bodily appropriated" our account of it
by changing here and there a word or phrase.
And we have always noticed that the week
when he has stolen the most from us has been
Tia e week when he has Dragged the loudest
about his enterprise in getting the news, and
abused The PHOENIX the most roundly We
have never referred to the matter before, and
We hope that our Bellows Falls friend will
follow our example and not condemn the fell
low for something that nature has made him
irresponsible for
| "a SHOCKING CASE OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS VI
BIcHFoRD, VT, July "A carload Of sheep be
longing TO q man named Martin of this place, wal
| burned on the railway from Springfield Mass, t.
place,
The dispatch printed above, which was tel.
| egraphed over New England yesterday morn
ing, could scarcely be more inaccurate and
| have any foundation III fact The sheep were
| destined for Hartford and were burned, but
the affair happened more than week ago
and not at all between Springfield and Hart
ford. The sheep We're shipped for Hartford